Dissociation and Borderline

JEROME BERNSTEIN'S WORK USING CARL JUNG'S THEORIES

ON DISSOCIATION

https://speakingofjung.com/podcast/2018/1/5/episode-30-jerome-bernstein

Language is a necessary evil in its efforts, Babel like, to clarify, confuse and obfuscate the Truth inherent in each of our psyches. Western civilization has evolved the observer, dissociated from Nature and believer in the words used to "observe" the natural world from outside. The problem created by the observer is the reality that the observer is not separate or detached from what is being observed. All phenomenon is being channeled through the observer's psyche, and, in the western worlds constant obsession with domination and control, mistaken for a separate, remote creation.

Listen to the podcast of Jerome Bernstein as he weaves Jungian theory of dissociative disorder and expands it to provide a context for today's bizarre acceptance, in the United States, of a president who has the emotional and intellectual maturity of an adolescent and is handed the free world to shape in his own dissociated and dysfunctional psyche.

Galileo and the moronic

Galileo and the moronic

It is the nature of humanity that, when we peer deep into our collective soul, we fear what we find. And, although the fear's foundation is within us, we project it onto the first being that strikes us as different. Without the knowledge of our spirit as eternal, humanity turns into itself and devours it's soul over and over.

The profound yet simple insight that something infinitely subtle animates and supports our individual lives demands our awareness. Yet, in the delicate complexity of creation, our senses serve to betray us. We see ourselves as observers set apart and detached from a universe of divine and perfect balance. We are imperfect, and our senses imperfectly reveal the world around us. The imprint created on the mind is predisposed to the DNA of reincarnation. Whether we have been warriors for Truth, or cowardly Judas's of self protection, choosing gold over the infinite jewel of divinity.

Our infinitesimal presence on our tiny globe has been a harbinger of chaos and individual and state sponsored hatred, and, yet, it has not overshadowed the much more powerful Truth that the creation is in balance. Each cacophonous uproar of conflict carries our tiny community closer to the finality of self destruction.

Personal Quotes:

An exceptional gift is the mind. A Gift. Something easily gained. Yes. That describes the mind, easily gained. And easily lost.

Simple narcissists have huge egos, experiencing intense vanity and selfishness, and need constant admiration. Sociopaths are similar, having an “inflated sense of self” and of entitlement, the Huffington Post explains. “They tend to blame others for their own failures.” They also break the law or social rules because they think they are above those rules.

Fall Winds, Dancing Trees

Fall Winds, Dancing Trees

Framed by the windows, the branches rise and fall in the current of wind; the wind's early fall chill enlivens my thoughts and I am young.

Trees, dense, graceful in their rhythm. They remain in place like inverted anchors reaching to a timeless ancient ship moored deep in the earth, holding it against the earth's tidal rock.

Change

So, The Dance of the Wu Li Masters floats up from decades past, a conflux of awareness and memories. Illustrations of a lifetime woven into a tapestry of that illusive observer, self.

Mind so oft confused with self, caged in the passage of time, till corporeal ending sets Mind free, the Eagle receives it.

Mind returns to birth and brings to the divine the sacred experience it creates.

Change.

Tranquility Base

Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.
C.G. Jung

One of the gifts of science is the insight created by the step by step analysis of phenomenon. We know that illogic leads to false conclusions that require debunking. If one begins with the accepted but illogical conclusions of the day, one can take a bit of time and recognize where truth is found and regain its path.

Taken from Wikipedia:

"A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment. Such fact-supported theories are not 'guesses' but reliable accounts of the real world."

Behaviors can be observed, but in its spontaneity, it exists in time, and immediately moves into that realm lost in the past. They become memories entering a dream like realm unless recorded in some way. Even when recorded, behavior is up for analysis. As we see regularly, even clearly defined events reviewed by technological means are regularly challenged as false.

If the essential aspects of our existence, be it religion or scientific based analysis, do not pass the test of logical analysis, we set off on the path so well defined by Tolstoy:

"I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread,into the fabric of their lives."

Leo Tolstoy

The Center of the Cyclone_John Lilly