The Great Mother by Erich Neumann: Jordan Peterson's Reading List
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- Опубліковано 5 кві 2023
- This one took me awhile to finish. I had to allow myself to push beyond my artificial limit of 10-12 minutes and really explore the concepts.
The Great Mother takes Erich Neumann's first book, The Origins and History of Consciousness, then focuses on one primary concept: the feminine archetype.
The feminine archetype encompasses the place from which all life and knowledge originates. This book explores how mankind has expressed that in art, mythology and religion.
My Substack piece on this: tommyt23.substack.com/p/the-g...
My Medium piece on this: / the-great-mother-an-an...
You have such a pleasant way of explaining difficult things! I am not particularly interested in all the recommended books by Peterson but you make it sound so interesting! I am subscribed!🙏🏼✌🏼
Thank you Sarah! I couldn’t ask for a better response.
Love your content, man.
I've read "Depth Psychology and a New Ethic" by Neumann, which I think is an essential book to read right now (given the current cultural shifts), but I haven't gotten around to his larger works, including this one. Really cool to see someone take the time to read it and analyze it for the rest of us.
Hope you keep going!
Thanks so much! I'll for sure keep on my friend.
Thanks for the recommendation her was well. I'll definitely get that book. I love relevant reading on our culture.
I've been working through Jordan's _Maps of Meaning_ and decided around p.150 that I would read _The Great Mother_ before continuing. A very eye opening read, however I wish I read _Origins and History of Consciousness_ first. Anyways, you seem to have a pretty firm grip on the concepts explored in the book; kudos!
Thanks for your comment!
I've often thought about which books I own that I would take while running out of my house during a fire. Erich Neumann is at the top of the list for sure.
Maps of Meaning is another one up there that I would love to reread, but there are so many books to read I have yet to get to.
I really enjoyed this one. I'll have to add it to the reading list. I'm getting through some but I am definitely slower than I'd like.
Thanks so much!
I know what you mean. The books are so dense that it takes a lot but they are worth it so much more than the light reading we could be doing.
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@@mattersofmind5391 sticking around for good. Just doing stuff here and there and yes the dad and husband thing as well. Little lady is turning 14 this year so I am of course staying in the gym hahaha.
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Thanks I am buying this book and was looking for an explanation re buying it. I am reading on Lilith the archetype and digging deeper!
Thanks for watching! Like you I find this and any of the archetypical ideas fascinating and illuminating.
Superb overview of a complex theory. Your more detailed commentary provides a vital bromide to the ludicrous and very damaging claims made by those who would have us believe sex is a social construct. I do like the commonality of the hand as an analogy of the collective unconscious. Recommended is Jung’s Man & His Symbols. George Lucas had his Star Wars light-bulb moment reading Campbell’s Hero book. Keep up the good work. Regards, John. UK.
Mr. Kennedy! Thanks so much. I truly appreciate your comment here.
I will be back soon with some Victor Frankl and a new camera :)
I recommend you to read “the child”
That’s his last work before he died In it he analyses the dynamic relationship between mother and child
Thank you for watching, and your suggestion. I imagine anything from Neumann is going to have some gems.
Patriarchy is a natural extension of a matriarchy, where one can not exist without the other as each follows the other throughout the course of all eternity.
Spiritually speaking (gender and race aside), matriarchy can begin with an understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God).
Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle.
As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8).
Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process.
In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary "ego" death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle.
Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3)
To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle.
Lord Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face.
A whole temple was dedicated to Hathor (ancient Egyptian diety), who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. ua-cam.com/video/J0m0zJSEFK0/v-deo.html
"See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba
"My son, keep thy father's commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother." - Proverbs 6 : 20
I am NOT a fan of Jordan Peterson, BUT.. i am a fan of Erich Neumann! (His book, "Art and The Creative Unconscious" is soooo great.)
And if your statement bringing up Gender as a social construct is such a time waster. Even a short study of Genetics (and science) destroys that fear based crap.
Rubbish