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"WHERE LOVE RULES, THERE IS NO WILL TO POWER;AND WHERE POWER PREDOMINATES, THERE LOVE IS LACKING.THE ONE IS THE SHADOW OF THE OTHER."— Carl Jung from The Psychology of the Unconscious

"This then shall be the whole of the law: Go where you want,do what you want, but initiate no force!” -- F. Paul Wilson

1. Persuasion trumps power...
POWER, distrust it… let ideas, individuality flourish —free-minds & free-speech ("natural rights") …

POLITICS, redirect it… toward systems of strong individuals providing service to the community, encouraging self-determination, self-reliance, self-expression, and self-knowledge (e.g., supporting economic ideas of “spontaneous order”, “creative destruction” etc.)…

PERSUASION, pursue it… via self-learning:thoughtful listening, questioning, understanding …

POSITIVE, build on it… tapping strengths to overcome weaknesses; cultivating a genuine sense of gratitude; disregarding small-minded, short-term trifles to always favor long-term (big) true-self picture.

TRUE SELF OVER EGO'S FACADE

Enlightened & empowered self'sTHREE objectivemeaningful strides…
OBJECTIVE SELF:Looks towardhorizon, rising abovestifling desires andfeelings to find realhappiness in absorbingnew ideas and the“playfulness” of creativethinking.

A. Positivecommunications/focus: active, openquestioning; two way:teaching and learningsimultaneously.Thriving onnetworking through others.

B. Exploringexperience with...strong curiosity bringsexcitement ofdiscovery,creating a sense ofwonder, feelings ofhope, and intensifiedquest for learning andunderstanding.Always contributing,growing, and buildingon strengths.

C. Life viewed asamazing gift... for which to be thankful & appreciative by embracing it as a total go-giver, freelyuncovering encouragement in each &every experience, thus, having real fun!
Easily detached from "things." It is anextreme a rarity that he or she is forcefulin actions, and then only in a verydefensive mode based on principle.

Ego's and power'sTHREE subjectivefatal mis-steps…
SUBJECTIVE EGO:Looks short-sighted, indulged in satisfyingown moods, which leadsto a static unimaginative,uninspired andunproductive existence.(Why all tyrants areultimately miserable!

A. Negativecommunications/focus: controlled,closed situations;insisting on providingdirection only.Creating dependencyin others.

B. Tries to affectexperience throughsimple coveting, whichcreates ego-centeredfears (of loss of controlor inferiority), bringingon tensions andfeelings of anger.Always accumulating,taking, andpreoccupied withWeakness.

C. Life viewed as agreat responsibility...which churns internalanxiety and frustration,thrusting one into anaggressive go-getter role, drivenby a sense of urgencyand necessity.Always attachedto "things." Possiblyforceful in actions.

INDIVIDUATION See Carl Jung pages

"TRUST THAT WHICH GIVES YOU MEANING and accept it as your guide." - Carl Jung

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Everything is psychic, no exceptions!

"... MAN IN MY VIEW IS ENCLOSED IN THE PSYCHE (not in his psyche). Could you name me any idea that is not psychic? Can man adopt any standpoint outside the psyche? He may assert that he can, but the assertion does not create a point outside, and were he there he would have no psyche. Everything that touches us and that we touch is a reflection, therefore psychic." -- Carl Jung letter to Joseph Goldbrunner, May 14, 1950

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All that's perceived are psychic images!

"… ABSURD PREJUDICE TO SUPPOSE THAT EXISTENCE CAN ONLY BE PHYSICAL. As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have immediate knowledge is psychic [i.e., in the mind]. We might as well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses." - Carl Jung

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Psyche a mystery of archetypal forces,patters within and without us!

"THE NATURE OF THE PSYCHE REACHES INTO OBSCURITIES FAR BEYOND THE SCOPE OF OUR UNDERSTANDING. It contains as many riddles as the universe with its galactic systems, before whose majestic configurations only a mind lacking in imagination can fail to admit its own insufficiency. This extreme uncertainty of human comprehension makes the intellectualistic hubbub not only ridiculous, but also deplorably dull." ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 815

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The psyche without is balanced; the psyche within is not!

“THE OPPOSITES ARE CONTAINED IN THE PLEROMA, BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE EQUALLY BALANCED, THEY ARE VOID. Although the opposites are manifested in individuals, they are not balanced and void. The individual’s task is to pursue his own distinctness, and this involves him in distinguishing himself from the opposites." -- Carl G. Jung

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True life invisible, an ephemeral apparition, ending under the eternal flux.

LIFE LIVES ON ITS HIDDEN 'RHIZONE': “Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. It's true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away – an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. – from Prologue, Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C.G. Jung

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The numinious within/ without everyone... as a sliver of the divine.

IF GOD’S CONSCIOUSNESS IS CLEARER THAN MAN’S, then the Creation has no meaning and man no raison d’etre." --C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Volume II, Page 117.

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Trust that which gives you purpose...

“UNTIL YOU MAKE THE UNCONSCIOUS CONSCIOUS, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” -- Carl Jung

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Beyond controling ego is a true, meaningful self.

"WHERE LOVE RULES, THERE IS NO WILL TO POWER; and where power redominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other." — Carl Jung from The Psychology of the Unconscious

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