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| + | ==== The pathway to redemption is through recognition of error <sup>[1>]</sup>==== | ||
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| + | It’s a classical fall of man story, it’s the story of Exodus. It’s the part of the reason that people aren’t enlightened. | ||
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| + | If you are going to go up, every up is predicated by a down of equivalent magnitude. | ||
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| + | If you are going to improve, then you are going to discover that you are wrong about something first. To be wrong about something means you are going to fragment and it’s going to be painful to recognize the fact of that error, to recognize the consequences of that error across your life to have to reformulate yourself so that that error is no longer acting out as a part of your personality in your life. It is an unbelievable descent. | ||
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| + | Joseph Campbell says follow your bliss, that’s certainly not something that Jung said. | ||
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| + | Jung said that you search out what you are most terrified of, what you are most disgusted by, and the place you least want to go, where you have to bow the lowest, that’s the place where salvation might be found. (That’s true and that’s terrifying!) | ||
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| + | The pathway to redemption is through recognition of error, not through bliss. | ||
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| + | And this is psychotherapeutic truism: If you are going to confront a monster, and you most certainly are, then you do it at a time and place of your choosing, because otherwise it waits until you are at your weakest and most vulnerable and then it attacks. | ||
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| + | We don’t have the wisdom of the kind of pessimism that enables us to view life that way. You think, well if we are careful and quiet, the monster will avoid us completely and everyone knows that’s a lie. | ||
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Contents
Definition
Applications
The pathway to redemption is through recognition of error [1>]
It’s a classical fall of man story, it’s the story of Exodus. It’s the part of the reason that people aren’t enlightened.
If you are going to go up, every up is predicated by a down of equivalent magnitude.
If you are going to improve, then you are going to discover that you are wrong about something first. To be wrong about something means you are going to fragment and it’s going to be painful to recognize the fact of that error, to recognize the consequences of that error across your life to have to reformulate yourself so that that error is no longer acting out as a part of your personality in your life. It is an unbelievable descent.
Joseph Campbell says follow your bliss, that’s certainly not something that Jung said.
Jung said that you search out what you are most terrified of, what you are most disgusted by, and the place you least want to go, where you have to bow the lowest, that’s the place where salvation might be found. (That’s true and that’s terrifying!)
The pathway to redemption is through recognition of error, not through bliss.
And this is psychotherapeutic truism: If you are going to confront a monster, and you most certainly are, then you do it at a time and place of your choosing, because otherwise it waits until you are at your weakest and most vulnerable and then it attacks.
We don’t have the wisdom of the kind of pessimism that enables us to view life that way. You think, well if we are careful and quiet, the monster will avoid us completely and everyone knows that’s a lie.
Interpretations
You need to be exposed to things you fear and hate , because that’s where salvation lies.
See Also
References
