Life passes rapidly and, when you open your eyes, you are in the third period of life. Now you are sixty or more; your middle-age goals have been achieved or adapted to what is possible. This [period may be very difficult or the happiest period of your life. How to find happiness?

1. The Last Phase of Life
Do you prefer a sad or a happy life?

2. I believe that our objective in life is to be happy,
and that Spirituality and Jungian psychology,
my main areas of interest, can help us in this
search for happiness.
Roberto Lima Netto, Ph.D.
Stanford University

3. Life passes rapidly and, when you open
your eyes, you are in the third period
of life. Now you are sixty or more; your
middle-age goals have been achieved
or adapted to what is possible.

4. It is time to start a phase of your
life when decisions will determine
if your life will be a sad or a happy
one.

5. For this phase of life, the objectives
of the previous phases are useless.
You have to rethink your life.

6. Many try to live the life of their
children, hopping their children could
achieve the successes they could not
get. This is nor a satisfying solution.

7. And it doesn't help the children
either.
It burdens them with goals that
may not be their own.

8. To find a solution to this stage of life, you
have to think about the objective of life.
Not only your life, but of the lives of
human beings in general.

9. Why God threw us on earth?
Metaphorically speaking, why God
expelled us from the Garden of
Eden?

10. I'm convinced that we came to
earth to learn lessons that allow
our souls to grow, to get closer to
God.

11. Meister Johannes Eckhart, O.P,(c. 1260 – c. 1327), a
German theologian and mystic, said: "Know that, by
nature, every creature seeks to become like God.
Nature’s intent is neither food nor drinking, nor
clothing, nor comfort or anything else in which God is
left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know
it or not, secretly nature seeks, hunts, tries to discover
the path on which God may be found."

12. Buddhism and of many Oriental religions
preach we have millions of passages on
earth to work on our life lessons and to
improve our souls. The body changes, but
the soul is immortal.

13. This is also the view of
Christianity, but for the
reincarnation in a material body.

14. Jung, one of the great minds of the XX century,
proposes that the objective of human life is the
increase of conscience – to know ourselves.
He claims that the gains each of us achieve are
saved in the collective unconscious for the use
of all.

15. According to Jung, humanity will
improve with every gain of
consciousness each human being
achieves, and we may have a more just
society in the future.

16. My personal view concerning life's
objective is that we should strive for
happiness, which does not conflict with the
previous advices, because the road to
happiness passes through the nurturing of
the spiritual life.

17. As I mentioned in other occasions
(other videos), to live a spiritual life
you don't need to join an
established church or religion.

18. If you want to be happy, to work on
your soul and to gain conscience,
spare some daily time for meditation
and spiritual work.
Prayer is a type of meditation.

19. Jung asserted that, inside our psyches, we
carry many personalities, one of them
being the Self, an archetype that strives to
put us in the correct path of life. Jung
called it the path of individuation

20. If you want to develop a spiritual life,
one alternative you have is to talk to
the personalities that live inside our
psyche using Active Imagination, a
method developed by Jung.

21. If you want to learn more about Active
Imagination, there is a couple of posts in
my blog.

22. But I suggest, for a comprehensive
approach, an excellent.

23. Robert Johnson wrote a precious
book – Inner Work – dealing with
dream interpretation and Active
Imagination that I highly
recommend.

24. I invite you to visit my site to have access to my
other videos and for additional information.
I also invite you to download a free eBook.
“Shortcuts to happiness”
www.HappinessAcademyOnline.org

25. I wish you HAPPINESS.
Thanks for your time and attention.
Roberto Lima Netto
www.HappinessAcademyOnline.org.