Catch Balancing Heaven And Earth: A Memoir Of Visions, Dreams, And Realizations Translated By Robert A. Johnson Volume

book was very powerful in helping me understand that we can experience Heaven or Paradise at any time we choose, It's really about finding your inner gratitude to all of your experiences in life, Also, we need to understand that as individuals, we do not have the same idea of what Paradise is or that the same path of getting there, Reading this book reassures me that many others have passed before me on the thin trail I'm following, what Robert Johnson calls "the slender threads, " I can often just glimpse it, . . the transformation that occurs when "one has stopped trying to maneuver external reality so that it will work out as the ego desires, One turns authority over to something greater than oneself, . . " The suffering and serendipity all have something to teach, بیوگرافی رابرت الکس جانسون فیلسوف و روانکاو یونگی
یه جورایی در عین حال که از اتفاقات در هم تنیده شده و از پیش نوشته شدهی زندگی رابرت الکس جانسون شگفت زده میشدم و لذت میبردم به این همه شهود درست و بی نقص رابرت الکس جانسون حسودیم میشدD
چرا خواب و شهود من انقدر دقیق نیست مشکل از منه یا نویسنده زندگی خیلی خاصی داشت
در دورانی از زندگیم به سر میبرم که توی یک چندراهی بزرگ گیر افتادم و شهودم صدایی هم ازش درنمیاد چه برسه به راهبری!
کتاب امیدوار کننده و جالب توجهی بود و شاید فعلا غیر از باب شهود چیزهای خیلی زیادی ازش یاد گرفتم,
فکر میکنم که بعدا باید دوباره این کتاب رو بخونم.
اها راستی این رو هم بگم که به کسایی که میخوان به مقوله ی دین و معنویت با دید مدرن و آگاهانه تری نسبت به صوفی نگری شرق نگاه کنند این کتاب رو بسیار توصیه میکنم. بدون جبههبلکه تا حدودی با جبههی مخالف نسبت به دین و با علم و منطق امروزی حکایت از چیزی میکند که امروز سعی در فراموش کردنش داریم ولی به آن نیاز مفرط داریم نه برای اون دنیا که برای زندگی کردن در این دنیا. . و حقیقتا شنیدنی است. یک زندگی نامه خودنویس
با اینکه دکتر شیری و سهیل رضایی و انتشارات بنیاد فرهنگ زندگی خیلی روی این کتاب مانور دادن به نظرم صرفا یه داستان تقریبا لوس و معمولی از یه ادم خودشیفته بود
که بیشتر ازینکه دنبال کشف درک عمیقتری از زندگی باشه میخواست ثابت کنه ادم خاصیه و زندگی خاصی داشته
نکات خوبی هم داشت قطعا ولی میتونست یه کتاب ۵۰ صفحهاب عالی با اون نکات بنویسه بجای ۵۰۰ صفحه خودستایی غیر مستقیم A Jungian psychotherapist has a near death experience and spends the rest of his life trying to find his balance between heaven, where he wants to be, and earth, where he is bound to life.
He deals with eternal problems: how to be close to God but not cut himself off from other people, how to honor his introverted character and also deal with a longing for connection with others, how to make a living and at the same time keep his focus on what's really important in life being the person God created him to be.
I love this book because Johnson is a lot like me in some ways, It reassures me I'm not the only one out there like me, Fascinating. Really glad I read this, I found the discussions about alchemy i, e. the idea of relationships being about 'carrying somebody else's gold' until you become strong enough to carry your own particuarly intriguing, It's always fun for me to read about India and Jung, And what do you know, out of all places, Mr, Johnson is from Portland, Oregon, my home city of almost eight years!!! Coincidences, coincidencesor I guess what he would call 'the slender threads, ' Rick is reading this
Interesting read at the end of the book the story of "The Transposed Heads" "A funeral pyre is necessary for burning up the old form of consciousness, As long as you think in terms of this one or that one, then you are still caught up in the world of duality, But if you can stand to live in paradox long enough, then transformation takes place and a new consciousness is born a child called Samandhi, This occurs when one has stopped trying to maneuver external reality so that it will workout as the ego desires, One turns authority over to something greater than oneself the ego is sacrificed to the self, the earthly world serves the heavenly world, and one learns, at last, to trust the slender threads".
" A compelling memoir of a thoughtful man's inner journey, Inspiring and insightful. A necessary read for anyone interested in the experience of their dream life and how dreams relate to our external reality, There is a LOT in this book, Johnson has lived an odd, yet fascinating life, He lost a leg at the age ofand nearly bled to death, during which time he had an experience of what he terms "The Golden World, " He has another of these experiences in his late teens and his early life is an attempt to recapture this feeling, without much success, He is drawn to music and finds relationships there which his family of origin failed to give him, He went to Europe and studied with Carl Jung, Life has many paths, which he feels are not coincidences but rather the following of "slender threads, " He finds equilibrium in India,

Here is a summation on page:

"This is the essence of what I learned from dr, Jung: listen to your interior intelligence, take

it seriously, stay true to it, andmost importantapproach it with a religious attitude, His psychological term for this is individuationdiscovering the uniqueness of yourself, finding out what you are not and finding out what you are, Individuation relates to wholeness, but it is not some indiscriminate wholeness but rather your particular relationship to everything else, You get to the whole only by working with the particularity of your life, not by trying to evade or rise above the specificity of your life, This is the blending of heaven and earth, This is a truly religious life, "
Important man. An important life worth learning from, This is a book that does not want to be put down, I underlined so many words of wisdom in this brief autobiography by Robert Johnson, that I've decided to type all those words into an index to more easily access them.
I felt the warmth of friendship and scholarliness of Jung on each page, Like a visit with a spiritual mentor, I didn't want the time with Robert's words to ever come to an end,
His books He, She, and We, which have been so helpful in my personal life and my practice, shine a little less brightly compared to Balancing Heaven and Earth.
I just purchased his book, Ecstasy and will read it next, but rue the day when I finish reading all his books!
This book has cultivated my continued loyalty to studying and being mindful of the Unconscious and its mysteries.
Gratitude to you, Robert Johnson for sharing some of the stories and gentle wisdom of you ninetyplus years,
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