Psychology Of The Mandala & The Unfolding Self | Philosophy | Carl Jung // Alan Watts 

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This is so weird. I heard Uberboyo talking about mandalas and I know a physicist who uses the coloring books. I purchased one and some markers, and yesterday I got started. It took me hours to finish one and I was instantly transported back to when I was a child and drawing and coloring was the only thing that could shut off my ADD head. Trippy.

Mandalas have always captured my attention for how intricate each of it's layers are, just like a human being, with most of them starting out from an empty, blank, white or black core, reminding me that the meaning of our life is what we make of it throughout our journey. Great video as always!

After my first mushroom experience I started drawing everyday and at first they were just doodles but eventually they became very intricate designs that were usually the shape of a circle. It wasn't until months later when I got into Jung that I realized how profound they can be and it blew me away that I was doing a step in Jung's individuation process without even knowing it. I took that sychronistic event as advice that I should follow my intuition more and its been leading me to a much better place so far. Cheers

Brilliant. The best holiday that one can take is one away from oneself.

Nice delivery and great subject matter...from one who found himself ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist monk for 8 years and was privileged to be involved in painted the Thanka / Mandalas for the Monastery. Thanks for reminding me of the power in a seemingly simple circle..🙏

always spot on with the topics

Manufactured procrastinations make it very hard to come back into feeling the true self especially when everyone else does the same. It takes discipline to recognize when I am about to engage in a MP activity. I noticed they take many forms, eating, watching shit on tv, watching shit on my smartphone. It's easy to immerse the senses into these external things because when I don't and I remain in presence I become overwhelmed by feelings of nihilism. Not all the time, most of the time I can achieve peace while present, but maybe that's why there are manufactured procrastinations in the first place? To distract from looming feelings of our own mortality. What do you think? @thoughtsonthinking

"Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away - an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains." - C. Jung (Memories, Dreams, Reflections)

Wow, that was a great video... Really thought and emotion provoking. You‘re doing very meaningful work and have made me aware of something important. Keep doing this. Have a lovely weekend too.

The most sufficient reapplication of analytical psychology to our current times. Doesn't try to adapt it to urbanity, but encourages a thought. And the thought is 'should i?' The most natural release of the supraordinate I've felt in a while

広大な砂漠ですね。 その他の景色も最高です。 一度は行ってみたいな。

Thank you so much for this!!

Very thought provoking. Love it

Thanks for sharing

A picture is a word so a thought must be a picture that stems from feeling part of a core. Part of All.

That's quite fascinating. For me, for as long as I can remember, since maybe when I was a child... whenever I'm in the dark or focusing on staring at something for too long, or especially if I close my eyes whilst I'm still awake... I do see something resembling a Mandala, but it looks more like a wall of eyes that continually move closer and closer to me and then eventually expand to my entire field of field until it dissipates. Then the process repeats itself again. It starts off small and then it expands, and in the middle of the wall of eyes, there's one big eye. Some cynics can easily write it off as illusions/delusions from a lot of sunlight exposure... but for me, it's remarkable. It still remains a mystery to me in what it could mean. But perhaps this video may help direct me in figuring it out in a way that enriches my life and the lives of others.

Smile on your face and in your mind‚ positive energy will come to you to help dispel negative things ❤️

Sone time ago I smoked weed. I was alone, it was 5am, my eyes and mind were tired as hell. As I looked through some pictures in my gallery. I stopped at a photo that was me. Then, I suddenly realized, that the structure of the picture was changing on the screen. And I looked down, and through the corner of my eyes, I saw a geometrical perfect, really complex, small and yellow mandala shining on the surface of the phone.....Now, my vision was already blurred by the tiredness of my eyes, as well as the slight psychedelic effect of the weed. But what I saw was so accurate, that I can still recall the impression that it gave me.nNow, as I tried to look directly at the mandala, it disappeared from my eyes, but when I looked at it from the corner of my eyes it was there. But weirdly nowhere else then on the screen of my phone. After that I went to bed terrified and shoked. The days after, I looked at images or articles which could represent or confirm what I saw, but it seems to me that it was a very unique abstract experience. But I would LOVE to hear someone telling me they saw something similar... or maybe explain the meaning behind it... I feel like there is something I´m supposed to understand, a hint or something but I don't really get it

Very insightful.

Beautiful

Thanks for the video

Wowzerz

Did you write this?? Was some of this from Jung? Fantastic work, thanks brother!

Thank you

Lyrical, Poetic

I feel like we are the product purely of the past and that there is never a now because once the hand strikes 12, it doesn't actively Stop to be 12, it passes by and 12 becomes the past. My equation is this: [-1y + 1x= 0e ], so the 'Now' is the illusion and so, therefore, the Self is only experienced as the past, or it cannot be an experience. Unless of course by simple planning, we are experiencing some future?? So, we aren't a 'Now' or a 'Self'. Close, but not quite. The illusion is that because if anything, we are just micro-cells inside a massive program, inside a massive universe-that we can also hold in our hand as a single drop of rain. [ -1y + 1x= 0e ]. *y as in 'year' of past; x as in 'passage' portals, continuations, and 0e I feel would stand for eternal. So, "Year+Passage+Continuation= 'Eternal' OR perhaps 'Energy'? **Please elaborate, if you would**

....procrastination...to even bary those important revraled in the desert....more preciasly for that energy..to transform in

Losing your Facebook page is a good start folks

The shifting sands are there to make you seek the Rock that was laid before the foundation of the world.

Why choose the desert to "symbolize" The Unfolding Self? Is it because human experience in deserts produces the optical illusions we name "mirage?" Which is defined as, 1. an illusion sometimes seen at sea, in the desert, or over hot pavement that looks like a pool of water or a mirror in which distant objects are seen inverted 2. something illusory and unattainable like a mirage. Do such phenomenological experiences reflect the "mirror" like nature of that foundational sense of our everyday mind, "memory?" Is our normal perception of reality mirage-like in the way we "project" the remembered names of objective reality onto reality, as though the name of any object we see, is the reality of that object? While the innate (inborn) illusion\mirage all human beings suffer from, and one that becomes most glaringly present within clear blue sky desert environments, is the optical illusion of Sun-Rise? And given that the cause of this optical illusion is now taught to grade school students as the light of day & dark of night experience produced by Earth Axis Rotation, why has there not been a paradigm shift in thinking about reality, as it really is? And given that no human being on the planet is born "linguistic" & 21st-century neuroscience continues to explore Sir Charles Sherington's 1951 statement "the motor act is the cradle of the mind," which all Mothers know from their "visceral" experience of the "reflexive" activity of our human nervous system, why, to paraphrase a popular song, are we still looking for our selves "out-there?" Is it because, despite our postured pretense of being a fully conscious self capable of making the right choices in life, we are driven by the hard-wired nature of "fate," that resides within the unseen reality of our mammalian nervous system? The perennial nature of our conscious mind's analogous sense-of-self, which now sees well-educated people suggest that we are adaptive machines might benefit from synthesizing all the neuroscience revelations of the 20th-century. revelations that confirm the unseen nature of our human self revolves around the motor-activity (for want of a better analogy) of our heart\lungs "respiratory sinus arrhythmia" action that produces a "vagal-tone," which in turn "affects" a "cerebral-tone" within our skull? Anyway, on a more poetic note, is it high time we stopped looking for our self, "out there?" But tell me, did you sail across the sun? Did you make it to the Milky Way To see the lights all faded And that heaven is overrated? Tell me, did you fall for a shooting star? One without a permanent scar And then you missed me While you were looking for yourself out there? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6jiBEztS_uY.html

.if you.wish to be perfect..manifacted procrastination..frim themeaninless shine....

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I’m the 666th like, dunno if this is synchronicity since this happens all the time, same with 4:20, always looking at the clock then... seeing prices, videos. I think the universe is trying to tell me that I am the anti christ-ganja man

The references to Carl Jung and Alan Watts are misleading and in very bad taste with the 'elitist' tone of the video.

Great,Jesus part was not necessary though.Neither is my comment,to be fair.