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Date of upload: Feb 5, 2023 ^^
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You are doing a great job for humanity making these videos. I especially appreciate your deliberate choice of words in which I think you can gather the influence Jung has had in your thoughts, and I'm always a fangirl for Jung. Also is beautiful that you always manage to anchor everything in what feels like a marriage between everyday affairs and the psychology and metaphysics of spirituality
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Omg "I is the Enemy" with Ali G @ 3:40
Priceless 🤣
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What an incredible video! So rich in detail and wide reaching. Great work.
Makes me think of Peterson’s highlighting of the common misapprehension of the Christian term “meek”. Meek does not mean weak, kind and placid. Instead, he contends, it should be thought of someone who knows how to wield their sword, but keeps it sheathed. That one should work on their strength, power, boundaries, capability. But crucially also their level-headedness. Their critical thinking and empathy.
I think this is summed up in the word temperance. But maybe also forgiveness. Following the perfect flight path, as Icarus’ father does, may not be possible at all times. But is a goal to strive towards maximising our flight time at the correct altitude.
A truly beautiful video. A lot to chew on. Thank you! ❤
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What an essential topic to do a bit of house cleaning in! Well spotted. I've found it really valuable to get sharp definitions and perspectives on the ego. I really think the kernel of our problems lies somewhere in the intersection between the western (Christian) worldview and the Buddhistic world view of the east. So thank you for the video, it was wonderful - loved the artworks! <3
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Reminds me a lot of the book Ego and Archetype by Edward F. Edinger. He emphasises the importance of the Ego-Self Axis, so to speak to put the Ego in its proper function. He also mentions the Ikarus/Deadalus Story as a form of ego inflation and many more (Myth of Phaeton and Ixion). I personally find a reconciliation of the buddhist non-self teaching and the perspective of the proper Ego-Self Axis difficult, since the buddhists are absolutists in that regard. The closest I come to a perspective I feel ok with, is the perspective of the divine play. To engage with life, to take it serious enough to play a role in it, but also to see that it is ultimately a game and getting too serious about it is a symptom of forgetting that we are playing.
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Fitting video to what im reading currently.
Edinger in his "The Christian Archetype" quotes Jung as follow: "Exposure of the ego to such unconscious forces always generates some degree of possession or identification, even if only partial and temporary. Also the transformation drama cannot unfold without the ego's succumbing to 'necessary error' (felix culpa)." with the follow footnote 4. "Egocentricity is a necessary attribute of consciousness and is also its specific sin." (Jung, Mysterium Coniunctionis, CW 14, par. 364)
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Ego is the most abused word in today's society. It makes me cringe when I hear it thrown around bc it has no clear meaning, just a bad connotation. Like you hear "you have a big ego", then "love yourself", then "he's full of himself" [negative], then "he's filled with a sense of self" [positive], then "be selfless", then "you lack confidence"
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You rule, man i wanted so badly a redemption of that word :) Cheers on the channel!
Back on the subject, it so beautifully how Spinoza describes why one should first think of himself or herself (or whatever the self may be :)). Actually Not that we "should" first think of ourselves but that this is somehow the only way our nature works. As we all can guess, Spinoza is way too adequate on expressing and providing this than me :) So if you allow me a tiny recommendation here: In my opinion Spinoza's Ethics (the adapted version) is one of the best rational explanations of what "god" may really mean to a human being.
Keep the good stuff happening and may everyone reading this have a great life! :) Cheers for the channel ones more :)
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Great video, what i have been understanding so far about New Age is what you said in the final chapter of the video, they say that ego or the rational mind, can be used for healthy and positive things, is it ok to have a sense of who you are, to love your family, but at the same time if you are too identified with it, can lead to all sorts of harm to your self and the people that surrounds you. "When we think about our love for our family and friends as part of this ego structure then it is harder to see it as unequivocally evil" that's because ego itself it's not evil, i think the core fundation of ego is to survive since our ancestors had been living in years of violence and war, that's why fear or rejection to others is associated with ego, ego does not like what it's not familiar, and that's ok, it's a tool that keep us alive till this very day, i think the idea is to know how to use it properly and not being dominated by it
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💚 Patreon: patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy 💬 Discord: discord.gg/cA6fS5tJ ⌛ Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:50 Ego's Origins 3:55 The Heroic Freudian Ego 5:40 The Jungian Ego Container 9:20 The Evil New Age Ego 12:04 The Inflated Mainstream Ego Part 1: Nietzschean Decadence 15:59 The Inflated Mainstream Ego Part 2: Icarus and Daedal
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