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I have three general rules for living. These are general purpose heuristics:
Rule 1: We "humans" are in fact storytelling and story-driven animals, technically mammals. "Humanity" (the idea of being human) is a deeply embedded egocentric story (conviction) of ourselves.
Rule 2: In any situation or decision, always consider doing nothing. Non-action is not lack of choice; it's a valid option.
Rule 3: Learn to like to be wrong in order to grow and be less wrong with time. Simply accepting sometimes being wrong isn't going far enough to avoid unconsciously falling into bias. The psychological desire to be right (validation) is just ego and impedes growth.
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Regarding his 'miraculous recovery' he was the one who cured his neurosis when doctors thought he had epilepsy, this is from his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections:
"A boy gave me a shove that knocked me off my feet. I fell, striking my head against the curbstone so hard that I almost lost consciousness. For about half an hour afterward I was a little dazed. At the moment I felt the blow the thought flashed through my mind: “Now you won’t have to go to school any more.” I was only half unconscious, but I remained lying there a few moments longer than was strictly necessary, chiefly in order to avenge myself on my assailant.”
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"From then on I began to have fainting spells whenever I had to return to school, and whenever my parents set me to doing my homework. For more than six months I stayed away from school, and for me that was a picnic. I was free, could dream for hours, be anywhere I liked, in the woods or by the water, or draw.”
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“Above all, I was able to plunge into the world of the mysterious. To that realm belonged trees, a pool, the swamp, stones and animals, and my father’s library. But I was growing more and more away from the world, and had all the while faint pangs of conscience. I frittered away my time with loafing, collecting, reading, and playing. But I did not feel any happier for it; I had the obscure feeling that I was fleeing from myself.”
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“The doctors no longer know what is wrong with him. They think it may be epilepsy. It would be dreadful if he were incurable. I have lost what little I had, and what will become of the boy if he cannot earn his own living?” I was thunderstruck. This was the collision with reality. “Why, then, I must get to work!” I thought suddenly. From that moment on I became a serious child. I crept away, went to my father’s study, took out my Latin grammar, and began to cram with intense concentration.
After ten minutes of this I had the finest of fainting fits. I almost fell off the chair, but after a few minutes I felt better and went on working. “Devil take it, I’m not going to faint,” I told myself, and persisted in my purpose. This time it took about fifteen minutes before the second attack came. That, too, passed like the first. “And now you must really get to work!” I stuck it out, and after an hour came the third attack. Still I did not give up, and worked for another hour, until I had the “feeling that I had overcome the attacks. Suddenly I felt better than I had in all the months before. And in fact the attacks did not recur. From that day on I worked over my grammar and other schoolbooks every day. A few weeks later I returned to school, and never suffered another attack, even there. The whole bag of tricks was over and done with! That was when I learned what a neurosis is.”
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Fiction Beast:
I've been reading Jung, and others writings about Jung, for several years and have not always felt that I had a clear understanding of what he means. Your concise descriptions (and even the graphic pictorials) aid significantly in gaining a better understanding of his ideas.
For this I am very grateful. Thank you.
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Interesting turn, moving from the storytelling of great novelists to the psychologist, Jung. Trying to prove his thesis that the great stories lead to the archetypes? That our stories are one key way the human mind reveals its archetypes?😊 For the sake of many who have or will view this, I call attention to a central error in your interpretation: Jung did not go into psychosis in 1913. There is as much difference between psychosis and active imagination as between water and air. Both have oxygen. Does that make them the same? Yes, Jung FEARED his actively imagined visualizations meant psychosis. His genius (which you correctly note) is precisely that he stayed rational throughout his experiences. Neitzsche, who you repeatedly mention, did not. Jung confronted his own deepest self, stayed himself, grew from the experience, systematized and rationally explained his experiences. That’s not only genius but courage. Jung told us NOT to do as he did but to find each one’s own way. I interpret this as meaning using his rational findings as tools for one’s own inner journey. In my experience from working with thousands of souls, the greatest, most powerful archetypes to tackle first on that journey are the Anima and Animus. Women, ask yourself: How destructively have I expressed/not expressed my Animus? Men, ask yourself: How destructively have I expressed/not expressed my Anima? Ruthlessly admit your projections. Do that and you will have begun. Blessings all.
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Extremely well written.
I live alone in the woods. I am a hunter who has been using primitive tools for over 40 years and I have my own philosophy about how things work.
For over 20 years the dominant turkey of the valley gets up at the same time. He collects his hens and walks north. He returns at the same time. He made me think that memory is inherited.
It is not a coincidence that the most common fear of humans (who once lived in the trees) is the fear of falling.
As a hunter I know how many strategies prey use to survive. As with all top predators I must know the wind direction, the lay of the land, the common movements, the escape routes, etc. All predators must solve these problems. Prey only need to lower their heads into grass, which is why predators (dogs, eagles, lions) are smarter than prey (rabbits, deer, chickens).
We took this necessary problem solving to new heights like a giraffe took leaf eating.
If you could not solve the problem that was the ice age you died out (as did the poor problem solving). If you are reading this your ancestors solved wars, plagues, famines, habitat extremes, etc. Everything from making fire to the Gutenberg bible is a solution to a problem. Problem solving drove our evolution such that everything you own is a solution to a problem or helps to solve problems. When you watch a movie you are watching how others problem solve. Your clothes solve problems, your car, the wheels on your car, the door on your car, the cement walkway from your car to the house, the front door on your house, the light switch on the wall, etc. You even solve problems when you are dead with life insurance. You cannot help it.
It all comes from wanting to eat every day. We took the one method of procuring food to a height never reached.
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@JimmyDThing
1 year ago
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