http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2008/04/28/cg-jung-robert-clarke-and-the-way-forward-2/ News, notes, updates, and insights from the editors and staff of Hampton Roads Publishing Company Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:28:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2008/04/28/cg-jung-robert-clarke-and-the-way-forward-2/#comment-31583 Frank Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:35:17 +0000 http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2008/04/28/cg-jung-robert-clarke-and-the-way-forward-2/#comment-31583 I agree with you entirely. My personal blog (frankdemarco.wordpress.com) is entitled "I of my own knowledge..." because in our day we have been let down by the materialist culture, and the religious terms we grew up with no longer speak to us. So what do we do? We can only find our own meaning through personal experience--not from dogma whether religious or non-religious or anti-religious. But the odd thing (perhaps not so odd when you think of it) is that religious dogma contains a valid description of reality: It just needs to be translated into terms that we can hear today. In a modest way that's what I'm trying to do. I agree with you entirely. My personal blog (frankdemarco.wordpress.com) is entitled “I of my own knowledge…” because in our day we have been let down by the materialist culture, and the religious terms we grew up with no longer speak to us. So what do we do? We can only find our own meaning through personal experience–not from dogma whether religious or non-religious or anti-religious. But the odd thing (perhaps not so odd when you think of it) is that religious dogma contains a valid description of reality: It just needs to be translated into terms that we can hear today. In a modest way that’s what I’m trying to do.

]]> http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2008/04/28/cg-jung-robert-clarke-and-the-way-forward-2/#comment-31581 Gerry Forde Wed, 30 Apr 2008 05:49:28 +0000 http://www.hamptonroadspub.com/blog/2008/04/28/cg-jung-robert-clarke-and-the-way-forward-2/#comment-31581 Hi Frank! Interesting article and has me greatly interested in Robert Clarke. I'm following the same path as he did and facing the very same issue - what we see as intuitives just isn't visible or real to the vast majority who are extraverted sensing or thinking types - the "reality" types. I'm just entering the world of motivational speaking and here the whole issue comes to a head. People are craving inspirational speakers and they are inspired afterwards .. for a week at most. The trouble is that the speakers call for a transformation but they do so in entirely rationalistic terms, being realists. But the transformation has to come from deep in the unconscious psyche to be lasting, this is the source of transformation and ... most people don't even know that it exists. They are separated from their own inner spirituality. Religion no longer connects them to this, and the religious myths no longer have transformative power. The challenge is huge - to reawaken the spirit of the people of today, to take the process of transformation and make it real to the modern mind. It can be done but from a place of humility and by speaking in the language and logic of today but "transforming" it - fertilizing it with the power of the unconscious. Best Wishes! Hi Frank! Interesting article and has me greatly interested in Robert Clarke. I’m following the same path as he did and facing the very same issue - what we see as intuitives just isn’t visible or real to the vast majority who are extraverted sensing or thinking types - the “reality” types. I’m just entering the world of motivational speaking and here the whole issue comes to a head. People are craving inspirational speakers and they are inspired afterwards .. for a week at most. The trouble is that the speakers call for a transformation but they do so in entirely rationalistic terms, being realists. But the transformation has to come from deep in the unconscious psyche to be lasting, this is the source of transformation and … most people don’t even know that it exists. They are separated from their own inner spirituality. Religion no longer connects them to this, and the religious myths no longer have transformative power. The challenge is huge - to reawaken the spirit of the people of today, to take the process of transformation and make it real to the modern mind. It can be done but from a place of humility and by speaking in the language and logic of today but “transforming” it - fertilizing it with the power of the unconscious. Best Wishes!

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