I just want to tantalize
you, especially the ladies on
this one, because by looking at all
three of the books.  Okay, so we're talking
about mainly Answer to Job by C.G. Jung
but we're also talking about Edward Edinger's
cheat sheet to Answer to Job and
we're talking about Edward Edinger's
explanation of the 21 plates by William
Blake about the Job story. Ok and only
by reading all three of these did I get
this equivalency but here's the
equivalency.  Are you ready for this?
Yahweh = Unconscious, the
Unconscious. Yahweh equals the
Unconscious = the Self,  but the Self
without Ego = Autism (this is the
big red one) = Autism =
Narcissism. So what Edinger was saying was
basic feature of the Unconscious is that
it needs to be seen. Ok and so where do
we have a Narcissist right now who needs
to be seen? You know.
Don't name. No names! Does Twitter
mean anything to you?  Okay, so what Edinger says
is, "The basic work of analysis is to pour
attention into the Unconscious so that
it can be seen." Okay so the basic work
of analysis is to pour attention p-o-u-r
pour attention into the Unconscious so
that it can be seen. So that it knows
it's being seen.  The Unconscious wants to
be seen. But and so for example as it is
seen it is appeased.  So for example a
brand new baby a brand new born baby; all
babies are basically Autistic to begin
with. Okay because they have no Ego yet.
And so they're little dictators. They're
little kings and queens. They think they're
in charge! Right? A baby will
cry if it needs something or it's
uncomfortable; things aren't good; it'll
just cry. Right? But when you give it the
attention it needs to solve its problem,
then it's appeased. Then it stops crying.
Right? That's the most fundamental level
of this. And so but...
but the Unconscious comes through in
outbursts of blind destructive rage, which
are assuaged when they are seen. So
it is very similar to Narcissism. So
infantile and child Autism is a kind of
extreme or pure example of the Narcissistic syndrome. Okay well, I never
connected those things up before. Before
I read the three of these books together
and started to see what he's talking
about. [voice] "Narccisists has rage.  This is really interesting." So the reason... Sure and and little
kids. Little kids go into rage. Right?
Little kids go into rage when they're
when they're upset about something. Right?
And so... But what... What the Ego brings
to the God-image is the ability for discernment.
To understand that there has to be a
different decision here. Like, when I
have to go to the bathroom I have to go
in the toilet.  I'm not just going to go
my diaper type thing, right?
So Autism is it's total
preoccupation with one's inner center.
The Self; the God-image. So they're revolving
around an inner center. So the
whirling motion that is so
characteristic of
Autistic children is
expressive over the fact that they are
living completely within the confines of
identity with the Self. Okay they are
living entirely within this Yahweh type
thing, which has everything in it. Right?  [voice] You're basically saying Autism is the same as Narcissism. Right! That's
what he's saying.  With the Self. With
it with with you know just ... "I'm the
center of the Universe!" So he says,
"Children who are Autistic tend to do
this whirling motion," you know they're always
spinning around type thing. And and
that's what Yahweh does in the Bible.  Or,
you know, he runs into the whirlwind. [laughter] So
you know it's; so a child has to develop
Ego; and when they develop Ego
they start to learn the difference
between; they start to get ethics. Okay.
They fundamentally start to get Ethics.
Because they know that they
shouldn't bother Mom at this point in
the day or whatever it is. You know, you've
gotta leave Mom alone while she's
cooking dinner type thing. Right?
So this comes out then to be
"Individuation." So as we develop we do we
develop Ego which is Individuation where
we find what we are meant to be. And so
you're stepping out of the anonymity of
the cycle of nature and into the
personal unique Fate. So you're not just
a human that eats and cries when
when you're hungry, and cries when you're
wet. Whatever it is, but you're learning
that you are a unique individual and you
are no longer just in pure nature and
you have to make decisions so then they
start to become Moral and Ethical
decisions. Right? And so the problem is
when you have a problem, which is what
Job did, how do you deal with that.  And
what does it mean.  And so what I
wanted to do was "cut to the chase."
This makes them thinking about I know. I
do want to read this one summation again.
So this is the summation in
_Encounters with the Self_. Which is
about Answer to Job. So it's in a letter
that Jung wrote and he says, "The lesson
of the Job story for modern man is
described by Jung in his letter of June
30, 1956 to Elined Kotschnig, who had
asked for an answer to the problem of an
unconscious ignorant Creator God," which
is what Yahweh is, and what Job is facing.
But it's also what we're facing when we
have a child, who hasn't you know, a
brand-new child, is
in effect a Creator God and we
have to teach it something.  So
'We've become participants in the Divine
life and we have to assume a new
responsibility vis-a-vis the continuation
of the Divine realization, which
expresses itself in the task of our
Individuation.  Individuation does not
only mean that man has become truly
human as distinct from animal, but that
he has become partially Divine as well.
This means practically that he becomes
adult; responsible for his existence;
knowing that he does not only depend on
God, but that God also depends on man.
Man's relation to God probably has to
undergo its certain important change.
Instead of the propitiating praise to an
unpredictable king, or the child's prayer
to a loving father, the responsible
living and fulfilling of the Divine Will
in us will be our form of worship of
and commerce with God. His goodness means
grace and light and his dark side the
terrible temptation of power. Although
the Divine incarnation is a cosmic and
absolute event it only manifests
empirically in those relatively few
individuals capable of enough
consciousness to make Ethical decisions
(i.e. to decide for the good), therefore
God can be called Good only in as much
as he is able to manifest his Goodness
in individuals. His moral quality
depends upon individuals. This is why he
incarnates. Individuation and individual
existence are indispensable for the
transformation of God the Creator."
Wow! I mean that's putting a responsibility
on us. It's saying, you know, we are
manifesting what God intends. And if
we do that badly then there's bad God.
[voice] I'm really curious to see if this was
partly coming out of The Red Book. Because, this is a very highly developed idea.
Well it started with The Red Book.
There's no doubt, but this was written;
but Answer to Job was written 40 years ...
40 years later. [voice] But it had been  in his mind. He had
been working on it for 40 years.
[voice] Completed or had he like picking at
it. Writing it in bits, or just afraid...  No, when
he was 76 years old it popped out. It just
emerged.... I mean, in
fact, he was he was a little sick and it was
like this it was like this creative flow
like Nietzsche had. [voice] Are you going to post that?  I'm going to post it. [voice] Wonderful, wonderful, I
think that's great!  I love that!   I mean
it's really incredible. [voice] That brings
the whole Job thing together. The whole book together.  It kind of does and I mean but I mean
there's a lot of details to it.
Jung was, you know, talking about all of
religious study for the last 2,000 years.
Right?! And so there's there's a lot
of detail, but I'm trying to give you a
big picture first here. [voice] This is from a letter?
This is a letter he wrote in 1956. June 30,
1956 to Elined Kotschnig. [voice] And you
can find it in the DropBox, because it's
in the Volume 2 of the letters. It is
Volume 2 of the letters page 312 in the
footnote. It's a footnote on page 312. [voice] It gives a framework.  It
does. Jung's point is that, "What's the point
of being God if you're not conscious of
being God?" You have to have conscious
beings in order to manifest your
consciousness. And so basically what he's
saying is there's a little piece of God
in each conscious being. And
you know we can't say that an animal
that works on instinct solely is
conscious. Right? But and so a baby that
works on instinct and was crying and so
on isn't conscious that it's even a
being yet. Right?
