Correlations between Ra and Carl Jung

[YinYang]

Now I'm not sure if I should post here, or if the threads will be merged, but this video is amazing! I knew the two of them had met, Alan Watts mentioned it in a lecture once, where he was talking about Jung's humour.

I for some reason, am always curious about someone's life story, and what lead to their insights and realisations, and usually there's some pivotal experience which acts as as springboard for immense acceleration, and in Jung's case it was his experience as a student of Freud, and the calamitous fallout they had which resulted in him being expelled from the group. I've only seen snippets written by Freud's biographers, but it's apparent that Freud was very authoritarian, and exhibited many traits of a cult leader.

Here's a paper written about the dynamic which played out: Freud’s Follies: Psychoanalysis as religion, cult, and political movement.

So after this experience, in which he was also subjected to a fair amount of brainwashing from Freud, he must have been quite traumatised, which was when he started producing The Red Book, and really started coming into his own and excelling.

Their story made me think of Ra saying how "work" only happens when both charges are present, positive and negative, and that our species only learn through trauma.

Now I'm going to head over to the other thread!