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The Transcendent Function by Carl Jung
Many things in life, as Lao Tze wrote, are a function of a yin yang balance: light/dark,
female/male, up/down...We are all familiar with the yin yang symbol. Months ago at a Meetup
Ken Wilber New York City lecture, I helped organize this program after I was gifted a DVD of
The 16 Ways, which features the movement practice Dylan developed. Within five minutes of
watching the introduction Dylan Newcomb, a professional dancer who trained at Julliard and is
well versed in Integral Theory, gave a talk and display of different energetic ways of being and
moving. In them, elements of yin were in yang and elements of yang were in yin in different
amounts beyond the traditional symbol. Look him up online. This friendly get-together at my
favorite café in New York City, Dante, reminded me of Lao Tze, Wilber and Newcomb.
Jung brings to the forefront how our unconscious and archetypes guide us, whether we know it
or not. Through meditation, movement, and relationships, we can uncover our hidden desires,
problems, etc. often; others see our shadows and point them out to us. As Harville Hendrix
writes, if we are committed in a relationship where we each bring up for the other what we need
to complete from childhood, we grow even more than in religion. Both members of the
relationship have to be committed to stay and grow.
Other blog posts in the future will expand on some of these elements.