Carl Jung involved in Peace Negotiations between Allies and Axis Powers

Carl Jung involved in Peace Negotiations between Allies and Axis Powers: It was in 1942 that Jung was asked by some leading Swiss and a German psychiatrist to help in an attempt they planned to make to reestablish peace. Jung threw himself into this project at fi…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: When I dream of a patient, it is usually a sign that one of my complexes has been touched. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 359-364 Each step ahead that the patient …

Jane Wheelwright: A Personal Experience

Jane Wheelwright: A Personal Experience: Jung’s attention was always riveted to the long-term development of the soul, many souls, generations of souls. The great stream of life seemed to be his absorbing interest. To illustrate: th…

Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Life, Work and Legacy of Carl Jung

Carl Jung: …Hitler is reaching his climax and with him the German psychosis.

Carl Jung: …Hitler is reaching his climax and with him the German psychosis.: To Hugh Crichton-Miller My dear Crichton-Miller, 2 September 1939 I am sorry to be so late in answering your letter. I am convinced that Prof. Goring has not properly understood your motives…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: It is a clash between man and God, in which man’s Luciferan genius has produced in the H-bomb the power to destroy more effectively than any ancient god could. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking:…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: The great question was, is there a non-ego, is there something that can pull me out of the isolation-in-the-ego of the Kantian world picture. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking; Interviews and Encounte…

Carl Jung and “Mountains” [Anthology]

Carl Jung and “Mountains” [Anthology]: You barricade yourself from the world with exaggerated saviour fantasies. So climb down from the mountain of your humility and follow your nose. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 559. …

The Woman is accused of all the Darkness

The Woman is accused of all the Darkness: Despite all attempts at denial and obfuscation there is an unconscious factor, a black sun, which is responsible for the surprisingly common phenomenon of masculine split-mindedness, when the right…

Carl Jung: By which principle could one show that physical evidence is superior to any other evidence?

Carl Jung: By which principle could one show that physical evidence is superior to any other evidence?: To E. A. Bennet Dear Bennet, 11 June 1960 Thank you very much for your illuminating letter. I see from it that you understand by “scientific evidence” something like a che…

Carl Jung on “Metaphysical” ideas in the modern world.

Carl Jung on “Metaphysical” ideas in the modern world.: [Carl Jung on “Metaphysical” ideas in the modern world.]I regard these parallels as important because it is possible, through them, to relate so-called metaphysical concepts, which have lost their …

Carl Jung on Christ

The thinker’s passions are bad

The thinker’s passions are bad: A thinker should fear Salome, since she wants his head, especially if he is a holy man. A thinker cannot be a holy person, otherwise he loses his head. It does not help to hide oneself in thought. …

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: But if you want to go your individual way, it is the way you make for yourself, which is never prescribed, which you do not know in advance, and which simply comes into being of itself when you put…

Carl Jung: The ego participates in God’s suffering.

Carl Jung: The ego participates in God’s suffering.: The ego participates in God’s suffering. We have become participants in the divine nature. We are the vessel…of the deity suffering in the body of the “slave”(Phil. 2:5). Buddha’s insight and the i…

Carl Jung: The idea is that we see three dimensions, but the fourth is invisible.

Carl Jung: The idea is that we see three dimensions, but the fourth is invisible.: Unconscious sensations, and still more intuitions, are in a curious borderland which defies exact definition. Intuition is never quite conscious. H. G . Wells in his book “The Time Ma…

Carl Jung: The idea is that we see three dimensions, but the fourth is invisible.

Carl Jung: The idea is that we see three dimensions, but the fourth is invisible.: Unconscious sensations, and still more intuitions, are in a curious borderland which defies exact definition. Intuition is never quite conscious. H. G . Wells in his book “The Time Ma…

The alchemical stage of "Nigredo"

The alchemical stage of "Nigredo": The alchemical stage of “Nigredo”:Inferno Canto I:1-60 The Dark Wood and the HillIn the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was los…

Carl Jung: It is damp in as far as it is soul;…

Carl Jung: It is damp in as far as it is soul;…: Therefore we have the wonderful description: “damp, fiery, cold spirit”. It is damp in as far as it is soul; the soul in the ancient sense of the word, was exquisitely moi…

Carl Jung: "Are they worshiping the Buddha"?

Carl Jung: "Are they worshiping the Buddha"?: I experienced this in Ceylon. I went to the Temple about six o’clock in the evening when it was already dark. A golden image of Buddha gleamed in the lamp light and many young girls, w…

Carl Jung: Socrates’ "naivete" is his greatness,…

Carl Jung: Socrates’ "naivete" is his greatness,…: To Hugo Charteris Dear Mr. Charteris, Bollingen, 9 January 1960 You surely have hit the bull’s eye by mentioning the “music-practising Socrates.” The story starts wi…

Carl Jung and "I look upon the receiving of the Holy Spirit as a highly revolutionary fact…"

Carl Jung and "I look upon the receiving of the Holy Spirit as a highly revolutionary fact…": There were very good reasons why the Catholic Church has carefully purified Christ and his mother from all contamination by the peccatum originate. Protestantism was more courageous, even daring or…

Carl Jung "I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone."

Carl Jung "I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone.": I had to understand that I was unable to make the people see what I am after. I am practically alone.There are a few who understand this and that, but almost nobody sees the whole….I have fai…

Who gives you Thoughts and Words?

Who gives you Thoughts and Words?: “Galician slaughter” 1846, by Jan Lewicki (1795-1871); “directed against manorial property (for example, the manorial prisons) and rising against serfdom;[17] Galician, mainly Pol…

The Magician ~Carl Jung

The Magician ~Carl Jung: [1] After a long search I found the small house In the country fronted by a large bed of tulips. This is where  [Philemon]’ the magician, lives with his wife, [Baucis]. DIAHMON [Philemon] is …

Who gives you Thoughts and Words?

Who gives you Thoughts and Words?: “Galician slaughter” 1846, by Jan Lewicki (1795-1871); “directed against manorial property (for example, the manorial prisons) and rising against serfdom;[17] Galician, mainly Pol…

Erich Neumann: My wife would urgently like to work with Miss Wolff and I consider this also to be crucially important

Erich Neumann: My wife would urgently like to work with Miss Wolff and I consider this also to be crucially important: Most dear Professor Jung, 30. Jan. 36 I thank you very much for your letter that has shown me once again that you continue to have patience with me and once again have engaged with my proble…

Carl Jung Foreword to Moser: “Ghost: False Belief or True?”

Carl Jung Foreword to Moser: “Ghost: False Belief or True?”: Fanny Moser Personal Life The author has asked me for a few introductory words to her book. It gives me all the more pleasure to comply with her request as her previous book on occultism, written w…

Carl Jung on Hypnosis

Carl Jung on Hypnosis: [Carl Jung on Hypnosis] In the beginning I employed hypnosis in my private practice also, but I soo…

Per Edward F. Edinger the “X” in the passage below was Father Victor White.

Per Edward F. Edinger the “X” in the passage below was Father Victor White.: [Per Edward F. Edinger the “X” in the passage below was Father Victor White.]I [Esther Harding] spoke of the clergy and how they are reaching out for his ideas. . . . He said, “Only the clerg…

Carl Jung on the “Assimilation of the Christ-image” and the Passion of Christ.

Carl Jung on the “Assimilation of the Christ-image” and the Passion of Christ.: [Carl Jung on the “Assimilation of the Christ-image” and the Passion of Christ.]If the adept experiences his own self, the “true man,” in his work, then, as the passage from the “…

Carl Jung on the “continued and progressive divine incarnation.

Carl Jung on the “continued and progressive divine incarnation.: [Carl Jung on the “continued and progressive divine incarnation.]The continuing, direct operation of the Holy Ghost on those who are called to be God’s children implies, in fact, a broadening…

For the alchemist the one in need of redemption is not man, but the deity lost and sleeping in matter.

For the alchemist the one in need of redemption is not man, but the deity lost and sleeping in matter.: “For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter. Only as a secondary consideration does he hope that some benefit may a…

Carl Jung and excerpts from “Answer to Job.”

Carl Jung and excerpts from “Answer to Job.”: [Carl Jung and excerpts from “Answer to Job.”]The book of Job is a landmark in the long historical development of a divine drama. At the time the book was written, there were already many testimoni…

Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self? This confronts us with the ego-Self paradox.

Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self? This confronts us with the ego-Self paradox.: [Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self? This confronts us with the ego-Self paradox.][For the alchemis] . . . . it is not a question of a one-way ascent to heaven, but, in contrast …

Solitude is a Source of Healing

Solitude is a Source of Healing: Dear Schmaltz, I understand your wish very well, but must tell you at once that it does not fit in with my situation. I am now getting on for 82 and feel not only the weight of my years and the tir…

the devil is the sum of the darkness of human nature

the devil is the sum of the darkness of human nature: The RED BOOK, “the devil is the sum of the darkness of human nature. One who lives in light strives to be the image of God; one who lives in the darkness strives to be the image of the devil.…

Carl Jung: I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children.

Carl Jung: I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children.: Believe me: It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach your I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your p…

Man stands higher than Science

Man stands higher than Science: If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world, we do not see ourselves either, who are the faithful reflections of that world. Only when mirrored in our picture of the wor…

A Forest Goblin and Prankster

A Forest Goblin and Prankster: But I was no longer the man I had been, for a strange being grew through me. This was a laughing being of the forest, a leaf green daimon, a forest goblin and prankster, who lived alone in the fore…

Rainer Rilke: Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law.

Rainer Rilke: Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law.: Letters to a Young Poet, Ranier Maria Rilke, Chapter Four Worpswede, near Bremen, July 16th, 1903 SOME TEN days ago I left Paris, quite ill and tired, and journeyed into a great north…

Paracelsus the Physician

Paracelsus the Physician: Anyone who is at all familiar with the writings of that great physician whose memory we honour today will know how impossible it is to give an adequate account in a lecture of all the achievements …

Carl Jung learns about Myth from Mountain Lake of the Pueblos and from the Plain of Kenya.

Carl Jung learns about Myth from Mountain Lake of the Pueblos and from the Plain of Kenya.: [Carl Jung learns about Myth from Mountain Lake of the Pueblos and from the Plain of Kenya.][Mountain Lake said] “The Americans want to stamp out our religion. Why can they not let us alone? …

Esther Harding The Early Days

Esther Harding The Early Days: That C. G. Jung was a giant among men must be obvious to all who have had even a slight acquaintance with the man or his writings, but for many today the beginnings of his work, reaching bac…

Carl Jung learns about Myth from Mountain Lake of the Pueblos and from the Plain of Kenya.

Carl Jung learns about Myth from Mountain Lake of the Pueblos and from the Plain of Kenya.: [Carl Jung learns about Myth from Mountain Lake of the Pueblos and from the Plain of Kenya.][Mountain Lake said] “The Americans want to stamp out our religion. Why can they not let us alone? …

Alma A. Paulsen Origins of Analytical Psychology in the New York Area

Alma A. Paulsen Origins of Analytical Psychology in the New York Area: The spade work for the development of analytical psychology in this part of the world was begun by a few doctors, who, in the early 1920s, had the courage to start practice as Jungian analysts long…

Margit Van Leight Frank Reflections on Spirit and Pseudo-Spirit

Margit Van Leight Frank Reflections on Spirit and Pseudo-Spirit: When I was asked to contribute to this volume with a description of what constituted for me the greatest stimulus in Jung’s thought, I did not have a moment’s hesitation, because I felt…

Carl Jung’s Foreword to “Apparitions and Precognitions” by Aniela Jaffe.

Carl Jung’s Foreword to “Apparitions and Precognitions” by Aniela Jaffe.: THE AUTHOR OF THIS BOOK has already made a name for herself for her valuable contributions to the literature of analytical psychology. Here she tells of those strange tales that, because they incur…

Carl Jung:Enlightenment,” “Godhead,” “Gnostics,” “Sacrifice,” “Redemption."

Carl Jung:Enlightenment,” “Godhead,” “Gnostics,” “Sacrifice,” “Redemption.": [Carl Jung on The Tibetan Book of the Dead and “Dharma Kaya,” “Perfect Enlightenment,” “Godhead,” “Gnostics,” “Sacrifice,” “Redemption.”] O nobly born (so and so), listen. Now thou ar…

Carl Jung on … the Yogin is identical with the eternal Buddha essence.

Carl Jung on … the Yogin is identical with the eternal Buddha essence.: Lecture IX January 1939 We began the second phase of our text in the last lecture. The important statement in the first phase, which is laid down as a thesis, is that the Yogin is ide…

Way of the Cross ~Carl Jung

Way of the Cross ~Carl Jung: I saw the black serpent, as it wound itself upward around the wood of the cross. It crept into the body of the crucified and emerged again transformed from his mouth. It had become white. It…

Carl Jung on how to look upon our “Thoughts.”

Carl Jung on how to look upon our “Thoughts.”: Philemon and other figures of my fantasies brought home to me the crucial insight that there are things in the psyche which I do not produce, but which produce themselves and have the…

He had to exteriorize his archetype…

He had to exteriorize his archetype…: “For the alchemist it was clear that the “centre,” or what we would call the self, does not lie in the ego but is outside it, “in us” yet not “in our mind,” being located rather in that which…

Gerhard Wehr, Modern Esoteric Spirituality – Quotations

Gerhard Wehr, Modern Esoteric Spirituality – Quotations: Modern Esoteric Spirituality by Joseph Needleman Jung never saw himself as an “esoteric”; at any rate he did not want to be confused with those pseudo-esoterics who veil the mysteries o…

Edward Whitmont The Symbolic View

Edward Whitmont The Symbolic View: P.W. Bridgeman has stated: ‘The structure of nature may eventually be such that our processes of thought do not correspond to it sufficiently to permit us to think about it at all. . . . The …

Alchemy and the process of Individuation…

Alchemy and the process of Individuation…: “I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; fo…

Since the Soul animates the Body………

Since the Soul animates the Body………: Since the soul animates the body, just as the soul is animated by the spirit, she tends to favor the body and everything bodily, sensuous, and emotional. She lies caught in “the chains” of Physis, …

Carl Jung on the celebration of the Mass and Holy Communion.

Carl Jung on the celebration of the Mass and Holy Communion.: [Carl Jung on the celebration of the Mass and Holy Communion.]Although the Mass itself is a unique phenomenon in the history of comparative religion, its symbolic content would be profoundly alien …

Carl Jung on Celebrate a Last Supper [with yourself]

Carl Jung on Celebrate a Last Supper [with yourself]: If the projected conflict is to be healed, it must return into the psyche of the individual, where it had its unconscious beginnings.He must celebrate a Last Supper with himself, and eat his own fl…

Carl Jung on being "Alone."

Carl Jung on being "Alone.": [Carl Jung on being “Alone.”]My I, you are a barbarian. I want to live with you; therefore I will carry you through an utterly medieval Hell, until you are capable of making living with…

Three Prophecies ~Carl Jung

Three Prophecies ~Carl Jung: Wondrous things came nearer. I called my soul and asked her to dive down into the floods, whose distant roaring I could hear. This happened on 22 January of the year 1914, as recorded in my black b…

Crucified between the Two Thieves

Crucified between the Two Thieves: Just as Christ was crucified between the two thieves, our lowest lies on either side of our way. And just as one thief went to Hell and the other rose up to Heaven, the lowest in us will be sundere…

Carl Jung: The Gift of Magic

Carl Jung: The Gift of Magic: The Gift of Magic S: “Do you not hear something?” I: “I’m not aware of anything, what should I hear?” S: ‘~ringing.” I: ‘~ringing? What? I hea…

Carl Jung: Hitler himself (from what I heard) is more than half crazy.

Carl Jung: Hitler himself (from what I heard) is more than half crazy.: Anonymous dear Mrs. N., 5 October 1939 If there hadn’t been such a throng of things lately I surely would have written to you long ago. It is a curious thing that the closer peo…

Some Carl Jung Quotations [VI]

Some Carl Jung Quotations [VI]: It is more likely that in the unconscious of the introvert there is a love for the object that compensates his fear of it, while in the unconscious of the extravert there is a fear that compensates…

Carl Jung on “Karmic Illusion.”

Carl Jung on “Karmic Illusion.”: [Carl Jung on “Karmic Illusion.”][Note: Those familiar with “The Red Book” may wish to consider the implications of the statement below which states “The Chonyid state is equivalent to a deliberate…

Carl Jung: “… I also often mentioned your name and your experiments to many people.”

Carl Jung: “… I also often mentioned your name and your experiments to many people.”: Dear Dr. Rhine, September 18, 1945 Your letter has been a great joy to me. I have often thought of you in these last years and I also often mentioned your name and your experiments to many people. …

Carl Jung "God wanted to become Man, and still wants to."

Carl Jung "God wanted to become Man, and still wants to.": [Carl Jung “God wanted to become Man, and still wants to.”]Ever since John the apocalyptist experienced for the first time (perhaps unconsciously) that conflict into which Christianity …

Carl Jung on Islamic and Christian Meditations

Carl Jung on Islamic and Christian Meditations: LECTURE II 10th November, 1939 In the last lecture I just mentioned that Ignatius had been influenced by Arabian culture. The master, who was the Father of Arabian mysticism, is Al Ga…

Carl Jung: …but that is what I have always seen with my books:

Carl Jung: …but that is what I have always seen with my books:: Prof. J. B. Rhine July 26, 1954 Parapsychological Laboratory College Station Durham, N. C. Dear Professor Rhine, Thank you for your kind letter! Synchronicity is indeed a difficult and involved pro…

Nox Quarta

Nox Quarta: Thomas à Kempis on Mount Saint Agnes – (1569)I hear the roaring of the morning wind, which comes over the mountains. The night is overcome, when all mylife was subject to eternal confusion an…

International Psychoanalytic Congress 1911 with Emma Jung, Toni Wolff, Cindy Lou Andreas-Salome, etc.

International Psychoanalytic Congress 1911 with Emma Jung, Toni Wolff, Cindy Lou Andreas-Salome, etc.: International Psychoanalytic Congress. Photograph, 1911.Front row left to right: 1) Poul Bjerre 2) Eugen Bleuler 3) Maria Moltzer 4) Maria Gincburg 5) Cindy Lou Andreas-Salomé 6) Beatrice M. Hinkle…

Carl Jung Quotations from “Wounded Healer of the Soul” by Claire Dunne

Carl Jung Quotations from “Wounded Healer of the Soul” by Claire Dunne: He [Jung] told Laurens van der Post that he worked through 67,000 dreams with patients and helpers before even attempting to theorize about them. ~Claire Dunne, Wounded Healer of the Soul, Page 85.…

Carl Jung on the Incarnation of the God-Man and Sophia…

Carl Jung on the Incarnation of the God-Man and Sophia…: [Carl Jung on the Incarnation of the God-Man and Sophia.]Just as the decision to become man apparently makes use of the ancient Egyptian model, so we can expect that the process itself will follow …

Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams…

Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams…: “Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams which repeatedly dealt with the same theme. Beside my house stood another, that is to say, another wing or annex, which was strange to m…

Carl Jung: The alchemical operations were real…

Carl Jung: The alchemical operations were real…: “The alchemical operations were real, only this reality was not physical but psychological. Alchemy represents the projection of a drama both cosmic and spiritual in laboratory terms. …

Carl Jung on Psychology’s view of “Metaphysics” and of a “Universal Mind.”

Carl Jung on Psychology’s view of “Metaphysics” and of a “Universal Mind.”: [Carl Jung on Psychology’s view of “Metaphysics” and of a “Universal Mind.”]Psychology accordingly treats all metaphysical claims and assertions as mental phenomena, and regards them as statements …

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: He [Jung] told me his wife had started to learn Latin, and also some natural science, after her fifth child went to school. Now she can read all the mediaeval Latin texts. ~Carl Jung, Meetings with…

The Churches stand for traditional and collective conviction

The Churches stand for traditional and collective conviction: “If, for instance, the statement that Christ rose form the dead is to be understood not literally but symbolically, then it is capable of various interpretations that do not conflict with kno…

Nox Secunda ~Carl Jung

Nox Secunda ~Carl Jung: On leaving the library, I stood in the anteroom again. This time I look across to the door on the left. I put the small book into my pocket and go to the door; it is also open, and leads to a large…

Nox Secunda ~Carl Jung

Nox Secunda ~Carl Jung: On leaving the library, I stood in the anteroom again. This time I look across to the door on the left. I put the small book into my pocket and go to the door; it is also open, and leads to a large…

Carl Jung: Divine Folly

Carl Jung: Divine Folly: I am standing in a high hall. Before me I see a green curtain between two columns. The curtain parts easily. I see into a small deep room with bare wall…

Carl Jung: I think the night has descended upon Europe.

Carl Jung: I think the night has descended upon Europe.: My dear Mrs. Mellon, 19 June 1940 Thank you for your friendly letter, which arrived today. I send you these few words in haste, because this evening at 7 o’clock the last mail for U.S.…

Culver M. Barker: In Memoriam of C.G. Jung

Culver M. Barker:  In Memoriam of C.G. Jung: As A contribution to the symposium on aspects of C. G. Jung’s life and work which have a significant bearing on both the personal and professional level, I would like to speak about my…

James G. Whitney: A Personal Experience of Analytical Psychology

James G. Whitney: A Personal Experience of Analytical Psychology: My experience with analytical psychology has been unusual. I did not come to it by choice either professionally or personally. It was ‘thrust upon me’ by parents, both of whom were phys…

It has been assumed that Christ is nothing but a Myth but Myth is not Fiction…

It has been assumed that Christ is nothing but a Myth but Myth is not Fiction…: …[It has been assumed that Christ is nothing but a Myth but Myth is not Fiction. Men have Mythical Fates just as Greek Heroes do.]In view of these portentous impossibilities, it has been assu…

Carl Jung’s letter written in 1938 about Abraham Lincoln

Carl Jung’s letter written in 1938 about Abraham Lincoln: Carl Jung’s letter written in 1938 about Abraham Lincoln

Carl Jung on “Zeus” – Anthology

Carl Jung on “Zeus” – Anthology: Naturally a new meaning does not come ready-made out of the unconscious, like Pallas Athene springing fully armed from the head of Zeus; a living effect is achieved only when the products of the un…

Prayer of the Apostle Paul from the Jung Codex

Prayer of the Apostle Paul from the Jung Codex: PRAYER OF THE MESSENGER PAUL Grant me your mercy. My redeemer, redeem me, for I am yours. I came from you. You are my mind: give me birth. You are my treasure: open for me. You are my fullness: acc…

Carl Jung and a brief overview of Satan.

Carl Jung and a brief overview of Satan.: [Carl Jung and a brief overview of Satan.]I do not wish to multiply examples needlessly, but only to make it clear that the figure of Satan, too, has undergone a curious development, from the time …

Carl Jung: The extravert feels prospectively, the introvert retrospectively,

Carl Jung: The extravert feels prospectively, the introvert retrospectively,: [Carl Jung: The extravert feels prospectively, the introvert retrospectively, so that the latter remains longer under the impression of the difficulty.] Dear Friend, [undated] I would…

Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the Mass

Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the Mass: .[Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the Mass]On careful examination we find that the sequence of ritual actions in the Mass contains, sometimes clearly and sometimes by subtle allusions, a representati…

Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the Mass

Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the Mass: .[Carl Jung on the Symbolism of the Mass]On careful examination we find that the sequence of ritual actions in the Mass contains, sometimes clearly and sometimes by subtle allusions, a representati…

The Apocryphon of James [Jung Codex]

The Apocryphon of James [Jung Codex]: The Apocryphon of James [Jung Codex] James writes to (…)thos. Peace be with you from peace, love from love, grace from grace, faith from faith, life from holy life. You have asked me to send you a …

Carl Jung: Dissolving an image means that you become that image.

Carl Jung: Dissolving an image means that you become that image.: I told you last time about the dream concerning the killing of the hero and then the fantasy about Elijah and Salome. Now the killing of the hero is not an indifferent fact, but one t…

Some Carl Jung Quotations [LI]

Some Carl Jung Quotations [LI]: There are indeed few authors, as you yourself have probably observed, who could wringfrom themselves an objective evaluation of my work. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 555-557Can man adopt any s…

Carl Jung: I have read your brilliant account of the Kore figure

Carl Jung: I have read your brilliant account of the Kore figure: To Karl Kerenyi Dear Professor Kerenyi, 26 July 1940 Many thanks for kindly sending me your MS “Kore.” I have read your brilliant account of the Kore figure with the great…

Carl Jung: The Question of Medical Intervention - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Question of Medical Intervention - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The medical journal Psyche published answers to a questionnaire sent to twenty-eight doctors concerning a report by Dr. Medard Boss, delivered at the 66th Congress of South-west German Psychiatrists and Neurologists in Badenweiler, in which he presented the case of a transvestite “under its existential-analytical aspect.” The treatment ended with the total castration of the …

Carl Jung “Paracelsus” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung “Paracelsus” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: That remarkable man, Philippus Aureolus Bombast von Hohenheim, known as Theophrastus Paracelsus, was born in this house on November 10, 1493. His medieval mind and questing spirit would not take it amiss if, in respectful remembrance of the customs of his day, we first glance at the position of the sun at the time of his …

Alchemy seems like a continuation of Christian mysticism,,, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Alchemy seems like a continuation of Christian mysticism,,, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “From this point of view, alchemy seems like a continuation of Christian mysticism carried on in the subterranean darkness of the unconscious…. But this unconscious continuation never reached the surface, where the conscious mind could have dealt with it. All that appeared in consciousness were the symbolic symptoms of the unconscious process. Had the alchemist …

The difference between Yahweh of the Old Testament and the Gnostic Demiurge. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The difference between Yahweh of the Old Testament and the Gnostic Demiurge. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [The difference between Yahweh of the Old Testament and the Gnostic Demiurge.] The character thus revealed fits a personality who can only convince himself that he exists through his relation to an object. Such dependence on the object is absolute when the subject is totally lacking in self-reflection and therefore has no insight into himself. …

Myths-Dreams-Symbols The Unconscious World of Dream - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Myths-Dreams-Symbols The Unconscious World of Dream - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Part 1. Approaching The Unconscious Carl G. Jung Man uses the spoken or written word to express the meaning of what he wants to convey. His language is full of symbols. . . What we call a symbol is a term, a name, or even a picture that may be familiar in daily life, …

Theodore Flournoy: A Remembrance by C. G. Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Theodore Flournoy: A Remembrance by C. G. Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Theodore Flournoy: A Remembrance C. G. Jung (Translation and Commentary by Gary V. Hartman) During the time of my relationship with Freud, I found a fatherly friend in Theodore Flournoy. He was already an old man when I got to know him. Unfortunately, he died a few years later. When I was still a physician …

Carl Jung: We are following the exploits of the R.A.F. with the greatest admiration - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: We are following the exploits of the R.A.F. with the greatest admiration - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To H. G. Baynes My dear Peter, 9 December 1940 I just got your letter of September 10th for which I was waiting a long time. Thank you very much for all the news. I can’t tell you how glad I am that you and your family have escaped the danger of getting …

Carl Jung references to the "Blue Star" in The Red Book. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung references to the "Blue Star" in The Red Book. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung references to the “Blue Star” in The Red Book.] I saw you, Oh DIAHMON, at the noonday hour when the sun stood highest; you stood speaking with a blue shade, blood stuck to its forehead and solemn torment darkened it. But life is duration, the flame dies away. I carried that over, I …

Carl Jung on the "Mother Complex." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the "Mother Complex." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the “Mother Complex.”] The Mother-Complex The mother archetype forms the foundation of the so-called mother-complex. It is an open question whether a mother-complex can develop without the mother having taken part in its formation as a demonstrable causal factor. My own experience leads me to believe that the mother always plays an …

The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization, or individuation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization, or individuation. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The goal of psychological, as of biological, development is self-realization, or individuation. But since man knows himself only as an ego, and the self, as a totality, is indescribable and indistinguishable from a God-image, self-realization-to put it in religious or metaphysical terms-amounts to God’s incarnation. That is already expressed in the fact that Christ is …

Sigmund Freud's Letter ending personal relations with Carl Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Sigmund Freud's Letter ending personal relations with Carl Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Your allegation that I treat my followers as patients is demonstrably untrue. . . . It is a convention among us analysts that none of us need feel ashamed of his own neurosis. But one [meaning Jung] who while behaving abnormally keeps shouting that he is normal gives ground for the suspicion that he lacks …

Postcard from Carl Jung to Smith Ely Jelliffe, October 13, 1931. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Postcard from Carl Jung to Smith Ely Jelliffe, October 13, 1931. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Postcard from Carl Jung to Smith Ely Jelliffe, October 13, 1931. Smith Ely Jelliffe Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (022.00.00); [Digital ID # rb0022] In this postcard, Jung declines an invitation to submit articles to a journal Smith Ely Jelliffe edited because American medical colleagues find his writing hard to understand and consider him …

[Carl Jung on Saint Peter, Gnostics, Opposites] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

[Carl Jung on Saint Peter, Gnostics, Opposites] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [[Carl Jung on Saint Peter, Gnostics, Opposites] In this connection mention should be made of Peter’s valedictory words, which he spoke during his martyrdom (he was crucified upside down, at his own request): “O name of the cross, hidden mystery! O grace ineffable that is pronounced in the name of the cross! O nature of …

A stamp issued in the Grenada in 1973, were we can see the face from Carl Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

A stamp issued in the Grenada in 1973, were we can see the face from Carl Jung. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A stamp issued in the Grenada in 1973, were we can see the face from Carl Jung.

Carl Jung: Is it not a nice time when food reigns supreme? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Is it not a nice time when food reigns supreme? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To: Alice Lewisohn Crowley My dear Mrs. Crowley, Bollingen, 9 December 1942 Thank you ever so much for all the good and-oh so useful things! Is it not a nice time when food reigns supreme? Hans was very helpful and owing to his help I could manage an important part of my winter program, viz. wood …

Carl Jung: Review of Hellpach: "Basics of a Psychology of Hysteria” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Review of Hellpach: "Basics of a Psychology of Hysteria” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: All those professional colleagues who are interested in the great problem of hysteria will surely welcome with joy and eager expectation a work that, judging by its bulk, promises a thorough-going treatment of the psychology of hysteria on the broadest possible basis. Anyone acquainted with the present position of the hysteria theory, and especially the …

A Few Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

A Few Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ~Carl Jung, CW 9ii, Para 429 Yahweh and Allah are unreflected God-images, whereas in the Clementine Homilies there is a psychological …

Carl Jung: The Problem of Types in Dream Interpretation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung:  The Problem of Types in Dream Interpretation - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In all other branches of science, it is a legitimate procedure to apply an hypothesis to an impersonal object.   Psychology, however, inescapably confronts us with the living relationship between two individuals, neither of whom can be divested of his subjectivity or depersonalized in any way.   They can mutually agree to deal with a …

Carl Jung: The Language of Dreams - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Language of Dreams - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: All contents of consciousness have been or can become subliminal, thus forming part of the psychic sphere which we call the unconscious. All urges, impulses, intentions, affects, all perceptions and intuitions, all rational and irrational thoughts, conclusions, inductions, deductions, premises, etc., as well as all categories of feeling, have their subliminal equivalents, which may be …

It was this archetype of the self that responded to the Christian message... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

It was this archetype of the self that responded to the Christian message... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It was this archetype of the self in the soul of every man that responded to the Christian message, with the result that the concrete Rabbi Jesus was rapidly assimilated by the constellated archetype. In this way Christ realized the idea of the self. But as one can never distinguish empirically between a symbol of …

Carl Jung "Dies" The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung "Dies" The Red Book - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Image: Carved relief of the cartouche representing Thutmose III on the wall of the Precinct of Amun-Re, Karnak I awaken, the day reddens the East. A night, a wonderful night in the distant depths of time lies behind me. In what far-away space was I? What did I dream? Of a white horse? It seems …

Carl Jung: Yes, in this case the animus, but in the disguise of the old man. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Yes, in this case the animus, but in the disguise of the old man. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr: Jung: Yes, quite literally, she grows over the obstacle, she assumes the position or the attitude of the tree; that is, she does not do it by will, she makes no violent attempt to force her way, she leaves it to natural growth. There is no other way. She has to stand still …

Carl Jung Review of Stekel: " Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Review of Stekel: " Conditions of Nervous Anxiety and Their Treatment” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The book contains a presentation of states of nervous anxiety, buttressed by an abundance of case material: in Part I, Anxiety Neuroses, in Part II, Anxiety Hysteria. The clinical boundaries for either group are flung far afield, taking in much more than existing clinical methods have accounted for. Anxiety neurosis, especially, is enriched by many …

Carl Jung: The Platonic "Idea" is in this case no longer intellectual but a psychic, instinctual pattern. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Platonic "Idea" is in this case no longer intellectual but a psychic, instinctual pattern. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Elisabeth Herbrich Dear Dr. Herbrich, 30 May 1960 Your letter brings me the unexpected and painful news of the death of Prof. Betschart to whom I am bound by many fond memories. I first became acquainted with him at the Paracelsus celebrations in Einsiedeln, and I remember the many talks we had …

Christianity had to fight for its life against Gnosticism... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Christianity had to fight for its life against Gnosticism... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The fact that the symbolism connected with the mandala traces its near relatives back to pagan sources casts a peculiar light upon these apparently modern psychological occurrences. They seem to continue a Gnostic trend of thought without being supported by direct tradition. If lam right in supposing that every religion is a spontaneous expression of …

Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a "Rite of Individuation." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a "Rite of Individuation." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Dr. Jung considered the Mass of the Church to be the equivalent of a “Rite of Individuation.” In the passage below from “Psychology and Religion” I have capitalized the words in the text that Dr. Jung emphasized by placing them in italics]: Looked at from the psychological standpoint, Christ, as the Original Man (Son of …

Carl Jung on the “Sea.” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “Sea.” – Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I saw how we live toward death, how the swaying golden wheat sinks together under the scythe of the reaper, / like a smooth wave on the sea-beach. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 268. But for him who has seen the chaos, there.is no more hiding, because he knows that the bottom …

Carl Jung on the Trinity and the Development of an Archetype. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the Trinity and the Development of an Archetype. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the Trinity and the Development of an Archetype.] The sequence of creeds illustrates the evolution of the Trinity idea through the centuries. In the course of its development it either consistently avoided, or successfully combated, all rationalistic deviations, such as, for instance, the so-plausible looking Arian heresy. The creeds superimposed on the …

Carl Jung: No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel.... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Neither propaganda nor exhibitionist confessions are needed. If the archetype, which is universal, i.e., identical with itself always and anywhere, is properly dealt with in one place only, it is influenced as a whole, i.e. simultaneously and everywhere. Thus an old alchemist gave the following consolation to one of his disciples: “No matter how isolated …

Carl Jung: The one after-another is a bearable prelude to the deeper knowledge of the side-by-side. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The one after-another is a bearable prelude to the deeper knowledge of the side-by-side. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Plotinus finally refined this idea that time is the moving image of eternity, in this passage: “If eternity, [aion], is life at rest, unchanging and identical and already unbounded, and time must exist as an image of eternity . . . then we must say that there is another lower life [corresponding to the …

Carl Jung On Dementia Praecox - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung On Dementia Praecox - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The depotentiation of the association process or abaissement du niveau mental, which consequently has a downright dreamlike quality, seems to indicate that a pathogenic agent [Noxe] contributes to dementia praecox which is absent in, say, hysteria. The characteristics of the abaissement were assigned to the pathogenic agent, which was construed as organically conditioned and likened …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: How can anyone see straight when he does not even see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings? ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Para 140 Often it is just as well that we do not know the danger we escape when we rush in where angels fear to tread. ~Carl …

Carl Jung on the “Language of Dreams” and a Child’s later Life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the “Language of Dreams” and a Child’s later Life. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Without the word nearly (she says: “I nearly drown”) we would have to fear the worst. This little word, however, extenuates the seriousness of the prognosis a bit—it leaves a door open, and is a mere hint of the possibility of salvation. We can’t exactly deduce the dreamer’s difficulties from this dream, but it can …

Carl Jung: The Archetype in Dream Symbolism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The Archetype in Dream Symbolism - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The hypothesis we have advanced, that dreams serve the purpose of compensation, is a very broad and comprehensive assumption. It means that we believe the dream to be a normal psychic phenomenon that transmits unconscious reactions or spontaneous impulses to the conscious mind. Since only a small minority of dreams are manifestly compensatory, we must …

Ultimately every individual life is at the same time the eternal life of the species and the Life of Christ. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Ultimately every individual life is at the same time the eternal life of the species and the Life of Christ. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Ultimately every individual life is at the same time the eternal life of the species and the Life of Christ.] The life of Christ is understood by the Church on the one hand as historical, and on the other hand as an eternally existing mystery. This is especially evident in the sacrifice of the Mass. …

Carl Jung: Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise could it move matter? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how otherwise could it move matter? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [“Matter” comes from the root word “Mater” or “Mother” and is ultimately the “Great Mother” which gives form to all of Creation and consequently has historically been legitimately worthy of the highest respect and veneration. Sadly over recent centuries the role of “Matriarchy” has in many circles been an object of denigration. One can only …

Therefore after his death Christ had to journey to Hell... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Therefore after his death Christ had to journey to Hell... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Therefore after his death Christ had to journey to Hell, otherwise the ascent to Heaven would have become impossible for him. Christ first had to become his Antichrist, his under-worldly brother. No one knows what happened during the three days Christ was in Hell. I have experienced it. The men of yore said that he …

Carl Jung: The transitus means carrying a heavy burden. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The transitus means carrying a heavy burden. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr.Jung: I find here a number of questions. We will begin with one by Miss Howells: “Will you please discuss further the psychological experience of the transitus of modern man? How does he take into his new psychological experience the carrying of the religious symbol of sacrifice?” We spoke last time of the …

Barbara Hannah: The First World War 1914–1918 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Barbara Hannah: The First World War  1914–1918 - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Jung: His Life and His Work   The First World War  1914–1918 Although Jung was profoundly moved by the suffering and terror that had broken over Europe, he was naturally much relieved when he got back to his home on the lake after his difficult journey because the fear concerning his own sanity had been …

Carl Jung Foreword to Custance: “Wisdom, Madness and Folly” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Foreword to Custance: “Wisdom, Madness and Folly” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When I was working in 1906 on my book The Psychology of Dementia Praecox (as schizophrenia was then called), I never dreamt that in the succeeding half-century psychological investigation of the psychoses and their contents would make virtually no progress whatever. The dogma, or intellectual superstition, that only physical causes are valid still bars the …

Foreword to Jung: "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Galled Occult Phenomena" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Foreword to Jung: "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Galled Occult Phenomena" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The essays collected together in this little volume were written over a period of thirty years, the first in 1902 and the last in 1932.   The reason why I am bringing them out together is that all three are concerned with certain borderline problems of the human psyche, the question of the soul’s existence …

Carl Jung: I, your soul, am your mother, who tenderly and frightfully surrounds you... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I, your soul, am your mother, who tenderly and frightfully surrounds you... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I, your soul, am your mother, who tenderly and frightfully surrounds you, your nourisher and corrupter; I prepare good things and poison for you. I am your intercessor with Abraxas. I teach you the arts that protect you from Abraxas. I stand between you and Abraxas the all-encompassing. I am your body, your shadow, your …

Therefore after his death Christ had to journey to Hell... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Therefore after his death Christ had to journey to Hell... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Therefore after his death Christ had to journey to Hell, otherwise the ascent to Heaven would have become impossible for him. Christ first had to become his Antichrist, his under-worldly brother. No one knows what happened during the three days Christ was in Hell. I have experienced it. The men of yore said that he …

Carl Jung on "Thoughts" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on "Thoughts" - Anthology - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: My soul: “Who gives you thoughts and words? Do you make them? Are you not my serf a recipient who lies at my door and picks up my alms? And you dare think that what you devise and speak could be nonsense? Don’t you know yet that it comes from me and belongs to …

...the guiding figure behind Liber Novus, “was the same who inspired Buddha, Mani, Christ, Mahomet... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

...the guiding figure behind Liber Novus, “was the same who inspired Buddha, Mani, Christ, Mahomet... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “…that the guiding figure behind Liber Novus, “was the same who inspired Buddha, Mani, Christ, Mahomet—all those who may be said to have communed withGod.” (LN 213). ~Lance Owens & Stephen Hoeller, C. G. Jung and The Red Book: Liber Novus – Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. JANUARY 26,1924 You had the night before had …

Carl Jung: There is no such thing as an "absolute proof"; - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: There is no such thing as an "absolute proof"; - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To E. A. Bennet My dear Bennet, 3 June 1960 Thank you very much for your kind reply and your interesting article about “Individualism in Psychotherapy”-a very useful paper in the actual circumstances. There seems to be some misunderstanding of terms: by “applicability of a theory” I don’t mean its practical application in therapy, …

The imago Dei embodied in Christ... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The imago Dei embodied in Christ... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “There can be no doubt that the original Christian conception of the imago Dei embodied in Christ meant an all-embracing totality that even includes the animal side of man. Nevertheless the Christ-symbol lacks wholeness in the modern psychological sense, since it does not include the dark side of things but specifically excludes it in the …

Instruction ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Instruction ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Elijah reviving the Son of the Widow of Zarephath by Louis Hersent On the following night I was led to a second image: I am standing in the rocky depth that seems to me like a crater. Before me I see the house with columns. I see Salome walking along the length of the wall toward the left, …

Resolution ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Resolution ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In the third night, deep longing to continue experiencing the mysteries seized me. The struggle between doubt and desire was great in me. But suddenly I saw that I stood before a steep ridge in a wasteland. It is a dazzling bright day I catch sight of the prophet high above me. His hand makes …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: There are things which are simply incomprehensible to the tough brains of our race and time. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Page 190 Those are the reasons why I prefer not to communicate too many of my experiences. They would confront the scientific world with too upsetting problems. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Page 190 …

Carl Jung on the scientific proof of Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the scientific proof of Archetypes - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To E . A. Bennet My dear Bennet, 22 May 1960 Thank you very much for your kind review of my Aion. There is only one remark I do not quite understand. Speaking of the hypothesis of archetypes, you say that there is no scientific proof of them yet. A scientific hypothesis is …

Jesus Christ was probably a definite human person... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Jesus Christ was probably a definite human person... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “As far as I can judge from the documents of Christian tradition, Jesus Christ was probably a definite human person, yet highly enveloped in archetypal projections, more so that other historical figures like Buddha, Confucius, Lao-tse, Pythagoras, etc., inasmuch as Christ represents an archetypal image (he is of divine nature and thus the “son of …

Carl Jung on the value of Dogma. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung on the value of Dogma. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung on the value of Dogma. I have capitalized the words Dr. Jung italicized for emphasis.] It may not be quite clear why I call certain dogmas “immediate experiences,” since in itself a dogma is the very thing that precludes immediate experience. Yet the Christian images I have mentioned are not peculiar to Christianity …

Carl Jung Review of Sadger: "Konrad Ferdinand Meyer." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Review of Sadger: "Konrad Ferdinand Meyer." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The new art of writing biographies from the psychological point of view has already produced a number of moderately successful studies. One has only to think of Mobius on Goethe, Schopenhauer, Schumann, and Nietzsche, and Lange on Holderlin. Among these “pathographies,” Sadger’s book occupies an exceptional position. It does not stand out because of a …

Mysterium Encounter ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Mysterium Encounter ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Titian, c 1515 (Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome) On the night when I considered the essence of the God, I became aware of an image: I lay in a dark depth. An old man stood before me. He looked like one of the old prophets. A black serpent lay at …

Carl Jung “The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves…” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung “The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves…” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung “The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves…”] Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. …

Carl Jung “The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves…” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung “The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves…” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung “The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves…”] Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The “newness” in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components. …

Carl Jung: "Dream Analysis Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Dream Analysis Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Rosicrucians probably represented a half-baked attempt to make up for the dry Protestantism of that day with its lack of imagination. ~Carl Jung, Dream Analysis Seminar, Page 240 Henri IV of France said, “My ideal is that every French peasant has his chicken in the pot on Sunday.” I say, “Every man must be …

Conception of God ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Conception of God ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A sperm cell fertilising an ovum On the second night thereafter, I spoke to my soul and said, “This new world appears weak and artificial to me. Artificial is a bad word, but the mustard seed that grew into a tree, the word that was conceived in the womb of a virgin, became a God to whom the earth …

Carl Jung Marginal Notes on Wittels: “Sexual Privation” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Marginal Notes on Wittels: “Sexual Privation” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: This book is written with as much passion as intelligence. It discusses such questions as abortion, syphilis, the family, the child, women, and professions for women. Its motto is: “Human beings must live out their sexuality, otherwise their lives will be warped.” Accordingly, Wittels lifts up his voice for the liberation of sexuality in the …

Carl Jung: CW 9ii "Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 9ii "Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: With her cunning play of illusions the soul lures into life the inertness of matter that does not want to live. She makes us believe incredible things, that life may be lived. ~Carl Jung, CW 9ii, Pages 26-27 Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his …

Carl Jung: "ETH Lectures" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "ETH Lectures" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A dog does not know that it is a dog any more than a star knows that it is a star. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lectures, Pages 217-223 The fact that Christ is regarded as male and female is extremely important, because it lays the foundation for the transcendent function, the reconciliation of the opposites. ~Carl …

Carl Jung: CW 4 "Freud and Psychoanalysis" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 4 "Freud and Psychoanalysis" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: One could almost say that if all the world’s traditions were cut off at a single blow, the whole of mythology and the whole history of religion would start all over again with the next generation. ~Carl Jung , CW 4, Para 30 Error is just as important a condition of life’s progress as truth. …

Carl Jung: CW 2 "The Psychogenesis of Mental Illness" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 2 "The Psychogenesis of Mental Illness" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In practice I must allow for the existence of two groups of schizophrenia: one with a weak consciousness and the other with a strong unconscious. ~Carl Jung, CW 3, Para 531 What the artist and the insane have in common is common also to every human being—a restless creative fantasy which is constantly engaged in …

Carl Jung "Collected Letters Volume I: 1906-1950" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung "Collected Letters Volume I: 1906-1950" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Actually you shouldn’t want to have visions, they should just come to “May it be good, happy, favorable, and propitious.” ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 111. Wanting to know the truth is also a striving for power and pleasure. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 111. The so-called “psychic” reactions of lower organisms are …

Carl Jung: CW 5 "Symbols of Transformation" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 5 "Symbols of Transformation" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The same is true of the religious attitude: it must be fully conscious of itself and of its foundations if it is to signify anything more than unconscious imitation. ~Carl Jung, CW 5, Para 106 When the libido leaves the bright upper world, whether from choice, or from inertia, or from fate, it sinks back …

Carl Jung: CW 9i "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 9i "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Over and over again in the “metamorphosis of the gods,” he rises up as the prophet or first-born of a new generation and appears unexpectedly in the unlikeliest places (sprung from a stone, tree, furrow, water, etc.) and in ambiguous form (Tom Thumb, dwarf, child, animal, and so on). ~Carl Jung, CW 9i, Para 267 …

Carl Jung attempts to get Americans to give Indian all the rights of American Citizens. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung attempts to get Americans to give Indian all the rights of American Citizens. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Antonio Mirabal My dear friend Mountain Lake, 21 October 1932 It was very nice of you indeed that you wrote a letter to me. I thought you had quite forgotten me. It is very good that this woman from California has come to see you and to remember you of myself. It …

Carl Jung: CW 6 "Psychological Types" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 6 "Psychological Types" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The more “eternal” a truth, the more lifeless it is and worthless; it says nothing more to us because it is self-evident. ~Carl Jung, CW 6, Para 87 Before [individuation] can be taken as a goal, the educational aim of adaptation to the necessary minimum of collective norms must first be attained. If a plant …

The danger that a mythology understood too literally... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The danger that a mythology understood too literally... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “The danger that a mythology understood too literally, and as taught by the Church, will suddenly be repudiated lock, stock and barrel is today greater than ever. Is it not time that the Christian mythology, instead of being wiped out, was understood symbolically for once? ~C.G Jung “The Undiscovered Self,” CW vol. 10, par. 521.

Murder of the Hero ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Murder of the Hero ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Sir Galahad, a hero of Arthurian legend, detail of a painting by George Frederic Watts On the following night, however, I had a vision: I was with a youth in high mountains. It was before daybreak, the Eastern sky was already light. Then Siegfried’s horn resounded over the mountains with a jubilant sound. We knew that our mortal enemy …

The danger that a mythology understood too literally... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The danger that a mythology understood too literally... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “The danger that a mythology understood too literally, and as taught by the Church, will suddenly be repudiated lock, stock and barrel is today greater than ever. Is it not time that the Christian mythology, instead of being wiped out, was understood symbolically for once? ~C.G Jung “The Undiscovered Self,” CW vol. 10, par. 521.

Carl Jung: Alchemy sets itself the task of acquiring this 'treasure hard to attain' - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Alchemy sets itself the task of acquiring this 'treasure hard to attain' - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Alchemy sets itself the task of acquiring this ‘treasure hard to attain’ and of producing it in visible form. — Carl Jung The treasure which the hero fetches from the dark cavern is LIFE; it his himself, new-born from the dark maternal cave of the unconscious where he was stranded by the introversion or …

Carl Jung: Splitting of the Spirit - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: Splitting of the Spirit - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: A vision of Hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy. Illustration by Gustave Doré. But on the fourth night I cried, “To journey to Hell means to become Hell oneself It is all frightfully muddled and interwoven.  On this desert path there …

Dream Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dream Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Hypnos and Thanatos, Sleep and His Half-Brother Death, an 1874 painting by John William Waterhouse Dream Quotations: The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego consciousness, and which will remain psyche no …

Carl Jung: CW 8 "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 8 "The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The dream rectifies the situation. It contributes the material that was lacking and thereby improves the patient’s attitude. That is the reason we need dream-analysis in our therapy. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 482. Often the hands know how to solve a riddle with which the intellect has wrestled in vain. ~Carl Jung, CW 8, …

Carl Jung: CW 12 "Psychology and Alchemy" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 12 "Psychology and Alchemy" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Suffocation of the personality and an impotent Christianity that may well have received its death-wound—such is the unadorned balance-sheet of our time. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Para 559 However we may picture the relationship between God and soul, one thing is certain: The soul cannot be “nothing but. ” On the contrary it has the …

Carl Jung: CW 11 "Psychology and Religion" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 11 "Psychology and Religion" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In reality the orthodox Christian formula is not quite complete, because the dogmatic aspect of the evil principle is absent from the Trinity and leads a more or less awkward existence on its own as the devil. ~Carl Jung, CW 11, Page 59. It was, indeed, a great problem to the Middle Ages, this problem …

How do they know that the unconscious is “lower” and not “higher” than the conscious? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

How do they know that the unconscious is “lower” and not “higher” than the conscious? - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The great advantage of scientific abstraction is that it gives us a key to the mysterious processes enacted behind the scenes, where, leaving the colorful world of the theatre behind us, we enter into the ultimate reality of psychic dynamism and psychic meaningfulness. This knowledge strips the unconscious processes of all epiphenomenality and allows them …

Carl Jung and Gnostic Fragments - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and Gnostic Fragments - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Gnostic Quotations involving Gnosticism by Carl Jung: Further, according to an early Christian-Gnostic idea, the spirit which appeared in the form of a dove was interpreted as Sophia-Sapientia—Wisdom and the Mother of Christ. Thanks to this motif of the dual birth, children today, instead of having good and evil fairies who magically “adopt” them at …

Carl Jung: "Kundalini Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Kundalini Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In Sahasrara there is no difference. The next conclusion could be that there is no object, no God, there is nothing but Brahman. There is no experience because it is One, without a second. It is asleep, it is not, and that is why it is nirvana. ~Carl Jung, Kundalini Seminars, Page 59. We are …

Carl Jung: "Collected Letters Volume II" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Collected Letters Volume II" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol II, Page 363. The “secret of life” is my life, which is enacted round about me, my …

Carl Jung and the Death of his Mother and Bollingen Tower - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and the Death of his Mother and Bollingen Tower - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: After my wife’s death In 1955, I felt an inner obligation to become what I myself am. To put it in the language of the Bollingen house, I suddenly realized that the small central section which crouched so low, so hidden, was myself! I could no longer hide myself behind the “maternal” and the “spiritual” …

Carl Jung: CW 16 "The Practice of Psychotherapy" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: CW 16 "The Practice of Psychotherapy" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: An exclusively sexual interpretation of dreams and fantasies is a shocking violation of the patient’s psychological material: infantile-sexual fantasy is by no means the whole story, since the material also contains a creative element, the purpose of which is to shape a way out of the neurosis. ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 277. Medical treatment …

Marie Louise Von Franz on meeting Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Marie Louise Von Franz on meeting Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Marie Louise Von Franz on meeting Carl Jung] VON FRANZ: I met him when I was eighteen. And I began in the year later in ’34: I began analysis with him. We went out there to the tower, and out of the bushes suddenly–we were standing around, kind of, you know awkwardly, as one does, …

Carl Jung: "Meetings with Jung" by E.A. Bennet - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Meetings with Jung" by E.A. Bennet - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: He [Jung] always treated Freud with respect and called him Professor. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Pages 69-75. He [Jung] mentioned that in free association tests breathing was restricted when a complex was touched and that this could be related to TB. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 74 He [Jung] listened daily to the …

Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz on "Alchemy" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz on "Alchemy" - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: From Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz (Alchemy, excerpts from p. 94-97): “A study of primitive civilizations shows their religious attitude towards life as being something completely self-evident. Religion was not separated from the profane, everyday life, but the self-evident basis of everything done, believed, and said. In his primitive condition, man is naturally religious …

Daryl Sharp Obituary - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Daryl Sharp Obituary - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Daryl Sharp Obituary

The Desert ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Desert ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Makhtesh Ramon, Negev desert, Israel Sixth night. My soul leads me into the desert, into the desert of my own self I did not think that my soul is a desert, a barren, hot desert, dusty and without drink. The journey leads through hot sand, slowly wading without a visible goal to hope for? How eerie is this wasteland. …

Carl Jung and the Women of India - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and the Women of India - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: I had a chance at these [dinners and receptions] to talk to educated Indian women. This was a novelty. Their costume stamps them as women. It is the most becoming, the most stylish and, at the same time, the most meaningful dress ever devised by women. I hope fervently that the sexual disease of the …

Carl Jung Review of Wulffen” “The Sexual Offender” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Review of Wulffen” “The Sexual Offender” - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Wulffen’s comprehensive account of sexual misdemeanours is not confined merely to criminal case histories but seeks to get at the psychological and social foundations of the offence. Two hundred and fifty pages alone are devoted to sexual biology in general, sexual psychology, characterology, and pathology. In the chapter on sexual psychology the author himself will …

Carl Jung: "Children's Dreams Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Children's Dreams Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Around the eighth year there is a transition to ego consciousness, as we have already seen in previous children’s dreams. The child breaks away from the extremely close relatedness with the familial milieu; he has already acquired a certain experience of the world, and the libido, which had up to then been tied to the …

Not only did Dr. Jung write "The Red Book" but did so in full Gothic Calligraphy. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Not only did Dr. Jung write "The Red Book" but did so in full Gothic Calligraphy. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Not only did Dr. Jung write “The Red Book” but did so in full Gothic Calligraphy. “After Jung ceased making entries into The Red Book in 1930, he took it up a final time in 1959, to enter only a one-page epilogue, written in modern cursive script. This final entry seems to anticipate that the …

Service of the Soul ~Carl Jung, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Service of the Soul ~Carl Jung, - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: God the Father by Cima da Conegliano, c. 1515 On the following night I had to write down all the dreams that I could recollect, true to their wording. The meaning of this act was dark to me. Why all this? Forgive the fuss that rises in me. Yet you want me to do this. What strange things are …

Carl Jung: "The Red Book" [Liber Novus] - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "The Red Book" [Liber Novus] - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Not your thinking, but your essence, is differentiation. Therefore you must not strive for what you conceive as distinctiveness, but for your own essence. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely the striving for one’s own essence. ~Carl Jung; The Red Book, Page 348. Good and bad must always be united first if …

Carl Jung and the Soul "as a living and self-existing being." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung and the Soul "as a living and self-existing being." - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [Carl Jung and the Soul “as a living and self-existing being.”] The spirit of the depths forced me to say this and at the same time to undergo it against myself, since I had not expected it then. I still labored misguidedly under the spirit of this time, and thought differently about the human soul. …

Carl Jung: "Man and His Symbols" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Man and His Symbols" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: . . . inner motives spring from a deep source that is not made by consciousness and is not under its control. In the mythology of earlier times, these forces were called mana, or spirits, demons, and gods. They are as active today as ever. If they go against us, then we say that it …

Richard Noll’s 1992-1994 Letters to Sonu Shamdasani - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Richard Noll’s 1992-1994 Letters to Sonu Shamdasani - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Richard Noll’s 1992-1994 Letters to Sonu Shamdasani ABSTRACT: Richard Noll is a historian of psychiatry who wrote two controversial volumes on C.G. Jung in the 1990s: The Jung Cult (1994) and The Aryan Christ (1997). A third volume, Mysteria, was also set for publication by Princeton University Press (1994/1995), but was suppressed at …

I am not addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

I am not addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “I am not, however, addressing myself to the happy possessors of faith, but to those many people for whom the light has gone out, the mystery has faded, and God is dead. For most of them there is no going back, and one does not know either whether going back is always the better way, …

Psychological truth by no means excludes metaphysical truth... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Psychological truth by no means excludes metaphysical truth... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The religious myth is one of man’s greatest and most significant achievements, giving him the security and inner strength not to be crushed by the monstrousness of the universe. Considered from the standpoint of realism, the symbol is not of course an external truth, but it is psychologically true, for it was and is the …

Carl Jung: "Analytical Psychology 1925 Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Analytical Psychology 1925 Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Life is never so beautiful as when surrounded by death. ~Carl Jung, Seminar 1925, Page 85 In my own case the release of the unconscious was demanded. The conscious had become practically a tabula rasa, and the contents underneath had to be freed. ~Carl Jung, 1925 Seminar, Page 55 The criterion of art is that …

Carl Jung: "Memories Dreams and Reflections" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: "Memories Dreams and Reflections" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In the beginning I employed hypnosis in my private practice also, but I soon gave it up because in using it one is only groping in the dark. ~Carl Jung, Memories Dreams and Reflections, Pages 119-120 Myth is the revelation of divine life in man. It is not we who invent myth; rather it speaks …

Carl Jung "Basel Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung "Basel Seminar" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “Love thy neighbour” is wonderful, since we then have nothing to do about ourselves; but when it is a question of “love thy neighbour as thyself” we are no longer so sure, for we think it would be egoism to love ourselves. There was no need to preach “love thyself” to people in olden times, …

Carl Jung: What I have heard from the theological side has readied me for a special compartment in hell. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: What I have heard from the theological side has readied me for a special compartment in hell. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To Margaret Sittler Dear Frau Sittler, 29 March 1960 I was naturally overjoyed to have such interesting news from you. As with every author, one does not live from air and bread alone but now and then needs a bit of moral encouragement. Unfortunately I am not very well up in English belles …

Carl Jung Quotations [IV] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Quotations [IV] - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The Great Mother is impregnated by the loneliness of him that seeks her. ~Carl Jung to Hermann Hesse, Letters Volume 1, Pages 573-574. A good book, like every proper human life, must have an ending. ~Carl Jung to Hermann Hesse, Letters Volume 1, Pages 573-574. Through the self we are plunged into the …

Carl Jung "Modern Man in Search of a Soul" Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung "Modern Man in Search of a Soul" Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Whenever the creative force predominates, human life is ruled and molded by the unconscious as against the active will, and the conscious ego is swept along on a subterranean current, being nothing more than a helpless observer of events.” Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul; Pages 168-171. I . . . regard …

A Few Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

A Few Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: On the side of physics it was Pauli alone who appreciated alchemical thought very highly. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 535. My shadow is indeed so huge that I could not possibly overlook it in the plan of my life; in fact I had to see it as an essential part of my personality …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Concerning your view about Hatha-Yoga I can confirm your ideas entirely. Yoga as well as other “mystical” practices imitate nature and that explains their efficacy. Yoga postures are imitations of catatonic gestures, postures and mannerisms. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 498. One could say that the classical catatonic condition is a fixed or congealed …

By the term "religion"I do not mean the creed... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

By the term "religion"I do not mean the creed... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: “I want to make clear that  by the term” religion “I do not mean the creed. It is, However, true that every creed is originally based on the one hand upon the experience of the numinosum …

The Book that took Dr. Jung away from "The Red Book" aka "Liber Novus - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

The Book that took Dr. Jung away from "The Red Book" aka "Liber Novus - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: [I worked on this book [The Red Book] for 16 years. My acquaintance with alchemy in 1930 took me away from it. The beginning of the end came in 1928, when Wilhelm sent me the text of the “Golden Flower,” an alchemical treatise. There the contents of this book,found their way into actuality and I …

C.G. Jung: "Interviews and Encounters" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

C.G. Jung: "Interviews and Encounters" - Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: In everyone some kind of artist is hiding. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 38-46 Biographies should show people in their undershirts. Goethe had his weaknesses, and Calvin was often cruel. Considerations of this kind reveal the true greatness of a man. This way of looking at things is better than false …

Carl Jung: I try to accept life and death. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: I try to accept life and death. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: To the Mother Prioress of a Contemplative Order Reverend Mother, 26 March 1960 Many thanks for your kind report about Father Victor! I am still shaken by this stroke of fate which has felled him. According to the experience and knowledge of medical science the verdict seems to be absolute, yet, in order …

Refinding the Soul ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Refinding the Soul ~Carl Jung - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: When I beheld the vision of the flood in October of the year 1913, it happened at a time that was significant for me as a man.  At that time, in the fortieth year of my life, I had achieved everything that I had wished for myself I had achieved honor, power, wealth,knowledge, and every human …

Carl Jung: You cling to "believing is knowing," and I must always be the loser ... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: You cling to "believing is knowing," and I must always be the loser ... - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dear Dr. Martin,                                                                            7 December 1954 It is very kind of you to submit your manuscript to me for an opinion. I have taken the liberty of marking it with numbers in pencil where a change in the text seems necessary. You “know” of that which is beyond the psyche only through belief, not through …

Zen and Death: Jung’s Final Experience - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Zen and Death: Jung’s Final Experience - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Zen and Death: Jung’s Final Experience This lecture was delivered at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles in 2003 as part of a series on mortificatio, the alchemical process of psychological or inner death inherent in such diminishing experiences as depression, illness, failure, aging, and dying. Good evening. “Death,” Jung wrote in 1945 …

Carl Jung: The serious problems in life, however, are never fully solved. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: The serious problems in life, however, are never fully solved. - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: The serious problems in life, however, are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost. The meaning and purpose of a problem seem to lie not in its solution but in our working at it incessantly. This alone preserves us from stultification …

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Some Carl Jung Quotations - Carl Jung Depth Psychology: It [Individuation] does indeed, as you say, make considerable demands on our constitution. It goes to the very limit, but no further. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 479. Most people cannot reach their destinies anyway without a streak of craziness, and so long as they haven’t it is better not to exorcize their demons. …