Posted by Alex Caughey on February 9, 2020, 7:27 pm
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.. What he wants above everything else is safety ~ H. L. Mencken
I would never presume that a person seeking security is inferior, preferring to believe that each of us faces moments when a question needs to be asked...why me? The Prophet Job asked many questions hoping for answers that would provide him with an understanding why his life had taken a turn down disaster lane.
The rational person demands black, and white answers. No quibbling. No beating around the bush. There must be a crystal clear answer for all of life's mysteries. Must there?
There are moments in the life of every person when events appear to conspire to push us in a particular direction, challenging the willingness of the rational person to follow their interior driven inspiration with any enthusiasm. Taking the left fork, or the right might well be viewed as a matter of chance, or by design when looking back to understand that the pressure from within our thoughts was overpowering us to follow its direction.
“We must remember that the rationalistic attitude of the West is not the only possible one and is not all-embracing, but is in many ways a prejudice and a bias that ought perhaps to be corrected.” ― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity
When we believe that the answer is out there waiting to be discovered, we conveniently neglect the invitation from within our life to follow its invitation to let it becoming our compass, our guiding light.
According to Carl Jung those inexplicable events that most of us, if not all of us experience are not chance occurrences, but what Jung called synchronicity or meaningful coincidence. Synchronicity, wrote Jung, ‘is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.
Then what is the causation of those meaningful coincidences inspiring us to follow its recommendations? And why are those suggestions so painfully repetitive, as if to say, my way best serves your way.
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~Thomas Kempis
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Re: The inexplicable
Posted by Pete on February 10, 2020, 5:31 am, in reply to "The inexplicable"
1 Cor 1
18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. 19 For it is written:
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”
20 Where is the wise person? Where is the teacher of the law? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe. 22 Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, 23 but we preach Christ crucified: a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, 24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
26 Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29 so that no one may boast before him. 30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. 31 Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable.. What he wants above everything else is safety ~ H. L. Mencken
I would never presume that a person seeking security is inferior, preferring to believe that each of us faces moments when a question needs to be asked...why me? The Prophet Job asked many questions hoping for answers that would provide him with an understanding why his life had taken a turn down disaster lane.
The rational person demands black, and white answers. No quibbling. No beating around the bush. There must be a crystal clear answer for all of life's mysteries. Must there?
There are moments in the life of every person when events appear to conspire to push us in a particular direction, challenging the willingness of the rational person to follow their interior driven inspiration with any enthusiasm. Taking the left fork, or the right might well be viewed as a matter of chance, or by design when looking back to understand that the pressure from within our thoughts was overpowering us to follow its direction.
“We must remember that the rationalistic attitude of the West is not the only possible one and is not all-embracing, but is in many ways a prejudice and a bias that ought perhaps to be corrected.” ― C.G. Jung, Synchronicity
When we believe that the answer is out there waiting to be discovered, we conveniently neglect the invitation from within our life to follow its invitation to let it becoming our compass, our guiding light.
According to Carl Jung those inexplicable events that most of us, if not all of us experience are not chance occurrences, but what Jung called synchronicity or meaningful coincidence. Synchronicity, wrote Jung, ‘ is the coming together of inner and outer events in a way that cannot be explained by cause and effect and that is meaningful to the observer.
Then what is the causation of those meaningful coincidences inspiring us to follow its recommendations? And why are those suggestions so painfully repetitive, as if to say, my way best serves your way.
“Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.” ~Thomas Kempis