In honest love for knowledge, are there rules to this community? I like to write, and I love knowledge. I’ve read all of Asimov’s timeline, all of Frank Herbert’s Dune series, and I’ve recently gotten into the Red Book by Carl Jung.

I write a lot, and a lot of it is, to passionately reference Jung, from the part of me that resonates with the following passage from Jung’s Red Book:

“I resisted recognizing that the everyday belongs to the image of the Godhead. I fled this thought. I hid myself behind the highest and coldest stars.” - uhh page 31 of the book I have, printed in 2009… isbn 978-0-393-08908-0.

I never learned how to cite properly. Sorry.

Anyways, I write from a feeling, from a place among “the highest and coldest stars,” I know I can never reach.

I worry someone will make this a copy pasta. Please, for the sake of my soul, help me understand where I can blast my words and hear an answer from another person. Someone willing to dissect my gibberish. Im seeing a therapist, I trusted that he could heal me, and he gave me the idea that we’re all made up of very complicated “parts” that are made up of ‘atomic’ parts that can be directed a lot easier than anything understood to be the mystery that our souls/minds/selves really are.

Please, TLDR: Can I write from the heart here and hope for an answer?

Or will I be banned? If so, all I ask is for a link to a place I can truly communicate about topics vague and generalistic. I don’t think my therapist will be able to understand. I’ve told him too much, and I don’t trust his capacity for breadth of soul, though I see how painfully insane I can be, here and now.

Sorry. Again, TLDR: please don’t hurt me :c

I’m already pathetic, but I refuse to let go of hope.

Help? I’m in no danger, but I need some kind of connection, any kind of response to love the source of. I love you for reading this if you read all, and if you didn’t… read Jung instead. He’s got more behind his words, though… in this day and age, hope to be heard is hard to have. That’s why I’m here, spouting gibberish!

  • GONADS125@feddit.deEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I’m currently working on my masters in clinical mental health counseling and the concept of parts very deeply resonated with me. I couldn’t believe it was never really discussed in my undergrad education.

    Dr. Richard Schwartz conceptualized Internal Family Systems (IFS) and there are a lot of great videos and podcasts of Dr. Schwartz discussing IFS and parts. Despite it’s name, IFS is very much relevant to an individual, not merely a family systems approach.

    Breaking from viewing the Self from a mono-mind perspective to a parts approach just makes so much sense. A way it was explained to me was thinking of dissociative identity disorder (multiple personalities) but not to a pathological extreme.

    We all have different parts of our Self, and they will surface at different times (e.g., protector part surfacing when someone threatens us), and that accounts for rapid behavior shifts that we all have at times/have witnessed.

    As for your writing, it can absolutely be both therapeutic and serve as a means to deeply reflect and develop our ideas and personal philosophies. I enjoy writing too for those very reasons, and I enjoyed creating a blog for that express purpose. This masters program occupies my free time to the degree that I can’t really focus on it at the moment, but I’m sure I’ll feel like passionately exploring and developing topics there again in the future.

    Here is the last post I made, discussing animal cognition, culture, and personhood.

    As for properly citing sources, I’d recommend utilizing the citation machine. it really simplifies things.