Tag / Jung
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Thesis and Anti-thesis | Interpretations of Basic Mandalas
Freedom vs. Destiny It’s easy to fall into the trap and assume that the opposite of freedom is an empty lack of freedom or imprisonment. “The soul is free when it is educated.” – M. Eckhart, Goethe On the opposite side of freedom lies a choice. The Choice is what ends freedom and reduces it…
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Anima and Leonardo
With a smart man, there must be a hierarchy in terms of the intensity of curiosity. Not all topics are equally interesting. The truer the topic, the more interesting. There is a Necessity that leads a smart man to these topics. When I talk about a smart man I’m not talking about the exterior. One…
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Looking at the whole
Carl Jaspers says that genius sees the whole, not the particular. Napoleon says “I do not want the world in its parts, I want it in its entirety.” Weininger says “The highest level of individualism is the highest level of universality.” Christ in the Gnostic Gospels says “I come from the undivided.” Only in understanding…
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Shadow
Carmina Figurata Shadow, the oculus through which one looks at the downside of Persona. Dark dimensions of demonic mono-dialogues are suppressed by identity under the influence of anonymous authority (public opinion). Orphic lines in which the shadow prints its deconstructed sentences, are suggested by the persona’s anatomy. The remains of the area in which the…