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We thus transcend time and space. We come to know and believe, for example, how the entire creation, as pictured in the Bible, can take place in 7 days, we will come to experience how the fifteen billion years of evolution since the Big Bang, which made us what we are and our empirical present, is an eternal presence in us of a holistic, holographic, morphogenetic coherence of the Self. Shakti is experience not as person but as principle
Self is the tangible personal experience of the cosmos by an individual as Who? This cosmos appears to the individual then as Shakti, in corresponding gender archetypes, identified by C.G. Jung as anima and animus. Anima is the feminine aspect of the Self as it appears to man, and animus its masculine counterpart, as it appears to a woman. A person who has transcended his Ego and realised the Self relates himself or herself to another person alone at this abstract level of wholeness.
Freud attributed the will and the motive force of the Ego to the libidinal force within, The Self drives its libidinal force not directly from the individual Subconscious, but from the collective or cosmic Unconscious. The libido manifests to the Self as Shakti, cosmic energy at the symbolic level of the Tao, as Yang and Yang. This Shakti is. the Kundalini the cosmic Libido. The Western psychology has no notion to express this concept of Kundalini. Jung's notion of archetypes and of anima and animus comes closer to it. Kundalini is the realisation of wholeness, the oneness of Ego and Self. Kundalini is individual liberation. She is the Who ?--the Consciousness liberating the process of evolution and the cosmos itself. Kundalini is a new order of reality transcending the dimensions of Trinity and embracing, as Jung shows, those of Quarternity-wholeness. The Omega Man
This Self of Man is the Omega Point of evolution about which Teilhard de Chardain speaks about. At this
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