A Mormon here. Found great value in these lectures. Read a fair bit of Eliade and Jung. Thank you for uploading these. Very enjoyable.

Many thanks for the time and effort, as well as erudition you have shared with us. Peace

Jung's most profound comment on religion IMHO: "Religion is a (psychological) defense against the religious experience." i.e. we would rather spend lifetimes building cathedrals than spend even one month fasting and praying alone in the desert to have a face to face with cosmic consciousness.

@RUMPLEforeskin25

2 жыл бұрын

Jung was also being mainupliated by Jews

@sillyname6808

2 жыл бұрын

Red pill me about Jung and the Jews

great overview - eloquent, detailed & accessible

great vid! its MEER-cha eh-lee-AH-deh

Thanks for the lecture. :) I'm a psychology student and this helped me so much.

@minodoraruschita9715

2 жыл бұрын

O nuvelă care mi-a plăcut mult. Despre NOPȚI LA SERAMPORE, kzread.info/dash/bejne/lnqcybyxqdjcorg.html

A point of critique on that article. Eliade points out the we still performed these rituals, even if they have lost their religious consciousness. But why is the football game so popular? It’s produces zero monetary value (unless you gamble), and yet it’s the one of the highest watched and sought out forms of action on the planet. Eliade says “Many psychologists say that the unconscious is religious, however in the modern time, religion has become unconscious”.

@jlc46

Жыл бұрын

Interesting thought. Thank you.

Now that you are familiar with Jung, Eliade and Campbell, just drink some jungle juice or eat some fungus and it will all be clear 😎

@deirdre108

3 жыл бұрын

It's interesting to me that the authors you cite in your comment (Jung, Eliade, Campbell) leaned politically far right, and at least for Eliade, fascist. I wonder why that is, and what it might have to do with their study of mythology and religion and the narratives therein of the strong, saviour-type, leader. I'm not drawing any conclusions as that is not my field of expertise, but I wonder if that connection has been considered among academics who study this subject.

@didjesbydan

2 жыл бұрын

@@deirdre108 In turn, it's interesting to me to see you home in on the possibility of them leaning far right, as if that is central. It's a rather awkward time in history to seem to find fault with people who identify as being on the right. Though I have about equal disdain for both those who identify as left and right in the fake two-party paradigm (at least in the US), the left, as of 2020 has really become a shining example of madness. At least those on the right, however duped by Trump, have an easier time seeing the truth of how our freedoms are quickly being stripped away under the guise of safety (first terrorists, now a virus, perhaps tomorrow an alien?). Both sides have their faults (and it's stupid and false to identify as left or right to begin with), but it's rather odd to highlight someone's leaning right as some kind of problem in the context of this video. It would be a shame to fail to see the genius in what Jung et al articulated because of their shortcomings. As an example, I lean Buddhist in my philosophy and practice, yet most Buddhists I know (as most people) have no deep understanding of geopolitics and how eugenicist/technocratic supranational organizations work behind the scenes eroding autonomy of individuals and nations, and how so much is based on illusions and false flags. Yet those same geopolitically uninformed Buddhist authors have much of value to contribute, regardless. As for the emphasis on the hero's journey, I'm not sure which is worse--conservative naivete and adherence to the formula or leftists fixation on uprooting all old narratives and values, while glorifying the ugly and antiheroic in a nihilistic way. One thing I know from reading Jung is that he articulated the need to go beyond the hero's journey.

@ThaKiddCon

2 жыл бұрын

@@deirdre108 What is your evidence that Jung was far right?

@angelohieronymous2692

2 жыл бұрын

@@deirdre108 you would be interested to learn that the bastion of perennial philosophy are more prominently found in the political right as well

why are these texts so difficult to read and understand. im so lost reading his work

Its pronounced like Mirch-Eh (Meercheh but you roll the R if you can)

Some may feel something in a sacred space and some will not. Could this have something to do with different brain structures? The sacred space put out a ‘signed’ but only those with the appropriate wiring can receive it? Could this ability to defer the sacredness of a space have something to do with the fact that we are a hybrid species, with different components of our ancestors making up the different way we experience sacred spaces?

is this connected somehow to that idea of mematics and memes is god only a meme or this different subject ?

@jlc46

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure. I think Jung would connect "god" to the archetypes, but I'm not sure he would claim that God is "only" an archetypes. And I'm not sure he would think that the archetypes are identical to memes, although I do see the ways the two are similar.

The problem with the readers digest article is that it mistakes these young women for virgins. ;-)

@jlc46

11 ай бұрын

LOL

Si despre nuvela (kzread.info/dash/bejne/iIWGsMujpZCrkbg.html) PELERINA de Mircea Eliade

I would have preferred if the subject matter resonated more with you . I do not like the word believe in a lecture you either know or don’t know if you can guess or fool yourself.

@jlc46

3 ай бұрын

I believe that human beings have to make decisions in the presence of uncertainty all the time. We have no choice but to make the best guesses we can. Most of the time I think we fool ourselves when we think we "know" something with absolute certainty. I think it important for us all to hold room for "I think" or "I believe" but "I don't know for sure". I think that's a form of humility.