-Jenifer Hart's pragmatic approach to Jacob's churchgoing is utilitarian - actions not intrinsically good or evil, but should be judge by their consequences. Right acts produce best results. 1960s loss of religious faith but while people were casting off the trammels of institutional Christianity, they were also turning to alternative forms of faith. 'Go with the flow' antithesis of ideals of convent but both seeking what gave life intrinsic value, rejecting money and worldly success. Transcendental meditation to change thought structures; spirituality and rituals bring measure of peace, help transform, release from bind of ego.
Books of Interest
Karen Armstrong: Spiral Staircase (2004)
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Rollo Mayo: The cry for myth
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
Traditional society regulated itself socially, politically, ethically, morally via myths. The myth unites the antinomies of life: conscious (c) and unconscious (u), historical and present, individual and social.
This process has been broken and one must build one's social and personal 'world' via one's dreams
Jung notes
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The 4 main ways that the mind works are sensation/thinking and feeling /intuition - the former more the realm of the conscious (c - rational), the latter of the unconscious (u - nonrational)
Thinking and feeling are categories of perception; intuition and sensation of apprehension
c (shadow + anima) + c (ego) = Self.
The unconscious (u) is compensatory/complementary to the conscious (c).
On re-reading Miller’s Drama of the Gifted Child
- Written by Eric Walberg Эрик Вальберг/ Уолберг إيريك والبرغ
The general theme: respect your child’s feelings, let the child develop and mature to become independent, love unconditionally. Parents, especially mothers, unconsciously or otherwise, use the child to fulfill their needs, and use conditional love as their weapon (rationalized as ‘socialization’) A child who resists is rejected or withdrawn from and can’t help but re-enact the relationship. There is no clear separation of subject/object (child’s fear that rejection of object will destroy it).
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