Post by Deleted on May 7, 2020 15:28:25 GMT
Jung relates demons to what he calls “autonomous complexes,” which are parts of the psyche that have been so split-off due to trauma they develop a seemingly independent and quasi-life of their own. These split-off and disowned autonomous complexes which seem to oppose us are ultimately parts of ourselves that we have disassociated from. This is similar to if we forget about part of our physical body, this part of ourselves will compensate our dis-membering of our wholeness by trying to get our attention and help us to re-member it; so it is in our psychic landscape. When we split-off from a part of our psyche, we project out this part of ourselves and it will invariably get dreamed up, either as an “other” within our psyche, or as an “other” in the outside world.
These autonomous complexes are ultimately our own energy appearing to us in projected, seemingly out-there form, so as to compensate a one-sidedness on our part. These autonomous complexes are genuine symbols that reflect our inner situation while at the same time being potentially transformative of it. They are an expression of the part of us that is one-sided, while simultaneously being the very doorway into integrating our imbalance, embracing the split-off inner “other” and actualizing our intrinsic wholeness. How the autonomous other within us manifests – constructively or destructively - depends upon if we recognize what it is revealing to us.
Jung said, “Individuation is an exceedingly difficult task: it always involves a conflict of duties, whose solution requires us to understand that our “counter-will” is also an aspect of God’s will.” This autonomous other, with its “counter-will,” plays a mysterious, and key role in the revelation of our true nature. Paradoxically, this “autonomous other” within ourselves, though seemingly separate from ourselves, is simultaneously none other than ourselves. It is as if we are so split off from our true self that we have to dream it up as being alien to ourselves in order to begin relationship with it.
Interestingly, such disparate thinkers as Jung and the philosopher Terrance McKenna, hypothesized that the ET/UFO phenomena might actually be an expression of the psychic fact that we are so split-off from our true self that we can only begin to experience it in the projected form of an “alien other.” Are the seeming appearances of ET/UFO’s in the outer world simply an embodied reflection of this inner, psychic process, as if an archetypal process existing deep within the human psyche is being “dreamed up” into materialization through our universe in order to show us something about ourselves?
When we are completely disassociated from a part of ourselves, just like in a dream, we project it outside of ourselves (whether inwardly or outwardly), where this unconscious content belonging to ourselves gets “dreamed up” in the form of an “other.” If we can recognize the reflection of ourselves that is being revealed to us, we can then begin the process of integrating this split-off, unconscious part of ourselves into our conscious self-image. This is similar to how Christ, who symbolizes God incarnate, had to fully incarnate in humanity, which is to say become completely alien and separate from God, for God to re-concile with and become one with Itself. To quote Jung, “God in his humanity is presumably so far from himself that he has to seek himself through absolute self-surrender. And where would God’s wholeness be if he could not be the “wholly other?”
www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/meeting-the-other-within
These autonomous complexes are ultimately our own energy appearing to us in projected, seemingly out-there form, so as to compensate a one-sidedness on our part. These autonomous complexes are genuine symbols that reflect our inner situation while at the same time being potentially transformative of it. They are an expression of the part of us that is one-sided, while simultaneously being the very doorway into integrating our imbalance, embracing the split-off inner “other” and actualizing our intrinsic wholeness. How the autonomous other within us manifests – constructively or destructively - depends upon if we recognize what it is revealing to us.
Jung said, “Individuation is an exceedingly difficult task: it always involves a conflict of duties, whose solution requires us to understand that our “counter-will” is also an aspect of God’s will.” This autonomous other, with its “counter-will,” plays a mysterious, and key role in the revelation of our true nature. Paradoxically, this “autonomous other” within ourselves, though seemingly separate from ourselves, is simultaneously none other than ourselves. It is as if we are so split off from our true self that we have to dream it up as being alien to ourselves in order to begin relationship with it.
Interestingly, such disparate thinkers as Jung and the philosopher Terrance McKenna, hypothesized that the ET/UFO phenomena might actually be an expression of the psychic fact that we are so split-off from our true self that we can only begin to experience it in the projected form of an “alien other.” Are the seeming appearances of ET/UFO’s in the outer world simply an embodied reflection of this inner, psychic process, as if an archetypal process existing deep within the human psyche is being “dreamed up” into materialization through our universe in order to show us something about ourselves?
When we are completely disassociated from a part of ourselves, just like in a dream, we project it outside of ourselves (whether inwardly or outwardly), where this unconscious content belonging to ourselves gets “dreamed up” in the form of an “other.” If we can recognize the reflection of ourselves that is being revealed to us, we can then begin the process of integrating this split-off, unconscious part of ourselves into our conscious self-image. This is similar to how Christ, who symbolizes God incarnate, had to fully incarnate in humanity, which is to say become completely alien and separate from God, for God to re-concile with and become one with Itself. To quote Jung, “God in his humanity is presumably so far from himself that he has to seek himself through absolute self-surrender. And where would God’s wholeness be if he could not be the “wholly other?”
www.awakeninthedream.com/articles/meeting-the-other-within