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June 6, 2003 ISNS 1
Evolution, Jung, and TheurgyTheir Role in Modern Neoplatonism
Bruce MacLennanUniversity of Tennessee, Knoxvillewww.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan
©2003, B. J. MacLennan
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 2
Overview
• Cross-connections between– Neoplatonism– Jungian Psychology– Evolutionary Neuroethology
• Not materialist / reductionist!• Integrate: physical, psychical, spiritual
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 3
EvolutionaryNeuroethology
• Instincts: perceptual-behavioral structurescharacteristic of a species
• Environment of evolutionary adaptedness• Life-cycle pattern of each member• Phylogenetic pattern expressed
ontogenetically in environment• Homo sapiens too…
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 4
Jungian Psychology
• Archetypes are psychical aspects ofinstincts
• Dynamic forms shaping perception andbehavior
• Collective unconscious• Archetypal situation is numinous and
compelling
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 5
The Archetypes as Gods• Archetypes as fields of structured
potentiality• Personified archetypes experienced as gods• Empirical, stable, public, i.e. real• Give transpersonal meaning to life
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 6
Numerical Archetypes• Archetypal if psychical and common to all
humans• Any natural law with psychical aspect is
archetypal• Unpersonified archetypes• The most fundamental archetypes are numbers• E.g., dyad ~ dichotomy, differentiation,
opposition
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 7
The Primal Nous& the Noetic Order
• Implicit in human genome• Henads are “all in all but each separately”• Genome ~ ei]doj ei0dw~n
• Paradeigma of archetypal world• Noêta exist in to\ au0tozw~|on
• Primal Nous, Pure Nous, First God, …
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 8
Individual Variation
• Human genome is an abstraction• Each genotype is slightly different• The gods present a slightly different face to
each of us
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 9
The Descent of the Soul
©2003, B.J. MacLennan
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 10
The Demiurge& the Noeric Order
• Archetypes embodied in brain structures• Correspond to noera articulated as Logos of
Demiurge• Not independent of environment• \ Gods present differently to each of us
©2003, B.J. MacLennan
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 11
Articulation of the Archetypes
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 12
The World Soul& Individual Souls
• Noera manifest in consciousness asdynamic patterns of perception andbehavior
• Yuxh\ brings them into space & time• Mediates between eternity & time• h9 Panto\j Yuxh\ is transcendent model of
relation between noerics and their temporalexpression
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 13
Does the Soul DescendCompletely?
• Noêta, in genome, are inaccessible to mind• Articulated noera in brain may be activated
& manifest in experience• Spontaneously or by design• Our souls are rooted in noera & incapable
of direct access to noêta
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 14
Impassivity of Gods
• Gods are impassive because personalexperiences do not affect genotypes
• They do not change in response to us• Do not remember us• Know us only as members of H. sapiens• But: they enter our lives in different ways• Mediated by World Soul
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 15
Complexes as Dai/monej
• Complexes as webs of associations aroundan archetype
• Normal & necessary parts of psyche• “behave like independent beings” (Jung)• Belong to a god’s seira• Your daimones know you intimately…
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 16
Possession & Projection
• Subject of archetypal relationmay be “possessed”
• Projects archetypal role ontoobject
• Mutual possession / projection• Possession is not necessarily
bad
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 17
The Higher Self
• Higher Self = totality of archetypal field• ≠ conscious ego• Psychical correlate of genome• The archetypal 71Anqrwpoj
• Defines Pronoia governing H. sapiens• Paradoxical & contradictory• fi symbolism required
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 18
The Anima/Animusas Psychopomp
• Incorporates unexpressed contrasexualaspects of psyche
• Anima in man, Animus in woman• Nearest archetype• Natural Psychopomps• Muses, Heroes, etc.
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 19
The Evolving Archetypes
• Genome evolves fi archetypes evolve• “Essentialism” superceded by “population
thinking”• Genome as a statistical average• Personified Ideas (gods) change slowly• Unpersonified Ideas (e.g. numbers) are
eternal
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 20
Are the Gods Good?
• Personified archetypes have conferredselective advantage on H. sapiens
• Unpersonified archetypes not necessarilygood for H. sapiens
• “Beyond good and evil”• Conflicts among gods
and daimones• How to live in harmony with Providence?
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 21
Who are the Gods?
• Which pantheon?• 99.5% of H. sapiens’ history as hunter-
gatherers (Stevens)• Our gods are the gods of Paleolithic hunter-
gatherers• How do we live in harmony with these
gods?
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 22
Timeline
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 23
PaleolithicHunter-
Gatherers
A nineteenth centuryview…
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 24
Contemporary Hunter-Gatherers
Dorobo tribe, Tanzania.(The people of Tanzania seem to have genotypes most similar to our common ancestors.)
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 25
Our Ancestral Gods?• Rhea and
Kronos?• The Indefinite
Dyad and theMonad?
Ubirr Rock, Arnhem Land,Australia
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 26
Our Ancestral Gods?
The PaternalNous?
Paleolithic rock art, 7-9000 B.P.,Arnhem Land, Australia
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 27
Sunthêmata and Sumbola
• Releasing-stimuli that activate archetype &cause it to manifest
• “Unconditioned”: part of seira of a god• “Conditioned”: mediated by a daimôn• Invoke gods & daimones and invite them to
possess or project
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 28
The Seira of Apollo
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 29
Telestikê
• Empsukôsis of sacred image• Material sunthêmata• Immaterial sunthêmata• Does not compel god or daimôn• Preparation of suitable dokhê to receive
projection of god• Creates archetypal relation
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 30
Desmos
• God or daimôn invited to possess a humanreceiver
• Like telestikê,• But a human receiver can embody a
personified archetype better
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 31
Sustasis
• “Active imagination” in Jungian analysis• Establish a liaison with a god or daimôn• They may not be truthful• For learning about archetypal realm• For entering into energeia of a god• For acquiring a paredros
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 32
Anagôgê • Ascent to union with agod, Demiurge, orineffable One
• “Like knows like”• Separation as
symbolic voluntarydeath
• Participation inenergeia of Death-and-Resurrectionarchetype
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 33
79H Pro/qesij
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 34
Conclusions
• Mind and matter are two sides ofsame ineffable One
• Jungian psychology &evolutionary neuroethology aremutually informing
• Both compatible with & reinforceNeoplatonism
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June 6, 2003 ISNS 35
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