Review and Elaboration:
Kierkegaard: Existential Self - Religious: Despair, Sin, & Faith (knight of faith, and the leap of faith)
Jacques Lusseyran, And There Was Light
Light and Dark, both
inner and outer
Resistance to evil, both
inner and outer, physical versus spiritual
Body-Heart-Mind(-Spirit):
How does one know something, what does it mean to know?
Bhagavad Gita: Empirical Self (maya: illusion), True Self (atman-Brahman: Reality)
Dark: Attachment to illusion
Light: illumination, dispersion of illusion, liberation (moksa)
karma without attachment
Frankl: Meaninglessness and Meaning (moral) - finding meaning wherever available
Cannot know the "Super-meaning" directly
Jung: Light Dark
ego Self
conscious unconscious
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ego, personal unconscious (shadow), collective unconscious
individuation: integration of ego with the unconscious
"the religious factor of integration"
vs. Freud's view of the conflict between Eros vs. Thanatos, Life vs. Death
Archetypes: Powerful psychic forces welling up from the collective unconscious
to manifest themselves as mystical images and religious experiences, forceful dreams, highly charged myths
Modes of Knowing: Jung's Four Personality Types
(linear) thinking, (affect) feeling, (body) sensation, intuition
(This view of four personality types and their different modes of knowing became assimilated into
the larger culture through the Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator Test, often used by corporations.)
Individuation: The process of balancing and integrating:
ego and Self; conscious and unconscious; light and dark