"Have you got the Boo? The Dreaded? The terrible Gom? Have you? That's what I thought! Tell me true- have you got the Gom-Boo?" - Da Free John
I used to read these two paragraphs by Free John (he of many names) below (last two of this post) to students in a counseling training program...much laughter was had, but seriously serious stuff.
Now the very Free-with-his-"junk" Da-funct Da-Abi-Doot Da Da Da Whisk Broom BAH never did any personal shadow work evidenced by his scamming manipulations of others consciousnesses in his harems of followers, he was evidentially, utterly mugged by the Shadow, the archetype of Power, what Carl Jung calls "the Power Devil" such as that which/who tempted Jesus in the desert as his ministry was just beginning; Jesus resisted all the enticing "magical passes" and impressive miracles to gain power over the world where, if performed and demonstrated them, all would worship and follow him.
Free John is a glaring example, one of very, very many, entranced by those powers of archetypal psyche (very very tempting they are) so, as usual, too too often in (especially in) "spiritual" groups one or more followers ( branded as a "faction") carry the shadow of the religion, crypto-religion (alphabet soup) and mostly adulterated "sacred" techniques offered.
[NOTE: the SHADOW WILL OUT, especially with groups that identify as "spiritual". Forewarned is four-armed (yes, FOUR armed KALI who defends and protects!!) so one will turn the volume down on naivete and "innocence" or learn all too often the hard way (Jung did point out, "God is a trauma." I add, "Live and burn. Live and learn = Blues School).]
Unlike American uber popular Spirituality LITE aka New Age, New Thought, Scions of Mind, et. al (so very "spiritually"entertaining), individuation, Carl Jung's term for addressing all dimensions of the psyche, especially the personal and collective unconscious as he lays out in his vast corpus of writing describing what he calls depth or archetypal psychology. Jungian work is NOT for the faint of heart and, importantly, it is NOT an elaborate "spiritual" entertainment (though it can easily turn into such when one accesses archetypal energies and mistakenly thinks that one has "arrived" due to "magical powers and developed psychic abilities, et. al. OY. NO. Satan's temptations to Jesus were thus such perceived to be "miraculous" powers and one must be spiritual if one can access and wield them. Clearly not so!
Thusly, an extended quote by Jung is called for here before the entertaining Free John quote which enables us, invites us each and every, one and all, to have a good healthy shadowy laugh of recognition that Da Free Junk enables us to acknowledge that, yes, we do, we all got the Dreaded Gom-boo, the Imaginary Illness that Religion Seeks to Cure (brilliant that Fra Yonks uses humor to impact us and hip us to Da D G Boo...but here's Jung (extensively. I personally do not think that it IS an imaginary (as in unreal)diseasae but is Imaginal (a la Jung and the archetypal energies mediated by the Imaginal level of the psyche):
“I am not a man, neither am I a god, a goblin, a Brahmin, a warrior, a merchant, a shudra, nor disciple of a Brahmin, nor householder, nor hermit of the forest, nor yet mendicant pilgrim:
"Awakener to Myself is my name.”(Jung, Vol.14, p.90)
" . . . One cannot be too cautious in these matters, for what with the imitative urge and a positively morbid avidity to possess themselves of outlandish feathers and deck themselves out in this exotic plumage, far too many people are misled into snatching at such “magical” ideas and applying them externally, like an ointment. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls [ψυχή, psychi, anima, animus, seele, saiwala, saiwalo, aiolos, sila, anemos, pneuma, anan, anhelare, rih, ruh, psychein, psychos, psychros, physa; Jung, Vol.8, pars. 663-664]. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn theosophy by heart, or mechanically repeat mystic texts from the literature of the whole world—all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls. Thus the soul has gradually been turned into a Nazareth from which nothing good can come. Therefore let us fetch it from the four corners of the earth—the more far-fetched and bizarre it is the better! "
Jung continues:
"I have no wish to disturb such people at their pet pursuits, but when anybody who expects to be taken seriously is deluded enough to think that I use yoga methods and yoga doctrines or that I get my patients, whenever possible, to draw mandalas for the purpose of bringing them to the “right point”—then I really must protest and tax these people with having read my writings with the most horrible inattention. The doctrine that all evil thoughts come from the heart and that the human soul is a sink of iniquity must lie deep in the marrow of their bones. Were that so, then God had made a sorry job of creation, and it were high time for us to go over to Marcion the Gnostic and depose the incompetent demiurge. Ethically, of course, it is infinitely more convenient to leave God the sole responsibility for such a Home for Idiot Children, where no one is capable of putting a spoon into his own mouth. But it is worth man’s while to take pains with himself, and he has something in his soul that can grow. It is rewarding to watch patiently the silent happenings in the soul, and the most and the best happens when it is not regulated from outside and from above. I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference. (Jung, Vol.12, par.126)"
End ofJung Quote
The above views are my own, for what they're worth, from my direct experience in various flavors of "spiritual groups" (I'm done with all that now), was traumatized in and from those groups,
The wreckage in spiritual groups is part of a very old old ancient story that plays out daily in groups all kinds, secular and spiritual, with ugliness and trauma ensuing while the self-identified minister or guru or other, the leaders (a faction, as well, but they don't think so - so Danger Will Robinson, whereof the named self appointed psychopomp remains, so they think (if they fall for their own act which, actually, IS what they do) without any fault or shadow or culpa whatsoever."
If one feels compelled to partake of what is offered by guru, teacher, shaman, et. al, then best to "take the money and run" with such, critical thinking active and ON, knowing that there may be some gold to gain (teaching, etc.) while one should assume also assume that "spiritual" folks have vast amounts of "shite" too.
And shadow always gets projected back and forth.
It's all part of the Dreaded Gomboo, Incorporated in multifarious facets.
SO, here are two hilariously orienting transcribed paragraph of the Da Da Dobby Abi Doot Da Doot Da Doodle Do Doot (Lou Reed chorus chittering on in "Take a Walk on the Wild Side) for mostly Western (inheritors of Western religions and multivarious permutation) spiritual seekers:
Master Da: If you want to "get religious" in our time you must first decide that you have the Dreaded Gom-Boo. Then you go to Doctor Pope, Doctor Church, Doctor Jesus, Doctor Mahatma, Doctor Mahatmaboo, Doctor Gombooananda, Doctor Gomananda-Booharaj. As soon as you get the feeling that you have the disease, you start to look for religious answers. Ask most the people around you how they got involved with this Way of Life, and they will describe some symptom or other of the Dreaded Gom-Boo. The Dreaded Gom-Boo led you all here because you were looking to be cured of the heebie-jeebies, the hopefull Three-Day-Thumb-and-Finger Problem, the terrible jiggly meatedness! (Laughter)
Are you telling me that you think God and Truth are supposed to be interested in curing you of the Dreaded Gom-Boo? Is that it? It is about time you realized there there is no cure for the Dreaded Gom-Boo! The Gom is terrible! The Boo is terminal! And this is what you've got, right? I thought so! I could see symptoms as soon as you came in here. Have you got the Boo? The Dreaded? The terrible Gom? Have you? That's what I thought! Tell me true- have you got the Gom-Boo?"
You may read Free John's Boo book at this link:
https://archive.org/details/dreadedgombooori0000adid/mode/1up
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