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What are the differences between C. G. Jung's 'process of individuation' and the essence of the Secret of the Golden Flower?

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"True individuation is not a mental construct but the realization of oneness, where the multiplicity of the mind dissolves into pure, timeless consciousness through the alchemy of meditation."

According to Osho, Jung’s ‘individuation’ is a speculative, mental construct that keeps one within divisions of conscious, unconscious, and collective unconscious; he had not realized oneness. The Secret of the Golden Flower is an alchemical, experiential method from the enlightened that dissolves mind itself. True individuation means indivisibility: mind’s multiplicity disappears, leaving pure, timeless consciousness—'all one'—known through meditation, not theory.
Jung explained wholeness with ideas, but the Golden Flower gives a practice that melts all mental parts into one living awareness.
Why this matters practically
- Choose lived meditation over theories about the mind.
- Aim to dissolve inner fragmentation instead of reorganizing it.
- Follow a tested method to experience unity and peace.
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