On contradicting oneself and on Jung

When going back through my blog posts I find some minor contradictions in my views on some subjects, and to tell you frankly, I do not bloody mind. These are small deviations, but nonetheless deviations, though I have mostly kept to the same broad line of thought. You see people are not like computers or robots to be so unerringly on track always. They deviate, even hold conflicting views on the same subjects as time passes. I have had occasions where I held one view in the morning and another in the evening! Well don’t panic, not really, that is a gross exaggeration! Yet I believe that our views and idea’s on life and can change like that. Some times even a split second is enough to transform our ideas on the world.
Let us assert our right to be so unpredictable, but be sure that you will provide the rest of the world with an explanation if any cosmic changes happen in your thoughts, though that is not likely even if you want to try it very much. The mind, like all else, has a level of inertia. It would fight like hell against any change. You should try to do it, I advise you, try changing the whole set up inside your thinking apparatus, not smash it altogether, for you may have nothing to build it back. The mind and its expressive vehicle the thought are not monoliths. Mind is more like a collection of broken pieces of looking glass which reflect the same reality in different ways. So conflict and contradictions are not that unusual.
Think on what Walt Whitman has said in his inimitable style. This is from his Leaves of Grass.
“Do I contradict myself?
Well then,
I contradict myself,
I am large, I contain multitudes.”
I particularly like the idea of being large and containing multitudes. This is gigantic, only Whitman could have expressed it so, talk about knocking (hitting) the nail on its microscopic head!
On serious consideration (in case I was not serious up to now!), Whitman’s statement is so true, we bring with us the whole experience of the universe into the world. This is truer about our human inheritance. Jung was so fixated on this theory that he devised terms for the hidden aspects of our unconscious mental activity and our mind. Archetype is one such. He, in one of his earlier works believed that these are the remnants of our past struggles in life on the social level and though they are few in number would invade the mind in the form of unlimited number of images which are connected with our living reality. Later he switched on to a more esoteric sort of definition, connected with the subtle material of thought called the elementals. Even in this sense these are the hereditary gift of the human kind. So it follows that certain thoughts that we have may be the recollection of such things in the past and certain tendencies we exhibit may also be the result of this universal thought force acting on your psyche.
In essence we are always influenced from without or our race’s past and its deeds. If it is so, it makes it easier for those elements in society who are power hungry to influence you by taping on to the archetypal structure of your mind. I do not wonder that Jung enjoys such respect from most of the modern Para psychological researchers. His books and theories have become the foundations on which the current techniques of mind control are based. These seem highly successful too. Mere beaming of energy into people is not enough to influence them. Even when you beam voices the natural inertia of the mind and brain would nullify its effects. But if it has some property to link to the underlying archetypal the effort would be rewarded.
I think Jung is to be read and understood by everyone who is feeling the effects of external control. It might give them an idea of the line of attack, not that it would provide you with any clues to combat it, but then who knows. If you take a hundred minds every one of them are unique, what if some one finds something in Jung which could be made use of.
So read Carl Gustav Jung. If you find something interesting in him, please let me into it too.