AMERICA BEFORE HAS TRUSTED IN COMPETENCE AND HONESTY..May 15, 2020

It's pretty clear Presidents Trump and Xi, to varying degrees with Trump being more, did what a very common human weakness does when faced with bad damaging news: They did not face the reality, danger and consequences of the Coronavirus and held truth from the people dependent on them for that.

That weakness in a person then turns automatically to their only way out, to blame others for their own lack of facing truth and acting on it with their governing power for the benefit and protection of the people. This is the path that President Trump is taking and President Xi to a lesser degree.

For small people this is expected but for ones who formally vowed to protect their countries as the top officer it is nothing short of a betraying cowardice. It is a leader not facing the truth  at their crucially appointed time as a nation's leader.

America, more deeply and obstinately than China, was deserted by its top official when his courage was most needed. Nothing can change this in history now. The more the facts are combed through the more glaring this lack of rising to the occasion with truth and courage  will become.

In spite of this governing  leadership  blundering at the federal level the American people with a scattered leadership style( a real leader here and there) will find it's way through this.  And I'm counting on will have relearned that Qualified, Competent, Honest leadership in the central government is how America has always thrived the best.

This principle is at the core of America's best past and it's best destiny as a nation of descent reliable persons in the world. If enough people learn to vote for this principle at every election  the Coronavirus will be understood as a harsh  but perfect gift for our awakening. There never is any real awakening  of the human heart without a preceding most unwelcome harshness. It is how human nations learn their biggest  lessons or they become the refuse of social evolution.

WHEN THE PERSONAL SITUATION SEEMS HOPELESS...May15, 2020

Wouldn't it be good to be able to live by such  ancient, and I think timeless, wisdom and with such confidence in the personal psyche  being so connected to the  World Psyche?  To  sometimes choose to wait, not in fear but confidence,  and do the work at hand.  And grow into what is to be. One would simply never be hopeless.

C.G. Jung said, "Often we are led to a wall, it is too high, we cannot get over it and we stand there and stare at it.

Rationalism says, “There is no getting over it, just go away.”

Yet natural development has led the patient up to an almost impossible situation to show him that this is the end of his rational solutions.

It is meant that he should get there, and perhaps stay there, make roots and grow like a tree; in time overcome the obstacle, grow over the wall.

There are things in our psychology that cannot be answered today.

You may be up against a stone wall but you should stay there and grow, and in six weeks or a year you have grown over it.
The I Ching expresses that beautifully.

A similar situation which looks quite hopeless is depicted thus: “a goat butts against a hedge and gets its horns entangled.”
But in the next line: “The hedge opens; there is no entanglement/ Power depends upon the axle of a big cart.”

So if you could stop butting against the fence you would not get your horns entangles, and presently you would have the power of a cart with four wheels.

There is another way in nature, the way of a tree…The tree stands still and grows and makes roots and eventually overcomes the obstacle." C.G. Jung. The Seminars. Volume One, Dream Analysis: Notes of the seminar given in 1928-30. p.249

Jung believed that Western women find hope in themselves and their situation far more readily than men. Men generally  have the deeply ingrained notion that their ego will is all there is to open up a new way.  You might call that the John Wayne complex.

SENIORS AND CORONOVIRUS....May 12, 2020

Since seniors are very  literally threatened by   this virus it is good to reflect on the meaning and lessons of being old and growing more so.

 It should be clear to us that we have made a god of youth in America despite it being only a near unconscious beginning of a long path.

Carl Jung, at 85 yrs.,reflecting on the aging process:

“Old age is only half as funny as one is inclined to think.

It is at all events the gradual breaking down of the bodily machine, with which foolishness identifies as ourselves.

It is indeed a major effort– the magnum opus in fact– to escape in time from the narrowness of its embrace and to liberate our mind to the vision of the immensity of the world, of which we form an infinitesimal part.

In spite of the enormity of our scientific cognition we are yet hardly at the bottom of the ladder, but we are at least so far that we are able to recognize the smallness of our knowledge.

The older I grow the more impressed I am by the frailty and uncertainty of our understanding, and all the more I take recourse to the simplicity of immediate experience so as not to lose contact with the essentials, namely the dominants which rule human existence throughout the millenniums.“ (C.G.Jung Letters 2. 1951-1961. p.580)

It is a  sad sign of human ignorance where a senior races to not look old. If we are given to reach old age it surely , besides finally giving us a way to experience  genuine humility, must be a wondrous opportunity for a reach at wisdom which is simply not present till well after midlife.  I wish I could say that most seniors reach for these things  but many stopped the climb at middle life, giving up on the possibility that the truly best was yet to come.

Here an elderly Jung reflects on late life's unparalleled opportunities. These are not easy for any senior to Express to youth. It would not be heard anyway.

THE PRESIDENT AGAINST THE PEOPLE?..May 15, 2020

The President's and his strongly supportive VP's  less than enthusiastic attitude toward doing the things known to help slow the  virus should be troubling to all Americans .

But human nature being what it is the persons who really believe, from most sound information, they could  easily die a very suffering death  if they were contracted  by Coronavirus are most concerned.

Such persons are extremely offended by how the president , and his staff, on whom he presses his behaviors, blatantly refuses, as if it were a  weakness, to social distance from each other and  from other  public contacts. Many lame excuses he gives.The same is true of his childish defiance to wear a mask in public or in his offices. This while half heartedly, wink-wink,   saying common folks should.

Just as  offensive is how the President has  from the start dampened the importance of testing. He gradually has seen the importance of testing for himself , now daily, while downplaying any urgency of getting testing for the public, you and me.

Science is united that adequate testing, whether to benefit the president or common folks,  is the essential ingredient in any intellectually serious defense of the virus. The rest is social media  non expert opinion. Make no mistake about this. To reject that is to be an anti -science person in 2020, no less than persons who refused small pox  or polio vaccinations once discovered by science.

This article is a wake up to seniors, most of whom by the way   do not wish  either to die  suffering a preventable cause, should be clear eyed that their lives are being consided expendable by the President and a wide swath of political leaders..

Mr Trump is  well  into  senior  status and  seems to now realize  that he  needs these scientifically proven measures to protect him.( two in his circle now have the Coronavirus). I doubt he's asking himself if  other seniors should rightly expect a similar medical based care, not his spontaneous absurd  anti-science hunches.

Nature is proving again she is no respector of persons and only real substantiated science  does she respect in biological matters.. My God how any 6th grade graduate should possess and practice this common knowledge.

Mr President and others who are becoming  progressively more nonchalant  about this threat, to some more than others including seniors, wake up!

Do for others as you are doing for yourself. This is the  fundamental conservative nature of basic communal character for any President and any citizen.

WHY EVEN SMART PEOPLE SOMETIMES BELIEVE CONSPIRACY THEORIES. .May 8, 2020

In times of radical change and chaos,  some of it created purposely  by powerful persons as a smoke screen for mishieveousness, the cultural atmosphere is ripe for  provocative untrue conspiracy theories.   They often appeal to specific political persuasions.

No one can protect us  from such  serious   breaks with reality but our own diligence. We cant just always trust what weve always trusted. We are experiencing a high level unknown  and  change presently.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200406-why-smart-people-believe-coronavirus-myths?ocid=ww.social.link.facebook&fbclid=IwAR1sK5BNTjQxQfxbCS8Naf4TGB04EsqZwPTNu2s2xt7Gy7AibICkNnupig4

 It's not just a matter of  normal intelligence that  can assure us we are on a soundly informed  social path.  Smart   people also get misguided.

It can be healthy to hear a person who is not Americam describe what they see happening to us and our judgment about our changing situation.  He is an experienced well trained journalust and author. So I post this.

HUMANS MAY LEARN LIFE IS NOW ABOUT COOPERATION-NOT COMPETION...May 9, 2020

Teilhard de Chardin, life-long Catholic priest often in exile by his church for his scientific rigor,  and world renown paleontologist has left  us a most positive informed explanation of  the days we are in.

He speaks of humanity, after first spreading across the whole Earth,  is now enfolding in on itself.

This at first causes  chaos and  strong resentments as we are pushed by nature to "know each other' more than we wish. We are in each others backyard, in each others face.. This process  can never be reversed no matter how  many in  fearful panic  and violence would try.  These are our difficult,  but for de Chardin, times of hopeful  transition

Eventually  though humans  will learn by life experience  the truth that we are all one, truly ' in this together.'  Over time humanity will become a far more  heart- felt unity without losing authentic uniqueness.

Humans will have  learned in natural ways of evolution to  hold each other in high respect, embracing  social, religious and political lifestyles of cooperation, not competition, for resources.. This  instead of our  long history of competition  constantly pitting humans against each other.

Few  wide minded  humble thinkers have presented such a hopeful view of the future of humankind as de Chardin. 1881-1955..We would be wise to listen to such modern prophet-like geniuses among us.

WE ARE MORE THAN EGO BUT EGO STRENGTH IS IMPORTANT...May 8, 2020

Basically Jung is here saying that during the  most bewildering times life brings that the human ego, that which we call "me'  is being challenged to forge itself into what is its intended destiny.

https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/05/08/carl-jung-it-is-important-to-affirm-ones-own-destiny-for-the-ego-to-endure/?fbclid=IwAR3iNwfFT28r1l7KnfWc3p9A30wSbVB1md9QJGceSCIiMFmkNTvOa

To walk this natural very 'down to Earth' path we are asked to not reject anything that is going on inside or outside of us. Here I wish to emphasize the inner life for that is the one we most often ignore.

Only by objectively noticing and allowing our most disconcertingly unpleasant and unexpected inner thoughts and dreams, images, questions,  even our judgments can the ego forge an enduring, truthful, indestructible by outer worldly forces, objective reality.

Its not a matter of  'if' these inner factors are ultimately true in outer reality but that they are  presently real and they are you, the most real and true unique you.

They are there to affect( create strong concrete honest emotion)  and form you into the truest most effective  'you' in the end. This is what nature or fate wants from and for each of us.

To not notice them, or treat them as nothing, to eschew them, to not value them  is to miss the greatest human opportunity.

But instead, no matter how at first unwelcome or fantastic, we can  choose to be 'dealing ' and deal making with them, with the inner world.(Recall the story of Jacob ' wrestling with the God'? ) To not  wrestle with our own inner world,  but giving most all of our energy to outer things, is how we turn away from our own one and only  personal destiny and our part of humanity's intended destiny.  It means missing the opportunity to become the authentic person  we are here to be.  This is a human's greatest possible fulfillment.

That opportunity is easily and even understandably, for it is so difficult,  missed entirely or is embraced at all different possible  levels of completeness.  It could never be completely won.

This is one of my efforts, using Jung, to describe the natural,  not supernatural though it can seem that way, process of closest becoming our destined unique life... to the extent which fate invites and allows.

We should strongly wish each other the very best in this personal endeavor for the more anyone achieves this the more we all do.  It is an 'all win or all lose' evolutionary process. This is very  far from the misguided American notion of  'mind or character competition with each other', often correctly called idividualism,  but instead individuation is a competition with one's self.

As it's said often these days, (and this is the greatest  gift, insight and lesson of the Coronavirus.) " We are ALL in this together." Oh if we could only know and live not only for our most complete self but also  intentionally for the good and well being of ALL.

Jung, and a few scattered others, in his work and rediscoveries of the inner world, and its relation to the outer one, was attempting to show how to go about this endeavor. And how such a wisdom and 'pearl of great price' is always trying to get our attention in each long and brief  day of our lives..

https://carljungdepthpsychologysite.blog/2020/05/08/carl-jung-it-is-important-to-affirm-ones-own-destiny-for-the-ego-to-endure/#.XrUw-69Ol-E