Living Symbol

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It’s a creature that leaps fearlessly into the unknown, using its patagium—a furry membrane that stretches between its limbs—to glide gracefully through the air. Two common Jewish names used since Talmudic times, are based on this symbol, Chaya feminine, Chayim masculine.

Really it’s core is the Secret Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus… which I think is the =core of Jung’s work. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. One of the issues I am currently thinking about and focusing on in our group process is repetition compulsion.

If the Self is projected, one falls into a tremendous state of admiring the person onto whom one projects the Self, a kind of incredible fascination and devotion to that person, and that can have the advantage of learning from it. That said, I would far rather walk over a bed of hot coals than do something like a silent stimulus free meditative retreat, for any length of time. After all,” they say, “we do have a group of leaders, and they are father figures, and they are the Self, and they will do it all right. On the cross he looked down at his mother Mary and at his young disciple John and gave them into the care of one another. Looked at from within, such a person reacts in a very collective way fulfilling a collective role of power.

In the Internet we have been given a blueprint for the future whose full potential we have not yet grasped because we see it with the eyes of the past. From laptops and cybercafes all around the world, even in unexpectedly remote locations, we are forming an interconnected whole, a network of human consciousness.The musasabi or Sabi-chan, as we affectionately refer to it, counters nature’s expectation with a resounding, “Yes, I can! But I know that in the Far East there are masters who know about the dangers of infantile dependence and won’t accept the projection. I am also reminded of Rudolf Steiner on the idea that the human beings natural state is motion, not rest, which can be seen in the way when we stand, we do not stand utterly still, but weave forward and back and forth ever so slightly, describing a triangular form in space, as we throw our weight slightly out and around in the three directions or “legs” on which any upright object may stand to support its weight. Democracy is a very difficult task, because it puts political responsi­ bility on the individual and most people don’t want to take it. We can say that up to the appearance of the star Gilgamesh, with all his collective power achievement, had not done anything unique.