Since antiquity, Moloch has often been portrayed as a bull-headed idol with outstretched hands over a fire, a principal deity of the ancient Levant. The Bible strongly condemns practices which are associated with Moloch, but what do they consist of, why were they done, and what was their origin? Here’s more from Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist.
After Skool brings us a fascinating video explaining the demarcation line between good and evil. “When we demonize something in the external world, we reveal a void in our own psyche,” the video host says. “The ones who are able to look within themselves and separate their true essence from their ego will stand as a beacon of hope for others.”
The presentation also features quotes from psychologists Jordan Peterson and Carl Jung, philosopher Alan Watts and authors Eckhart Tolle and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
According to Carl Jung, who created the field of analytical psychology, we all have an individual subconscious mind, but we each also have access to a greater collective unconscious, which includes our ancestors. Blood memory is one part of, or one way of accessing a part of, the collective unconscious.
The entirety of the collective unconscious includes all thoughts, feelings, and wisdom of all people who have ever lived. Blood memory encompasses the thoughts, feelings and wisdom of the ancestors of one’s own specific culture, totem, clan or race. More from Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist.
In Theosophy, the Earth goddess is called the “Planetary Logos of Earth”. She is sometimes identified as a Triple Goddess, who takes the form of Maiden, Mother, and Crone archetypes. She is described as Mother Earth, Mother Nature, associated with the full Moon, Venus, the Earth, and the Sea. Cult of Saturn and the Star of the Sun
Sometimes called Gaia, Carl Jung suggested that the archetypal mother was a part of the collective unconscious of all humans, and a doorway to the unseen. The Upper Paleolithic Venus figurines have been sometimes explained as depictions of an Earth Goddess and in Norse mythology, Frigg or Freya is described as the wife of the god Odin, and where we get the name for Friday from.
The Kaaba, or the Big Muslim Cube, is a building at the center of Islam’s most important mosque, Great Mosque of Mecca. The Black Stone of Mecca, or Kaaba Stone, is a Muslim relic, which according to Islamic tradition dates back to the time of Adam and Eve, and that the Stone was allegedly found by Abraham and his son Ishmael. More from Robert Sepehr, anthropologist and author.
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There are many types of personalities that people can have, but one of them–INFJ–stands alone as the rarest. The Myers and Brigg’s system classifies all the personality traits found in people, based on psychoanalysis theories by renowned Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. The system is broken down into four different categories: extroversion/introversion, intuition/sensing, thinking/feeling and perceiving/judging. According to the system, INFJ contains all four. See where you rank in this episode of Bestie.
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