Paulus - Yoga & Consciousness, Playas del Coco, Sardinal (2025)

22/12/2025

CG JUNG DISCOVERED YOGA

Did you know that the foundations of Jungian psychology - concepts like archetypes, the collective unconscious, anima, and animus - actually come from yoga, Ta**ra, and Hindu traditions?

Carl Gustav Jung didn’t just study these ancient practices - he recognized them as essential for human development and the expansion of our consciousness. What we often think of as purely Western psychology is actually deeply rooted in Eastern spiritual wisdom.

This is the bridge between ancient spirituality and modern psychology. The wisdom traditions of the East meet the analytical mind of the West.

Key insights in this video:
• How yoga influenced Jungian psychology
• The Eastern roots of psychological archetypes
• Why Jung saw these traditions as our future
• The connection between consciousness and ancient wisdom

Share this with someone interested in psychology, spirituality, or personal growth!

17/12/2025

"Substances expand your consciousness."

No. That's not what they do.

The Protective Border
Substances that alter consciousness don't expand anything. What they do is dissolve the border - the protective boundary between what you're consciously aware of and what exists in your unconscious.
That border isn't there by accident. It's a filter, a protection mechanism. It determines what enters your awareness and what remains in the shadows of your psyche.

What Happens When the Border Dissolves
When substances dissolve this boundary, several things become accessible:
→ Your personal unconscious - the repressed, forgotten, and never-integrated aspects of your own experience
→ Deeper layers of psyche - archetypal patterns, symbolic material, dream-like states
→ Sometimes even the collective unconscious - what Jung identified as the common heritage of all humanity, the universal patterns and structures that underlie individual experience

These layers are always there. The substances don't create them. They simply remove the barrier that normally keeps them inaccessible.

The Mystical Path
Here's what makes this interesting: you don't need substances to access these states.
Every major spiritual tradition has mystical branches dedicated to exactly this:

Yoga - systematic dissolution of ordinary consciousness through practice
Christian mysticism - contemplative traditions, the via negativa, direct experience of divine
Sufism - the inner dimension of Islam, ecstatic practices, union with the Beloved
Kabbalah - Jewish mysticism, ascending the Tree of Life, direct knowing

All these traditions, regardless of their theological differences, are trying to help you find your way to the same experiential destination: direct connection with oneness, unity, universe, God - it doesn't matter what you call it.
Two Paths, One Destination
So you have two fundamental approaches to dissolving the protective border:
1. Substances (Chemical dissolution)

Fast
Unpredictable
No systematic preparation
Potentially destabilizing
Direct access without earned understanding

2. Mystical traditions (Systematic dissolution)

Gradual
Guided by millennia of accumulated wisdom
Builds capacity progressively
Integrates experience into daily life
Earned understanding through practice

Both can access the same depths. Jung recognized this when he studied both psychedelics and mystical traditions. Both can touch the collective unconscious - those universal patterns and archetypal structures that connect all of humanity.

The Question of Method
This isn't about "substances bad, meditation good." That's simplistic moralism.
This is about understanding what's actually happening:
Substances dissolve the border chemically, giving you access to layers of psyche that are normally protected. This can be valuable - it can show you what's possible, what exists beyond ordinary awareness.

But it's access without preparation. It's like being given a key to a vast library when you haven't learned to read.

Mystical traditions offer the same access, but systematically. They teach you how to read before giving you the key. They dissolve the border gradually, building capacity as you go.

The Jungian Framework
Jung was fascinated by both approaches. He recognized that:
→ The collective unconscious exists as a real psychological stratum
→ Mystical experiences across traditions describe the same territory
→ Substances and meditation can access the same depths
→ The real question is integration, not access

Access is easy. Integration is the work.
You can chemically dissolve the border and access profound states. But can you integrate what you experience? Can you bring it back into ordinary consciousness in a way that transforms your life?
That's where the mystical traditions excel. They're not just about access - they're about transformation through systematic integration.

The Real Teaching
So what's the deeper insight here?
That all humans share the same fundamental psychological architecture. The collective unconscious isn't metaphor - it's the deeper layers of psyche that connect us all.
Whether you access it through psilocybin or through years of meditation, whether you call it God or universal consciousness or cosmic awareness, you're touching the same territory.
The mystical branches of all traditions recognized this. They developed systematic methods to access these depths safely and integrate them meaningfully.
Substances show you the door exists. Traditions teach you how to open it, walk through, and bring something back.

The Choice
I'm not advocating for or against substances. That's not the point.
The point is understanding what's actually happening when consciousness boundaries dissolve - and recognizing that humans have been doing this systematically for thousands of years, with or without chemical assistance.

The collective unconscious exists. The mystical experience is real. The dissolution of ordinary boundaries is possible.

The question is: how do you want to approach it?

10/12/2025

It's always dangerous to see the world as it is.

Not dangerous because reality will hurt you. Dangerous because once you see clearly, you lose all your comfortable excuses. You can no longer play the victim. You must take responsibility.

Here's what happens when you stop accepting the conditioned worldview they gave you:
The Uncomfortable Awakening

You realize no one will take care of you. Your parents can't. Society won't. Your therapist can only guide. At the end of the day, you - and only you - must take responsibility for your life.

You've been shown a tiny spectrum of life. School taught you one version. Parents conditioned you with their limitations. Society sold you a narrative designed to keep you manageable.

When you start seeing the whole spectrum, you discover life isn't only beautiful. You have demons. Real ones. The world contains darkness, chaos, suffering - not as exceptions but as fundamental aspects of reality.

The Price and the Prize

This knowledge is dangerous because it destroys your innocence. You can't go back to believing life is supposed to be only positive, only light, only comfortable.

But here's what you get in exchange:
- Freedom. Real freedom.

Not the fake freedom of "do whatever you want." The existential freedom of becoming the creator of your own experience. When you take full responsibility for your life - not just the good parts, but everything - you stop being a victim.

You're no longer controlled by circumstances, other people's opinions, or the conditioning you were given. You become the conscious architect of your life.

The Existential Trade

This is the deal reality offers you:
- See me as I am (including the darkness)
- Take full responsibility (no more victim stories)
- Get actual freedom (creator of your experience)

Most people refuse this trade. They prefer:

Comfortable illusions over dangerous truth
Victim identity over creator responsibility
Conditional happiness over existential freedom

Because seeing reality clearly means seeing your own shadow. Accepting responsibility means giving up all your excuses. Gaining freedom means losing the safety of being a victim.
The Choice

You can stay in the conditioned worldview. It's safer there. You get to blame circumstances, society, your past. You get to be a victim, which means you're never truly responsible.

Or you can see the world as it is. Accept that you contain demons and light. Take full responsibility for your experience. And become free.

The question isn't which is better. The question is: which are you capable of choosing?

This isn't self-help. This is existential psychology. Jung knew it. Nietzsche taught it. Every authentic spiritual tradition demands it.

See reality fully. Take responsibility completely. Become the creator of your life.

That's the trade. That's always been the trade.

25/11/2025

Ever wonder why we call someone "lunatic" when they're mentally unstable?

The connection between the moon (luna) and madness isn't superstition - it's ancient psychological wisdom encoded in language. Traditional cultures recognized the moon as the archetypal symbol of our emotional mind, our psychic life, and what Jung would later call the realm of the unconscious.

The moon represents emotional states, perceptual clarity, the feminine principle, and the nurturing function. Its cycles mirror psychological cycles - which is why women's psychological states shift dramatically throughout their monthly cycle, not just physically but emotionally and cognitively.

This is depth psychology, not new-age fantasy. When we study symbolic systems seriously, we discover sophisticated observations about consciousness that deserve our intellectual attention.

The crescent moon symbol appears across cultures precisely because these patterns are universal - they're built into the structure of human experience itself.

07/11/2025

CONSCIOUSSS UNIVERSE

Some traditions describe reality as informational rather than material.
Everything we perceive arises within consciousness.
Science calls it the informational universe. Ancient mystics called it the mirror between microcosm and macrocosm.

When attention becomes clear, it does not only observe reality.
It shapes it.

Meditation and prayer are not acts of belief but precise methods of directing consciousness.
They are how the invisible becomes visible.

Question:
What happens when you realize that awareness is not in the brain, but the brain is within awareness?

06/11/2025

The body remembers everything the mind couldn't bear.

Bessel van der Kolk wrote this after decades of working with people whose bodies carry the traces of what their psyche couldn't absorb. It's one of the deepest insights of modern psychology.

Sometimes what we call anxiety, exhaustion, or chronic pain aren't just physical symptoms. They're the soul's language when it has no other way to manifest.

The body is our most faithful archivist. It remembers the moments we had to stay strong. It remembers when we held back tears because now wasn't appropriate. It remembers when we froze because otherwise it would hurt even more.

And so the pain our mind couldn't bear gets stored in the body. As tension in the neck, pressure in the chest, constriction in the stomach, migraines, insomnia, autoimmune reactions. Each of these manifestations can be a somatic memory of something that never found closure in the soul.

In Jungian psychology, we speak of the shadow. Of what we had to repress in order to survive. The body becomes the place where we store everything consciousness refused to accept. It's not pathology. It's survival.

But at a certain point in our journey, survival becomes a prison.

True healing doesn't begin with pills or massage. It begins with inner work. With the courage to feel again what we once had to unfeel. With the slow return to breath, to body, to presence. With a quiet conversation with the place that hurts.

Shadow work isn't a quick fix. It's a systematic process that requires courage and guidance. If you feel it's time to begin, see our programs in the comments. We don't offer rapid solutions, but real transformation.

When we allow the body to speak, it begins to release. The memory of pain transforms into wisdom. And what was once trauma becomes a source of strength.

29/10/2025

CG JUNG DISCOVERED YOGA

Did you know that the foundations of Jungian psychology - concepts like archetypes, the collective unconscious, anima, and animus - actually come from yoga, Ta**ra, and Hindu traditions?

Carl Gustav Jung didn't just study these ancient practices - he recognized them as essential for human development and the expansion of our consciousness. What we often think of as purely Western psychology is actually deeply rooted in Eastern spiritual wisdom.

This is the bridge between ancient spirituality and modern psychology. The wisdom traditions of the East meet the analytical mind of the West.

Key insights in this video:
• How yoga influenced Jungian psychology
• The Eastern roots of psychological archetypes
• Why Jung saw these traditions as our future
• The connection between consciousness and ancient wisdom

Share this with someone interested in psychology, spirituality, or personal growth!

28/10/2025

YOUR BODY = THE ENERGY OF 3 BILLION CAR BATTERIES

Your body generates electrical potential equivalent to 3 billion car batteries.
This is not a spiritual metaphor. It's a measurable fact: 50 trillion cells, each producing 0.07 volts, totaling 3.5 trillion volts. To visualize this scale, filling one football field requires over 8,000 twelve-volt batteries. To match the electrical potential of a single human body would require 371,000 such fields.

Why should this matter to anyone practicing yoga or meditation?

Because the ancient ta***ic yogic texts knew this. They just used different language.

PRĀṆA IS NOT A METAPHOR

When Vedic texts speak of prāṇa, they're not talking about some elusive etheric energy. They're describing the bioelectric current that sustains life. Each cell functions as a miniature electrical circuit, with elements corresponding to resistors, capacitors, and transistors.

Modern neuroscience confirms this. Our nervous system operates on the principle of electrical potentials. Action potentials in neurons, signal transmission between cells, regulation of heart rhythm. Everything is based on the precise orchestration of electrical charges.

Prāṇāyāma, the control of prāṇa through breath, is not merely a breathing exercise. It's a method for regulating this bioelectric system. Breath directly influences the autonomic nervous system and thus the distribution of electrical potential throughout the body.

SOFT TECHNOLOGY

Each of your 50 trillion cells is capable not only of generating electrical potential but also of accumulating information, learning, and adapting. Your organism is "soft technology". It's a system that, in certain functions, surpasses the most sophisticated processors.

Artificial intelligence attempts to simulate neural networks. Your brain has them in hundreds of billions of actual connections.

A processor has fixed circuits. Your body rewires its circuits based on experience. This is neuroplasticity.

AI requires an external power source. Your system produces, stores, and distributes energy autonomously.

CALIBRATING THE SYSTEM

When you sit in meditation or stand in an āsana, you're not just holding your body in position.

You're calibrating a bioelectric system.

Each stretch opens channels for the flow of prāṇa (nādī). Each breath retention (kumbhaka) alters electrochemical balance. Each concentration of mind (dhāraṇā) redirects attention. And attention organizes the body's electrical potential.

This is why ancient texts are not poetry. They are engineering manuals for working with the most sophisticated technology at your disposal. Your body.

UNKNOWN POTENTIAL

Can you imagine the potential power hidden within each of us?

3 billion batteries. 371,000 football fields of energy. And how much do we use? One percent? One per thousand?

We still don't understand 99% of life and our potential. We dissipate most of our electrical potential in a thousand directions. Stress, scattered attention, chaotic thoughts, unanchored emotions. Every anxiety is a short circuit. Every conflict is an energy leak.

The ancient traditions knew this. That's why they created systematic methods. Not for "enlightenment" as some mystical goal, but for efficient use of what we already have.

We don't need to become something else. We need to learn not to waste the storm we already are.

How much of your electrical potential will you allow to flow coherently today?

27/10/2025

The Real Shadow Work.

15/10/2025

SVADHISTHANA - WHY YOUR RELATIONSHIPS DON'T WORK
The second chakra, svadhisthana, is the center of sensory satisfaction.
People at this level seek fun, fantasy, enjoyment, and pleasure in connection with the opposite s*x. Family, s*xuality, procreation.
You can see it in human development.
Between 7-14 years old, children start being interested in these things. How much pleasure can I get from the world? I have s*xual organs, it's becoming interesting. Interest in the opposite s*x.
It doesn't mean it ends when you finish 18 or 19 years of age. We all have that inside of us.
And here's the problem:
Some people are addicted to s*x or have strange behavior because they haven't harmonized this level.
And it's not just about the physical act of s*xuality.
It's about all our relationships.
If svadhisthana is not sorted out, your relationships with other people will be very difficult.
If this level is not harmonized, you will repeat the same patterns. In all relationships. Not just intimate ones.
Where are you on this journey of harmonization?

10/10/2025

Expelled from Paradise

Parents are proud: "My son reads at three! My daughter counts to a hundred at four!"

But what have we taken from them?

When we push a child toward premature performance, toward reading, writing, technology at a tender age, we rob them of childhood. We expel them from their little paradise, where they had the right to simply be a child.

Far too often in my work, I meet adults in their middle or later years who have lost the ability to feel joy, to be spontaneous and creative, to experience simple delight.

This is connected to the fact that as children, they didn't have enough time to experience a carefree, creative, and supportive childhood with mother and father in their unique and distinct roles.

When a child must take on responsibility greater than appropriate for their age too early, they suppress precisely these positive aspects of personality.
In adulthood, it becomes very difficult to rediscover one's childlike joy and spontaneity.

A child who becomes a "little adult" prematurely carries the seed of neurosis into life. Unlived childhood returns as shadow. As anxiety, as the feeling that we're never enough, as emptiness in the midst of success.

A child needs time for play, for fantasy, for aimless wandering through the world. They need to fully experience the archetype of the Child. Otherwise, it remains frozen in the adult's psyche, crying out for a lifetime: "When will my time finally come?"

The question isn't whether children are smart.
The question is: Whose dream are they actually living?

Perhaps we should be less proud of WHAT our children can do, and more of HOW they can simply BE.

What they are is enough for them.
Or do we need them to accomplish more?

What was your childhood like? How spontaneous, creative, and joyful are you now?

06/10/2025

The Highest Form of Worship is to Be Happy.

However, this is about happiness that is conscious, not merely naive. Happiness is the natural state of unity, but the next step is recognizing your limitations and understanding yourself and the world. This brings with it the entire spectrum of experiences from disgust to beauty, from pain to pleasure, from lies to truth. Only then comes conscious happiness, which you feel regardless of circumstances and experiences. This is the conscious state of happiness.

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