“Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfil the way that is in you. “ - Carl Jung
@@Coffeemancer Exactly what yaknow said. Hatred is a way created by other people, probably due to the shadow Carl believed in that Sisyphus described. Part of finding "your" way would presumably involve recognizing that the external hatred you have is just as much, if not more so, a hatred of those same, shameful traits you fear you have deep inside you.
lol, yes. I understand. I found Jung last year and life might have been easier if I had read my Grandfather's books on his desk, instead of the dusty historical romantic fiction and Shakespeare, First. Maybe a Phoenix rising from the ashes should look to today and not the past (?). I like your user name Emerset Farquharson and you have an elegant way with words.
@@RedCabinet4793 Philosophy and psychology provide you with a framework and a vocabulary for understanding something that your unconscious (or "the collective unconscious") may have yet been unable to surface or convincingly express to your conscious. Studying philosophy requires you to be willing to suspend old foundational beliefs, turn inward to where no thing exists, and shine a light on what would be called "ego". This process might be mistaken for "sanity drifting". It would be insanity to see a glimpse of the truth and avoid exploring further. Or it would be insanity to confound the natural process of individuation with noise and allow your ship to sink because of it. Don't worry, both of these insanities are practically status quo in 2019 Western culture. Which in itself is insane. So stripping yourself of that insanity might make you feel temporarily insane. That's worth it.
Jung having his neurosis during World War 1 while also having visions of Europe soaked in blood before is no coincidence in my opinion. This man was so deeply tapped into the collective unconscious world he often described. Maybe only paralleled by Nietschze who would predict the horrors of the 20th century decades before they happened.
The channel "Meme Analysis" regularly references Jung and while the channel has a comedic tinge to it, I'd argue Meme Analysis is rather good at tapping into this "collective unconscious" for his analyses into memes. For example, he was explaining why slime toys are so popular and his explanation was so simple and sensible: Kids can stimulate their eyes and ears with video games all day, but it never stimulates their sense of touch. Slime toys satisfy this deprived sense.
Great •Narration voice • Music To Fit the mood Frued Vs Jung 3:52 4:15 The Abyss of The Subconcious • View a hellscape • Hearing voices in his head 5:30 Archetypes 7:10 Self-Actialization Ethology 8:10 Individuation • Ego, keeps up appearances 10:20 Record Study Explain
"You must fulfill the way that is in you" Jung is quoted at the end. An excellent overview of a complicated man. I had no idea his youth was so strange. Jung, I think, is weird but has some interesting theories that are beyond science and beyond provability.
Jung I think didn't slip into a psychosis but jumped into it willingly "for science." At least that was his original intention; to explore the unconscious thoroughly and not leave any stone unturned, but he used unscientific methods such as ancient religious rituals and meditation in an attempt to achieve a sort of state of mind in which his unconscious could be explored. He called his journey a "divine madness" and said if anyone doubts the divine madness let them judge the fruit of it. At the beginning of the red book he describes the shedding of his pursuit of the "spirit of this age" which was manifest in his desire to be academic and scientific. Essentially he realized that that spirit was very limiting; that he was approaching his limit of this kind of understanding, and decided to leap off the other side of the limits of our understanding into madness and the absurd, where he would discover truths that he could not find through scientific or necessarily provable means. He spent I think 25 days in what he called "the desert of his soul" before descending into hell within himself; recovering God from the depths therein. Essentially responding to Nietzsche's theory that God is dead and we killed him by saying yes this is true in the spirit of this age we have done so, but that upon abandonment of the spirit of the age that led us to kill God, if we explore our depths we will find the bloodied God there at the very bottom of our pit; in experiencing our collective darkness and not shying away from it. And he says the way of Christ is what leads to what is to come (death) and that no one can be spared that path. "But what happened to my day? Torches were kindled, bloody anger and disputes erupted. As darkness seized the world, the terrible war arose and the darkness destroyed the light of the world, since it was incomprehensible to the darkness and good for nothing anymore. And so we had to taste Hell. I saw which vices and virtues of this time changed into, how your mildness became hard, your goodness became brutality, your love became hate, and your understanding became madness. Why did you want to comprehend the darkness! But you had to or else it would have seized you. Happy the man who anticipates this grasp. Did you ever think of the evil in you? Oh, you spoke of it, you mentioned it, and you confessed it smilingly, as a generally human vice, or a recurring misunderstanding. But did you know what evil is, and that it stands precisely right behind your virtues, that it is also your virtues themselves, as their inevitable substance? You locked Satan in the abyss for a millennium, and when the millenium had passed, you laughed at him, since he had become a children's fairy tale. But if the dreadful great one raises his head, the world winces. The most extreme coldness draws near." My experience when reading Jung's red book is that he is handing me unraveled mysteries on a silver platter but when I pick them up to consume them they dissolve and fall through my fingers like sand. When you take any snippet like this out of context people may even get the wrong idea because it fits like a puzzle piece into the whole. It's terribly difficult to describe the message he creates because it is coming from his enigmatic stream of consciousness in this self proclaimed "divine madness" that is hardly palatable for any "normal" framework of conversation. But he says of the red book that that experience was the initial source of all of the rest of his life's works, and it has profound meaning whether you choose to "believe" in it or not or accept it as true or not.
His ideas(not merely theories because of historical basis) are beyond only materialistic science but definitely not beyond provability because there are advance non-western cultures that are still alive
Hey you're an incredible artist. Glad you are wanting to pursue to try to understand hard concepts for improving your life. Your drawings are great, man keep it up.
I remember reading Man and His Symbols in my early twenties. It had an amazing effect on my life, it was discovering an mine of jewels and precious metals. I would definitely recommend it as a great piece of Western literature.
With Coronavirus I found myself sitting in basically the same room for 2+ weeks and I felt like I was actually losing my mind. In that time I firmly and epiphanically landed on the idea of what I later learned was philosophical idealism after being a devout externalist who's studied physics for most of my life, and upon that realisation I honestly felt like my sanity was slipping away. For days afterwards I needed only several hours of sleep to feel rested, and I suffered from sleep paralysis for the first time in my life after waking to whispers in my ear. I had ideas about maths, these ideas about philosophy and psychology, ideas about physics; they felt so profound and motivating, but I had nobody around me to dicuss them with. I noticed that without the confirmation or validation of 'other people', given idealism, you really cannot discern such feelings from utter nonsense; no amount of rereading your own words can ever prove that with comforting certainty to you in such a state of mind. I spoke with my family about everyday matters whilst what felt like the shameful tumour of insanity hummed inside my head, and eventually I sought some external validation from people I felt I could trust. They actually granted me some relief from the fear, but now I almost wish that I didn't resort to that. Through this experience I internalised that language isn't as strong a foundation as I once thought it was. We've hijacked our capacity to recognise sounds, exploited our capacity to produce them, and created this mass game of forced imagination that we call language. The 'realest' thing there is is our direct experience, but now I'm taking advantage more of the 'unreal' experiences that the imagination offers, and I'm finding that my dreams are becoming more vivid and identifiable amongst other things. I take the time to see things I haven't seen before, notice smells I haven't smelled before, notice the feeling of the ground on my feet, the shroud of depression I feel over my head when I'm with my family contrasted with the contentness and warmth I feel around others, listening to how sounds change as I turn my head from the source; yesterday I stared up into the blue sky and imagined that actually I were pinned to a terrestrial ceiling by gravity above an infinite abyss and that's a feeling that only one's imagination can grant you. 10/10 would lose my mind again, I can see why Jung did what he did.
I've been going into those states since I was about 16 and it gets very very uncomfortable after awhile. It's all really stimulating and mind opening until you just cant shut it off and you're sitting there at work and you can't pay attention because the computer screen changes dimensions and forms patterns or you start to feel visualize the dark muses that whisper your darkest thoughts to you
I found Carl Jungs teachings through Tool's music. I am so thankful Maynard Keenan taught me about this man and his ideas. I am studying philosophy in school now because of how effective the application of Jungs work is in my life. Right next to Nietzsche and John Ruskin, Jung is my favorite.
Seth Gilmore - On shrooms, you can better go out in nature and let go and be free and observe your own perceptions and thoughts than study someone else's teachings.
"Freud who had spent his career predicting the current trend in adult film.." I almost did a spit take when I heard that, hahaha. I'm definitely gonna quote that when appropriate from now on.
@@nomad639 Elaborate or I'm deeming your underwhelming statement one of a charlatan. I've listened to a lot of Peterson's opinions and ideas and he's anything but. Of course, as with all opinions its destined to be disagreed with, but how does this equate to being a charlatan? He's read Jung and gave accurate representation of his philosophy, and his personal opinions on it, this does not merit a charlatan. He disagrees with all the identity politics, and infringement on freedom of speech, I agree with the majority of his opinions under this, so if this makes him a charlatan I'm one as well.
I have never read anything by Jung but have been recommended his books time and time again. What I find incredibly fascinating is that during my time of self exploration I have come to many of the same realisations mentioned in this video, yet free from anything to influence those ideas. This only further compounds the idea of the collective consciousness for me. I think I am going to get stuck in to some of his books and see how I can expand my own knowledge in this area
I had an awakening experience, or what the psychology world might deem “rapid personality change” 5 years ago. My whole family thought I’d lost my mind, but really, I found sanity. They were so worried about me though because I couldn’t articulate much of what I had now Known through no learning, or being taught, or ever even hearing terms for before. I had to go to a psych ward for four days. I explained to them the experience the best I could. When I got out, I Know for a fact that I was guided in some way to Jung’s work and he described SO well in worldly terms what I tried describing through my religious background. They were one and the same, but just two different throws of words used. Jung, in my opinion, is the MASTER at combining physical observation with the intangible side of Spirit. That which we experience, but can’t fully explain…he explains it so well. I already knew I wasn’t crazy, everyone around me started to see I had been given a massive gift when they figured out I wasn’t the only one who had ever woken up.
Your videos are so good. Absolutely great summaries of concepts and the founders, in such short frames of time. I really appreciate and thank you for them!
I have seen some of your videos before but never checked out the channel. This is precisely what I want to see when I go onto youtube. Subscribed and looking forward for more :-)
Know I'm a little late here, but psychoanalysis is frequently referred to in Continental Philosophy, being one of the areas that Continental Philosophers tap into.
This was really cool man, I'm really into Jung and read and think about his ideas daily (or all day rather), you represented his weirdness pretty well hehe, subbed!
I'm about to watch..mostly because i feel like i heard two "jung things" lately from other videos..either Watts or Mckenna..One might've been specifically on "jung as a shaman" So, I never got that vibe myself but find myself oddly curious to check this out. Just to ponder..and it seems to have a good thumbs up on the production. I think you're comment helped me jump in. Buffer finished..:)
For anyone curious on other Jungian works, there is, "The Undiscovered Self', that is a brief but enlightening read on society, religion, and their connection to the individual. There is also a collective works by a gentleman named Anthony Storr. It is very fittingly called, "The Essential Jung". Happy studying!
There's a book about Kundalini Yoga and depth psychology, which is a transcription of Jung's lectures, arranged by Sonu Shamdasani. The best book, I know of, to understand the link between the west and the mysterious east! Really a mindblowing read
Im being in contact with Jung's work for 2 years now. Ive never even came close to seeing a more accurate, beutifully written summary of his work. Im impressed, keep up the good work !
Well i've twice or more met what i could only descripe as tricksters or clowns. They somehow seemed far superior in their knowledge - not that the form of knowledge they posses is any of the sort of knowledge that we as people have. Despite this they only showed interest in making fun out of me while also showing interest in displaying their world to me. Very interesting experince.
It’s rather really vivid close-by manifestations of them, if we stick to Jung in trying to interpret whatever the fuck that really is. Archetype can’t be experienced or met directly due to its paradoxical nature - you either meet a mask formed by it or get under the influence and become a mask of it yourself. Neither is an archetype itself, both are always-already products.
You have to put into the conversation how thousands of years ago. These chemicals were tools for ancient structures and that in a hightened state of awareness and distractions from the 21st century. They tapped into something build into out dna for survival and progression. Fast forward 5,10,20 thousand years. Ect. Its your roomate chad pulls out a vape pen. To which you immidiately click 5 times and now i understand sacred geometry. It has no formal use. ( debateable)
I have self recognize these levels of contentiousness through deep inward reflection, and relate to Carl Jung's thought process. I would feel privileged if able to further this understanding of the universe within my lifetime, and construct the concepts in a way for others to grow from.
There is only one way and that is my way. There is only one salvation and that is my salvation. What is to come will be created in me and from me. Hence look into myself. I must fulfill the way that is in me.
RU-vid algorithm nailed this one for me. I'm currently reading the red book (my first book of Jung's) I think I'm getting some of it. I can see a lot of links with that and stoicism (might be me projecting) but I guess the point of it is all religions and philosophies have similarities and principles that link to our archaic thoughts.
This channel was one of the biggest factors on moving me through depression. The J.P Sartre video helped me find me. I was stuck and nothing at the time in my life was there to direct me towards philosophy, and then I found your video on J.P. I know everything I'm saying is corny but this channel truly helped start the change in my life. I was on a 51/50 at rock bottom I was told I NEEDED to be on medication or I wouldn't be happy again, and now here I am, I feel amazing, I work out every day, my confidence is through the roof, and I have no issues with being alone for the past year I have been by my self with no social circle and I feel great
Awesome video, lately I was thinking to read some of the Jung's books, but i wasn't sure, but after this video I'm again really interested in him. Thx for the video and cheers from Serbia
Take my advice dont start with Jung's works immediately. Read Man and His Symbols first and/or Psychology of C.G Jung by Jolande Jacobi. Then read King, Magician, Warrior, Lover (this is by a Jungian psychologist from America) My point is starting with Jung is like going to the final boss without any upgrades you're gonna get demolished and barely understand anything. At least that was my experience. Good luck
During college days, I don't give a damn about this man's name appearing frequently on my psychology book... Now that I am no longer schooling, I frequently encounter his theory in my daily life which is called "Synchronicity"
1. Wasn't ready for this level of awesome. 2. I've read loads of Jung and this video still nuanced frame of reference. & D. I successfully had multiple epiphanies from watching this (LOL) display of genious
I sometimes dreamt about the collective consciousness. Before I even knew what it was. Like a water vase that feeds the souls and minds of every human. The sounds of water crashing and wind whirling. Flowing and turbulent.