Carl Jung
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Becoming A Good Ancestor: Active Hope, Part 5
I’ll begin with a question: How many continents are there in our world? Do you know? There are seven: Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australia. And, in ancient cultures from all these seven continents, what you find is belief that reality–composed of both the material and spiritual–is like a tree. The…
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Owning Your Own Shadow
The concept of enlightenment, often associated with spiritual awakening, is explored in connection with the psychological concept of the “Shadow” by Carl Jung and others. The “Shadow” represents the suppressed or hidden negative aspects of ourselves. It is emphasized that acknowledging and integrating the Shadow is essential for inner balance. The need to recognize the…
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In the summer of 1977, I would not have recognized the name of Carl Jung even though the major event of my life back then was premised to a significant extent on the work of one of his disciples, scholar of world mythology Joseph Campbell. I’m talking about that great space opera, Star Wars, which,…
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Huston Smith, in his classic best-selling book entitled The World’s Religions, says that “authentic religion is the clearest opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos enter human life … and inspire life’s deepest creative centers.” That’s why I titled our year-long sermon series exploring the world’s religions “Voyage to Aliveness.” We are Unitarian…
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