(2021-02-27, 09:22 PM)Brian Wrote: https://academyofideas.com/2016/09/maslo...ndividual/
My own experiences have not been particularly emotional on the whole and I haven't had to read meaning into them as they come with their own meaning built in. They are deeply pleasurable in a mental way and seem to both expand and deepen the universe. The only time I remember experiencing overwhelming emotion as a result of one was when God guaranteed that I will never die, then of course, I felt an immense joy that I cannot describe. On top of that I "saw" (it wasn't literally visual but registered as visual) Jesus at the right hand of God and when the joy died down I was left with a kind of supernatural peace. It felt natural but more so. Ever since that event, when I look back to before it, the events of my life are as if they had happened to somebody else instead of me. This description does not do the experience justice which is why I don't usually share it.
Good stuff. I did find that Noll apparently did an interview with a Catholic publication where he went on about how any Catholic who takes on Jungian ideas is a pagan...beyond the "Cult Fictions" book which challenges his points this kinda soured me on him.
Not to say there isn't some valid criticism of Jung in Noll's work, but rather if someone is willing to disparage his work as not Materialist enough AND also not Christian enough...it starts to feel like that guy who runs Integral World who ended up hating Ken Wilber and made the site pro-materialist and somewhat anti-Wilber...
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell