As Above, So Below | Ancient Hermetic Wisdom, Carl Jung & the Cosmic Brain

As above, so below -- Don’t mistake it for a new age platitude. It's an adage that has inspired seekers for centuries and is being proven true by cutting edge science.
But it’s more than an idea, it’s personal. It’s a portal that transports the psyche to deep hidden wisdom and a felt sense of interconnected mystery.
In this transmission, I invite you to enter that portal portal with me.
We'll explore the ancient origins of the idea from Plato's Timaeus to the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. We'll discuss how Carl Jung brought it down into the psyche through synchronicity and archetypes. We'll see how science seems to be proving it as literally true.

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Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:41 Anaxagoras and the ancient origins of cosmic consciousness
02:21 Introducing Plato's Timaeus, correspondence, emanationist metaphysics
08:29 Hermetic wisdom and the emerald tablet
10:36 How Carl Jung brought the cosmos down into the psyche
13:54 Self-similar patterns in nature from the macrocosm to the microcosm, rodger penrose's platonism
15:28 Why some physicists suspect the universe may be a living, thinking being
18:39 Hermetic and platonic mysticism and the importance of going inward

[ARsuffix]

These are profound ideas; ideas that I've only begun to comprehend enough to appreciate. And I must say, I'm moved not only by these incredibly sublime insights of our ancient forebares, but also the newly growing interest in these neoplatonic hermetic mytho-poetic concepts in the modern day. It's exciting to see this unfural before our very eyes!

[bretta]

I remember as a teen reading some book just called “The Mind, ” written by a neuroscientist in like 1980…it opened with him describing the rough amount of neurons in the human brain, and then adding “…roughly equivalent to amount of stars in the observable universe.”

In the accompanying image, of neural connections in a brain, it was impossible not to notice a similarity to images of a large swath of space.

That alone tripped me out and gave me chills (in a very good way). That was the first time I had heard of, or considered, the notion, and all I have learned since then has only blown my mind further (particularly the part about the galactic filaments).

[childofkhem.]

I'm really loving this channel man!!
When I was going to school for HVAC they said the compressor was hermetically sealed, meaning its sealed in the factory and isn't meant to be opened. If something inside of it breaks, u just have to buy a whole new one.

Later in life I discovered hermeticism and the 7 principles and I realized exactly what it meant. In this philosophy it can account for everything. It needs nothing else.

[andyabril]

It's all one universal mind. Once you tune yourself to the right frequency you understand it's all energy, frequency and vibration. When you sync your mind to the universal mind you become self-aware and unlock your full potential.

[karenlhoule]

Love this topic. If one pays attention, the proof of this is literally everywhere. For me, it helps serve as a life-guiding principle. Behave in a way such that knowing one day you will return to that source. Would love to see more about this! Thank you!

[VeronicaThompson-kt]

This was a good preamble to the Hermetic philosophy The deeper historical perspectives and esoteric concepts are presented by Manly P. Hall in his 4 lectures on the same topic via Library of Alexandria. And Manly Hall talks like if he just strolled out of Plato’s Academy to share the knowledge with those “who are not ignorant of geometry”. Thank you!

[TheDarkchum]

Plato and all of his philosopher friends had very intense psychedelic experiences and initiations.

[harrydeanbrown]

Stunning. Brilliant. Impossible to define the implications of the ideas demonstrated in this video.

[tammyblessing]

In the process of deconstructing from the Christian church. I am so glad I found this channel. You are saying everything I feel deep within my being. I am searching for answers and trying to learn to trust myself in this mesy process.

[blonde_w_thewind]

Understanding that saying changed my life

[theplanetruth]

18:30-- at this point I'm reminded of my favorite philosophical movie WAKING LIFE

[lshunt]

Wonderful transmission. Many names and resources for me to dive deeper into this fascinating discussion. Thank you!

[patsully]

Thank you for that! I always love other bites, takes, and quotes. The wrap up at the end was fantastic, you really nailed the method. Information with meaning👊

[kevinhall]

This is really good man, a wonderfully integrated symposium of the esoteric spectrum, and you have really managed somehow to marry the Coincidentia oppositorum of the mythopoetic and scholastic in such an inspiring fashion, where it feels insightful, clear, and magical all at once. Thanks brother.

[babettegeiger]

Another very interesting discussion and you lay it out so well. Thank you!

[Liyah-encyclopedia]

Thanks for the recommendation of the book

[childofkhem.]

I agree w u 100% at the 20 min mark. I think the ego (necessary for evolution) might be the byproduct of the brain "tuning in" to this physical reality from some universal field of consciousness but the consequence of this is the feeling of seperation. This is why the thinking mind can't acess the collective unconscious. I believe this is what the ancients were teaching in the mystery schools. Techniques to remove the filter/ego. Anyone who can access and navigate that field can essentially override the laws in this physical dimension because at the end if the day, "all is mind". Man your videos really make me think man! Your making my world brighter!!

[judykomarek]

I have got to say…as much as you quote previous masters in the esoteric…I am majorly interested and impressed. Speaking clearly and infusing words I must look up is a thrill. I knew a woman who was 80 in 2000. She said her father was a man of little words. And for her to tell me this registered. Some people may be more inclined with mathematics, and some may be more inclined towards words.

[kittyhinkle]

The shattered vessel in Kabbalah. From one vessel come all created things and we walk the earth to experience being with these pieces to help sort of “bring unity” again. Beautiful concept.

[ThetaSonne]

Another brilliant transmission, Michael, thanks.