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11:53 11-18-2018 tony: Your Puer Aeternus article is spot-on, would love to read more from you on the subject.

07:25 10-10-2018 Nadine Aernouts: Hello. I am writing about a movement created during Medieval times and was astonished when I saw your observation that talking about that period people consider it to be dark ages while I was so sure about all the contrary. There were so many movements created, so much to explore that I even came to think that those centuries were superior to ours because of the profoundness of many ideas. It was good to find your article Understanding European psychology.

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18:19 09-15-2018 Mihai Luca: Hello Mats,

I had been reading some Hillman in parallel with the CW of Jung, and he had charmed me for a while with his poetic style, but then something seemed a bit fishy, especially taking into consideration contemporary social events. Also when getting out of the rhythm of his densely packed texts and stopping to think for a while, some of his ideas contradict basic facts, from anthropology for instance. The idea of opposites is not a fallacy, the most primitive cultures act out a play of opposites, yet he claims that it is just something we choose to imagine. One can "at best" not be aware of them, and a lot of good that would do... Evil is also part of such a pair. I would venture to suggest that, by rejecting individuation, among others Hillman is worshiping an undifferentiated pair of his inferior functions, which seem to be thinking and sensation. Jung said something of the sort about Schiller in CW6. Only in Schiller it was inferior feeling and sensation. Hillman on the other hand, doesn't want ideas to be abstract generalizations but "concrete particularizations" - a sort of sensate perception of ideas. ML von Franz mentions that the Self initially manifests itself in the inferior function as a numinous experience. Hillman's work is wading through the value of pathologies (a sign of superior feeling) with the help of his intuition. In the end his ideas don't stand up to the scrutiny of fact and logic, though it would be useful to integrate a part of the values. He is also a bit of a Sophist, and ingeniously disguises the puer by admitting his presence from the start, and if we let if fly (pun intended) we will, under the impression of being in the know, follow the piper's song into the sea. Such a typical Sphinx-like trap! That's most dangerous I think for people who skip over Jung and go straight into Hillman. In regards to my reading Hillman, I ended up very disappointed, which is the usual outcome when one enters a relationship with a puer.

You critique helped me clarify a lot, thank you!

13:12 05-27-2018 MarquardDirkPienaar: An opinion from you about societal Caiaphas Syndrome, relating to Eucharistic nihilism would be interesting to read. The syndrome is directly related to the profits and business of idolatry. The prophets of the Old Testament and Jesus opposed the societal syndrome, relevant with regard to the post-modern fashionable stance, against the idea Truth, whilst reducing everything to the idea Love.

06:37 03-26-2018 Ives: Hello Mats,

So what is the solution to the problem of Puerus Aeternus?

12:21 03-20-2018 Miguel Miranda: Congratulations for your website.

21:18 08-24-2017 Bruno: "Without entropy, i.e., continual deterioration, neither the universe nor society could function. This is because order is only created at the cost of generating an even greater amount of disorder."
Maybe an orange seed and a human body could serve as counter examples. Order is created out of thin air or, to be fairer, out of something that pertains to these elements. Or, by Hebrews 11:3, things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Far from mystical, we could apprehend that the 'word of God' would be taken as the laws of universe in constant operation. DNA itself and all DNA operations that take place by the milissecond inside all of us, are all but entropy driven or generating. Subatomic 'particles' movements may serve as another, however weaker given our general lack of knowledge, example.

21:27 03-10-2017 Samuel: What accounts for the joy animals and being in nature bring to humans? We experience a wholesomeness in contemplating animals and nature, as if they are the embodiment of goodness and purity, but isn't goodness a value belonging to consciousness? Isn't morality strictly human? Please email me back if you have a response. Thanks.

05:39 02-25-2017 Jones: Regarding the puer aeternus he is not the immature being unable to evolve but the god condition of never being linked with the worldly customs and rules. He is so to speak out of this world, that is self-born and self-managing. He is just like the child Jesus who has but only one father the heavenly one.

19:20 01-10-2017 Lisamarie Solano: Regarding Edinger and reductionism of the true nature of the symbol, I can see your point. However, Edinger's conceptualization of the phenomena of individuation offers an essential entry into the subject. Edinger points to landmarks, and it is for the student/novice to pursue the more ethereal levels of the soul..

18:15 12-08-2016 Mikael: Hello,

I have read you article Puer Aeternus, Underminer of Civilization. Although I believe we should be cautions about the term, I liked the way you described the current sameness ideology and its shallow character. Moving on to other articles, I noticed you criticize Jung for allegedly using Christianity to suit his own agenda and sort of building a new pseudo-religion. Now I have read myself Jung. Truly not all his books, but I believe the best of him. When you read too much by the same author, you start developing some sort of resistance. This too-much then turns into a critique. I believe we should pay respect to great people and move on, in the direction traced by them, into the unknown. They only open doors for us, but we must enter by ourselves. Note: I do not consider my self Jungian. But I have a lot of respect for him.

07:29 08-16-2016 Brett Watts: Thank you Mats for your thoughtful work. You've done such a lovely job of situating Carl Jung's epistemologies within their appropriate philosophical contexts. This is very helpful for my dissertation work, as I have been struggling to situate my own views of the study of consciousness within their ancestral networks. Your critiques of Jung's ideas of individuation and subjectivity trouble me, and I consider this beneficial.

21:20 03-28-2016 Kirk Scott: Hi Mats, found an old post by you on the abandoned newsgroup alt.alchemy, and it lead me to your site. Enjoyed reading the "puer aeternis" essay. I'm in the process of returning as an old man to alchemical studies, which was something I enjoyed very much when I was young, but didn't really understand. I'm looking forward to exploring your ideas in more of your essays.

22:01 03-14-2016 Mark MArtin: Found your posts in WetCanvas and decided to check out your site. You ARE an interesting individual. West, Gurdjeiff, Flowers, Ouspensky and Csikszentmihalyi have always been of an interest to my psychological evolution.

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