Ultimately, everyone embodies their own understanding of love, depending on the individual’s level of consciousness. This is why it always comes back to the demand that was engraved above the entrance to the Temple of Apollo in Delphi in Greece: Γνῶθι σαυτόν (gnōthi sauton) – Know Yourself – and you will know God and the … [Read more…]
I can warmly recommend the books entitled Ursprung und Gegenwart (Ever Present Origin in English) by the German-Swiss philosopher Jean Gebser. He shows the different structures that consciousness has gone through in the spiritual development of humanity and in individual human lives. He distinguishes between archaic, mythical and mental-rational (our present-day consciousness). The transition from … [Read more…]
The technique of Active Imagination enables you to dialogue with the unconscious archetypal elements in the psyche. I recommend adding this meditative discipline to your toolbox as a discipline to encourage your spiritual transformation. It is a great opportunity to get help from your inner counselor by way of translating fear, negative emotions and bad … [Read more…]
In Part 1 I talked of the ultimate state of the individuation process, the state of the “unus mundus”, becoming one with the collective unconscious, but not in pathological ways as in certain psychoses where the individuation process has gone astray and everything has been given a wrong twist. When this occurs positively it brings … [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…]
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…]