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The Shadow of a Figure of Light: The Archetype of the Alcoholic examines the human thirst for wholeness through the lens of alcoholism and addiction. Establishing an unknown thread that ties renowned psychiatrist C.G. Jung to Alcoholics Anonymous cofounder Bill Wilson, Peterson

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@MikeCrispi Are you embarrassed for posting this? Everyone who reads your page should know how small you are.

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Same with church:

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*Especially the Grateful Dead

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Fear is the secret that governs men’s lives. James Hollis

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The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment delves into the nature of modern psychospiritual transformation by examining the human thirst for wholeness through the lens of alcoholism and addiction. Establishing an unknown

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"Among the most beautiful things I've ever heard anyone say cam from my student Bethany, talking about her padagogical aspirations or ethos, how she wanted her classroom to be: "What if we joined our wildernesses together?" Sit with that for a minute. That the body, the life,

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@ionxpowder @MikeCrispi Did you write this with AI? lol

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I can only ‘tell stories, whether or not the stories are ‘true’ is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth. CG Jung

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“Paradox does more justice to the unknowable than clarity can do, for uniformity of meaning robs the mystery of its darkness and sets it up as something that is known.” CG Jung (A short 🧵)

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"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable, and therefore not popular." (CG Jung) Since earliest times, the path to enlightenment has been portrayed through symbolical

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"All men, by nature, desire to know." Aristotle

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The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment delves into the nature of modern psychospiritual transformation by examining the human thirst for wholeness through the lens of alcoholism and addiction. Establishing an unknown

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“In a world of fugitives, the person going the wrong direction appears to be running away.” TS Elliot “The greatest gift we have to give to the world is our aloneness.” James Hollis

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“Compulsion is the great mystery of human life. It is the thwarting of our conscious will and of our reason by an inflammable element within us, appearing now as a consuming fire and now as life-giving warmth.” CG Jung

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We are not here to fit in, be well balanced, or provide exempla for others. We are here to be eccentric, different, perhaps strange, perhaps merely to add our small piece, our little clunky, chunky selves, to the great mosaic of being. —James Hollis

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“A good deal of what passes for religion is often designed to prop up and endorse the ego that the founders of the faith told us to abandon.” Karen Armstrong

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"If we are not experiencing divinity within us in some way, it will come to possess us, through our projection of it onto the outer world. Or go inward unconsciously and emerge as symptoms." James Hollis

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The great indicator of whether a person will be able to transform their psyche, whether through the Twelve Steps or in therapy, is how well they are able to turn and face inwardly, to face the compulsive forces of their own psyche.

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Like the Trickster, the archetype of the Alcoholic is “a negative hero who manages to achieve through stupidity what others fail to accomplish with their best efforts.” CG Jung

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"If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you." Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas

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8 secrets rule men's lives. James Hollis, the prolific Jungian author, provided us with the 8 secrets in his book, Under Saturn's Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men. To master these secrets is to master one's well-being...

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“We do not claim to show how men think in myths, but how myths think themselves in man, and without their knowledge.” Claude Levi-Strauss

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The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment is an unprecedented foray into the nature of alcoholism and addiction. Examining the psychology of human transformation, Peterson illuminates the process of recovery from the

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Bill Wilson held selfishness to be particularly troublesome for alcoholics, explaining that to engage in selfish behaviors poses the greatest threat to one’s sobriety, making it a deadly proposition: “Above everything, we alcoholics must be rid of this selfishness. We must, or it

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"What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous." Thomas Merton

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“It would be blasphemy to assert that God can manifest himself everywhere save only in the human soul. To carry a god around in yourself means a great deal. it is a guarantee of happiness, of power, and even of omnipotence, insofar as these are attributes of divinity. To carry a

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"Access to the numinous becomes blocked ... when religious images are insisted upon as final terms: as they are, for example, in a dogmatic credo." Joseph Campbell

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"Man does not make his ideas. We could say that man's ideas make him." CG Jung

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"Man does not make his ideas. We could say that man's ideas make him." CG Jung

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Or egoism, or materialism, or Jungianism...

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Religious myths can be understood as the collective dream of the human species, our shared longing to overcome the vail of tears. Myth provides us a window into the psyche, revealing much about the nature of the journey we are on--the "divine drama" we call life. (thread) 🧵

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The West is caught between two worlds: one is dead and decaying and the other is powerless to be born. Mathew Arnold

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Jung said that “man cannot conquer the tremendous polarity of his nature on his own resources. He can only do so through the terrifying experience of a psychic process that is independent of himself, that works him rather than he it.”

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“The patriarchy is a cultural contrivance, an invention to compensate for powerlessness.” James Hollis

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“Do not praise your own faith exclusively so that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran,

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"When the symbol of God is relieved of its metaphysical constraints, its life-changing power is activated." My new book, The Shadow of a Figure of Light, examines psychospiritual transformation in modern times. Release date is 10.1.24. There is a code for 20% off preorder books

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“Unconscious men who suffer inner doubt, who feel helpless, have created the patriarchy, which oppresses other men, rapes women and despoils nature.” James Hollis

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William James' most impactful discovery is called radical empiricism. It is a subjective approach to our experience of the world and counter-intuitive to the previously held notion of empiricism employed by psychologists, derived from the natural scientists who base their

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"All ages before us have believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment of symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, that is, as archetypes of the unconscious. . . Heaven has become for us the cosmic space of the physicists,

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Or you could just read my book, since I did all that already:

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Because it is autonomous, the fruits of the numinosum—paradoxical symbols—are not “made” in the traditional sense; they spring forth from the seeds of spiritual potential deep within the Universal Mind, as the energy of the Cosmos blossoms into symbolical shapes of its own

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The task of life is not goodness but wholeness. Jung

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William James, the American psychologist and educator, was born in 1842 in New York City. His magnum opus is a sweeping exposition on modern psychology he called The Varieties of Religious Experience. (A thread 🧵)

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"One of the functions of religion is to protect us from the religious experience." CG Jung

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Jung defines ego differently than most of us are used to, and it is worth studying to uncover what he means. Doing so, the symbolical meaning of myth becomes clear.

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"Deliverance from the flux of affects, from the tension of opposites, is synonymous with the way of redemption." CG Jung The more conscious I become, the less I find myself on either end of the emotional spectrum. This means that I am less sad, less often: less jealous, less

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Neurosis is suffering that has not yet found its meaning. C.G. Jung

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@ChrisSmithNJCD4 @MikeCrispi Hardly. It’s the result of being human, which many on the right have completely lost touch with.

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The Shadow of a Figure of Light: the Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment delves into the nature of modern psychospiritual transformation by examining the human thirst for wholeness through the lens of alcoholism and addiction. Establishing an unknown

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Dr. Murray Stein, the prolific Jungian author and analyst, had this to say about my upcoming book: "Cody Peterson has written a book whose extension is deep, wide, and high. It rests on the solid foundations of careful scholarship and personal experience, it broadens our

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Since the Self is all but impossible to conceptualize, we must rely on myth, which emerges out of same unconscious place, to elucidate the meaning and purpose of our compulsions—the very thing that leads us towards conscious contact with the Universal Mind.

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Alcoholism and addiction create the perfect set-up for one to stumble upon the path to enlightenment, as the need to keep the primordial energies of the unconscious bottled up becomes paramount not just for one’s continued sense of well-being, but for one’s very survival.

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If you are one of those people who promise a follow for a follow, and then quickly unfollow thereafter, then I guess you'll probably never see this.

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"From its place in the psyche, an eternal dynamism funnels into our mythological symbols, seeing that myth is the imprint the collective unconscious has left upon the physical world, “the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human

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“What we don’t understand in ourselves is projected onto our surroundings, and so the sum of our society is the aggregate of what is unconscious within us.” James Hollis

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"The spirit of evil is fear, negation... For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to to hopeless staleness, to a dab grey lit

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Atheists and non-believers are often able to perceive more truth about myth than believers are, since they understand myth for what they are--as symbols. The power needed to transform the psyche--discovered in what Jung called the numinosum--can only be harnessed by seeing the

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It is the genius of Jung to argue that "gods" exist, but only metaphorically and only in a natural dimension. That natural dimension is the psyche.~Michael Vannoy Adams, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘜𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴

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“2000 years of Christianity can only be replaced by seeming equivalent. An ethical fraternity, with its mythical Nothing, not infused by an archaic-infantile driving force, is a pure vacuum and can never evoke in man the slightest trace of that age-old animal power which drives

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The correspondence between C.G. Jung and Bill Wilson (co-founder of A.A.) elucidates the nature of the quandary in which the alcoholic is trapped, that it is a byproduct of the spiritual crisis we face in the West. A thread... Jung explained to Wilson the following:

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Freud said that the price of civilization is neurosis.

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“The purpose of religion is to keep us from having a religious experience.” Joseph Campbell

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Solutions to insoluble, psychological problems like addiction almost always lead to a religious outcome. Of course this has nothing to do with dogma, conventional religion, or entrenched traditional religious ideas, but rather, the discovery of something transcendent deep within

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Human nature has an invincible dread of becoming more conscious of itself. What nevertheless drives us to it is the self, which demands sacrifice by sacrificing itself to us. CG Jung

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“The purpose of religion is to keep us from having a religious experience.” Joseph Campbell

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"Compulsion is the doorway that opens directly into the unconscious, and to become aware of any of the compulsions that drive us is to arguably make the greatest leap in consciousness that we can make, alcoholic or not." --Your's Truly #soberposse #recoveryposse #ODAT

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Jung said that neurosis is evidence that a person is living within too narrow a personal myth.

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Ironically, only the descent to Hades can free us from Ixion’s wheel.” Hollis

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If you’re going to sin at least do so consciously. Saint Augustine

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In a world full of fugitives, the person going the right direction will appear to be running away. TS Elliot

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Jung wrote two books in which he admits he held nothing back, writing them for his own fulfillment and deciding to not coddle his readers. Those are called Answer to Job and Aion. Both can be found in Volume 11 of the Collected Works. They are not for the faint of heart.

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The shadow is the gateway "to the deeper reaches [that] the founders of all the world’s great religions pass through to arrive at their insights … the subliminal doorway that opens up to the mother-sea of all truly objective thoughts.” --William James

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Read psychologically, myths like the Fall and the Atonement depict how the Self disrupts the ego’s intentions, frustrating its need for security and comfort: in order to wake the ego from its delusion of control, the Self snatches away its “fancied freedom of will.” (A thread

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(🧵🧵🧵🧵) "God’s Folly" May I read a poem to you, I wrote not long ago. Words as these exist in us from whence we dare not go. A song like this is composed of Love and grace Divine— But turns into a darker tune A tale of pure despite. (Please share)

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Rebellion is perhaps the most important attitude we can cultivate, for rebellion alone is what leads to "individuation." Regarding individuation, Carl Jung writes: “It is the process by which individual beings are formed and differentiated... its goal [is] the development of

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Working with the shadow is the only way to integrate it. And what is not integrate will be projected onto others or leak out in dangerous behavior. James Hollis

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Intermission…

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