it is a most inadequate and unsatisfactory thing

I recently read that Jung described “spirit”, the classic formulation of psychic energy, the impulse that produces insight, unites opposites, inspires, teaches and guides us, as having been split. One part is where it is generally allowed to be expressed in contemporary external sources, conditioned by its social environment where we confuse its functionality with external sources at any point in time. The other part is that energy of inspiration which we experience personally, and within a given structural psychic order. Where its content charged with psychic energy becomes formulated in a vessel, a ’spiritual’ container in which they together form a self-meditative whole. In older Sami tradition they correspond to the relationship between Máderáhttje and Rádienáhttje for whom Rádienáhkká embodies nature as their vessel, and where Máttaráhkká relates to us in multiple recepticles for the contexts manifested by our personal psychic experiences, through which we are then guided to the original whole by our inner person where they are all included. In my own way, I understood that it was about Jung’s relationship with his father, in a similar way to my own. A coming to terms with the incompatibility that this split has created for him and in me, and the environment we find ourselves in that doesn’t know how to bring the two together and make them one regardless of where it chooses to find its natural outlet for us or anyone else. It has no meaning if it cannot discharge its visionary psychic energy for the good of the people with whom it has been called to involve itself. This in turn means that we become cognitively inhibited in our perception of the body and its connection to the information contained in the energy content we call life also for our own part. We treat it as in the story of the genie in the bottle. Where the appearance of the bottle is more important than its contents. While others confuse the energy content of it, and the wholeness it conveys with all sorts of commitment to artificial intoxication. Nor can I help seeing the experience of this totality, its inner balance and peace of mind as the state of equanimity achieved in the practice of Vipassana, and the causal sense of recollection and recovering of our original psychic content as Satipatthana in the experiential traditions of India.