Coping with Grandiosity in Our Lives

Here's a good analogy to offer...

Tubal Cain represents the worst of the human ID. And it multiplies until it becomes a horde of starving lunatics unless it is checked.

https://youtu.be/cUF-hhFcypg

 

Regarding personality tests such as the Meyers Briggs typology. One person asked in video 2 if one can be locked into a particular type.

Not necessarily. Find your own myths (categories) within and become conscious of them. Most people can be diagnosed with a psychopathology. Does real healing come when pushed into a ready made label?

Again, this is why humor is important. Can you laugh at yourself and put a spiritual view to the science? It's integrated into two sides of the same coin.
Spirituality and science can come together using assumptions from each. Find your diamond within...

Psychology is like a jet engine. It needs oxygen to fly and can only go so high.



Spirituality is like a rocket that can fly anywhere in the universe...

https://youtu.be/v5vPrrnb6tw

 
Zen Ox Herding Pictures 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls

Neuropsychology of Symbolic Representation

In this lecture, I discuss the relationship between the basic categories of imagistic/symbolic representation and brain function, noting that the very hemispheres of the brain are adapted, right/left to the environmental or experiential permanence of chaos/order or unexplored/explored territory, with consciousness serving the Logos role of communicative explorer (a function related in one of its deepest manifestations to the function of the hypothalamically grounded dopaminergic systems).

https://youtu.be/Nb5cBkbQpGY

Through listening and contemplation, an Ainu becomes aware of other Ainur, other musics, and the cultivation and adornment of other themes.

Through listening and contemplation, an Ainu becomes aware of other Ainur, other musics, and the cultivation and adornment of other themes.

Melkor's themes drown all the other voices.

Where's the harmony in that?

Maybe it's time for a new note to sing...

 
Zen Ox Herding Pictures 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Bulls

The Road Home
by Rumi º

An ant hurries along a threshing floor with its wheat grain,
moving between huge stacks

of wheat, not knowing the abundance all around. It thinks its
one grain is all there is to

love. So we choose a tiny seed to be devoted to. This body,
one path or one teacher. Look

wider and farther. The essence of every human being can see,
and what that essence-eye takes

in, the being becomes. Saturn. Solomon! The ocean pours
through a jar, and you might say it

swims inside the fish! The mystery gives peace to your
longing and makes the road home home.

—
º From The Soul of Rumi
  Translated by Coleman Barks