Martin Kojc - The textbook of life. The laws of the mind

MARTIN KOJC

THE TEXTBOOK

OF LIFE

The laws of the mind.

How do I activate the power of thought and achieve my goals?

What is the meaning of life?

It´s finally time to discover the truth of creation.

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ISBN EPUB 978-3-936612-47-9 (EBOOK)

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German original issue: ISBN EPUB 978-3-936612-42-4 (EBOOK)

German original issue: ISBN 978-3-936612-15-8 (PRINT)

Translated by Barbara Rhoton

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2nd edition

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FOREWORD BY SIMON BORUT POGAČNIK

A SPECIAL FOREWORD BY PROFESSOR DR. K. OZVALD

AUTHOR´S FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

10 SELF-INSTRUCTIONAL LESSON

LESSON I

LESSON II

LESSON III

LESSON IV

LESSON V

LESSON VI

LESSON VII

LESSON VIII

LESSON IX

LESSON X

CONCLUSION

THE FORUM OF LIFE

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED TITLES

During the journey from the womb to the grave -- the journey we call life --everyone is, despite apparent companionship, in fact responsibly, inescapably and fatedly alone. In this existential reality lies the tragicalness, the challenge and the way of living that is bound to the endless asking of the question: WHO AM I? C. G. Jung says that a person knows that he is not an animal, vegetable or mineral, but that he does not know who he is. In order for a man to get to know and to recognize himself he needs many mirrors. Because he does not know himself, he does not know if perhaps concave or convex mirrors also do not show his real self. He constantly needs definers, regardless of whether they define him as bad or good. Everywhere and in everyone he sees only the dual nature between good and evil, warm and cold, youth and old age, birth and death. Polarization is fatal for human life, it shows life as unfulfilled, to be fulfilled only by yearning to overcome polarization. In knowing that the height of happiness is followed by a fall, there can be no wholeness, and it is hard to shake off the thought that perhaps hell exists already, here and now.

Precisely because of this need, it appears that the Absolute decided to help the predestined being to travel easier, with less troubles on the road between mother's and Earth's mantle. This help manifests itself in the sending of Teachers, founders of great religions or schools of Philosophy. It is true that sometimes religions contradict each other in minor ways, but in essence they answer even the unspoken questions of people who follow them. If they do not, the people choose another, different religion. The position of each individual in this moment and in this choice corresponds to his maturity...

The time has come when we again need the thoughts, teachings and originality of our native Slovene Teachers. One such Teacher is Martin Kojc, a Slovene, who by the year 1935 had written and published his Textbook of Life. This work had been previously published abroad, and the Slovene edition was a translation from German. The necessity of this journey of Martin Kojc's thought to German, and then from German to Slovene, confirmed the Biblical saying that a prophet is not honored in his own land.

Because we have heard so little about Martin Kojc, and because a full fifty-four years passed before the first Slovene publication of the Textbook of Life, one wonders if his ideas were ahead of his time, alien and incomprehensible to the spirit of his time -- or perhaps a one-day fad which could not survive the dawn of the next day. The Hindus have a saying: When the pupil is ready, the teacher will appear. These past years we are experiencing a certain spiritual awakening in this country. Perhaps this awakening is only apparent, but it may well have deeper roots and be the external manifestation of an inner reality. In this context the idea was born to reintroduce Kojc's work. This work appears to be designed specifically for our time -- a time which is unsettled and chaotic, a twilight of old values and a time of creation of new ones. Perhaps the Textbook of Life appears like a Phoenix. As we are taught by deep psychological thought and by the teachings of the great religions, nothing happens by coincidence. Martin Kojc again became mature and in season within the field of the collective unconscious, which C.G. Jung called the reservoir of human ideas, archetypes and symbols.

I did not know Martin Kojc personally. I did not have that privilege. I got to know him through his book, which I encountered more than six years ago on one of the shelves in the Trubar antique store (in Ljubljana, Slovenia). On first reading it did not impress me as anything special. But then came times, moments, when I, like everyone else, experienced failures, disappointments and pain. It was then that I discovered the true meaning of the word: textbook. Among the flood of different kinds of textbooks relating to everything concerning human life, there were no, or very few, textbooks on life, signposts in the fog that covers the present and the future. How very little use to a person are those three factors which we hail so much and on which our whole life is supposed to depend, i.e., heredity, environment and our own actions. We frequently cannot pilot our life without spiritual directions. This holds true for every single one of us. This is especially true of our nation (Slovene), which has been paying a bloody tax, every year giving its best to the sacrificial altar of the goddess Fate. Like sacrificial offerings, the victims placed themselves on the altar. Most of them could not find their way any more -- perhaps they never correctly sensed it. The fact that these people included philosophers, psychotherapists, poets, and artists in general, is only proof of how weak are the roots in Life that this nation has sprouted. What is it afraid of, why does it not have self-confidence, from what is it running, and towards what?