Yesterday I gave a new meaning to Christ’s crucifixion, thanks to Paul Levy and Jung’s theories.
According to Jung, the ego gets crucifixed, in an agonizing suspension between irreconcilable opposites.
This makes lots of sense, when you think of the allegory of Jesus, his pain, his torture, and finally, his crucifixion. Jesus is our ego, what we feel as ourselves in our everyday life. Life is a complex mechanism designed to slowly torture and crucify the ego so that opposites can meet in a painful yet needed act of will.
Seen from this point of view, the whole new testament can take on new meaning. If we stop thinking about Jesus as an actual person, and we start thinking Jesus is us (our egos) and his tale is… well just a tale, yet a special one, an informed one, where the primary character is us, can we then gather useful information about how to behave and what to expect?
