love?

What you resist, persists...

What you love, you release...



...leading you to...



...gOd=lOve



...not this, not that: no-thing...

A law of 3-->4=1 ...via Carl Jung...

Namaste!

...right then, some of Carl Jung's quote's on the 3-->4=1 phenomenon, with which i too am struggling with.

My aim is to formulate philerosophi around & within this framework, so that the "fairytale" of myth can be synchronised with the "reality" of science, for the ongoing holistic health - rational, emotional, physical, spiritual (1,2,3-->4=1) - of humanity. The loss of this balanced, middle way, is THE PRIMARY REASON why, in my opinion, we are at war within ourselves, & due to this personal internal war, also why we are at war with one & another. Personal egophrenia becomes a global schizophrenia...!

From his 1959 book "Aion - Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self"...

pg 152:

From a clients dream:'

...The 3rd & 4th realms come, similarly enlarged, out of the other 2. But the 4th realm, the 4th realm joins onto the 1st. It is the highest & lowest at once, for the highest & lowest come together. They are at bottom one.'

Jung's analysis:

...'The 4th realm, stressed by a pause, is the One that adds itself to the 3 & makes all 4 into a unity....The motif of the 1st co-inciding with the 4th was expressed long ago in the axiom of Maria: "One becomes two, two becomes three, & out of the third comes the One as the fourth."

The dream sums up in a condensed form the whole symbolism of the individuation process in a person who was totally unaquainted with the literature of the subject. Cases of this kind are by no means rare & ought to make us think. They demonstrate the existance of an unconscious 'knowledge' of the individuation process & its historical symbolism.'

pg 159:

'...We have then, 2 contrasting pairs, forming by mutual attraction a quarternio, the fourfold basis of wholeness. As the symbolism shows, the pairs both signify the same thing: a complexio oppositorum or uniting symbol.'

pg 177:

'...The weird & wonderful nature of the gods was a self-evident fact in a hundred living myths & assumed special significance in the no less credible philisophic refinements of those myths. "Hermes ter unus" (Hermes-Thrice-One) was not an intellectual absurdity but a philisophical truth. On these foundations the dogma of the Trinity could be built up convincingly.'

pg 180-181:

'...Myths & fairytales give expression to unconscious processes, & their retelling causes these processes to come alive again & be recollected, thereby re-establishing the connection between conscious & unconscious. What the seperation of the 2 psychic halves means, the psychiatrist knows only too well. He knows it is dissociation of the personality, the root of all neuroses: the conscious goes to the right & the unconscious to the left. As opposites never unite at their own level (tertium non datur!), a subordinate "third" is always required, in which the 2 parts can come together. And since the symbol derives as much from the conscious as from the unconscious, it is able to unite them both, reconciling their conceptual polarity through its form & their emotional polarity through its numinosity...But a predominantly scientific & technogical education, such as is the usual nowadays, can also bring about a spiritual regression & a considerable increase of psychic dissociation. With hygiene & prosperity alone a man is still far from health, otherwise the most enlightened & most comfortably off among us would be the helathiest. But in regard to neuroses that is not the case at all, quite the contrary. Loss of roots & lack of tradition neuroticize the masses & prepare them for collective hysteria. Collective hysteria calls for collective therapy, which consists in abolition of liberty & terrorization. Where rationalistic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums.'

pg 184:

'...The well known significance of the "fourth" helps to explain its connection with the "whole" man, for the fourth always makes a triad into a totality.'

pg 194-195:

'...The one & only thing that psycology can establish is the presence of pictorial symbols, whose interpretation is in no sense fixed beforehand. It can make out, with some certainty, that these symbols have the character of "wholeness" & therefore presumably mean wholeness. As a rule they are "uniting symbols", representing the conjunction of a single or double pair of opposites, the result being either a dyad or quarternion. They arise from the collision between the conscious & the unconscious & from the confusion which this causes (known in alchemy as "chaos" or "nigredo"). Empirically, this confusion takes the form of restlessness & disorientation. The circle & quaternity symbolism appears at this point as a compensating principle of order, which depicts the union of warring opposites as already accomplished, & thus eases the way to a healthier & quieter state ("salvation"). For the present, it is not possible for psychology to establish more than that the symbols of wholeness mean the wholeness of the individual. On the other hand, it has to admot most emphatically, that this symbolism uses images or schemata which have always, in all the religions, expressed the universal "Ground", the Deity itself. Thus the circle is a well-known symbol for God; & so (in a certain sense) is the cross, the quarternity in all its forms, e.g., Ezekiel's vision, the Rex gloriae with the four evangelists, the Gnostic Barbelo ("God in four") & Kolorbas ("all four"); the duality (tao, hermaphrodite, father-mother); & finally, the human form (child, son, anthropos)& the individual personality (Christ & Buddha), to name only the most important of the motifs here used.'

pg 203-204:

'...The central significance of the Christ-Figure for that epoch has been abundantly proved. In Christian Gnosticism it was a visualisation of God as the Acrhanthropos (Original Man=Adam), & therefore the epitome of man as such: "Man & the Son of Man". Christ is the inner man who is reached by the path of self-knowledge, "the kingdom of heaven within you". As the Anthropos
he corresponds to what is empirically the most important archtype &, as judge of the living & the dead & king of glory, to the real organising principle of the unconscious, the quarternity, or the squared circle of the self.'

pg 223-224:

'...This would explain the astonishing parallelism between Gnostic symbolism & the findings of the psychology of the unconscious...we must first of all review the facts that led psychologists to conjecture an archtype of wholeness, i.e., the self. Thses are in the first place dreams & visions; in the second place, products of active imagination in which symbols of wholeness appear. The most imprtant of these are geometrical structures containing elements of the circle & quarternity; namely, circular & spherical forms on the one hand, which can be represented either purely geometrically or as objects; & on the other hand, quadratic figures divided into four or in the form of a cross. They can also be four objects or persons related to one another in meaning or by the way they are arranged. Eight, as a multiple of four, has the same significance. A special varient of the quarternity motif is the dilemma of 3 + 1. Twelve (3x4) seems to belong here as a solution of the dilemma & as a symbol of wholeness (zodiac, year). Three can be regarded as a relative totality, since it usually represents either a spiritual totality that is a product of thought, like the Trinity, or else an instinctual, chthonic one, like the triadic nature of the gods of the underworld - the "lower triad". Psychologically, however, three - if the context indicates that it refers to the self - should be understood as a defective quarternity or as a stepping-stone towards it. Empirically, a triad has a trinity opposed to it as its complement. The complement of the quarternity is unity.'

pg 225:

'...Just as the circle is contrasted with the square, so the quarternity is contrasted with the 3+1 motif, & the positive, beautiful, good, admirable & lovable human figure with a daemonic, misbegotten creature who is negative, ugly, evil, despicable & an object of fear. Like all archtypes, the self has a paradoxical, antinomial character.

pg 258:

'...Our scientific understanding today is not based on a quarternity but on a trinity of principles (space, time, causality). Here, however, we are moving not in the sphere of modern scientific thinking, but in that of the classical & medieval view of the world, which up to the time of Leibniz recognised the principle of correspondence & applied it naively & unreflectingly. In order to give our judgement on...the character of wholeness, we must supplement our time-conditioned thinking by the principle of correspondence or, as I have called it, sychronicity. The reason for this is that our description of Nature is in certain respects incomplete & accordingly excludes observable facts from our understanding or else formulates them in an unjustifiably negative way, as for instance in the paradox of "an effect without a cause". Our Gnostic quarternity is a naive product of the unconscious & therefore represents a pyschic fact that can be brought into relationship with the four orientating functions of consciousness; for the rightward movement of the process is, as I have said, the expression of conscious discrimination & hence an application of the four functions that constitute the essence of a conscious process.'

peace & love

pSi-pHi :-)

mysteriously mesmerising fantastic fractals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Phoenix%28Julia%29.gif

...philerosophi...

...one of the important point's here is that this word cycles back into itself if written in
a circular fashion...philerosophi...now the trick is to find out if blogger.com allows me to illustrate this by other than the written word...pictures speak 1,000 words...later i will enlarge on this to include into the concept of philerosophi, the irrational, mystical number symbols 'pi' & 'phi'... then we will investigate now this all evolves into 'the law of 4', that this blog is titled for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_words_for_love

Ultimately we are talking about the cognitive relationships of circular references, & how these correlate to the collective consciousness on the way to becoming cosmic...man! Hopefully it will also be a comically cosmic ride!!!

Check out these 2 fellow journeymen for some background i collected along 'the way'...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hofstadter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Jung

The specific point from Hofstadter is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_loop

The specific points from Jung i can't find easily ref'd on internet, so will come back to,
but relate to the 'law of 3-->4' as i should rightly be calling it, really, in reality...i wonder if i can alter the blog name? the www address is unaltered...so maybe...?

....anyway, coming back out of that tangent now & looping back to...

hmmm; illustrating...now how to do??? this could take a while...somewhere in Settings perhaps?

Or will ihave to learn to use Adobe Illustrator, or somesuch similar software, as well, now?

peace is love

pSi :-)

Copyright or Copyleft?

Namaste All-One!

...back from a few days staying @ both sets of grandparents with our son as he reaches 2 years of age...

...he's now staying 'down on the farm' of my parents, to give my wife & i a break for
a week from the truely full time profession that parenting is...

...before i became a parent, mine ego was so puffed up about how un-selfish i was...

...selfishness comes in many guises, another mask has been removed, & ego is diminished,
justly so, that little bit more...sure to rear its overpreaning bulk again @ some point in the
drama that life is, on the stage we perform on...thanx Bill for allowing me to mangle that
phrase!

...anyway, which brings i to an issue i have been considering on & off for many years...

Copyright, & the 'rights' that come with it - principally to be identified as the author/originator
of an idea &/or work that one has created, usually by yourself, &/or in an identified group...

Usually the principal right confered is the monetary benefit of this right to be identified as the
'author of the work'. Also often the 'prestige' of being so recognised, & myriad other sub-benefits, cascading on down...

So, i looked into it & quickly identified these concepts, which many people will be familiar with, especially if one works in the software field, which i reference off Wikipedia simply because i find their definitions of topics the simplest for the every-wo/man to understand...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share-alike

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyleft

So, with that little bit of background, this i, psi, hereby applies a share-alike type condition to all aspects & idea's originated via this blog, so that i may be identified as the co-originator of this work with Great Mystery, & if there is any dosh, moola, readies or cash to be made from it, i, little i, wishes to have the 1st cut...cause this i-self can't quite yet get rid of the entirety of that ego already, already...but is slowly moving towards 'fana' (big i has infinite resources, & told me personally that this little i can have it all...whatever 'all' transpires to be!)

http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9033692/fana

...which i would have ref'd off of wikipedia, however the entry has been 'annihilated' since i 1st looked it up some time ago...gone without a trace!!! How appropriate...!!!

...share-alike today is starting with ...philerosophi...a psi-i original i believe(?@ least i can't find any reference on Wikipedia, Google, Yahoo, or Britanicca) which directly relates to the name of this blog - "A law of four?"

...phi/l/o - for (phi)losophy
...eros/ - for eros
...soph/i - for Sophia
..phi... - phi; looping back into philosphy

...thus having the 3-4 concepts looping back into each other with the word for the symbol, & irrational # phi, which ties in so well as a double- wammy, for a dual juxposition in the same word, by the logical conjunction also of 'philosophy' & 'erosophy, whether erosophy is formally recognised or not. At least, its not in the 'Brit' or wiki, but is referenced by numerous folks who have originated it collectively if you google seach it...

http://www.google.co.nz/search?hl=en&q=erosophy&btnG=Search&meta=

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_conjunction

Now i understand the phi reference's, eros &/or philosophy, & Sophia being truncated may be causing a few ?? but it all fits well enough in mine little mind...which i will expand upon tomorrow, cause its late again & sleep calls!!!

peace is love

pSi :-)

Another late night- 2 BBC online doco links - MUST VIEWS!!

Hi-de-hi gals & guys out in Gaialand!!

i received an email via 'me mum' this evening, passed on down the chain of addy's, that was a
rather sad little fear mongering ditty - 'be afraid of the muslims - they're fanatics!!'

I responded to the email & asked me mum to forward it back to those who sent it to her &, to cut a long story short, leaving out all my joining-up-the-dots dialogue, these were the links i used:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military_history_events

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_fanaticism

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=the+century+of+self

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=power+of+nightmares

We ALL have the capacity for evil within us, just as we do for love - 'use the Force Luke!'

The only person to be afraid of is yourself, & when you fall into fear of your self, you tend
to fear 'the other', just like when you fall in love with yourself, you tend to love others...

Also, paraphrasing the buddha, don't believe a single thing i tell you, go & experience it for yourself, that is the only way to truely learn about life's bounteous gift's...

So that was the gist of mine response to the fear-mongering tonight/morning.

Hopefully i helped iron out a tiny ripple of tension out in the wider world!!!

Hasta la vista babies!!

peace & love

pSi :-)

This could take a while...

Hmmm, i don't seem to know myself as well as i could.

Choosing favourites in the profile was like pulling teeth with my hair.

And i'm NOT a Leo - blogger.com inserts that from my d.o.b i guess,

but their date range charts are seriously wonky...Leo is 23/07 - 22/08

& what i am is 21/05 - 20/06... a genuine Gem-in-i.

But if blogger.com wants me to be a 'roaring lion', so be it!

& zodiac year - monkey?? i have no idea.

...apart from that, just the basics is/are all new. Like saving draft posts, editing
this & that. How do i get a photo of me onto the internet?

...& i only seem to have time when its late @ night.

Damn! its 1244 am already...!!

tonights closing quote -


"Nothing is true. Everything is permissable",

attributed as the last words of Hassan-i-Sabah.


...never a truer utterance B4 or since...

Hi...its late now...going to bed... i is finally starting something that is aspired to ease the despair... or praised diapers? i think; not. But its funny how you can mix & match the alpha-beta ain't it?zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Sweet dreams 1 & all; more on awakening in the morrow. i hope.

Last & first thought - a quote to slumber on:

"Truth can not be taught...because the paradox of paradoxes is that, of each truth, the
opposite is equally true"

from 'Herman Hesse; His Mind and art', by Mark Boulby, 1967.

Is that not a great truth or what!