JacksCard-J-01-04 Date Aug/47Card-J-01-06 Sept/47Card-J-01-08. Ripon, Aug 22, 1945. “Only a star can contemplate a star. Only God can contemplate God. Only a cell can contemplate a cell.”
Jacks; Jacobi;Index-Card-J-02-07, -11, -12, -14 diagramIndex-Card-J-02-01 Jacks: Either the universe is alive altogether, moral law & starry firmament dancing to the same immortal melody, or else the life that I have, moral law & all, is not worth very much.” ...
JamesCard-J-04-02. DH: “We need sympathy also for our past selves. The reformed rake, the ex-communist, the convert to whatever creed, is just as blind to the feeling, the joy, & the inwardness of his past selves as he is to the selves of his present opponent.”A...
James‘Entities can’t sum themselves together’ says James. He is right, about entities as OBJECTS. Objects cannot & do not live active lives; only subjects do that, using objects as the protoplasmic material of their life. But objects sum entities in 2 ways —...
JamesCard-J-06-01. Following on from above.DH: “In the limit, God realises the full reality of the thing because every aspect of it enters into his Purpose. Reference to the real thing can only mean reference all the thing’s essences, & all the essences can only...
JamesJames 71 (b) If someone draws a line across your wrist it will feel as though the member were moving in the opposite direction. If you put your fingertip on your forehead & move your head so that the finger describes circles on your forehead, it will feel as if...
Index-Card-J-09-1 Date 24.6.45Index-Card-J-09-06, -16 diagramCard-J-04-09. Reading James: Textbook of Psychology DH: “Note that error is relative to status. If you are essentially a Social being it is an error to go by your private view & to fail to take the publi...
JamesIndex-Card-J-11-14 DEH: Your conscious mind puts in its work, then lets go, & your office continues it & brings it to. Successful conclusion. You have a good & useful office. Learn to pay attention to it. Give it a chance.Card-J-11-15. Reading Wm James ...
Index-Card-J-12-03 Date 23.6.45Index-Card-J-12-08 diagramCard-J-12-09/10/11 Reading James: Textbook of PsychologyIndex-Card-J-12-09 DH: [9] “You have no self save as you view it from other’s points of view. You live a life in others — that is what concerns [10] yo...
Card-J-13-03. Reading James: The Will To Believe DH: “It really is true that what is needed to heal the wounds of the world is for you to heal the wound you make in amputating yourself from the world.”Index-Card-J-13-07 diagram
Card-J-15-01 DEH I largely perceive with 8 as my instrument. I look at the world through 8, Mabel’s, glasses. Others, through political glasses, and so on… You are your world-picture. Alice is what Alice sees…Card-J-15-08, -16, -17, -20 diagramCard-J-15-16 date 17...
Card-J-16-01, -06, -07, -08, -14, -15, -17, -18 diagramCard-J-16-12He drew a circle that shut me out —Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But Love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle that took him in!(Mabel’s aim regarding ideologies & philosophies)Card-J-16-...
JamesCard-J-18-04 diagramCard-J-18-13 Reading William JamesDH: I show how your unconscious connects you with the higher powers. What James guessed at I put on something like a sound theoretical footing.
JamesIndex-Card-J-22-03 Colchester 9.1.46Index-Card-J-22-09 DEH This book is an attempt to show that science can minister to the intuitive outlook, & can at least be made to fit into the mystics world-picture.
Index-Card-J-23-05 Date: 22.6.45Index-Card-J-23-15 diagramCard-J-23-20 Reading JamesDH: The more you act for this future Self the more real and less future it becomes. This is success.
JamesIndex-Card-J-24-01 The Saint DEH: He lives in the future. His place in the Time-Scale is ahead of ours. He is adapted to Future Conditions which are Future for us but not for him. This is Moral Relativity.
JeansIndex-Card-J-25-05; Jeans: Surprising fact that when we turn to things of outside world we find they obey these laws. For we are insignificant in the universe, & the most likely supposition would be that universe should be meaningless to us. As if we drew up th...
JeansIndex-Card-J-26-01 DEH Not only is the world at this deep level not material (but ‘mental’ rather) but it is mental in a highly abstracted & ‘refined’ way. We are nearing the central mystery.Index-Card-J-26-06 DEH As you probe deeper the true spiritual ...
Card-J-27-01DEH (1) …it is the mathematician’s own sub-minds which exemplify his rules. (2) In the mathematician’s mind, which is his electrons’ super-mind, the electrons achieve ‘super-self-consciousness’. The mathematician is the electron’s way of becomi...
Jeans, Jefferies, Jellinek, JennerCard-J-28-01. Reading Jeans.Gravity & RelativityDH: Does gravity correspond to love? When you ‘gravitate’ towards an object you diminish with relation to it. It swells. This is characteristic of love. And does ;the tangential, a...
JoadIndex-Card-J-32-05 DEH We recognise the tune we have been seeking in our minds for — in virtue of already existing knowledge of it. Then we must have been aware of the tune all the while! Plate said we can never obtain new knowledge… It follows that to know that...
JoadIndex-Card-J-33-02 DEH I agree with the Realists, who are really taking up Society’s point of view. Society’s perception of the rose is a synthesis of all our perceptions, & what Realism calls the real rose is Society’s rose, which V [downward arrow] break...
JoadIndex-Card-J-34-05 Individuality Joad [DH] Everything is different from everything else, unique. This is their individuality which science ignores. DEH Mabel must ignore this too in her description of you, but she must first recognise your unique individuality. This...
JoadSt John of the CrossJonesIndex-Card-J-35-06 DEH: Essential that Ch. 27 & Mabel throughout should always balance knowledge with admission of ignorance — i.e. wonder. Wonder is the [down up arrow] curve of ignorance. The thrill of discovery is the [symbol} curve...
JungIndex-Card-J-39-12 DEH I supply the cosmology for J’s psychologyI supply the projected (hierarchy) & the inner experience (at levels) equally!: make the best of both worlds!JungIndex-Card-J-39-16 DEH Supremely important 1. Your earth goes round your sun in the...
Index-Card-J-40-04 % Growth. DEH: Card-J-40-18. Reading Jung (August 45, Ripon). DEH:Somewhat of a revelation to me. Yes, we do build up the most unwarranted fancies about people — e.g. acquaintances by sight. The point is that all resentment against people & thin...
JungCard-J-41-03 Jung. The Circumference & the Centre. [Mandala] Card-J-41-06 In the modern mandala “the place of the deity seems to be taken by the wholeness of man.” [Jung]
Card-J-43-01. Reading Jung. DH: Your task is self-realisation. Your mind is the whole Mind, just as your body is the whole Body. You must become conscious of what is now an unrealised reality — the Whole of your mind. This is at once the realisation of yourself & ...
JungIndex-Card-J-44-01 ArchetypesDEH You are liable to get held up on the way [symbol: zigzag evolution] Christian’s journey to Paradise: the Way: so liable to sidetracking. [The Way — picture on wall at home] One is so liable to think one has found the answer. Comm...
Jung mandalaIndex-Card-J-45-03 Transition is from Cross to Solificatio (Sun). Julian the Apostate attempted regression to classic Helios. Middle Ages — through cross to Rose (Rosicrucian) :”tokens of the solar nature descend from the heavenly Soc into the flower.”...
Index-Card-J-46-02.Reading JungDH: This is the other, & necessary, side of unseparateness. You must first withdraw, become detached from all…. This means horizontality has to go. Come out ^ be ye separate Isolation is essential for the deeper union…Card-J-46-05 ...
JungIndex-Card-J-47-08 DEH Unconscious is in its essence internal. Consciousness is essentially external. But the within of my level is the without of lower levels in me.
Index-Card-J-48Index-Card-J-48-05 Diagram Date Ripon Aug 1945Index-Card-J-48-17 DEH My plea for deep awareness is surely based on the need for establishing a firm connection between the conscious ideas I put forwards Y one’s unconscious. I think these basic ideas, whi...
JungIndex-Card-J-49-05 Date June 46Index-Card-J-49-08 DEH Consciousness of inadequacy, lack, unwholesomeness — a prelude to growth to completeness. The self-satisfied man is half-dead.Index-Card-J-49-16 DEH Science, taken as it is & by itself is useful. It has led...
JungCard-J-51-11 Reading JungDH: A flash of insight. The Here, the Nothing, You-here are SE [sub-electron, the nothing], you are the Centre all the time, you are at the Centre. You are here unassailable, perfect — NOTHING, headless body. The inner nature of the s.e. i...