Normally we are told that empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another. Some scholars describe its attributes in terms of perspective taking, staying out of judgement, recognising emotions and communicating skilfully. But I’ve never found conventional definitions of empathy to really capture its essence. They explain what it ‘looks like,’ […]
The foundation of any genuine personal and spiritual growth path is the need to take responsibility for your mind. Unless you take responsibility for your own mind, any movement in the direction of growth will be happenstance and temporary. Responsibility is how we turn our encounters and challenges in life into material that helps us
If you’ve ever had a numinous spiritual experience, fallen in love, experienced joy at your sports team winning, or even become trapped in an abusive relationship or cult, then you will have experienced ‘Participation Mystique.’ Jung described Participation Mystique in many places, building on ideas by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. It is is a powerful concept for
It can be tempting to think that the wholesome response to malevolence is to ‘let it go’ by ‘doing nothing’ – To show antagonists a holier way of being by graciously “turning the other cheek.” But true “Letting go” is not the same as “doing nothing.” Our mind brought this challenge about for good reason.
Whenever we are suffering, there’s something we’re not seeing. Whenever we cannot control our emotions, behaviour and decisions, the unconscious is involved. As Carl Jung said: “A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be
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