(05-15-2011, 06:13 PM)Icaro Wrote:Found this documentary where Jung is interviewed.(05-15-2011, 03:48 PM)zenmaster Wrote: It's also necessarily acceptance of other-self. Jung referred to this process as 'individualization', as in the individual is more and more free from the thoughts of other selves (the 'collective' or status quo).
Yeah..other self as self, that's what I intended..corrected it. I wish I would have read Jung 10 years ago. I'm debating whether or not to bother at this point. It's amazing what he was able to accomplish.
(05-15-2011, 06:13 PM)Icaro Wrote:The thing is, you can't replace one with the other. Love is just acceptance. Judging can come from acceptance too. We necessarily have to evaluate and explain our evaluations to others. It is difficult to explain the evaluation in a particularly 'loving' manner with respect to another (unless the other is also accepting) even if you could read their mind and speak their 'language'. You can't serve as the bridge to themselves.Quote:Emotional reactions are from the unconscious - it's disowned aspects of self emerging.
This is hard for some to understand. When it comes to more abrasive aspects of the personality, people often have trouble integrating those. I have found it's easiest if you understand that an other self has those traits for a reason, and they are going through their own process of embodying those aspects for particular lessons. They are on their own learning curve experiencing what they have to, so who am I to criticize their level of beingness or naivety? Instead of judging, have love. In this way you accept who they are instead of expecting them to be how you want them to be.
Only if both are accepting, is there a possibility for the communication to become intersubjective, where the descriptions of perceptions are efficiently shared with all of their nuances. As far as I can tell such communication is a type of telepathy - but I only see that when there is some degree of trust or of acceptance or rapport.
(05-15-2011, 06:13 PM)Icaro Wrote:But we can't accept something unless it's first brought to the attention somehow. Actually, if it's brought to the attention to a sufficient degree it is automatically accepted. That is, unless at that point of availability it is repressed.Quote:One of the only coping mechanisms available to this type of unconsciousness is projection - where personally undesirable qualities (qualities which themselves are not fully accepted) are attributed to the 'attacker'.
Coping is a good word that would probably be synonymous with holding onto blockages. There is a resistance in accepting the other, and so we project them as doing this or that to justify how we feel instead of releasing the blockage through acceptance.
(05-15-2011, 06:13 PM)Icaro Wrote: It seems that emotions tend to carry certain biases with them that need to be overcome.The self or psyche has its biases due to the state or viewpoint provided by its current understanding (Carla's 'Personality Shell'). The emotions are a reflection of the biases (the unbalanced biases, in particular) they're not the biases.
(05-15-2011, 06:13 PM)Icaro Wrote: I'm not saying to overcome emotion, but to overcome bias. This is what catalyst really is..an opportunity to examine emotion to remove bias and integrate it within the self through acceptance.Yes, the emotional reaction is something disowned anyway, you can't work on it directly. You can follow it down to its source, in the shadow, and discover the underlying unbalanced bias responsible.
Also catalyst is provided for integrating biases in the other direction - 'hope'-based biases. Where you unconsciously desire for something to be a certain way. This is the exact opposite of fear, but still based on unbalanced biases. These also stifle development.
(05-15-2011, 07:24 PM)Confused Wrote: It essentially is difficult because the slightest imbalance can make the one who accepts vulnerable to the power that others may wield.But then you would have been provided catalyst again.
(05-15-2011, 07:24 PM)Confused Wrote: In other words, it directly makes us confront the loneliness of the inner self, which owns everything, but yet nothing!!Well the inner self is a lot more lonely when it's been abandoned due to lack of acceptance. A great deal of psychological healing is available, along with energy, with acceptance.