from "Transformation of the God-Image"[Edinger];
Another way of putting it is that the ego is in time and the self is in eternity.
The ego is the agent of the self in time ,so to speak.
When certain archetypal entities erupt into ego existence,then it is the task of the ego to embody those entities,incarnate them, and realize them as consciously as possible.
If there is little consciousnesss attached to the event, then the ego becomes the tragic victim of the archetype it is constellating.
If there is more consciousness involved, then the ego does not have to be a tragic victim!
because it knows what is happening to it.It behaves in a much different way and can mediate the archetypal pattern much differently.
You cannot be a conscious being, unless you can experience weakness and defeat[p45].
The infantile Psyche, is in a state of identity with the self, and it is in a state of inflation
.It is identified with the deity.
Very progressively,if life provides the right lessons through rejections and defeats and experiences of weakness,it gradually becomes conscious,
and you go through that cycle again and again, and each time it goes around, theres a little increase in consciousness.
The Psychology of the spoiled child short-circuits this cycle.
The childs ego-self identity goes uncorrected.
It acts out the inflation and instead of being defeated or punished, it is allowed to get away with it Pso that the cycle does not repeat itself.
Another way of putting it is that the ego is in time and the self is in eternity.
The ego is the agent of the self in time ,so to speak.
When certain archetypal entities erupt into ego existence,then it is the task of the ego to embody those entities,incarnate them, and realize them as consciously as possible.
If there is little consciousnesss attached to the event, then the ego becomes the tragic victim of the archetype it is constellating.
If there is more consciousness involved, then the ego does not have to be a tragic victim!
because it knows what is happening to it.It behaves in a much different way and can mediate the archetypal pattern much differently.
You cannot be a conscious being, unless you can experience weakness and defeat[p45].
The infantile Psyche, is in a state of identity with the self, and it is in a state of inflation
.It is identified with the deity.
Very progressively,if life provides the right lessons through rejections and defeats and experiences of weakness,it gradually becomes conscious,
and you go through that cycle again and again, and each time it goes around, theres a little increase in consciousness.
The Psychology of the spoiled child short-circuits this cycle.
The childs ego-self identity goes uncorrected.
It acts out the inflation and instead of being defeated or punished, it is allowed to get away with it Pso that the cycle does not repeat itself.
Comments