Comments on: Flip

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:09:50 +0000

It’s difficult to explain to folks the experience of feeling part of larger than yourself, in a context usually described as one’s relationship with the unconscious, with it not actually being “spiritual” in the context of the usual definition of spiritual. Thank you for support for my attempt. It’s a tough issue.

By: Elena

Elena — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:24:12 +0000

Dear Andrew, I think this piece would fit perfectly as an introduction for newbies to the Jungian concept of unconscious. I just recently started to read about analytical psychology, after a series of lessons on sovereignty in Political Philosophy class. Years ago I described myself as an atheist; later on I became interested on philosophy of the mind and neurology; but the only time I felt more than that small degree of certainty, based on the fuzzy logic I had come across so far (and that seems so separate from the factual world it is almost a religion), was when I read Jung. I believe it is just the starting of a long process, but the feeling I experienced is well depicted here; finally an understandable (and, in my opinion, difficult to deny) explanation of a spirituality that we more than often are umprepared to accept, in a world where everything has to be mathematical to be real.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:14:25 +0000

Thank you, Margaret. This is one of my favorite pieces.

By: Margaret

Margaret — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:54:42 +0000

Wow. I had to copy this to my own computer so I can easily return to it at need. I love the concept that my unconscious is always present (of course it is) and it is my conscious mind that sets up barriers. That’s so simple, and so profound. I feel there’s something beyond what I can perceive, but struggle with the religious world views I am exposed to. This idea is both less grandiose and more universal than much of what I come across.