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The concept of the collective unconscious and how it applies to the people of Russia. I argue that every Russian citizen or those who identify with the Russian language or cultural identity have a moral responsibility to engage with and influence their collective unconscious. There is a need to correct Russia’s trajectory by promoting peaceful, meaningful change that is consistent with the shared desire to improve the world. This collective effort requires self-reflection, awareness, and a commitment to transforming deeply held societal values for the benefit of humanity.
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In this post I want to talk about the collective unconscious of the world and Russia, how it relates to the geopolitical event in Ukraine right now. I will tell a couple of stories, a little bit of anthropology, a little bit of psychology. I am a hardened skeptic, ready to doubt everything, even in your doubts there should be doubts, then this becomes the starting point for the search for truth. Anyway, I argue that there is something called the collective unconscious, it is real, it is almost tangible and it can definitely be observed, and I will talk about what the collective unconscious of Russia is and what is the responsibility of each individual citizen of Russia and citizens of the whole world, because everyone participates in this collective unconscious. Let's go back a few thousand years ago, when the human brain was larger than it is today. And there are two theories why the human brain has shrunk. The first one is the Agricultural Revolution, when we became farmers and stopped being hunter gatherers, the protein in our diets went down, and our brain size went down. It's not necessarily related to intelligence, our brain size doesn't necessarily correlate with intelligence, humanity had the Renaissance and other great things during these agricultural times. There's probably a correlation between brain size and intelligence in the first six months, maybe two years. There's a trajectory where you can say that as people's brains grow, people get smarter and then smarter, but the history of life is much more complicated than just protein. If you look at the scientific papers, brain size doesn't necessarily matter, although there is a correlation between IQ and a woman's iodine levels before she conceives. (By the way, I recommend reading my paper on iodine and lead, "Putin's Brain Anomaly"). In general, a big brain does not mean that people were smarter, and even in modern society, if you see someone with a big head, it does not mean anything. You know that Einstein and other people 100 years ago were shorter, but what does it matter and how does it relate to the collective unconscious of Russia? There is another theory that explains the evolution of mankind in recent times. Civilization no longer needed the part of the brain that spent energy, glucose, vitamins, because mankind learned to store information through writing, storytelling, history, mythology, we no longer needed to carry information, we externalized it in society, which led to the development of something called the collective unconscious. According to Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung on the reality of the collective unconscious, imagine a bee, if it is separated from the hive, how long do you think it can survive on its own? Also a society where we are all neurons connected to each other by some unearthly thread. Don't you think that this is true and that the collective unconscious has some validity? This is why humans didn't need all that extra brain mass, because we started storing information in other ways, using mythology, history and the narrative of our society. So what does this have to do with today's Russia and its citizens? I'll tell you two stories. My first story is about a guy who works in an office in a company that deals with security software and consulting. The company deals with investment accounting software for large banks and insurance companies, mainly focused on large financial centers. And one day, in this professional company, there was a story about one "little guy", these are the girls and guys in the office that no one usually notices. There was a big fuss around this "little guy" when he saved someone's life. The bad guy rushed at the policeman with a gun, and our "little guy" from the office, I don't know, hit the bad guy with his hand or rushed at him himself, and he didn't know martial arts or anything like that, he was just nearby as a person with his own ideas about good, and you can imagine what would have happened if he hadn't done that. I'll tell you another story that happened in St. Petersburg, where a foreigner came. He loved parks and loved to walk in parks. And one day in one park in St. Petersburg he was met by some Russian guy who was drunk and smelled like a skunk, he was smoking a cigarette and grabbed this foreigner by the face. Taking advantage of the fact that the foreign guest did not know Russian very well, he began to use this - to be clever and joke, pestering the man. Probably, the foreigner should have covered himself with the sweatshirt he was wearing and ran the other way, but he decided to fight back, for which he was hit on the head, which almost killed him and left him with a dent in his head. He was lucky, because another Russian guy intervened and stopped the inadequate guy, which saved the life of the foreigner. After which the foreigner went to the police, but they did not want to intervene, they talked about how they do not deal with crimes against foreigners and so on, all that can be called passive Russian culture. In the collective unconscious of any society, there are elements capable of making a contribution to help others, to save lives. And isn't this a metaphor for what we have today in the West, in America, in Western Europe, where people want to save lives and come to the aid of the victim and stop the aggressor? Because we know that neutrality, in the words of one of the Nobel Prize winners, a Holocaust survivor, "neutrality is always sighs on the side of the aggressor." and if in these two stories, a person said, "Oh, I'm not going to help," that would have bad consequences. So each person has to choose their side. In its collective unconscious, the West supports Ukraine. Russia is also infected with the collective unconscious, but it is the dark side that takes root and grows like a weed, and every Russian has a moral responsibility to do something about it. Jacob Bronowski wrote a book called "The Ascent of Man" in which he talks about the tragedy of Hamlet, that Hamlet dies just when he is about to become a great leader, he has gone through adolescence and is ready to rise and become a great leader, but he dies. This is the tragedy of Hamlet and the tragedy of humanity. People are worried about serious threats to humanity, when bullies start to show themselves, the main existential threat is that the collective unconscious is still "not all hands on deck", not all people in the world see and understand the threat to humanity, so the bullies become bolder and the dark side takes root. Many Russians are passive, they may openly despise the government, but they still have food, they are not afraid of sanctions, they still have opportunities for employment. So many people in Russia do not have the collective unconscious activated, through which you can see the history of humanity, the legends and myths, the stories of life. Right now, the history of life is such that if you speak Russian and consider yourself Russian, no matter where you are, you have certain moral obligations. Just like the infection of the dark side in Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man", humanity is at the peak of its development now, and if the locusts of dark energy are not stopped, tragedy will occur. Personally, I am for peace and love, and I think everyone should do their part, because the path to peace is justice, and if you want peace, you must work for justice. If you want peace, you strive for justice. That is where the collective unconscious lies. This is exactly what humanity has sacrificed brain space for in the process of evolution, in order to preserve the information of the common good necessary for the progress and development of Civilization.
Putin's Brain Anomaly
https://dzen.ru/a/ZtmhCD0-w2j-ju9s
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Джозеф Кэмпбелл - исследователь мифологии, автор трудов по сравнительной мифологии и религиоведению.
"Подобно счастливым семьям, все мифы и спасенные миры похожи друг на друга", - утверждал американский антрополог, философ, сравнительный психолог, писатель и педагог Джозеф Кэмпбелл.
Он рассказывает, как мы можем использовать мифы, как они помогают взаимодействовать с другими народами. Антрополог доказывает, что именно в мифе впервые описана форма человеческой любви.
Джордж Лукас заявил, что "Звездные войны" были основаны на книгах ученого. Философ оказал влияние на миллионы людей во всем мире.
Книги Джозефа Кемпбелла - это истинное удовольствие для людей неравнодушных к вопросам философии и психологии.
Карл Густав Юнг - психолог и психиатр, основоположник аналитической психологии.
"Одиночество обусловлено не отсутствием людей вокруг, а невозможностью говорить с людьми о том, что кажется тебе существенным", - утверждал известный швейцарский психиатр, философ, исследователь психологических типов людей Карл Густав Юнг.
Карл Густав Юнг, без сомнения, гений. По-моему, он во много опередил свое время. Юнгианская психология очень глубинная, мощная и трансформационная. Его книги можно раскладывать на цитаты, неважно юнгианский аналитик ты или нет, неважно вообще, какое отношение имеешь к психологии. Восхищаюсь и не перестаю находить новую мудрость.
Джейкоб Броновски - математик, биолог и историк науки. Наиболее известен как ведущий и автор документального сериала производства BBC "Восхождение человека".
Восхождение человечества. Предисловие Ричарда Докинза
У каждой эпохи есть своя поворотная точка – возникновение нового взгляда на мир. В этой книге Джейкоб Броновски приглашает вас в путешествие по вершинным достижениям человека, нашей интеллектуальной истории. Первые опыты алхимиков, сложные арифметические выкладки астрономов майя, астрономические часы в Европе, каменные сооружения Мачу-Пикчу и многое другое, что оказывало существенное влияние на развитие человечества, и до сих пор изумляет современных ученых.
The Russian mentality is a "bystander mentality".
You should always question what is true and what is false.
The collective unconscious or the cultural transmission network are two similar terms. I like literary mythological explanations because they talk about the stratification of reality in which the human brain works, so I use the term "collective unconscious". But I also like physics. And any physicist knows about several forces that, although invisible, produce visible observable effects, creating the so-called "cultural transmission network". Moreover, people who are parents and careful observers of human behavior realize that (invisible) beliefs significantly affect thinking, choices and emotions (invisible forces), which become visible through observable behavior. Accordingly, it will become easier and simpler for you to "understand" the behavior of Russians through culture or ideological processing - the transmission of beliefs, similar to the construction of the "collective unconscious".
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