SACRED SYMPTOMS: How the Numinous Heals

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3 жыл бұрын

Jung states “the main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis but rather with the approach to the numinous…the real therapy. In as much as you attain to the numinous experiences you are released from the curse of pathology.” Jung defines numinous as “a dynamic agency or effect not caused by an arbitrary act of will” that conveys a mysterious yet deeply meaningful message. Numinous experiences happen to us, yet we can approach the numinous by engaging in practices like active imagination, recording dreams, or religious and esoteric modalities. Wisdom traditions-and Jung-have marked the trails. Life crisis and trauma can also open us to the numinous: fairy tales, myths, and religious texts relate happenings of help when all seemed lost. Whether sought or suffered, something greater appears when ego yields. We can act on the guidance that is given, and may attain the healing gifted by experience of the numinous.
HERE'S THE DREAM WE ANALYZE:
"I have a joined a circle of men and women studying something psychological. I watch and wait for their leader to welcome me but he wanders off. It is part of a festival and people are lying around sexually pleasuring each other. I explore downstairs but when I come back the workshop members have put on costumes of gods and goddesses (the theme is Celtic, Nordic) They are coming to a gate at the centre of the ritual and I am in the way. Suddenly, a door opens and I'm pulled out of the way. It is the workshop leader and he takes me to a workbench. I can't remember his name but his book is on the bench. He is called Loki. Suddenly, the screw falls out of my glasses frame and lens falls out. I look on the floor but it is made of sand and there are lots of screws which are too big. After a long search, with no success, I discover something thin and fine in my mouth. I take it out. It is part of my glasses. There is more in my mouth. It is a sliver of the lens and rather than being plastic it is made of glass. I must get it out of my mouth or I will swallow and cut my own throat."
REFERENCES:
William James. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature. a.co/d/5mvRUNJ
C.S. Lewis. The Problem of Pain. a.co/d/dFxdbQa
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@eldonscott9 9 ай бұрын

“We don’t so much solve our problems as we outgrow them. We add capacities and experiences that eventually make us bigger than the problems.” - C.G. Jung

@fernandolora1905 3 жыл бұрын

My father who is spiritist, talked to me yesterday about this hidden world wich one way to get acces too is doing profound meditation. Now Joseph is talking about this experience wich my dad was talking about. I thinks this is what you guys call "synchronicity". Theres more pointers in my life that indicates that this is, indeed, one. I just wonder, what does this inner intelligence, what does God want from me? Really looking forward to what is ahead in my life! Really grateful you guys made this episode!

@Dischordian 2 жыл бұрын

2:45 the numinous is the cure 3:50 Jung's quote on his own work. 6:00 AA (12 steps) numinosity 7:55 CS Lewis the numinous 10:00 OCD [("life doesn't like me, doesn't want me here")] 12:30 the reality of the nature of existence 29:15 an extraordinary story, from Joseph Lee

@lomigreen 3 жыл бұрын

I had a direct revelation from my unconscious. It was a Jesus figure that told me I was loved. This vision changed my life continues to support me. I’m grateful 😇

@karate4348 6 ай бұрын

I wish I had such an experience.

@gwendolynmurphy9563 9 ай бұрын

The distinction between "manipulating neurologic states" and genuine transformation is, I think, subtle and not recognized among certain schools of meditation. Thanks for articulating that!

@loberleitner1 3 жыл бұрын

Yes - we love Jung and thank you for bringing him to us.

@Magik1369 8 ай бұрын

The first few Numinous encounters are experienced as dread,. Once the deeply held fear and dread coming up from the unconscious is faced head on, purged ,and integrated, the dark side of the Imago Dei is transformed. It gets dis-burdened of its long held standiing negative charge of repression. Then all subsequent spiritual experiences take on a wonderful blissful character. The hot solar aspect is the most intense. But then the luna aspect emerges almost immediately to balance the solar aspect. When these two opposites are integrated, the affective background of consciousness is constant pure bliss and supreme clarity of consciousness. Peace.

@dandaniszewski2920 7 ай бұрын

This comment is amazing!

@Tamaraisalive 20 күн бұрын

Wisdom ☯️

@Lioness_of_Gaia 18 күн бұрын

I like this! Thank you. ✨🔥🖤🌠🙏💛✨

@Tamaraisalive 20 күн бұрын

I can’t love this episode enough. Thank you for your work.

@aries8651 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, this really resonates, a few lights went on! Very enjoyable.

@dandaniszewski2920 7 ай бұрын

Maybe I'm just catching up? I don't know. I've been working my !@# off, on my own since the only one of many Psychiatrists, SW, MH, Nursing, clinical psychology. They've all had a shot. I've honestly? Tried to connect. That was 21 yrs. ago. Wo. What a freakin ride!

@deathsheadtarot7875 3 жыл бұрын

I can't help but think of the work that a neuroscientist named Dr.Joe Dispenza does with people through meditation and healing and the many MANY experiences that people describe of healing, very much like the story Joseph described about his own healing in this episode. He teaches people how to overcome their ego, or conscious blocks through meditation and they experience healings of all kinds through source (numinous) Beautiful story Joseph, thank you for sharing!

@laisa. 6 ай бұрын

Wonderful 🌼 however I want to adress the fact that Dr. Joe Dizpensa is not a medical doctor nor a neuroscientist. He is a chiropractor. May very well be good at other areas, but is not a neuroscientist 🙂

@donovan665 6 ай бұрын

Thank you your experiences are known to me and my heart is overjoyed at the gentle reminder how close numinous is.

@anja0449 Жыл бұрын

Things are happening backwards again! What is that?! Anyone else having this?

@ntobekososibo2042 3 жыл бұрын

Took a break from listening to the Golden Three. Feeling clearer, happy to be back. And the title gripped me for some reason. 💚 I truly believe in serendipity - this of all episodes had to be the one I came back to. Thank you 🙏

@TheVinesettj 2 жыл бұрын

Just curious if anyone can explain what is meant by the sensate realm. This is mentioned during the dream interpretation segment where it is said that the dreamer may have been spending too much time in the realms of the mind and of pleasure and not enough time in the sensate realm. My initial thought is that the sensate realm is awareness of the body and therefore a window into an older precondcious knowledge contained in the body. I'm not certain whether this us the case. Regardless, my question is this: What is meant by the sensate realm and how does apply to the approach/attainment to the numinous?

@praveenshkgp 3 жыл бұрын

You guys are awesome

@fuso4817 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@katrussell6819 7 ай бұрын

There are stories of children lost in forests who report getting help from bears, big dogs, or other creatures. There is a recent story of rescuers seeing a large dog leaving the scene as a child is found.

@ebrucayir9572 11 күн бұрын

I am really curious about your perspectives on what numinous can look like for an atheists - one that keeps an open mind towards spirituality, particularly through our connection to nature.

@GoldJacketLuke 2 жыл бұрын

Great conversation!

@krisscanlon4051 2 жыл бұрын

God bless Jung and Rowland Hazard them + Wilson = My cure

@Dischordian 2 жыл бұрын

In the opposite order!?

@deebaker9199 8 ай бұрын

Bless them, always sending gratitude to those who carried the gold to us all 🎉❤🎉

@siyaindagulag. 2 жыл бұрын

My own attainment of that has not sat well with others. Beware ones expectations in regards to them . If bogged down by this weight , refresh the numinous ; it will be somehow different each time but one "knows" when its encountered. Bearing no tradition in these matters ,I can see how such could help with that.

@amandasilcox3521 8 ай бұрын

I want to ask Joseph about the MRI and Dr's saying there wad trauma but never told him what the trauma was?

@jicajacobsonkimbreaux 7 ай бұрын

Probably the forced stretching, I would assume.

@freeman669 3 жыл бұрын

❤️

@adamswierczynski 5 ай бұрын

1:03:15

@someonesomeone25 3 жыл бұрын

I wish I could have some profound positive healing supernatural or numinous experience.

@pastverb1 3 жыл бұрын

I'm in no way a therapist or professional, just someone who's bumped up a few such experiences and done a lot of reading. But if I can help you find such experiences too I'd love to chat.

@someonesomeone25 3 жыл бұрын

@@pastverb1 Thank you I only really have youtube, but Im happy to chat here.

@pastverb1 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know what you're inwardly wrestling with? I remember going through my major depressive episodes (weeks sitting on the couch hopelessly knowing the universe had no point) and having no idea what weighed on me holding me down there.

@someonesomeone25 3 жыл бұрын

@@pastverb1 No, I dont think I do. Except, perhaps, that Im in a bad life circumstance at the moment.

@pastverb1 3 жыл бұрын

That's the hardest in some ways. I'm sorry. Is it personal or interpersonal?