/lit/ - Literature

Hello friends,

Recently I have become very interested in religious mysticism and symbolism. I t hink this is a good time for me to get into Jung. What works of him would you recommend I start with? I have not read any Jung before this. I mainly want to read his views on religion and his thoughts on the future.

(JANNIES SHOAHED LAST THREAD, THIS IS RESPONSE TO ANON WHO SAID HE HAD AN EXPERIENCE DESCRIBED AS" POSSESSION" AFTER READING OCCULT TEXTS, WHICH HE LATER INTERPRETED AS THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND OVERLOADING HIS CONSCIOUS MIND)

I had a very similar experience to you anon, after reading some sinister stuff (what literature not important, it just induced the effect) for a while I had this almost quasi-psychedelic overload of synchronicity and waves of euphoria and deep dread unlike anything i've experienced. I was fully lucid and acting normally and functioning in society but it was like having two brains, one living presently and the other just deeply thinking having constant epiphanies with synapses constantly firing, felt like I had an IQ over 200 and was connected with everything.

It was like mild shrooms but deeply emotional, felt holistically connected with everything and an intuitive understanding of everything, saw a myriad of connections constantly in all spheres of life.

Got to the point where I thought I was either "possessed"; a psychotic magician; or developing a schizo messiah complex, lol. I was writing down all sorts of theories, allegories and quite insightful thoughts, pseudo-maths equations etc.

Until I too remembered Jung (Thank fuck). I then realised I was hugely overstimulated and over connected so I calmed down stopped worrying, stopped thinking too much, and disconnected from internet etc. Music (and comedy) was very good as it calmed and soothed the mind whilst sounding amazing (hypersensitive sensory experience).

I got to a point where I could invoke this state of consciousness almost on demand. It dissipated somewhat after a few days (I'm glad). I'm glad i'm not the only one similar things has happened to.

Coincidentally I had also been watching a lot of Book Club videos, I credit that with some of this, just his schizo energy and raw emotion (He must be an mkultra magician? lol.). Still not sure exactly what to make of it all. I'm now thinking it was more of a deeply emotional religious experience more than anything else.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWB8Gx2j0R0