Carl Jung: Imagination and Spiritual Sight, Pt 2
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2024
- The power of the imagination runs all the way through the depth psychology of Carl Jung. It is liberates because it is not axiomatic or discursive but perceptive. It goes beyond reactions and settled patterns of behaviour, to discover a new worlds. But it needs fostering, discerning, trusting.
In this talk, I begin with the case of Albert Einstein, whose use of imagination resonates powerfully with Jung's approach.
- I discuss Jung's ideas, particularly how they differ from Freud's.
- I examine key sources of imaginative life in the human psyche - dreams, active imagination and archetypes.
- I consider how the imagination might connect us with the inside of the whole world and the divine.
The talk was the second of three given at the Fintry Trust on 28th July, 2020 - thefintrytrust....
There's literally nothing on Netflix that captivates me as much as this video series. Many thanks.
Hey mark just wanted to say this is my second time watching your videos and I’m just so glad to be here! Great teacher thank you
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So good. Thank you, Mark! This ends on an especially strong note with regards to a mysterious, imaginative and yet practical spiritual experience.
Absolutely brilliant Mark. Thanks again. I think the alchemical images of the "whitening" the "luna dawn" and the "albedo" all speak to this flourishing or rebirth of the imaginative life. Through active imagination we perceive (remember?) the 'living image' which animates the whole world. Seeing in terms of imago is a rekindling of symbolic awareness and, as I understand the alchemical mythos at least, a recollection of the sacred language of Hermes - the pristine theology. My sense is that alchemy, strangely enough, offers us symbols that speak to the inner life and the life of the imagination. Thank you once again, you are doing amazing work.
Einstein, though great he was as a hard scientist, touched a gleam of Blake's expertise.....
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Mark thank you so much for this this type of therapy of discovery through dialogue feel so good to me it inspires me to Explor🦋🕊
I go back nearly fifty years in my interest in Jung and his ideas.....so this one is a bonus. Sweet!
I have a super active imagination and at times in the dark in create a spooky being or I’ll zone out and a short story will play in a vid kinda transparent way. My dreams are extreme beyond most human comprehension. My activate imagination can create sounds and whispers in my head, I’m on medication for anxiety and it stops my activate imagination. Whenever I’m not in anxiety medication (hydroxyzine) it will comeback. Usual I choose to imagine something vividly there’s times it automatically happens.
"For me, reason is the natural organ of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination . . . is not the cause of truth, but its condition. ...In other words, we don't grasp the meaning of a word or concept until we have a clear image to connect it with." [C S Lewis ]
love the stars in the sky as metaphor!
Very keen insights you’ve deduced, in my experience only those who have witnessed these “imaginations” (aka reality beyond the normal senses) are able to speak on this topics because they too have first hand experiences on these matters. You’ve done a great job summarizing this all. I believe we all have the capacity to witness and exchange information with higher dimensional places and entities and that many of the worlds most gifted minds were doing exactly that. Also did you know that nikola tesla trained under yogi Swami Vivekananda.. more confirmation
Great synthesis
Enjoying your insights on these talks - stumbled across them while searching William Blake. I’d also include Tolkien in this group who used the imagination to conjure such detailed and magical worlds, and who used art and words.
Yes. He's right there, alongside Barfield.
Thanks
Very interesting. Are you making more videos on active imagination? That's a fascinating subject that you dont find much material about.
Make one about Nietzsche please?
It might well be that archetypes are programmed in our genetics.....an idea that current advances in knowledge seem to suggest to me...part of our evolutionary biology.
I prefer that archetypes may be reflected in genetics, rather than programmed, partly because I think the science is going that way; partly because archetypes are living powers...
Mark Vernon that we have evolved to be fitted to the archetypes?
@@mattgumbley6080 Yes, perhaps you could say that. The Cambridge evolutionary biologist, Simon Conway Morris, talks of evolution as searching out niches in reality, material and immaterial...
That's fascinating, Mark. Please could you provide a reference for Simon Conway Morris's ideas?
@@PlatosPodcasts That's interesting. I had never thought about the causality from that 'end'. Thank you.