Liber Novus- The Red Book
The psychological world is full of mysteries. Only a few have been able to reach its depths. Among those few has been the genius Carl Jung. He understood consciousness so well that he knew its not merely understandable through a rational thinking brain. One needed much more to be able to grasp the naked truths of life that are often clothed under the the thick fabrics of religion, science, philosophy and culture.
“As long as you are not conscious of your self you can live; but if you become conscious of your self you fall from one grave into another. All your rebirths could ultimately make you sick. The Buddha therefore finally gave up on rebirth, for he had had enough of crawling through all human and animal forms. After all the rebirths you still remain the lion crawling on the earth, the Chameleon, a caricature, one prone to changing colors, a crawling shimmering lizard, but precisely not a lion, whose nature is related to the sun, who draws his power from within himself who does not crawl around in the protective colors of the environment, and who does not defend himself by going into hiding. I recognized the chameleon and no longer want to crawl on the earth and change colors and be reborn; instead I want to exist from my own force, like the sun which gives light and does not suck light. That belongs to the earth. I recall my solar nature and would like to rush to my rising. But ruins stand in my way They say: ‘With regard to men you should be this or that.’ My chameleonesque skin shudders. They obtrude upon me and want to color me. But that should no longer be. Neither good nor evil shall be my masters. I push them aside, the laughable survivors, and go on my way again, which leads me to the East. The quarreling powers that for so long stood between me and myself lie behind me.”
The society trains us to be what it thinks is a civilized human being but the very idea of it is so abstract that it changes beyond territorial boundaries and cultural identities. What we need is something universal and I believe we are born with it. However, our conditioning makes us blind to the many dimensions of our own heart and we are trapped into the drama of everyday life. To break free of the chains we think are our safe zones, one needs to escape. An escape into solitude, independence and a little bid of madness.
