Eternal Return
"Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King,
a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere
in the Ocean 5000 years ago. Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul.
This is the Center, the Self." --C.G. Jung
"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist.
All experience is happening at once." --Albert Einstein
a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere
in the Ocean 5000 years ago. Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul.
This is the Center, the Self." --C.G. Jung
"Men invented time to feel comfortable in space. But it doesn't actually exist.
All experience is happening at once." --Albert Einstein
The "Eternal Return" is, in nostalgic spiritual behavior, belief in the ability to return to the mythical age, to become contemporary with the events described in myths. In ancient cultures, things "acquire their reality, their identity, only to the extent of their participation in a transcendent reality". Something in our world is only "real" to the extent that it conforms to the Sacred or the patterns established by the Sacred.
We distinguish profane space from sacred space, where the Sacred manifests itself. Myths describe breakthroughs of the sacred (or ‘supernatural’) into the World. The Sacred entered our world in the mythic age, giving it form and meaning, in sacred time.. The Sacred first manifested itself in the events of the mythical age; so, the mythical age is the foundation of value.
If the power of a thing lies in its origin, the entire world's power lies in the cosmogony. If the Sacred established all valid patterns in the beginning, during the time recorded in myth, then the mythical age is sacred time — the only time that contains any value. Man's life only has value to the extent that it conforms to the patterns of the mythical age. So, we express a "nostalgia for the origins", a yearning to return to the golden mythical age. Life only has value in sacred time. If the Sacred's essence lies only in its first appearance, then any later appearance must actually be the first appearance. Thus, an imitation of a mythical event is actually the mythical event itself, happening again — myths and rituals carry one back as vehicles of "eternal return" to the mythical age.
The sacred life constantly unites us with sacred time, giving existence value. The cyclic time of the Eternal Return is encoded in the Precession of the Equinoxes, in the passage of Ages. Yet, the sacred exists outside all Ages. If we identify reality with the Sacred, we believe that the world can endure only if it remains in sacred time. We periodically revive sacred time through myths and rituals in order to keep the universe in existence. In many cultures, this belief appears to be consciously held and clearly stated. The philosophical concept of eternal return is an endless cosmic cycle, with no beginning and, thus, no inherently sacred time.--Mircea Eliade
"Jung's collective unconscious, for example, consists of archetypal infolded EM structures acting in common in an overall bio-quantum-potential for the entire species. Gaia, the living earth/biosphere, really does scientifically exist as a common bio-quantum-potential with infolded living EM structures for the entire earth biosphere. The bio-potential in a single body is an overall quantum potential that links and joins all the atoms and cells of the body. The "spirit" of the biosystem, if you will, is its "living biopotential"--its living quantum potential. We already know that a potential is everywhere nonzero all the way out to infinity. So the spirit of the living system is--in the virtual state--everywhere in the universe--and everywhen as well. It's all a giant hologram, not only in space, but in spacetime." --Tom Bearden