Cut off in the literal age. Owen Barfield & Carl Jung on alienation and political disillusionment
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- čas přidán 24. 06. 2024
- There is a link between rising levels of mental-ill health and political disillusionment. Feeling cut off is not just an economic and psychological problem, but is a symptom of a wider alienation arising from modern consciousness.
Owen Barfield argued that contemporary political problems are fundamentally due to estrangement not only from others but from ourselves, due to a loss of soul and spirit to materialism and literalism.
As Carl Jung put it, the gods have become diseases - diseases of the collective as well as individual psyche. The pre-political must address this crisis of anthropology if politics is to be restored.
This is the sixth thought in which I’ve turned to a guide to illuminate the overwhelming feeling of malaise in this democratic year.
Look at others on my CZcams channel: Plato on beauty, Aristotle on ethics, Jesus on being in the world but not of it, Dante and civilisational decline, and William Blake on the rise of abstraction. - Zábava
Julian Assange has just gained freedom! Surely this is a cause for celebrating the spirit within all of us (positively manifesting in activists) striving for the good the true and the beautiful.
Great to see the wonderful Owen Barfield being celebrated !! One of the inklings !! 🙏👏👏👏👏🙏🌏✌️
Brilliantly expressed, thank you… we are so often cut off from our deeper or higher selves in our lives as well as in Social interactions.. your description touches the place of how it is… & then the question of Transformation comes up… & seems to be involved with the last part of your talk.. & I’m minded that to take responsibility for ourselves & become aware that we share this as a spiritual responsibility, can bring about a top down revolution, or a Gurdjieff puts it.. the Higher Blends with the Lower to create the middle, & we are all three.
Very insightful. Very appreciated. Thank you Mark
This has really helped me make sense of where we're at what we need. Thank you.
Thank you. Personally most helpful
Mark, I am loving these
Thanks for saying
This is beautifully explained, thank you. Helpful to look at deeper layers of meaning and to consider scale when working toward wellness, toward creativity moving forward.
Would love to hear your thoughts on Jordan Peterson he was a big part of my introduction to Jung and Nitchze like 10 years ago I think he really played into that sense of disillusionment on his rise to fame. I dont listen to him anymore because he chose some weird hills to die on but I cant help but get the sense that there is something key in understanding how we are all disconnected in a time of technologic interconnectedness and how people in the past still faced the same issues despite different circumstances.
As We is Eternal, we have NO age in real sense,
the body We see in mirror, is Not older than 1½ year.
We? Where's this "we" coming from, I don't feel any guilt at all, you've fallen for it by the labguage you use, Rand addresses this phenomenon in his book Anthem
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