Dear Gerald

I want to thank you for your detailed analysis.
Yes, I think it is clear now, but I want a second opinion now because I don't want to misdirect myself.
As a child I was very religious although religion didn't answer my questions and when I reach ten I took the decision to find the truth my self because I thought "If god is real every way lead to him". Without any knowledge how to do it I entered the road that led me to absurd philosophy and after a few months of suffering I reached enlightenment when I was fifteen (without knowing what it was). Of course it was very painful, there is a reason why it is called near death experience, but it was infinitely worth it. I had the same experience when I broke up, but didn't lasted a long time. Is my subconscious telling me to pursue an enlightenment experience again? If so, I think that is not the right time for spiritual pursuit because I'm trying very hard to launch my career abroad, without any success so far.

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Maxx,
What path to enlightenment did you take? Jungian psyche is primarily based on Buddhism, Gnosticism and alchemy. The underlying theme is the inner self, the true self {that appears in our nightly dreams}. And when you take the inner journey, a psychological journey, you will discover a spiritual self. Religions aren't always true spirituality.

What is most important is to understand it is a psychological journey. My philosophy is the journey begins in childhood, the earliest years, when the psyche is structured to and by its environment, this being the underlying foundations for personality and later life attitudes. If you are raised in an environment where everybody swore and curse then you mostly likely will swear and curse as an adult.

But I also very much believe in the archetypes. We are pre-programmed to be humans with precise software that governs our being. Psychologically they are in the form of emotional energies. Physically as well as psychologically they are a natural influence in all our lives. The marsupial kangaroo upon birth knows to climb to the mother's pouch and latch onto a titt. It is programmed into the birth joey's psyche. A turtle knows to run to the water upon hatching. And we humans are born with this 'universal' knowledge that establish procedures on what is needed to be human and live a human life. We can discern their applications from myth and learn how they fit in our personal lives from our dreams.

Dream is personalized myth, myth is depersonalized dream....Joseph Campbell

Jerry

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No I took the other way around. From my perspective there are two basic roots to enlightenment:
1. Discovering the "true self" (Jungian way)
2. Discovering "true reality" by questioning every subposition that you have about it.
The two roads lead to the same position and when this occurs the person learn immediately about the second one. Intuitively, I took the second road and this was a good decision because I'm an introvert in nature.

Totally agree with that, but I don't hold it as high importance because when a person has found his true self or his true axis, he/she is no longer controlled by this things and they become like bugs that must be removed from time to time. I regard this as the machine part of the human, and if this machine is not set up to work properly in childhood, it can be fixed along the way.

Totally agree with that. One of my strongest views on humans (but not the strongest one) is a merge between Jung+Campbell+Maslow. Maslow thinks that humans have specific needs structured in a hierarchy and the more higher in the hierarchy they a the more intrinsic they become + each need represents a dragon that must be slayed because every need comes with a great challenge + every challenge have the potential and the necessity for inner growth, like you can forget about having the need of esteem meet if you didn't incorporate your shadow into your personality, it will never happen. All this can be regarded as following your life purpose or as you called iner programing which I believe is a result of our evolution, the hunters of prehistoric era had the responsibility to slay the beast and bring food to their community and this was a great responsibility especially in ice age era. Failure to kill the beast and bring food to the community meant the whole tribe extinct.

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