Josh

Exploring myth and its effects on our psychology and understanding of reality. Grappling with stories, history, science, and the gods we worship.

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Kazuo Ishiguro and what it takes to truly grow.

“In any case, there is surely no great shame in mistakes made in the best of faith. It is surely a thing far more shameful to be unable or unwilling to acknowledge them."

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Human of the past weren't so different from us today. Family has always been foremost, and shouldn't this be the case?

In a recent conversation @lbetzig had this to say about it:

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

I can say one thing and it will be heard on ten different levels, depending upon the inner psychological and spiritual maturity of listener.~Richard Rohr

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Robert Hopcke on how Jung Jung spent his entire life within a very medical model, a very Western empirical, cultural milieu, trying to champion the reality of intrapsychic experience.

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Robert Hopcke on how Jung looked at synchronicity as an acausal connecting principle.

In essence, the meaning of random coincidences come from within, and are ours to own.

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How Jungian psychology, archetypes, and the Red Book helped me to conceptualize the religion of my birth and form a framework of understanding moving forward.

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@DeanAbbott That’s right. Love is an action.

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

‘It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality, and it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.”

Winnicott

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Robert Hopcke on how synchronicity wasn't just a fun thing Jung did at the end of his life. As a concept it was actually a complete outgrowth or continuation of many of the various issues and aspects of the psyche that he wanted to get across and advocate for.

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Myths may just be the way that our operating system works, which offers a fairly good point of crossover between science and spirituality.

In a recent conversation I had with Aodhán Moran (@aodhanpmoran), he added this:

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“Truth seldom is pleasant; it is almost invariably bitter.”

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Robert Hopcke on how Carl Jung coined the concept of Synchronicity, which has now been adopted into common parlance, Jung gets to tell us what it actually means.

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

The hero's journey has been compared to a birth: it starts with being warm and snug in a safe place; then comes a signal, growing more insistent, that it is time to leave. To stay beyond your time is to putrefy. Without the blood & tearing & pain, there is no new life.~J Campbell

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Children crave certainty. Amongst adults certainty on any side fosters division, fear, and othering.

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Myth brought us from the past and it will take us forward forever.

From my conversation with Leigh Melander.

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I've found so much more value in stories and myths when I internalize them as psychological truths rather than external realities.

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Leigh Melander on how frivolity and play can lead to stress release and relaxation.

[Dr. Linda Berman @LindaBerman4]

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell.
Rollo May

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The journey of exploration is more important than the destination.

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Irreverence as a means of discovering synthesis between ideas.

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I was raised in a religion that very much emphasized reverence - quiet, calm, still.

But a bit of irreverence is a great way to foster some creativity and challenge the norms that don't sit right with you.