I remember being disappointed when I read Leslie Stein's, 'On Becoming Whole'. After all, it is based on Jung's 'Aion: Researches in the Phenomologie of the Self' and promised the stone of wisdom how to reach wholeness. I am a big Jung fan and my entire spiritual path can be summed up as the drive to become whole. So I had the highest expectations when I got it. Yet, I found the book unnecessarily complicated and ultimately, incomprehensible. The other day, though, I was browsing in it and found what the problem was. I am just using different terminology but the insights are pretty much the same. So I dotted down Jung's homecoming idea of the snake biting its own tail. Have a look at what I came up with:
Subconscious We become aware Adam
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Divinity of ourselves & Eve
| Serpent |
| brings |
| bliss darkness |
| and |
| light |
|
Conscious Tao unifies Modern
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Godhead ego and Self, Civilization
good and evil,
male & female
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