“Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.” Carl Jung
We recently wrote about Carl Jung’s apocalyptic visions in 1913 that seemed linked to World War I. Now here’s another interesting tale from Jung that dates back to 1916 when he wrote VII SERMONES AD MORTUOS, which basically means “The Seven Sermons to the Dead.”
The material, Jung said, was channeled over three evenings from Basilides in Alexandria. Basilides, a real person, was born in Syria and became a teacher in Alexandria in 133-155 AD.
Within the text, Abraxas (also the name of an album by Santana in the early1970s) is the name used for the Supreme Being that created individuality and mental powers. Upon death, individual human beings maintain the fullness of their human individuality rather than being absorbed into the oneness.
From this experience, Jung formulated the concept of the collective unconscious. He stated, “The collective unconscious is common to all. It is the foundation of what the ancients called the sympathy of all things. It is through the medium of the collective unconscious that information about a particular time and place can be transferred to another individual mind.”
That same year Jung said he was also contacted by a “highly cultivated elderly Indian” who had been a commentator on the Vedas (early Hindu sacred writings) and had died centuries ago. He would become one of Jung’s spirit guides (gurus). Rather than assume he had gone insane, Jung believed he had crossed into the same realm as the ancient priests and others who had experienced the divine.
During this time, Jung experienced hauntings and poltergeist experiences in his house. One day he finally shouted, “For God’s sake, what in the world is this?”
In unison, voices cried out, “We have come back from Jerusalem where we found not what we sought.” The next evening he began automatic writing VII SERMONES AD MORTUOS.
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Although we haven’t seen Jung’s The Red Book yet, it supposedly was written between 1914-1930, so this experience would fall within that time frame. The book is now on display at The Rubin Museum of Art in NYC. We hear that the art alone is worth the price of the book.
(Thanks to Bret Burquest for much of the above.)
I love this Jung post and I am also cracking up at Rob's comments to Simon. Hilarious.
I like Stacey's t-shirt idea!
– Trish
19 teens? You mean the early 20th century?
1913? The federal reserve singed into act?
F?B? FACEBOOK? I never realized facebook was around that long ago.
Simon, besides the fact that you never explain what 'miracle' you're talking about, your comment is off-topic.
thought the stuff about that "WELL' documented miracle back then during WWI was fairly relevant and also totally coincidental in the world picture. NO. check August
Thanks for this, ties in great with what I have been telling you guys recently. I am slowly getting to the post about the book I found. I got a lot of groundwork to lay still.
I have a post I do and plain on doing a few where I was using Charles Mansons rantings as musings [there were quite a few funny ones that seemed to be alittle profound 2 me]. Anyways if you ever watch any interview with him you will always hear him at least once maybe more refer to Abraxas.
I kinda got into Abraxas a bit in the post where I kept finding statues and paintings that looked like myself (Linked Below if interested). Would be kinda like if Horus and Set (its like yen and yang), Jesus and the Devil or in my universe Gandhi/Crowley would be one God.
It's a real interesting archetype, I plan on researching more and doing a post on eventually. But go figure, if it wasn't for Manson I don't know how long it would have took me to get to Abraxas [amusing].
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In a word, wow! Jung was brave, because I would be scared to channel something like that via automatic writing. I guess they knew he was the right person for the job, though.
Being a Jung fan, I might have to buy this book.
I LOVE JUNG…I think I need a shirt that says this…
Read the post, Simon. It's right there. Also, stay on topic, and re-read your posts before you send them to see if it makes sense to anyone but yourself. Geesh…
R
one moe time though, red book whose red book.
oh, my goodness! what a beautiful captivating story – stories – i've read the post several times now just to absorb – love it when jung shouts and is ANSWERED!!!
jung's remark that "upon death, individual human beings maintain the fullness of their human individuality rather than being absorbed into the oneness" is especially illuminating –
great great post – and one that makes me now have to reconsider even more the $105 expenditure for the red book! 🙂
Going back to the 19 teens, strange what they did in the US monetary system in 1913, you know with the nickel and also the F?B, and about what happened the first month of the repetative Catholic miracle, who was born that month…………………………………………………………………………………………… won't get into the personal synchros, lttle to deep, or maybe as the PHd relative would say maybe I'm just lookng into a mountain of data, yeah wish I could get on top of it or a least walk around that mountain. KK 1/2 of 50