{"id":17902,"date":"2019-03-20T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17902"},"modified":"2019-03-20T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:52:55","slug":"individuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=17902","title":{"rendered":"Individuation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gBqiJcBliD4\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Wednesday, March 20, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I first learned about the two halves of life from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875<\/em>\u2013<em>1961). Today we\u2019ll hear from a Jungian analyst, James Hollis, who is saying the same thing I am trying to say, but better. Hollis writes:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second half of life presents a rich possibility for spiritual enlargement, for we are never going to have greater powers of choice, never have more lessons of history from which to learn, and never possess more emotional resilience, more insight into what works for us and what does not, or a deeper, sometimes more desperate, conviction of the importance of getting our life back. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just what are those inner imperatives that rise to support us and challenge us in the journey of the second half of life? Perhaps Jung\u2019s most compelling contribution is the idea of&nbsp;<em>individuation,<\/em>&nbsp;that is, the lifelong project of becoming more nearly the whole person we were meant to be\u2014what [God] intended, not the parents, or the tribe, or, especially, the easily intimidated or inflated ego.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While revering the mystery of others, our individuation summons each of us to stand in the presence of our own mystery, and become more fully responsible for who we are in this journey we call our life. So often the idea of individuation has been confused with self-indulgence or mere individualism, but what individuation more often asks of us is the surrender of the ego\u2019s agenda of security and emotional reinforcement, in favor of humbling service to the soul\u2019s intent. . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The agenda of the first half of life is predominantly . . . framed as \u201cHow can I enter this world, separate from my parents, create relationships, career, social identity?\u201d Or put another way: \u201cWhat does the world ask of me, and what resources can I muster to meet its demands?\u201d But in the second half of life . . . the agenda shifts to reframing our personal experience in the larger order of things, and the questions change. \u201cWhat does the soul ask of me?\u201d \u201cWhat does it mean that I am here?\u201d \u201cWho am I apart from my roles, apart from my history?\u201d . . . If the agenda of the first half of life is&nbsp;<em>social<\/em>, meeting the demands and expectations our milieu asks of us, then the questions of the second half of life are&nbsp;<em>spiritual,&nbsp;<\/em>addressing the larger issue of meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The psychology of the first half of life is driven by&nbsp;<em>the fantasy of acquisition:&nbsp;<\/em>gaining ego strength to deal with separation, separating from the overt domination of parents, acquiring a standing in the world. . . . But then the second half of life asks of us, and ultimately demands,&nbsp;<em>relinquishment\u2014<\/em>relinquishment of identification with property, roles, status, provisional identities\u2014and the embrace of other, inwardly confirmed values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, March 20, 2019 I first learned about the two halves of life from Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875\u20131961). Today we\u2019ll hear from a Jungian analyst, James Hollis, who is saying the same thing I am trying to say, but better. Hollis writes: The second half of life presents a rich possibility for spiritual enlargement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17902"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17904,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17902\/revisions\/17904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}