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Balancing as a Spiritual
Act By Gianluigi Gugliermetto 10/11/2025 |
Each human being must develop all four psychological functions, according to Jungian theory, to become whole, even though it is understood that there will always be disparity among the levels of development of such functions in each individual. |
Each human being must consciously walk the Four Paths, according to Creation Spirituality, to become whole, and one should never get stuck in any of them. The wheel must spin! At times, individuals and societies may experience a significant emphasis on one particular path, which in Jungian terms
would mean an excess of emphasis on one function. That is natural in and of itself: imbalances |
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happen. Spiritual awareness then becomes involved, recognizing what is happening and working to restore balance. In the last two meditations, I touched upon thinking/acting and deep feeling (via transformativa and via negativa). This is because they both look quite compromised in
Western society today. In so many places, rational and compassionate thought is scorned, and feeling the pain of others — the only source of values that can nourish good thinking — is openly derided. But what about the other two functions, sensation and intuition, which, in my understanding, can be paired with via
positiva and via creativa? |
Meister Eckhart/Unio Mystica: A friar at whose center is a symbol uniting ratio and eros, heaven and earth, the male and the female energies in himself – thinking and feeling. Image by Hartwig HKD on Flickr. | One century ago, Jung was berating Western society for an excess of sensation, by which he meant that the atmosphere of positivism (i.e., modern scientism) left no space for what could not be felt with the five senses, then measured, and then exploited in one way or
another. |
Moreover, intuition — from which spring all kinds of artistic endeavors, as well as mystical knowledge — was pushed into a corner and looked upon with suspicion, Jung said. Creation Spirituality joins Jung’s critique while pointing out that physical sensation does not need to be reduced to
materialism, but can be in itself a spiritual experience — the awe and wonder at creation, including our physical bodies and pleasures. Creation Spirituality also gives special recognition to intuition and is actively involved in making a mystic out of each person — something at which Jung worked almost exclusively on his own. |
But Western societies in 2025 seem to suffer not only from weak thinking and weak feeling, but also from the same bulimia of sensation already diagnosed by Jung and from the same scant recognition of intuition that Jung lamented. |
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It seems to me that 19th-century positivism and scientism — the best allies of voracious capitalism — have been judged and condemned only in some circles, while Western society as a whole is still prey to their lies. This is not a reason for despair, however. It only means that I have a lot of
healing to do, i.e., balancing work. I have indeed enough good work for the rest of my life. Maybe you too? |
Banner Image: A beaver busily at work building a dam, restoring natural balance to a wetland in Grand Teton Park, Wyoming. Photo by Chris Knight on Flickr. |
Queries for Contemplation What functions of the human being do you see especially at risk today? What
are your personal leanings and areas of growth, if you adopt the quadripartite scheme? |
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