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Hi Deb!
What a great post! : )
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Jung had his own theories on why people fail, he called it "the collective unconscious". He saw people not only divided into the opposites of introvert and extrovert,but into sensing and intuiting, and of feeling and thinking. By understanding how the personal unconscious integrates with the collective unconscious, Jung theorized that people can achieve a state of individuation, or wholeness of self.
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The really neat thing is that when a person reads a lot, they can begin to put the different writings together almost like the pieces of a puzzle.
The opposites that Jung refers to almost seem to correspond to the "right brain, left brain" theories that people refer to. Interestingly, most of us tend to be either left brain dominant or right brain dominant.
And, with a little more reading (lol) we learn about things like audio therapy using Tibetan bells and sounds of nature to achieve deeper levels of meditation and more equalization of the hemispheres of the brain. Which, in turn, helps us achieve the "whole brain" thinking that sounds a lot like what Jung refers to.
I love this stuff.
And - I think you're absolutely right about people looking to books instead of looking inside. That's the wisdom of the ages.
As Jung said.... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
: )
Linda
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