{"id":5918,"date":"2017-08-23T19:49:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=5918"},"modified":"2017-08-24T19:51:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:51:04","slug":"sir-laurens-van-der-post-political-implications-self-observation-self-transcendence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/sir-laurens-van-der-post-political-implications-self-observation-self-transcendence\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir Laurens van der Post on the political implications of going within"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/jungian-insights-excrement-politics\/laurensvanderpost\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7857\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7857\" src=\"http:\/\/bathtubbulletin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/LaurensvanderPost.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe psychology of individuation has nothing to do with politics at all because it deals with the ultimate values, but yes, it has shattering political implications. \u00a0We cannot behave as if this journey into the collective unconscious hasn\u2019t happened, because it has happened. \u00a0 We can\u2019t plead ignorance any more. \u00a0It has happened and because it\u2019s happened, because we are facing an objective universe within as great as the universe without, we can never be the same again. \u00a0We cannot ignore it and it has enormous political consequences for us. \u00a0And the kind of society, the kind of politics that will save us will have to be aware, more important than any other quality in our politicians. \u00a0We must \u00a0demand psychological illumination, psychological awareness, because otherwise we get people sparring with their own shadows. \u00a0Otherwise, you\u2019ll get nations, as we had in 1939, by the Germans projecting their shadows onto the Jews, and then when they\u2019d eliminated the Jews, onto the Poles and God knows whatnot. \u00a0Jung often said to me, the human being who starts by withdrawing \u00a0his own shadow from his neighbor is doing work of immense immediate social and political importance.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2013Sir Laurens van der Post (December 13, 1906 &#8211; December 16, 1996)<span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0was a 20th-century Afrikaner author, farmer, war hero, political adviser to British heads of government, close friend of Prince Charles, godfather of Prince William, &#8230;\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"q _KCd _tWc fl\" style=\"font-size: 12px;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laurens_van_der_Post\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwjsiNzN7e7VAhVEzIMKHZG3Ah0QmhMIlwEwEg\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mod\" data-md=\"1001\" data-hveid=\"153\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwjsiNzN7e7VAhVEzIMKHZG3Ah0QkCkImQEoAzAU\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"mod\" data-md=\"1001\" data-hveid=\"157\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwjsiNzN7e7VAhVEzIMKHZG3Ah0QkCkInQEoBDAV\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe psychology of individuation has nothing to do with politics at all because it deals with the ultimate values, but yes, it has shattering political implications. \u00a0We cannot behave as if this journey into the collective unconscious hasn\u2019t happened, because it has happened. \u00a0 We can\u2019t plead ignorance any more&#8230;. <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2017\/08\/23\/sir-laurens-van-der-post-political-implications-self-observation-self-transcendence\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5918\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}