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Culture and Spirituality Nobody can Make |
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When a human being is born, it is an important statement of the System that
controls everything in this Universe. This System of
Life has a
moral code, the implications of which very few people grasped. The ones who
grasped its implications were the ones who spoke of the ‘Truth’, the
never-ending Reality,
Since we are the products of the System that gave us life the best
expression of the human mind- its culture and spirituality- can be had
only in relationship with what belongs to the System of Life. The problem comes when
religions project their systems divine and in their attempts to serve God they alienate the mind from its
essential qualities. The mind that regains its essential qualities has the
ability to know the knowledge that belongs to the System of God, the knowledge
that becomes alien to the religious fundamentalists who speak of their own
faiths.
Carl Gustav Jung speaks thus of the Enlightenment: "The transcendent function does not proceed without aim and purpose, but leads to the revelation of the essential man. It is in the first place a purely natural process, which may in some cases pursue its course without the knowledge or assistance of the individual, and sometimes forcibly accomplish itself in the face of opposition. The meaning and purpose of the process is the realization, in all its aspects, of the personality originally hidden away in the embryonic germ-plasm; the production and unfolding of the original, potential wholeness…. If we can successfully develop that function which I have called transcendent, the disharmony ceases and then we can enjoy the favourable side of the unconscious. The unconscious then gives us all the encouragement and help that bountiful nature can shower upon man. It holds possibilities which are locked away from the conscious mind, for it has at its disposal all subliminal psychic contents, all those things which have been forgotten or overlooked, as well as the wisdom and experience of uncounted centuries which are laid down in its archetypal organs." (Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 7)
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