" ... If we try to live as closed systems, we are doomed to regress. If we enlarge our awareness, admit new information, and take advantage of the brain's brilliant capacity to integrate and reconcile, we can leap forward ... "
The Aquarian Conspiracy - Marilyn Ferguson
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Carl Jung
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"Although 'wholeness' seems at first sight to be nothing but an abstract idea, it is nevertheless empirical in so far as it is anticipated by the psyche in the form of spontaneous or autonomous symbols. These are the quaternity or mandala symbols, which occur not only in the dreams of modern people who have never heard of them, but are widely disseminated in the historical records of many peoples and many epochs. Their significance as symbols of unity and totality is amply confirmed by history as well as by empirical psychology. What at first looks like an abstract idea stands in reality for something that exists and can be experienced, that demonstrates its a priori presence spontaneously."
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"Which of us can improve himself in total isolation? Even the holy anchorite who lives three days' journey off in the desert not only needs to eat and drink but finds himself utterly and terribly dependent on the ceaseless presence of God. Only absolute totality can renew itself out of itself and generate itself anew."
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"For what, pray, can be added to the One, what is lacking to it, or on what can it be supported? For in truth nothing exists beside that One." Gerhard Dorn, medieval Alchemist
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"There is one Rudra only, they do not allow a second, who rules all the worlds by his powers. Behind all creatures he stands, the Protector; having created them, he gathers all beings together at the end of time." Shvetashvatara Upanishad
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“Self-knowledge is not possible without knowledge of God.”
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"The powers of the right and the left unite in the harmony of wisdom." The Acts of John, The Apocryphal New Testament
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"The tension of opposites that makes energy possible is a universal law, fittingly expressed in the yang and yin of Chinese philosophy."
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"Christ is the perfect symbol of the hidden immortal within mortal man." 'Concerning Rebirth'
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"The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul." 'General Aspects of Dream Psychology'
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"Man has the gift of thought, which can strive after the highest things."
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"In my experience it is of considerable practical importance that the symbols aiming at wholeness should be correctly understood…They are the remedy with whose help neurotic dissociations can be repaired, by restoring to the conscious mind a spirit and an attitude which from time immemorial have been felt as solving and healing in their effects."
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"The archetype – let us never forget this – is a psychic organ present in all of us."
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"Our psyche spreads far beyond the confines of the conscious mind."
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“The spirit of life is not only indwelling in all living things, but immanent in everything that exists, as the world-soul.”
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"Our own psyche [is] constantly at work creating new spiritual forms and spiritual forces which may help us."
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"The wholeness of the personality…includes the collective unconscious, which as experience seems to show is everywhere identical."
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"The spirit is at work in science, in art, philosophy, and religious experience…for there is something in man that is of divine nature….This spirit wants to live."
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"Old Heraclitus, who was indeed a very great sage, discovered the most marvelous of all psychological laws: the regulative function of opposites. He called it 'enantiodromia', a running contrariwise, by which he meant that sooner or later everything runs into its opposite."
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"A knowledge of mythology is needed in order to grasp the meaning of a content deriving from the deeper levels of the psyche." 'The Structure of the Psyche'
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"The sickness of dissociation in our world is at the same time a process of recovery, or rather, the climax of a period of pregnancy which heralds the throes of birth. A time of dissociation such as prevailed during the Roman Empire is simultaneously an age of rebirth."
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"The collective unconscious….is not individual but common to all men, and perhaps even to all animals, and is the true basis of the individual psyche."
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"The all-powerful God….is in every one of us."
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“We give to God, or the power of God which sustains all things, the name of ‘Anima media natura’, or ‘Soul of the World’.” ‘De arte chymica’
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"The alchemist…knew definitely that as part of the whole he had an image of the whole in himself."
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"Everything that happens, happens in the same 'one world' and is a part of it. For this reason events must possess an a priori aspect of unity."
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