Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Restoring the fullness of the human psyche within nature


Carl Jung's “Individuation” as rebirth? Bringing the outside world in compliance with the inside world is not enough, we need more. Group consciousness is the rebirth we require, along with a divine goal within nature and within human nature. Individual self-hood shaves off too much of human nature, and nature.

Ethics were mainly created around the needs of the group in survival and reproduction. Individuation takes place within, and below, group consciousness. This is the balance that can restore the fullness of the human psyche. Our best minds should be concentrating on how to develop cooperative competition among natural group differences, and not on quixotically (and sometimes forcefully) trying to make everyone the same.

The cultural Marxism of modern liberalism virtually ignored nature in the promotion of nurture, which has been a disaster for the human psyche and for human society. We need to acknowledge the biological origin of social behavior without blocking out the influences of culture and nurture, the way the cultural Marxists blocked out our biological nature.

And most importantly we need to acknowledge the divine goal of nature and material life in evolving to Godhood.  At its base history is not “psycho-history,” history is biological history. We civilize the beast through material and supermaterial evolution, not by fearfully blocking out the beast.

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