Carl Jung - Ending Your Inner Civil War (read by Alan Watts)
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Published 2020-10-23
In this passage, which Jung read to a group of clergy, he talks about what it takes to successfully heal someone and oneself -- that one must come to terms with your own dark side, before you can accept the dark side of another.
Once this happens, which - Jung says - is a moral achievement, then you see how egoism and neurosis in yourself or something else actually LEADS to change.
"The demon of egoism is the royal road to that in-gathering that religious experience is about."
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All Comments (21)
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Alan Watts reading Carl Jung. My life is now complete
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We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
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We are simultaneously the doctor and the patient.
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The part that really hit me was when he said "Simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest art to be simple." That sounds like a worthy goal I'm going to work harder at.
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"We cannot change anything until we accept it." Truly wise words.
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For those who wish to read this passage for themselves and explore more deeply into Jung's literature, you can find it in his compilation of essays called "Modern Man in Search of a Soul". Such incredible insight within this profound and dense volume. The passage in question however is found at the very near end of the book, chapter 12.
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I'm a psychotherapist who is a supervisor to young therapists(not yet fully licensed)- and they often ponder how someone with psychological flaws and wounds can help someone. I'll have them all listen to this for sure. I will often tell them: " Who better to walk through hell with than someone who knows the path?" Carl Jung truly approached his patients without Judgement.
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"Only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness that we experience the helpful powers of our own natures" ~ Carl Jung
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one of the best thing that I love about this kind of videos, besides of how they hit your heart like a bus filled with pillows without feeling any pain just seeing your eyes tear up, is the fact that the comments are filled with people sharing their beautiful thoughts and quotes, just wanted to say thank you all for being your self.
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So many psychologists have written so many books about problems that have one solution. Love
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The irony of this whole talk is that you can’t share it with anyone, for the sheer act of sharing this with someone that needs to hear it causes them to drift further away from the realization that everyone is divine by their own right! Perhaps I’ll prefix this when I do share it, but then again that’s my ego trying to convince me that others need my help. Nah! They can suffer and be better for it! And I’ll watch and be their open ear to talk with if they care to share. I have a long road ahead to develop the art of listening. God speed...
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“End of quote.” Damn.
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This shit is crazy, Carl Jung was a genius. Describes me head on, been struggling with this shit my whole life, it’s liberating in a way, I know I am not fully integrated yet and that is Ok, I believe I am on my way. I hated and hid every insecurity about myself, not realizing it was the very thing that gave me my power. Literally the shit out of legends and myths. Love and light to all, stay sharp.
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In recent years I went to hospitals many times as a patient. The most open judgement I have ever felt were from doctors and nurses. At times I was so shocked by their judgemental comments that I found myself lost for words. I began to feel sorry for them, sorry for them being trapped in a job which brings out the worst in them. I began to see them as the 'ill' and myself as the 'healthy'.
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The essence of healing is to reunite that which has become separated. The trap of the ego is the illusion of separation. The ego thinks it is distinct from what it condemns and rejects. This is how evil and suffering are perpetuated in the world. We can never put an end to the horrors that exist in the world until we recognize that we are inseparably implicated in them. The greatest obstacle preventing us from acting righteously is the conviction that we are pure and righteous.
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Makes me think to: "The most important thing in human life for one’s sanity is to be able to be playful or to be able to do things which are sublimely useless" -Alan Watts
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"What seems good has kept alive the forces of evil" that sentence killed me
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"Only in the state of complete abandonment and loneliness can we experience the helpful powers of our own nature" this is very resonant for an old soul like myself..
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‘There’s something about him I don’t like about me.” Dr. Phil said his Father said this all the time.
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I have finally accepted the evil, bad, imperfection etc within me. And I have never felt more wholesome, peaceful, or happier. Finally it sunk from my head into my heart
