MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS by Jung

STRANGE LIFE OF IVAN OSOKIN by Ouspensky is a cautionary tale about
frittering your life away on daydreams. MAN AND HIS SYMBOLS is non-
fiction and mentions the hazards of daydreams in passing. This
thread's tenuous daydream linkage motivates me to followup here,
instead of starting anew.
    Non-fiction tends to work as an audio book only in the absence
of symbols, tables, formulas, and such. Philosophical books are
acceptable as audio books, while physiological and practical physics
textbooks fail, for instance.
    SYMBOLS is full of illustrations. Initially, its suitability as
an audio book was an open question. Unintuitively, a lack of distracting
illustrations allows better absorption of textual content.
    After explaining my experience to a member of my church who happens
to be a clinical psychologist, she mentioned the left and right brain
sides. Off the record, she speculated on side-to-side dithering where
the right brain starts to process text only to be abruptly interrupted
by the left brain as it interprets intervening images. Til the text in
the next paragraph flips the brain back right to restart rotation anew.
    The above dialog occurred shortly after the Deacon opened floodgates
with a sermon about the implications of René Girard's societal
scapegoating theory in the wake of the Crucifixion of a man proclaimed
innocent by several Biblical sources: Pilate, Herod, a crucified
criminal, a Centurian, ... Caiaphas communicates the collective feeling
with words along the lines of: better one of us die than all of us.
Such scapegoaters stay put in THE ONES WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS by Le
Guin.

Jung wrote the first section of the book and approved the four
following sections, written by: von Franz, Hederson, Jacobi, and Jaffé.
Last year, Free Mason symbology seemed superabundant to me. [1] This
year SYMBOLS ?subconsciously? champions Catholicism as a cornucopia of
many more symbols.
    So there you have it - Catholics win again. By the way, are all of
you Groyper/Pepe the frog Trump toadies tired of winning yet? (Just
kidding.)

Readers may find this book a valuable resource to interpret artistic
symbolism. It is recommended by both me and my psychologist.

# # #

NEW MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE by Ouspensky is my next attempt at an
audio book hearing. NEW MODEL remains only a prospect owing to its
provocative Table of Contents. It will be scuttled mid-hearing
if need be.

James raises an interesting issue in a recent thread [2]:

    There don’t seem to be branching timelines, but rather
    many universes, some of which resemble each other
    closely, perhaps because adjacent universes can affect
    each other.

    Although much of the plot focuses on an attempt to
    alter history, evidence points strongly against being
    able to make meaningful changes. The sticking point
    is the same phenomenon that caused the home line to
    suffer the effects of the War without having had a War.
    If universes diverge too much from the adjacent lines,
    the history they should have had overwrites the history
    that they did have.

My hunch is Ouspensky coupled with Bohmian mechanics may provide a
plausible premise to play with.

Note.

[1] <https://crcomp.net/arts/forbidden/>
[2] <https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/banquo-at-your-banquet>

Danke,

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