The Opus Contra Naturam: Epstein and the Symbolism of Hybridisation

Starting with Jeffrey Epstein's strange obsession with wanting to seed a superhuman race, I discuss how the archetype of the divine child is behind a longing for rebirth. In the absence of inner work, changes in consciousness become monstrous hybridisations inflicted on children as part of the Opus Contra Naturam, the work against nature.

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References

00:00 - Quoted from Edward Edinger, The Eternal Drama, p. 83 ff.

05:30 - "Epstein himself was an outsider", https://youtu.be/sJ46Vz7SVgA?t=8196 from 2:16:36 - 2:18:50. 

06:25 - "David Icke exposed the child trafficking ring ...", https://youtu.be/MirU9hZEUUU?t=3314 from 55:14 - 1:00:45.

06:45 - "The testimony of Dutch ex-banker Ronald Bernard", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oczqtf6X2eE in 5 parts.

07:20 - "In 2006, he donated 6.5 millions to a Harvard program called Evolutionary Dynamics", https://www.harvardmagazine.com/university-news/martin-nowak-harvard-administrative-leave-epstein

07:30 - Epstein reportedly hoped to develop super-race of humans with his DNA, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/01/jeffrey-epstein-seed-human-race-report

14:30 - There are also dreams of men being pregnant!

17:10 - I have previously discussed the Virgin Birth and its psychological interpretation in https://dreamsanctuary.net/raised-by-wolves/

16:10 - "The child motif is extremely variable..." (Carl Jung, The Psychology of the Child Archetype, CW 9i, par 270)

16:50 - "One of the essential features of the child motif is its futurity..." (ibid., par 278)

17:35 - "Sometimes the “child” looks more like a child god..." (ibid., par 281)

20:20 - "In the manifold phenomenology of the “child”..." (ibid., par 279-280)

27:50 - "We should not try to “get rid” of a neurosis" (Carl Jung, The State of Psychology Today, CW 10, par 361)

29:10 - "People say: "If you have a neurosis..."" (Carl Jung, Nietzsche's Zarathustra, Volume 1, p. 707)
See also "Jung: Your suffering is the cure and the greatest thing you've ever produced", https://jungianalchemist.substack.com/p/jung-your-suffering-is-the-cure-and

30:50 - "The patient has not to learn how to get rid of his neurosis..." (Carl Jung, The State of Psychology Today, CW 10, par 360-362)

31:45 - "The essential question is..." (ibid., par 364)

36:10 - "Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman..." (Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra)

36:50 - "Man coming to godlike qualities is an age-old idea...", see Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation, CW 5, par 132 ff. 

39:55 - I am referring to Jung's "The Lapis-Christ Parallel', Psychology and Alchemy, CW 12, par 447. For instance, "The artifex himself bears no correspondence to Christ; rather he sees this correspondence to the Redeemer in his wonderful stone." (ibid., par 452)

42:05 - "Our gold is not the common gold" or “Aurum nostrum non est aurum vulgi.”

59:40 - Quoted from Claude Levi-Strauss, Tristes Tropiques, 38. A Little Glass of Rum 

1:06:15 - "Father and son are parts of a perpetual, cyclic drama..." (Edward F. Edinger, The Transformation Of God). The next quotations are also from that essay.

1:09:20 - "Even now a deep resentment seems to dwell in man’s breast..." (Carl Jung, Symbols of Transformation, CW 5, par 351)

1:11:25 - "In its psychological meaning, individuation is an opus contra naturam, which creates a horror vacui in the collective layer and is only too likely to collapse under the impact of the collective forces of the psyche." (Carl Jung, Concerning Rebirth, CW 9i, par 256)

Music and Soundscapes

08:40 - Anathema "Balance" (from A Natural Disaster)

21:00 - Ulver "Let The Children Go" (from Shadows Of The Sun)

33:30 - Tears For Fears - Suffer The Children (Live From Franklin, TN), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GHeYSMYGXo

43:10 - Marvin Gaye "Save The Children" (from What's Going On)

51:10 - Dark Time Sunshine "Can’t Wait" (from ANX)

1:03:00 - Radiohead "Knives Out" (from Amnesiac)

1:14:30 - Anathema "Childhood Dream" (from A Natural Disaster)

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