Post by jonbain on Aug 25, 2021 15:26:16 GMT
Eugene 2.0
I looked for a link explaining Jung's Tetragrammaton online,
but found nothing remotely connected to what I studied
out of the university library decades ago; which was Jung's
books in his words. Most Jungian psychology is 2nd or 3rd
hand derivations of the original; and much is lost.
So reading the original should be the ideal.
I will give a brief summary; but its not necessarily
paranormal or occult in the way one typically thinks
of such ideas.
Jung identifies 5 psychological essences which are broken
up into 4 basic moods, plus the holistic unification of those.
He realized that the ancient Greeks had 'distilled' human
behavior into the five visible planets or Gods. These
he then considers the essential 'archetypes'.
Saturn = sadness or pathos
Jupiter = joy or joviality
Mars = anger or violence
Venus = love or affection
Mercury = enlightenment
The fifth mindset is the quintessential state of mind.
One needs to use this process with an actual question
or issue that needs to be resolved to see how it works.
My own analysis of the Tetragrammaton is to note that
the four essential moods have two positive moods, and
two negative moods; whilst also being two introverted
moods and two extroverted moods.
Where Jung differs from so many other psychology schools
is that the negative moods must not be repressed; denying
sadness and denying violence pushes these issues into the
shadow or the unconscious. A very dangerous thing to do.
In this way, a person on the receiving end of abuse (whether
psychological or physical) that refuses to understand why
it occurred then finds himself repeating the same behaviour.
A classic example is the schoolteacher in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall',
abusing the children like his mother abused him.
So the therapy entails identifying a trauma in one's shadow.
Typically one then should write four paragraphs about the issue.
In Pink Floyd we could simply say:
Mars: the violence of the teacher
Saturn: the depression it causes
Jupiter: the fun that he still enjoyed writing poetry
Venus: the camaraderie of his friends at the time
Of course in real therapy those would have much more
detail than this simplified example.
Then once the four essences are considered he might
reach the stage of Mercury (enlightenment), which
would be the music and success which came from
writing these into songs and helping many others
by openly engaging the problems of war, PTSD and
the ensuing bipolar disorders so typical of such
experiences; and how this effects society at large.
Of course this is VERY simplified.
And it needs a real example to operate effectively.
But the key is that everything has negative/positive
as well as introverted/extroverted dynamics to it.
This is what is meant by 'incorporating the shadow'.
The trick is to allow yourself to fully feel the agony
which often was repressed. Only when you can allow
the sadness in and be honest about it, can it pass through
you and not be a neuroses any longer. No healing is
ever complete, but over time, the trauma diminishes
and no longer degenerates the ego into self-destructive
behavior. One can begin to become functional as each
day goes past. And one then avoids the real tragedy
which is to become the abuser. Repressed trauma manifests
as behaviour in such a way that the person at a crime
scene would typically say "i do not know what came over me".
It was the shadow of unacknowledged past trauma.
Once complete, it can even reveal past-life trauma
which is where it might resemble something occult.
So even the most horrid experiences can open up
something in the mind quite spectacular.
I looked for a link explaining Jung's Tetragrammaton online,
but found nothing remotely connected to what I studied
out of the university library decades ago; which was Jung's
books in his words. Most Jungian psychology is 2nd or 3rd
hand derivations of the original; and much is lost.
So reading the original should be the ideal.
I will give a brief summary; but its not necessarily
paranormal or occult in the way one typically thinks
of such ideas.
Jung identifies 5 psychological essences which are broken
up into 4 basic moods, plus the holistic unification of those.
He realized that the ancient Greeks had 'distilled' human
behavior into the five visible planets or Gods. These
he then considers the essential 'archetypes'.
Saturn = sadness or pathos
Jupiter = joy or joviality
Mars = anger or violence
Venus = love or affection
Mercury = enlightenment
The fifth mindset is the quintessential state of mind.
One needs to use this process with an actual question
or issue that needs to be resolved to see how it works.
My own analysis of the Tetragrammaton is to note that
the four essential moods have two positive moods, and
two negative moods; whilst also being two introverted
moods and two extroverted moods.
Where Jung differs from so many other psychology schools
is that the negative moods must not be repressed; denying
sadness and denying violence pushes these issues into the
shadow or the unconscious. A very dangerous thing to do.
In this way, a person on the receiving end of abuse (whether
psychological or physical) that refuses to understand why
it occurred then finds himself repeating the same behaviour.
A classic example is the schoolteacher in Pink Floyd's 'The Wall',
abusing the children like his mother abused him.
So the therapy entails identifying a trauma in one's shadow.
Typically one then should write four paragraphs about the issue.
In Pink Floyd we could simply say:
Mars: the violence of the teacher
Saturn: the depression it causes
Jupiter: the fun that he still enjoyed writing poetry
Venus: the camaraderie of his friends at the time
Of course in real therapy those would have much more
detail than this simplified example.
Then once the four essences are considered he might
reach the stage of Mercury (enlightenment), which
would be the music and success which came from
writing these into songs and helping many others
by openly engaging the problems of war, PTSD and
the ensuing bipolar disorders so typical of such
experiences; and how this effects society at large.
Of course this is VERY simplified.
And it needs a real example to operate effectively.
But the key is that everything has negative/positive
as well as introverted/extroverted dynamics to it.
This is what is meant by 'incorporating the shadow'.
The trick is to allow yourself to fully feel the agony
which often was repressed. Only when you can allow
the sadness in and be honest about it, can it pass through
you and not be a neuroses any longer. No healing is
ever complete, but over time, the trauma diminishes
and no longer degenerates the ego into self-destructive
behavior. One can begin to become functional as each
day goes past. And one then avoids the real tragedy
which is to become the abuser. Repressed trauma manifests
as behaviour in such a way that the person at a crime
scene would typically say "i do not know what came over me".
It was the shadow of unacknowledged past trauma.
Once complete, it can even reveal past-life trauma
which is where it might resemble something occult.
So even the most horrid experiences can open up
something in the mind quite spectacular.
