Into the Void

Stoned Again, Naturally.

January 20th, 2009

Found this in an archive from 2005.

I have come to realize that some folks, in order to maintain a very narrow belief system, no longer allow themselves to evaluate other belief systems. In essence, other points of view dangerously threaten their fragile little world. In essence, their own opinions seem like Universal Truths to them, because no other opinions impinge upon them. Sadly, they become desperate to eliminate diversity from the world – diversity that in their narrow minds seems to be life-threatening aberrations.

It’s a very easy way to live your life, uncomplicated by consideration of other aspects of the Truth. It’s all black and white. It is the basis of hatred. Jung talks about this concept quite a bit. He saw it as the basis of evil. The evil can’t be in *me* you see. The evil is out there somewhere – shrinks call it “projection”.

You can’t have a meaningful debate with a person who doesn’t see your side well enough to come up with convincing rebuttals. You can’t have a meaningful debate when your esteemed opponent finds the very need for debate to be a personal threat.

For the most part, folks with this impairment are in my kill file. And it doesnt matter one small bit whether they are Democrats or Republicans, though the latter seem, in my personal Truth, to be more prone to it.

Oh, this is a good explanation of one illness that results in the sort of black and white thinking I’m talking about. It is called Dry Drunk Syndrome.

Where I come from, we don’t stone people to death any more.

Tags: Beliefs, Carl G. Jung, diversity, dry drunk
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Christophobia

April 18th, 2008

“Vocatus atque non vocatus… deus aderit
Called or not called , GOD will be present.”
– Inscription on Gravestone of Professor Dr. Carl G. Jung, Kusnacht, Switzerland
Quoted from Heaven’s Register

Have you read any Jung? Jung was a medical doctor whose father was a philospher and pastor. Jung believed that God is not “out there” but is inside us all. God is our subconscious mind! You feel deep down what is right, now don’t you?

Jung pointed out that God evolved morally over the course of biblical history. That’s right, God got better and better. He had to, to keep up with his children’s moral evolution.

Being the firstborn is a curse for a lot of reasons, and it didn’t start with that whole “Dad forgot to paint the lintels” thing.

It can be deduced from the concept of a morally evolving God that Jesus Christ was the manifestation of this evolution. the “God made flesh.” God hoped that a physical manifestation would convince the Pharisees, the NT version of the Religious Right, to evolve too. It didn’t work, though. The Pharisees, like any hierarchical structure heavenly or temporal, were notoriously inflexible. Anything the Pharisees disagreed with was a sin, Evil, abomination. As a child Jesus was almost stoned for breaking one of the old rules.

If God is within us, then the fight between good and evil is going on inside us too. In Jung’s words, “from the psychological point of view demons are nothing other than intruders from the unconscious, spontaneous irruptions of unconscious complexes into the continuity of the conscious process.”

Here’s a simplification derived from Alan Watts‘ Tribute to Carl Jung. Satan isn’t in me, it can’t be, because I am Good. The Evil and the hate must be over there in you! (That’s the non-self-aware speaking, the one with Blind Faith and no reason.)

Look in your heart. Both good and evil are right there inside your own subconscious, making you act out their presence. Like a projector you are shining your own ugly thoughts onto the blank screens of the A-theists. This is the psychology of evil.

And until you discover your self-contradictions, you will always hate anyone who disagrees with you.

As for me, I’m not afraid of the guru. I’m afraid of the people who threaten me with eternal torture in his name.

Tags: Carl G. Jung, Christophobe, Moral evolution, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion
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