Nature, besides being benevolent, is also death-threatening and can appear malevolent. Survival demands aggression. Destructiveness and selfishness are vital parts of our animal and therefore human psyche. Our savagery is infamous. Thus, we have the opposites of nature, the good and the terrible, within ourselves. These opposites in our experience of nature, the two faces of the Great Mother, the good and the terrible, are paralleled very closely by the psychoanalytic school of Melanie Klein which postulates that all human infants begin life in a paranoid schizoid state in which the good and bad breast alternate as fundamental structuring experiences of the infant psyche. This duality is resolved in the ‘depressive position’ which would find its equivalent in the history of the species as the birth of civilization. Freud also postulated that life and civilization emerged and developed out of two polar forces – love and hate.
S2 Ep 14. Initiation and Gnosis - a personal experience
S2 Ep 13. Jung and Gnosticism Part B
S2 Ep 12 Jung and Gnosticism Part A
S2 Ep 11. Jung and Alchemy Part B
S2 Ep 10. Jung and Alchemy Part A.
S2 Ep 9. Jung's Contributions to the Psychotherapy of our Time
S2.Ep 8. Jung: Visions, Journey of the Soul
S2.Ep 7. Jung: Introverted Mystic
S2.Ep 6. Jung: The Wounded Visionary
S2. Ep 5. Richard Dawkins:The God Delusion
S2.Ep 4. James Locklock: Ecological visionary of our time. Part 2
S2.Ep 3. James Lovelock: Visionary of the Ecological Crisis. Part 1
S2.Ep 2. The Quest: Mysticism and Evolution
S2.Ep 1. The Quest Series: The Search for Vision in the Evolving Crises of our Times
S1.Ep 23. The Secret of the Golden Flower 2
S1.Ep 22. The Secret of the Golden Flower 1
S1.Ep 21. Questions and Responses on healing - 2
S1.Ep 20. Questions and Responses on Healing - 1
S1.Ep 19. Integration of the Spirit in Psychotherapy
S1.Ep 18. Empathic resonance in the field of therapist and client
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