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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Sanatana Dharma XXVI—the Four luminous Powers and the Story of Creation
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Joan Price
One of the comments posted (a quote from Sen) reads, "Integral Psychology has an Integral Yoga for its actualization. Does Jungian psychology not need a Jungian Yoga?" As a 45 year disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother and a student of Jung, I would like to suggest that Jung's yoga would consist in our knowing the PersonalityTypes. The two attitude types: Extrovert and Introvert, and the Four Functiions: Intuition, Thinking, Feeling and Sensation. These are libido energies, not just mental faculties. The shadow that has been under discussion breaks into consciousness from the unconscious inferior function, which is primitive and compulsive. Jung would also have us learn about our Persona, Personal Unconsciousness, the Collective Unconscious, Anima and Animus, the Archetypes, the Ego, Self, and so on. As we discover all these attributes/qualities in ourselves, we can begin the walk toward "Wholeness." Jung calls it, as I am sure you know, "The Process of Individuation."
Jung wrote for the Westerner and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother for Humankind. Sri Aurobindo emphasized the national spirit of India and Jung of the West. Why, then do we wish to pit them against one another? Yes, Jung was an empiricist, because he knew Western empiricists would listenn to nothing else. But if one would read his "VII Sermones ad Mortuous," "Memories, Dreams and Reflections," and the recently published "The Red Book," one would gain some insight into his spiritual and mystical side.
As a Westerner, I agree with the comment about "Western Behaviorism," but please know that many in the fields of philosophy, religion, and psychology are not behavorists at all, nor have ever been. In fact, behaviorism went the way of B.F. Skinner -- it's dead. And in the West, scientific practictioners in quantum physics and other theories are beginnig to realize that matter is alive (consciousness) and even directed by, as Teilhard de Chardin would say, radial energy as opposed to tangential energy. That, I think, is a big step.
As far as New Age believers. Well, everyone has to start the spiritual path from some point, and whether one agrees with that particular path or not, it has opened minds and eyes to the spiritual realm. If vortexes and crystals are important to them, so be it. I remember in 1964 I became a vegetarian. I was laughed at, scoffed at, etc. People thought I was some kind of New Age freak. Now vegetarianism has become accepted. There are many paths leading up the mountain and I hope that we can all climb with unaffected by attachment or hatred and look kindly with compassion at others.
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