Nat
I have many interests in things that touch questions about existence and meaning … stuff happens, log it or lose it. I tend to be distracted most of the time, unless there is something that transfixes me. Recently over the past decade I have had an emergent relationship with mountain and in particular Monviso. This mountain resides and looms over Turin where I spend a significant amount of time each year.
Mountain peaks are where heaven and earth touch, are places of divine revelation. An ascent to a mountain top is a symbol of initiation. The symbol is the primary method of communication for the unconscious, and indeed for the entire psyche. While signs are directly tied to a specific idea or object, the symbol has multiple levels of meaning.
The symbol is the primary method the mind uses to accomplish the task of engaging and dialoguing with content it cannot fully perceive or completely comprehend consciously. Kant springs to mind here – Awe and wonder, the act of being terrified and curious at the same time. The mountain symbolises an aim for the mind's inner enhancement and the absolute world of self-consciousness (Elide, 1959). Jung's individuation is to become 'Self,' demonstrating and incorporating the mind that we bring to the world when we are born. “The libido (sexual desire yet it is the life instinct) that is freed from the unconscious by means of the symbol which appears as a rejuvenated god.” - C. G. Jung
Mountain peaks are where heaven and earth touch, are places of divine revelation. An ascent to a mountain top is a symbol of initiation. The symbol is the primary method of communication for the unconscious, and indeed for the entire psyche. While signs are directly tied to a specific idea or object, the symbol has multiple levels of meaning.
The symbol is the primary method the mind uses to accomplish the task of engaging and dialoguing with content it cannot fully perceive or completely comprehend consciously. Kant springs to mind here – Awe and wonder, the act of being terrified and curious at the same time. The mountain symbolises an aim for the mind's inner enhancement and the absolute world of self-consciousness (Elide, 1959). Jung's individuation is to become 'Self,' demonstrating and incorporating the mind that we bring to the world when we are born. “The libido (sexual desire yet it is the life instinct) that is freed from the unconscious by means of the symbol which appears as a rejuvenated god.” - C. G. Jung
