Occulture by Carl Abrahamsson

Author:Carl Abrahamsson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Occult
Publisher: Park Street Press
Published: 2018-01-24T05:00:00+00:00

By far the most fruitful attempts, however, to find suitable symbolic expressions for the self were made by the Gnostics. Most of them—Valentinus and Basilides, for instance—were in reality theologians who, unlike the more orthodox ones, allowed themselves to be influenced in large measure by inner experience. They are therefore, like the alchemists, a veritable mine of information concerning all those natural symbols arising out of the repercussions of the Christian message. At the same time, their ideas compensate the asymmetry of God postulated by the doctrine of the privatio boni, exactly like those well-known modern tendencies of the unconscious to produce symbols of totality for bridging the gap between the conscious and the unconscious, which has widened dangerously to the point of universal disorientation.4

Unfortunately, I don’t think Jung will reclaim his well-deserved central status within the field of psychology. Psychology is a phenomenon, just like history writing, that is at times too affected by its own environment and contemporary influence. But I do believe that Jung’s thoughts and ideas will take on new forms and carry on within art, literature, and other expressions of culture. Because we don’t really need more existential manuals or more neurochemistry, but rather intuitive incentives, in which we see the totality and our own story clearer, to be able to make our own decisions. Causal, empirical science just isn’t good enough for that, so we need fairy tales, poems, and dreams, as well as old and new myths, to be able to act intelligently on both individual and species levels.

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