30-12-2015, 10:08 AM
Michael Barwell Wrote:Some people are very susceptible to radio-frequency/electro-magnetic (ie, artificial/synthetic-) mind influencing, I've seen it many times, and people just don't suspect that what pops into their mind isn't a product of their own 'organic' brain function. I remember the news reports about finding an area of the brain that conjours-up 'gods'; I think those reports are probably significant in some way.
I'm pretty sodding obstinate and have a possible advantage in that I've never really known my own mind - I question myself (critical introspection isn't all bad); shitehound b/s dosn't really cut it with me, I think, 'cept the odd trivial thing, here an' there. I have no doubt at all that some people are very susceptible to this influencing, because they don't question their own minds, and do a double-take.
I disagree Michael. Critical introspection is vital.
The old saw used to be: Know Thyself. It's no less true today than it was when the Spear Shaker ripped it off from the writing over the lintel of Greek mystery schools --- Gnothi Seauton.
Having said all that, of course, knowing oneself requires more than the intellect can possibly deliver alone.
"That is the work that is the toil," as one famous Roman once uttered.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14