| The Question of Meaning |
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...If you believe that your life has no meaning then you will do anything to provide meaning, all the while acting like a mouse in one of science's mazes - for your prime directive, so to speak, has been tampered with" Seth "The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events" p.263 |
"Every time you accept that explanation (of a
psychic/psychological situation)you lose your soul. You have not helped
your soul; you have replaced your soul by an explanation, a theory." CW vol 18 p277 para 633"Through scientific understanding, our world has become dehumanised. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events, which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him. Thunder is no longer the voice of a god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree makes a mans's life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom and no mountain still harbours a great demon. Neither do things speak to him nor can he speak to things, like stones, springs, plants and animals." CW vol 18 p255 para 585"Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul - the daily need of the soul, mind you!" CW vol 18 p274 para 627"....lest the demands of the soul be forgotten amid the novelties of Western civilisation with its materialistic technology and commercial acquisitiveness." CW vol 11 p584 para 962 |
| Animus and Anima |
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anima within the male is......the psychic memory of all the previous
female existences in which the inner self has been involved. It
contains the knowledge of the present male's past female histories and
the intuitive knowledge of all the female qualities with which the
personality is innately endowed"
"(In a woman the animus) .....represents the male lives with which the self has been involved." "Seth Speaks, the Eternal Validity of the Soul.""To prevent an over identification of the individual with the present sex, within the male there resides an inner personification of femaleness. This personification of femaleness in the male is the true meaning of what Jung called the "anima"….However women do not need to be reminded of their femaleness, but again. So that they do not over identify with their present sex there is what Jung called the "animus", or the hidden male within the woman." "The anima within the male (and animus within the female) is, therefore, the psychic memory of all the previous female (male) existences in which the inner self has been involved. It contains the present male's (female's) past female (male) histories, and intuitive understanding of all the female (male) qualities with which the personality is innately endowed." "Seth Speaks, The Eternal Validity of the Soul" pp. 185-6 |
As to the character of the
anima (or animus) , my experience confirms the rule that it is, by and
large, complementary to the character of the persona (outer attitude to
life). .....(it) usually contains all those common human qualities
which the conscious attitude lacks. CW vol 6 para.Woman is compensated by a masculine element and therefore her
unconscious has, so to speak, a masculine imprint. This results in a
considerable psychological difference between men and women, and
accordingly I have called the projection making factor in a woman the
animus, which means mind or spirit. CW vol. 9ii para. 28"The animus is the deposit, as it were, of all woman's ancestral experiences of man - and not only that, he is also a creative and procreative bein, not in the sense of masculine creativity but in the sense that he brings forth what we might call......creative seeds..." CW vol 7 para. 336"An inherited collective image of woman exists in a man's
unconscious,
with the help of which he apprehends the nature of woman." CW vol 7 para. 301 |
| The Creation of Reality |
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"....you have an inner dimension of activity, a vast field of multidimensional creativity, a Creator that becomes a portion of each of its creations, and yet a Creator that is greater than the sum of its parts: a Creator that can know itself as a mouse in a field, or as the field, or as the continent upon which the field rests, or as the planet that holds the continent, or as the continent that holds the world - a force that is whole yet divisible, that is one and the inconceivably many, a force that is eternal and mortal at once, a force that plunges headlong into its own creativity, forming the seasons and experiencing them as well, glorifying in indivduation, and yet always aware of the great unity that is within and behind and through all experiences of individuality: a force from which each moment's pasts and futures flow out in every conceivable direction." Jane Roberts/Seth: "Dreams, `Evolution' and Value Fulfillment" Vol I p. 172 |
"The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also it makers. We make our own epoch." C G Jung quoted in "Matter of Heart" |