If I may suggest, symbols tell the stories of the experience in learning from an inward journey. I see the serpentine staff as learning to discern the wisdom of the solar power, ascension of the worm(serpent) balancing individual experiences with disciplined approach and regeneration (grounding) of reality. One's vestments are the Sun's aura, we realize that we know little and the journey is life's mission.
Ah this was so great. As I finished reading, I visualized Self like a ribbon pulled through the body repeatedly, like light shooting up and down the spine. Mukti, bhukti. Giving life and casting shadows. Thank you for this.
Thank you for this deep dive into Jungian truths. Life is about the journey, not a destination. In meeting and embracing the true Self, which is infinitely more than one's own ego, it seems the practice of humilty is helpful.
"I" understand that "I" am like a grain of sand, a wee bit of consciousness within an infinitely larger Cosmos filled with consciousness, to which I am connected energetically.
There is great wonder and beauty in this truth. 🕊️
Experience can only be observed once it has passed, your preconceptions limit/ alter your vision; thus we learn to let go of preconceptions and become ourselves as we truly are without them. Peace and love
“We also understand that the Self is a unity, a whole—but not in the way the ego understands it. It is a unity that does not always feel like our own…” If it ain’t vast, it’s not the Self.
A more important symbol is the symbol of Latin medicine. It is two snakes coiled around a needle with angel wings above. They are the meek who have to find their other snake in order to ascend as beings, inherit the earth and draw the universe together. They have to lose their toxic calcified shell like skeleton flatten their heads and body become small rather then large and pass themselves through the eye of the needle to be reborn as souls into the light of the ascension of the angel. Snakes are beings that have never left earth so while the universe is attracted to them, they are not meant to go out into the universe till the earth is a paradise of ascension. They have been divided and multiplied many times yet still have a perfect other half in light they meant to be with. Animals existed before man and woman and many natives of earth are based on beings evolved from snakes. You should know that a snake can fully engulf a mammal... after all the plants in the garden of Eden were consumed the snake would still have plenty of food to wrap itself around until their were no mammals left to hold up the heavens and another planet would strike earth. Taking a flooded earth with a moon from having Australia on a sand covered earth to a planet with the superheated planet next door on it, the panacea to restart a dying earth when it hit it and spread out to create the panacea. We are at the time when earth is returning to one planet. The snakes at themselves to death at at the destruction of the earth from wanton consumption we need to learn to live without original sin, eating and taking from the environment. Control the elements and have what our Quantum physics calls mind over matter. Fire no more.
“we realize that we know little and the journey is life’s mission”
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If I may suggest, symbols tell the stories of the experience in learning from an inward journey. I see the serpentine staff as learning to discern the wisdom of the solar power, ascension of the worm(serpent) balancing individual experiences with disciplined approach and regeneration (grounding) of reality. One's vestments are the Sun's aura, we realize that we know little and the journey is life's mission.
Ah this was so great. As I finished reading, I visualized Self like a ribbon pulled through the body repeatedly, like light shooting up and down the spine. Mukti, bhukti. Giving life and casting shadows. Thank you for this.
Thank you for this deep dive into Jungian truths. Life is about the journey, not a destination. In meeting and embracing the true Self, which is infinitely more than one's own ego, it seems the practice of humilty is helpful.
"I" understand that "I" am like a grain of sand, a wee bit of consciousness within an infinitely larger Cosmos filled with consciousness, to which I am connected energetically.
There is great wonder and beauty in this truth. 🕊️
can one observe experience without preconception? where is the self then?
Experience can only be observed once it has passed, your preconceptions limit/ alter your vision; thus we learn to let go of preconceptions and become ourselves as we truly are without them. Peace and love
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"The Self is not a concept, but an experience..." This is a beautiful line, the kind that haunts you long after it is consumed. Thank you.
“We also understand that the Self is a unity, a whole—but not in the way the ego understands it. It is a unity that does not always feel like our own…” If it ain’t vast, it’s not the Self.
Thank you dear Alchemist Claire
A more important symbol is the symbol of Latin medicine. It is two snakes coiled around a needle with angel wings above. They are the meek who have to find their other snake in order to ascend as beings, inherit the earth and draw the universe together. They have to lose their toxic calcified shell like skeleton flatten their heads and body become small rather then large and pass themselves through the eye of the needle to be reborn as souls into the light of the ascension of the angel. Snakes are beings that have never left earth so while the universe is attracted to them, they are not meant to go out into the universe till the earth is a paradise of ascension. They have been divided and multiplied many times yet still have a perfect other half in light they meant to be with. Animals existed before man and woman and many natives of earth are based on beings evolved from snakes. You should know that a snake can fully engulf a mammal... after all the plants in the garden of Eden were consumed the snake would still have plenty of food to wrap itself around until their were no mammals left to hold up the heavens and another planet would strike earth. Taking a flooded earth with a moon from having Australia on a sand covered earth to a planet with the superheated planet next door on it, the panacea to restart a dying earth when it hit it and spread out to create the panacea. We are at the time when earth is returning to one planet. The snakes at themselves to death at at the destruction of the earth from wanton consumption we need to learn to live without original sin, eating and taking from the environment. Control the elements and have what our Quantum physics calls mind over matter. Fire no more.
I was slowly and now rapidly realizing Jung was the greatest marketer since Francis Bacon wrote Shakespeare