Carl Jung, part 7: The power of acceptance | Mark Vernon

As AA, Jung believed that the acceptance and spiritual interconnection was crucial to the restoration of a person

In 1931, one of Jung's patients proved stubbornly resistant to treatment. Roland was an alcoholic U.S. H saw for weeks or even a year. But the desire to drink Roland refused to fall. A year later, Roland returned to Zurich is still drinking, and Jung came to the conclusion that probably can not be cured with treatment.

But whenever the experimenter, Jung had an idea.

Roland

be part of the Oxford Group, an evangelical Christian movement that emphasizes the need for total surrender to God. Jung hopes that the patient may suffer a conversion experience, which, like his friend William James had not noticed, it is a profound change in processing, caused by the location of a new source of energy in the unconscious. This may control anxiety.

work. Roland said to another seemingly hopeless alcoholic, Bill W, on the experience. Bill also became, and had a vision inspired by alcoholic groups each other to quit smoking. The Society of Alcoholics Anonymous was formed. Today it has over 2 million members in 150 countries.

spoke with a friend who attends meetings of Narcotics Anonymous to understand more about the conversion element. "It is of enormous importance," he said.

dependence was driven by an obsession with the surface of race and money, and a deep concern that nothing was right. "For the first time are asked to seriously consider something bigger than me."

call the "spiritual" experience also seems clear, because a meeting is more than just make a circle of friends who support them. "I have friends," my friend words, before continuing with the objective of a meeting focused is something else: their relationship to a powerful force. "I can not imagine, I can not do it," he said, adding: "I never thought much about the church." Narcotics Anonymous literature is expressed more formally " For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority - a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. "

• The result is an overwhelming feeling that things will be fine, as are those intended to be. Clean, my friend does not heal, and life can still be difficult. But he has the strength to accept what is, to get to the other, and trust in life. It is touching to see.

Jung believes we are psychosomatic creatures must address issues of mind and body. In addition, our psyche is not only ours. It is connected with others, whom you interact visible, and those who came before us, by the dynamics he called the collective unconscious. Life is going well, when these links are open. Flow brings a sense of purpose. However, the locks can lead to health problems, possibly with physical and psychological manifestations. "A psychoneurosis must be understood, finally, that the suffering of a soul who has not discovered its meaning," Jung wrote in a humorous essay "Psychotherapists or the clergy."

Other observers of the human condition

made similar comments. Bertrand Russell, who could not be different from Jung in their spiritual point of view, however, said that the individual feels happy "stream of life, not a separate hard as a billiard ball, which can be related to other entities, except that collision. "This person is known as a" citizen of the universe. "

Jung preferred language overtly religious - instead of talking about "the soul of the world" or universe
Anima Mundi

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