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power of prayer
Part of being human is experiencing things outside of our control. That does not mean humans lack power or integrity. We communicate everything to each other. Our hopes and fears are transmitted through more channels than we acknowledge. There is a reason why Jung’s proposal of the collective unconscious stuck in the realms of psychiatry, even at a time when psychiatry was doing it’s best to avoid any hint of metaphysics. There is evidence for archetypal transmission of knowledge that borders on the line of metaphysics. Some agents are more susceptible to being activated than others. More often than not, trauma cracks a personality open and allows a flood of archetypal information to course through their being. I am certainly not advocating trauma; we as species, consciously or unconsciously do enough of that to our selves and others with little effort. It begs the question how much suffering must a species experience before the Gandhi/Mother Teressa archetypes are evoked in sufficient numbers of people to end all wars?
In a Jennifer Schafer and Richard Martini interview, linked below, I found multiple interesting artifacts to generate this conversation. Let’s start with the Librarian suggesting, if you love yourself, and others, there will follow a decrease in suffering. Maybe I conflated that statement. Feel free to watch and…
