Psychic Epidemics

[Jerky]

“Indeed, it is becoming ever more obvious that it is not famine, not earthquakes, not microbes, not cancer but man himself who is man’s greatest danger to man, for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics, which are infinitely more devastating than the worst of natural catastrophes. The supreme danger which threatens individuals as well as whole nations is a psychic danger. Reason has proved itself completely powerless, precisely because its arguments have an effect only on the conscious mind and not on the unconscious. The greatest danger of all comes from the masses, in whom the effects of the unconscious pile up cumulatively and the reasonableness of the conscious mind is stifled. Every mass organization is a latent danger just as much as a heap of dynamite is. It lets loose effects which no man wants and no man can stop. It is therefore in the highest degree desirable that a knowledge of psychology should spread so that men can understand the source of the supreme dangers that threaten them. Not by arming to the teeth, each for itself, can the nations defend themselves in the long run from the frightful catastrophes of modern war. The heaping up of arms is itself a call to war. Rather must they recognize those psychic conditions under which the unconscious [tsunami-like] bursts the dykes of consciousness and overwhelms it.”<br><br>- Carl Jung<br><br>Excellent article:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/061905Levy.html">www.baltimorechronicle.co...5Levy.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[chiggerbit]

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[chiggerbit]

Interesting man.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cjung.htm">www.kirjasto.sci.fi/cjung.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"Following his emergence from this period of crisis, Jung developed his own theories systematically under the name of Analytical Psychology. His concepts of the collective unconscious and of the archetypes led him to explore religion in the East and West, myths, alchemy, and later flying saucers." <br> <p></p><i></i>

[maggrwaggr]

although it could have used a good edit.<br><br>Fascinating stuff ..... lots to think about ......<br><br>I've always known our culture is insane, but how do you fix it?<br><br>In the twenty five years since I figured that out, it's only gotten worse. I've seen a downward spiral of madness. <br><br>I really don't think it's going to change until it blows up.<br><br>The way to survive is to stay the hell out of the way of the "blowing up " part.<br><br>And hope it doesn't take the entire earth with it when it blows.<br><br>That's what will really piss me off, is if they take the whole ecosystem with them. Fuckers. <p></p><i></i>

[human]

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>To recognize that the collective psychosis that is running rampant on our planet is a field phenomenon is to develop a more expansive, holistic vision in which we step out of the illusory identity which imagines that we are discrete entities who are separate from one another. This realization of our interconnectedness expresses itself as compassion. Together we are all collaboratively dreaming up what is happening. This is a mass shared dream in which we are all complicit.<br><br>As Jung writes, when we realize our complicity, “Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is also in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow, he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved problems of our day."<br><br>The way to change our world is through the individual, one person at a time. Any one of us metabolizing the unconscious shadow as it gets triggered in our daily life instantaneously affects the entire universe, as we are not separate. As Jung points out, if the Unconscious is “...properly dealt with in one place only, it is influenced as a whole, i.e., simultaneously and everywhere.” Because of our interconnectedness, any one of us recognizing the underlying psychic roots of the collective madness that is playing out on the world stage affects the entire field and paves the way for collective realization. </em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>^^maggrwaggr<br><br><br>Paul Levy website..<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.awakeninthedream.com/indexx.html">www.awakeninthedream.com/indexx.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><br>he also has a couple of good interviews with Fintan Dunne... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.breakfornews.com">www.breakfornews.com</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>latest:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.kathymcmahon.utvinternet.com/mrn/audio/InsideTrackNews050609.mp3">www.kathymcmahon.utvinter...050609.mp3</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>one<br>human? <p></p><i></i>