Spirituality In Politics

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  • Intro
  • Articles Index
    • Introductory
      • 1. Metaphysics in a Spiritual Society
      • 2. The Spirit of Guidance
      • 3. Divination
      • 4. Raynor C. Johnson: The Imprisoned Splendour
    • Articles 2: Headline Policies for a Spiritual Society
      • Education
        • The Importance of Fairy Tales
        • The Importance of Fairy Tales, Part 2 – Fairy Tales and Feminists
        • Fairy Tales and Feminism – the Story of Psyche
        • Fairy Tales and Feminism — the Story of Psyche, Interpretation
        • Save Our Fairy Tales — Concluding Remarks
    • ARTICLES 3: MORE DETAILED IDEAS
      • Politics from a Taoist Perspective – Arguing for the Centre
      • Politics from the Centre — Is that the only way forward?
      • Changing the World – Spirituality or Socialism?
      • The Superorganism – a Challenge to Materialist Science
      • Is the Earth a Superorganism?
      • Humanity as Part of the Superorganism
    • Articles 4 The Role of the Citizen
      • The Role of the Citizen in a Spiritual Society
      • Reflections on Eastern and Western Spirituality
    • The Superorganism Question and the European Union
    • A Vision for a Spiritual United Kingdom Outside the European Union
    • Consciousness
      • Is the Self an Illusion – Series Introduction
        • Is the Self an Illusion? – Neuroscience, Gurdjieff and Buddhism
        • Is the Self an Illusion? – The Opposing Viewpoint
        • Is the Self an Illusion? — Yes and No
        • Is the Self an Illusion? — Summary and Conclusions
      • The Hidden, Deeper Self - Introduction
        • The Hidden, Deeper Self - Freudian Slips
        • The Hidden, Deeper Self - Dreams
        • The Hidden, Deeper Self – Synchronicity
        • The Hidden, Deeper Self - Automatic Writing
        • The Hidden, Deeper Self – Divination
    • Why Christianity Must Change or Die – Introduction
      • Christianity Must Change or Die — Gnosticism and Carl Jung
      • Significant Moments in Church History – Introduction
        • Number 1, The Council of Nicaea, 325AD
        • Number 2 – The Anathema Against Origen, 553 A.D.
          • Reincarnation and Christianity
    • Was Jesus Divine? – Introduction
      • Was Jesus Divine, the Son of God? – 1. The Adoptionist Problem
      • 2. The Jewish Messiah
      • 3. The Eschatological Prophet
      • 4. Shakespeare’s Heretical Play
      • 5. The Resurrection of Jesus – part 1
      • Was Jesus Divine, the Son of God? - Summary and Conclusions so far
      • 6. Was Jesus Married?
      • 7. Was Jesus Married? — part 2
      • 8. Was Jesus Married? — part 3
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The Hidden, Deeper Self - Introduction

 

    Having spent some time, in my previous series, trying to establish that there is a real, permanent self, which is usually called the ego, contrary to the statements of modern neuroscience, I am now going to suggest that, even though it is real, it is only a surface level of the self, that there are deeper levels beyond. 

    A simple example of this idea can be found in the psychology of Carl Jung, who talks about the persona, which means a mask, therefore our public face in society. This obviously conceals some aspects that the person might be more willing to reveal in private. In Jung’s words the persona is “the individual’s system of adaptation to, or the manner he assumes in dealing with, the world… One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is” (1).

    This is not what I am talking about here, however. In Jung’s psychology, the real deeper personality is called the Self, the god-image in humans, which is the goal of what he calls the Individuation Process. In Roberto Assagioli’s Psychosynthesis, the deeper self is called the Higher Self. Religious traditions believe in the existence of a soul. These ideas are not understood in the same way, but they are all pointing in the same direction, saying that there is a deeper level of the self beyond the ego.

    In this next series, I am going to provide evidence that this deeper self exists, and argue that it goes way beyond the personal unconscious, the individual personality. (In fact, I am going to suggest, somewhat controversially, that the deeper self has access to the whole of human knowledge.) I’ll do this by examining four topics: Freudian slips, dreams, synchronicity, and automatic writing.

    Up to a point, I have already discussed this topic in a previous article, The Spirit of Guidance. In this series I shall be providing new material, which goes further, but readers may be interested in reading the earlier article first.

 

Footnote:

(1) The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Volume 9, part I of Collected Works, Princeton University Press, 1990, p123

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