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."
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:
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
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.
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.
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.
‘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
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.
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:
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.
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
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.