"The Life Ritual" - Chapter 3 of _Sacred Chaos_ by Françoise O'Kane
Channel: Carl Jung Depth Psychology Reading Group
Date: 2019-08-19

Reference: _Sacred Chaos: Reflections on God's Shadow and the Dark Self_, Chapter 3, "The Life Ritual," by Françoise O'Kane, published by Inner City Books, http://innercitybooks.net .

58:09--OUTTAKES:  Skip's story of his Mother's stories; saved questions; etc.

00:42--In Jungian Psychology, the term "Self" is synonymous with the terms "The God-Image" and "The Greater Personality."

01:07--"Because the Self is endowed with a numinous nature, to relate to it one must enter into the religious dimensions of being."

19:38--Rites and Rituals--Reference to van Gennep's The Rites of Passage_.

24:17--"...with regard to modern individuals, the movement profane-sacred-profane becomes part of a more personal quest and follows a rhythm that is not necessarily dictated by the group."

25:06--"Thus, a given ritual is both a declaration about religion (this is what we believe) and a demonstration in its operation (this is how the gods work). 

30:13--"Ritual structures the cosmos ...."

31:55--Definition of "SACRED" "... man always has an ambivalent attitude toward transcendent aspects of life, since the powers involved are both benevolent and nefarious on the one hand, and not easily controlled on the other...." The parallels to the Psyche are obvious.

33:35--"The contrast between profane and sacred may also be seen as a contrast between Order and Chaos. But this does not necessarily imply a separation of order and chaos...."

34:32--Reference: Rudolph Otto's essay, "The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational."

41:30--Reference: _The Myth of the Eternal Return_ by Mircea Eliade.

44:40--"Of course, the contrast between profane and sacred times may also be seen as a contrast between the conscious and the unconscious."

45:22--"to situate them within an equilibrium that is otherwise threatened by the tendency to dichotomize and to attribute primacy to logical thinking, to technology and to the Logos version of progress." [NOTE: I hope Dr. Jordan Peterson will take note here.]

47:03--"Theorizing is one thing, relating to the unconscious and understanding the language of the psyche is quite another."

48:22--At the level of The Sacred, "explanations and models are useless."

53:08--The significance of Jonah's journey in the whale.

54:05--Culture is mainly unconscious.

56:27--"We have sought to be more than human--that is our greatness--but have insisted on our own definitions of how--and that is our littleness."

58:09--OUTTAKES

You are encouraged to watch the remarkable 3.25 minute documentary by Digital Fusion on the making of the 2009 Folio Edition of Dr. Jung's Red Book: https://youtu.be/nIBQFSwX1UY  

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