To: K-list
Recieved: 2003/07/02 09:32
Subject: Re: Fw: Re: [K-list] An introduction (Archetypes)
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2003/07/02 09:32, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 07:09 PM 30/06/03, mundane zen wrote:
>As this quote demonstrates, I think Jung believed that certain symbols
>("pre-existent forms") exist a priori, as part of the collective
>unconscious, and are not culturally or externally imprinted on the
>individual. Certainly there are some hardwired, instinctual,
>"pre-existent" aspects in our brain, but I wonder if they are actually
>tangible shapes, forms, images, etc., or if they are more abstract,
>amorphous, entities -- a kind of feeling.
>
>
>ken
Yet... so many awakened people find themselves speaking sanskrit
mantras that they have no previous experience with, doing yoga, songs,
chants and dances from ancient cultures that they have never encountered in
this lifetime. Seeing patterns of mandalas and symbols that are not part of
their life experience before that.
It seems that Kundalini draws on whatever aspects of the collective are
most suitable for the needs of the moment.
I have had some Tibetan scholars tell me that my work is Tibetan. The
Tummo fire was so natural for me, I did not think anything of it till
others started commenting and creating programs, based on what they got
from me intuitively.
At the time my work was formutated, I knew very little of Tibetan
mysticism. I read all the Lobsang Rampa books, as a child... he is a
channeler, hardly an accrate source... yet, reading them, I knew what parts
were true and what was not. Like I knew one did not need to drill a hole in
the forehead to open the third eye... My inner voice gave me a commentary
as I read. I also knew I am a "Lost Lama." One of those whose incarnations
were never found. I have never tried very hard to sort out which one I
was... I think I hid the info from myself. Perhaps I wanted a change, or
was bored of tending to seekers and monks.
It amuses me to imagine some monks showing up on my doorstep some day,
proclaiming that they have found me at last! I know if it happens I'll fall
down laughing for hours, and when I finally catch my breath, I'll ask what
took them so long!! I giggle every time I think of it. The truth makes me
laugh.
Even so... I believe in past lives, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The rest
of the time, I consider them to be metaphors drawn from the collective. On
the level of the collective, every life that has ever been, is "ours." Some
carry more power than others, and so are more readily tapped into.
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