Correlations between Ra and Carl Jung

[YinYang]

Great (initial) post, Austin! - (these threads were merged after I posted.)

If you haven't read the red book by Jung I'd highly recommend you do Austin. Gives you basically a working example of how Jung discovered and started integrating these concepts into his life, fantastic for anyone who has felt the call of the adept.

I have the Red Book in PDF format, and I was surprised at Jung's artistic ability! I haven't read any of it (it's in German of course, in medieval calligraphy), just been staring at the pictures, but there's an English translation accompanying it.

In Jung's own words about the Red Book:

The years … when I pursued the inner images were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My entire life consisted in elaborating what had burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me. That was the stuff and material for more than only one life.... Everything later was merely the outer classification, the scientific elaboration, and the integration into life. But the numinous beginning, which contained everything, was then.

The Epilogue, written in 1959:

1959
I worked on this book for 16 years. My acquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took me away from it. The beginning of the end came in 1928, when Wilhelm sent me the text of the “Golden Flower,” an alchemical treatise.

There the contents of this book, found their way into actuality and I could no longer continue working on it. To the superficial observer, it will appear like madness. It would also have developed into one, had I not been able to absorb the overpowering force of the original experiences.

With the help of alchemy, I could finally arrange them into a whole. I always knew that these experiences contained something precious, and therefore I knew of nothing better than to write them down in a “precious,” that is to say, costly book and to paint the images that emerged through reliving it all- as well as I could. I knew how frightfully inadequate this undertaking was, but despite much work and many distractions I remained true to it, even if another / possibility never …

I've mentioned this elsewhere, but the Course in Miracles (ACIM) has been very compatible for me, although its most assuredly not to everyone's taste (quite a few terminology barriers to overcome, plus a leap of faith that this is in any way 'legit').

"Those who don't believe in magic, will never find it" - Roald Dahl

(I haven't read it yet, I just know that Oprah swears by it, and I think she's done a tremendous job in getting people to consider new possibilities)