The mysterious nature of time

[zenmaster]

Very simply, "The man with a neurosis who knows that he is neurotic is more individuated than the man without this consciousness... If a man is contradicted by himself and does not know it, he is an illusionist, but if he knows that he contradicts himself, he is individuated." - Jung

I know it. That's what I've been saying, Jung. That quote is a great example of the circle I see. After, "he is individuated", he finds himself right back at the start of the quote... until he dies. Round and round we go.

But you are again misrepresenting the idea of individuation to suit some circle idea which you have invented.

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More expansive is less attachment but the crucial point of awareness is back to the less expansive, less attachment. That is, the circumstantial in-your-face involvement and its call.

So true. I'm finding it to be a series of expansions and contractions, which focus down the energy into awareness.
It's like slowly pumping the energy by relaxing, contracting down, and repeating.

It's been said to be a process of a step forward, and steps backwards. This is as appropriate for the balancing of distortions which we automatically provide new conditions for. The new nature of catalyst following a 'contraction' addresses that which requires balancing. The prior expansion was only relative to and at the expense of what remained unaccepted. There is an overall expansion as learning takes place. There are circumstantial expansions as faith is acknowledged.

So in your opinion is intelligent infinity reached in a contracted or expanded state?

[/quote] Even contact with intelligent infinity is relative state. As we are learning more about ourselves here, contact with intelligent infinity becomes more and more readily available. 'psychic phenomena', such as seemingly miraculous healing being one manifestation of intelligent-infinity contact.

I'd like to point out that those who are not at the higher stages of evolution are more subject to the random effects of catalyst with regards to their ignored emotional blockages. Not a moral evaluation, of course, just a fact of life.