Hello,
I was never took part in the MOQ forum but I heard you guys debate about the
difference between the forum and this set-up. I was reading this article about
Jung's game and thought it may have something to do with this working better.
I am still on my first Wilber book so I don't have a crystal clear of the
transpersonal consciousness that I hear discussed. I do plan on reading more
about it but I was wondering if there was a quick explanation of how the
collective conscious fits with Jung's collective unconscious. Jung
distinguished child development from adult development as the child unraveling
the world and the adult knitting it back together. That is the picture I get
of a collective conscious but am still unclear how it fits with collective
unconscious. If there is no quick explanation is there any book
recomendations?
Thanks,
Erin
Golden Ball as a Symbol for Self
"Jung, moreover, invented a special game for such occasions, called the
Alleluia game. In it, all the members sat around the room with one member in
the center. A knotted cloth (usually a napkin) was thrown from one to the
other. It was de rigueur [the custom] to throw it as far across the space in
the middle as possible, not just to pass it to your nearest neighbor. The
member in the center had to catch it on its way; when he succeeded in doing
so, he might sit down, and his place was taken by the member who had thrown
the cloth. The game waxed fast and furious and always efficiently banished
stiffness and formality. It had an amazingly relating effect bringing the
group together in an almost magical way."
It was Barbara Hannah’s interpretation Jung intentionally used this "ball" to
unite the Psychology Club members "in the Self" or in their No. 2
personalities, so as to prevent their fellowship from disintegrating into
something trivial and solipsistic. Jung decries the death of those medieval
Dionysian games and festivals observed by the church which honored the
instinctual and playful side of humanity. Those games and festivals functioned
quite well to strike a balance between what was too often split: mind and
body, spirit and instinct.
Robert Bly tells us that "the golden ball represents that unity of personality
we had as children - a kind of radiance, or wholeness, before we split into
male and female, rich and poor, bad and good." It is like living in paradise,
before life suddenly expels us and we find ourselves confronted with the harsh
realities of the world. It’s like riding and sleeping in the back seat of the
car, before suddenly finding ourselves behind the wheel and assuming
responsibility for determining speed and direction. It’s like living in a
fairy tale, before the psyche suddenly awakens and we realize that the world
more vast, wonderful and frightening than we ever imagined. The golden ball
represents that undifferentiated wholeness that children possess before they
lose their innocence
The rest of the article is here for anybody interested
http://www.jungiananalyticpraxis.com/goldenball.htm
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