Thought is a game, and it is also the most engrossing game there ever was. It's ‘the most engrossing game there ever was’ because it creates new problems for us...
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Our starting point in this discussion was to repeat what Jung says about the cause of ‘mental illness' being the avoidance of our legitimate suffering. ‘Legitimate suffering’ can be looked...
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Everything is movement, when it comes down to it. There’s nothing that isn’t movement, nothing else apart from movement. This is therefore the other way around to...
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The consequences of the Great Inversion (the inversion which is the state of psychological unconsciousness) are far reaching. Given the fact of our identification with the positive or purposeful self,...
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This whole business of needing to be validated, needing to ‘prove ourselves' in some way (or needing to ‘be approved of') comes from one thing and one thing only –...
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The only point of the self is to escape from it. What other point could there be? There is no other point. The only point to confusion is to become...
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The starting point for our journey is ‘blankness that does not know itself to be blankness' – that's where it all begins. ‘Blankness that doesn't know itself to be blankness'...
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If we were to pick just one element of Gnostic cosmology to try to apply to psychology a good one to start off with might be the idea that the...
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Thought can never do anything other than bring us into one stale equilibrium state or other and yet investing in thought, and the structures that thought has created, is all...
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According to Carl Jung, all mental illness is the result of all of ‘the avoidance of our own true suffering'. What Jung said or didn't say actually carries very little...
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