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The magical mirror of embodied knowledge
Why craftsmen should become anthropologists,
anthropologists should become filmmakers
and filmmakers should become craftsmen.
Portal of Times
Outer, inner and collective bodies
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The material embodiment of the knowledge only lives temporal as an artwork. The labour of the moment leaves its traces through transformation of both audience and performer. It turns to an exclusive memory.
Clarification between the ‘Spirit of the times’ and ‘Spirit of the depths”
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jung/comments/mm5a7m/the_red_book_spirit_of_the_times_vs_spirit_of_the/
Soul is psyche, the mind. Anima is another word for soul but it shouldn't be confused with soul more generally when thinking in a Jungian framework (the soul is genderless, at least at its peak). Speaking and thinking classically, the soul was the mind. In other words, what I consider to be an aspect of my mind would have been for thousands of years considered to be an aspect of my soul. And the state of my soul would have been the state of my mind. This makes understanding classical religious, spiritual, and mystic texts far easier to understand and 'modernize' because they're talking about genuine, real things we all know and experience--it's just that the framing has altered a bit.
The spirit of the times refers to the zeitgeist or prevailing mood, spirit, or tone of a given cultural climate. It's "what it's like to be" in a given era and pertains to cultural products (literature, music, film, etc.) and political or ideological forces at play (the "Bush years" or the "Obama years", etc.). This is what you experience whether you want to or not because you are in it in due to your environment; you can't escape TV, movies, video games and movies or books or music or whatever the hell else because even if you yourself do not engage, chances are damn-near everyone you know does (and they'll tell you about it, too). So when Jung is referring to the 'spirit of the times', he's speaking about this seemingly all-pervading force.
The spirit of the depths (and when I say 'depths'--as I take Jung to mean as well, at least in part--I am not meaning something 'down there' like shadow content but anything which is unconscious, including the Self and whatever transcends normal waking consciousness) is more primal and pervading and exists more or less eternally as it's archetypal and not bound by whatever the cultural zeitgeist is but, instead, informs that zeitgeist in subtle ways. This is the spirit which comes out when those layers of cultural and personal life are, more or less, stripped away and set aside. It's difficult to entirely distinguish or discern one from the other in an absolute way because you can't--the depths by necessity inform the times but the times do not, in turn, inform the depths because they can't in a way which alters the depths themselves. All that the spirit of the times can do is fix a filter or frame over the depths (archetypes) in order to put them into a new light or else hide them away entirely (for instance, in the last hundred-odd years there's been both New Age obscuration of genuine spiritual insight as well as rampant materialism--these are two extremes of the same polarity and both stem from and cover over the depths). But the basic perennial philosophy remains the same because it cannot change, it is quite simply fixed (perennialism is a four-letter word in a post-modern, post-structuralist frame but I challenge anyone to read mystical texts from at least five different religious traditions and come away honestly feeling that they're all writing about distinctly different things). The relative differences are due to the spirit of the times and, because one is stuck in time, this is what one is acquainted with (and takes to be the real, honest, genuine reality) unless they're thrown--for one reason or another--into the depths.
Trends and Patterns
One way I see it is as being a trend (spirit of the times) versus a pattern (spirit of the depths) ... a trend is more temporary while a pattern is more permanent so to speak. There’s trends of the month, trends of the decade, generational trends. But then there’s patterns that encompass and transcend those trends. The reason why Carl Jung is so relevant today is because of how aware he was of these deeper patterns.
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