Everything is Broken

There's a great article in Pajamas Media about Mr. Zimmerman. The link is here: How Bob Dylan checked out of the culture war. http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-bridge-bob-dylan-the-ruling-class-and-the-country-class/ I started listening to Dylan around the same time that I was reading Jung. Dylan's lyrics are interesting in many ways, but surprisingly in light of Jungian thought. Bob's earlier stuff …

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The darkness around us…

"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being." C.G. Jung What followed my adventure into Taoism, was a delightful new discovery of the writings of Carl Gustav Jung, the Swiss psychologist. Unlike Freud, who I had learned a bit about …

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Interlude

Thinking For Berky by William Stafford In the late night listening from bed I have joined the ambulance or the patrol screaming toward some drama, the kind of end that Berky must have some day, if she isn't dead. The wildest of all, her father and mother cruel, farming out there beyond the old stone …

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The trouble with you is the trouble with me

It would not perhaps be fair to place too much blame on Taoism, Zen Buddhism, eastern spirituality for a lack of contentment that remained my constant companion, but the depersonalization I absorbed from eastern ideas mirrored my sense of disconnectedness. Intellectually, I may have found comfort in eastern ideas, especially Alan Watt's idea of the individual ego as fake or illusory. My unsettled …

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