is the title of a book by C.G. Jung of which he said in writing it he felt himself the instrument of a higher power: “If there is anything like the spirit seizing one by the scruff of the neck, it is the way this book came into being.” This points to the fact that … [Read more…]
In Answer to Job Jung analyzes God. He shows a masterful biblical scholarship in the exegesis of Old and New Testament as well as extraordinary knowledge of history, combined with his overarching perspectice on collective spiritual developments. Therefore this book affords a quasi prophetic understanding of man‘s evolution of consciousness, For Jung the term of … [Read more…]
That our world is out of balance has been known for a long time, but up until the emergence of the Corona crisis many of us could still afford to be in denial. Now everyone – and each country all over the world – is confronted with the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. We count … [Read more…]
The history of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of freedom. (Georg Hegel, 1821 Are we still aware of our birthright that an individual is a sovereign over himself, over his own body and mind, as John Stuart Mill proclaimed in his philosophical work “On Liberty “? Or are we … [Read more…]
following an intuition I picked up two books from Teilhard de Chardin which I had studied long time ago. Today I understand how much this undogmatic, most unconventional and original prophet of the evolution of consciousness has to be named together with all the other pioneers like Hegel, Gebser, Bergson, Johannes Heinrich, Aurobindo, Lama Govinda, … [Read more…]
To follow the INNER COMMISSION that points to the spiritual Gebser says: “He who has the courage, or who has been graced, to gain the necessary openness for perceiving the invisible, will at first become aware of the truth of simultaneity and then also of the invisible origin. Of course, for this to be the … [Read more…]
If we can reconcile ourselves with the mysterious truth that spirit is the living body seen from within and the body the outer manifestation of the living spirit – the two being really one – then we can understand why it is that the attempt to transcend the present mental-rational level of consciousness must give … [Read more…]
The Work of Ego transcendence – what to watch out for is that which lowers our vibration: fear, anger, greed, hate, envy, complaining, judging (good and evil) gossip, desire, doubt, depression, brooding, rancor, vanity, pride, lying….we can add to this list also uncleanliness, untidiness, restlessness, noise, cursing, ruthlessness, violence, focusing on bad news, ambition, stinginess, … [Read more…]