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Offloading the Crucifixion of Opposites: Augustine as Case Study
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Date: June 21st, 2026 12:20 PM Author: Consuela This essay analyzes Augustine's Confessions, arguing that his conversion and the privatio boni framework served as a psychological stabilization mechanism - a redemptive hinge-set that suppressed his shadow and externalized evil onto others. The analysis frames Augustine as the definitive case study for why most psyches require such containers, setting the stage for later figures who approached but failed to fully inhabit the non-redemptive Abraxian position.
https://livingopposites.substack.com/p/offloading-the-crucifixion-of-opposites
this one's dedicated to my boi lex <3 |
Date: June 21st, 2026 5:50 PM Author: Consuela (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953738) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 5:51 PM Author: icanseemyneurons I liked this one but Jung is still a dumb fag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953739) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 5:52 PM Author: Consuela ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953740) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 5:54 PM Author: icanseemyneurons Also Christ is King (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953746) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:09 PM Author: Consuela people use that phrase pretty mindlessly as a chant, a group banner even though the ultimate result of christian nations has been to enable rothschild and jewish financial predation
with that said, the symbol of the cross is very resonant as man bearing the crucifixion of opposites |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:11 PM Author: icanseemyneurons Yeah but the reason it's a good symbol is because it actually happened to some dude irl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953783) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:16 PM Author: Consuela i can't speak to whether it did or didn't happen, the earliest we know of is paul's letters and paul never met christ and wrote them 20-30 years after his death, then the gospels are decades after that (all by jews, btw)
what we can say, though, is that the christ event hit upon something very deep within the collective human psyche, creating resonance which stretched across the full age of pisces. it shouldn't be casually dismissed or mocked |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:21 PM Author: icanseemyneurons right, so when you say the crucifixion is a symbol that's only half true. It was an event that triggered a religious system. There's not much skepticism about whether the event happened. The idea that you can toss out the religion and keep the power of the symbol ultimately causes the same symbolic deadening Jung was writing against. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953817) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:27 PM Author: Consuela but i see it as an evolution of the god image in mankind, something jung discussed in "aion". it's not the first god image transformation - the age of aries featured solar gods (olympian, yahweh, etc), the age of taurus featured cyclical birth-death-rebirth agricultural gods, the age of gemini featured mother goddesses etc
in aquarius humanity is being increasingly asked to bear the crucifixion of opposites individually and internally, as no external container increasingly is capable of containing it |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:30 PM Author: icanseemyneurons I agree with that in principle. But I dont agree with Jung's project to re-found God on pre-Christian myth. You have to carry the Christ impulse forward. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953844) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Consuela just as christianity grafted many "pagan" elements onto it (solar deities, Mithraic rituals, agricultural cycles, Platonic philosophy), bearing the crucifixion of opposites internally is identifying with the christ figure inwards - it takes the externalized christ figure as savior and places it within the Self, something accessed by listening to intuition as a guide toward increased wholeness (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953849) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:37 PM Author: icanseemyneurons Religion is a statement about fundamental reality. If you're suggesting that reality is fundamentally "the Self," then there are myriad ways to demonstrate that's wrong. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953859) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:39 PM Author: Consuela i am suggesting that reality is totality, a horrifying God image containing all good and all evil, that God is not all good and evil is merely a deprivation of God, that he is the unity of all irreducible opposites (light and darkness, matter and spirit, love and hatred, etc.). that is what this post is about, and many others.
one undergoes the individuation process - holding the opposites in mind until a provisional orientation emerges from within, through intuition, somatic registration, or symbolic insight, not through external authority or doctrine, in order to navigate under the horrifying God image of totality |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:42 PM Author: icanseemyneurons right, that's Jung verbatim. I'm saying there are obvious ways this is wrong, the first of which is there are clearly things that are outside "the Self." The appeal to a "transpersonal" metaphysical ground is unfalsifiable. It's really the opposite of what the Aquarian age demands of religion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953875) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:46 PM Author: Consuela the ultimate origin of the Self is not clear and is not defined - whether it is merely an interior orientation toward increased wholeness, whether it is part of totality, or whether it is something else entirely, Jung (correctly) deliberately left unclear
i am open about being a monist - I think everything ultimately derives from totality. that isn't provable either way. the way I assess what reality constitutes is (1) phenemonloigcally - how information rests in my body over time, and (2) via recursive predictions
perhaps those methods don't work for you and you have your own approach, although I haven't encountered a more effective method for navigating the current epistemic collapse / total collapse of institutional authority |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:52 PM Author: icanseemyneurons I'm not reading any of this as a logical demonstration of a truth claim. It sounds like a circuitously presented preference (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5876167&forum_id=2Elisa#49953901) |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:54 PM Author: Consuela the formal logic of my argument is here: https://livingopposites.substack.com/p/the-formal-logic-of-the-crucifixion
but my "circuitously presented preference" is a god image change forced as a result of psychosomatic pressure. it isn't primarily intended to convince those who have not been forced to or across the threshold and if it doesn't work for you, if your redemptive worldview functions for you, then great |
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Date: June 21st, 2026 6:54 PM Author: CapTTTainFalcon 184 of 240 people found the following review helpful
Between the Racist World and Ta Coates
By Alfonso Dupont on July 24, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
Ta Coates is one of the great thinkers of the 21st century. Don't agree? Then you're on the wrong side of history.
Ta has written a book for the ages, chronicling such fascinating episodes as dating, doing poorly in academics because of racism, reading comic books, the racism of attractive white women he has asked out, what it was like to be in a down low relationship with Matt Yglesias for five months, cartoons, and the phenomenon known as "muhdik". Between the World and Me (a brilliant title that counterbalances the entire world with Ta Coates' genius) ranks with the Confessions of St. Augustine, if St. Augustine had done poorly in school and mostly just watched television and read comic books during his formative years. In fact St. Augustine is a rather trivial figure in Western history that you don't need to have heard of, he never even influenced society through highly praised magazine columns, and his books are very boring compared to reading about the adventures of men in colorful skin tight costumes.
During a long and rambling eighth chapter, Ta discusses his brave decision to disable comments on his blog. He shows how talking back to a highly paid media personality is an example of "punching down", employing a series of stories which usually involve noting that people who have promoted him are actually racist and did so only because they expected him to fail. There's also a moving account of how he literally wept on discovering how to turn on Microsoft Word's spelling and grammar checker.
As A.O.Scott has observed, Between Ta World and Me is "essential, like water or air", a truism you'd have to be a real hate-in-your-soul racist to deny. As a matter of fact, people who are too racist to read and enjoy this brilliantly spelled and grammar-checked volume are expected to die very soon because this book is literally essential, like water or air. An edition in which all of the book's passages are placed as dialogue between comic book heroes Black Lightning and Luke Cage is said to be in the works.
Like Ta's 14-year-old son, you may not be interested in reading through the many spelling and grammar corrected pages of this book, but even just having it on your bookshelf is important until the forthcoming graphic novel version arrives. How will they know you're not a racist otherwise? I personally enjoy reading it while enjoying water and air, two things that like this book are essential. Thus I give it the first star rating of excellence. |