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That religious experiences exist no longer needs proof.

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Carl Jung: “The counterpart of sentimentality is as we know brutality.”

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Carl Jung on the Symbol of Losing Teeth

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Some people feel that nobody should read the book…

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Carl Jung: Sometimes a patient becomes greatly outraged at the mere possibility of a dream or a fantasy having a sexual content,

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”More especially the threat to one’s inmost self from dragons and serpents…

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Carl Jung: “Believe me, I often think of you and I often wish I could see you again.”

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Carl Jung on the importance of Painting.

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Carl Jung: Hiawatha wrestles with himself in order to create himself.

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Carl Jung: “…the lowest layers of our psyche still have an animal character.”

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One cannot individuate without being with other human beings.

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Carl Jung: the anima is an allurement to an intensification of life.

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Carl Jung: the anima is an allurement to an intensification of life.

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Some Carl Jung Quotations

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It is important to have a secret, a premonition of things unknown.

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Carl Jung: The four colours attributed to the functions are based on certain feeling values

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The unity of the stone is the equivalent of individuation…

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Carl Jung on the “Tree.”

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Carl Jung: I got remarks of a new character—I was in analysis with a ghost and a woman.

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Carl Jung: In the evening I light the old lamps…

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Carl Jung warns against the use of even non-addictive drugs by Americans.

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In America, especially, one blames me for my so-called mysticism.

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Carl Jung: "… When I treat Catholics who are suffering from neurosis…"

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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

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Carl Jung: The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life.

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Carl Jung and "Aion."

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Carl Jung “Psychological treatment cannot rid you of the basic facts of your nature;…

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Carl Jung: The idol betokens a regression to the unconscious…

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Carl Jung: I cannot and shall not exclude non-Aryan speakers.

Carl Jung: I cannot and shall not exclude non-Aryan speakers.: To Eric Benjamin Strauss Dear Dr. Strauss, 26 March 1938 Thank you for your letter. I shall answer it more fully when I have Professor Goring’s reply. As you know pars. 2, 3, an…

Carl Jung: It is my fate however, not my choice, and I had to fulfill this unbecoming role.

Carl Jung: It is my fate however, not my choice, and I had to fulfill this unbecoming role.: To Father Victor White My dear Victor, 30 April 1960 I have heard of your illness and I should have liked to come to England to see you, but I have to be careful with my own health an…

Carl Jung: There is a tendency among some people to make the unconscious carry what properly belongs to the conscious…

Carl Jung: There is a tendency among some people to make the unconscious carry what properly belongs to the conscious…: Dr. Jung: But even if all four functions are in operation, there are things that are forgotten, and the unconscious contains these and this always upsets the functioning of the u…

Carl Jung on "Archetypes" and "Patterns of Behavior."

Carl Jung on "Archetypes" and "Patterns of Behavior.": To Henri FlournoyDear Colleague, 29 March 1949I have just read your sympathetic report of my work with particular pleasure. Thank you for the interest you have been good enough to take in the objec…

Shield Men From Her ~Carl Jung

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Carl Jung on the Mandala as a collective phenomenon

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Some Carl Jung Quotations

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To be fully Conscious is Possible~Carl Jung

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Carl Jung: The dream you report, of a patient looking through a microscope at a lot of little worms that cause her illness,

Carl Jung: The dream you report, of a patient looking through a microscope at a lot of little worms that cause her illness,: To Erich Neumann Dear Colleague, 4 April 1938 While sending you best thanks for your friendly letter of last July I must apologize for not having answered it until now. It arrived just befor…

Carl Jung: Elijah and Salome are together because they are pairs of opposites.

Carl Jung: Elijah and Salome are together because they are pairs of opposites.: This atmosphere was around Salome, and to hear Elijah declare that he was always in that company shocked me profoundly. Elijah and Salome are together because they are pairs of opposi…

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Carl Jung and dream of the “Arab.”

Carl Jung and dream of the “Arab.”: To Alice Lewisohn CrowleyMy dear Mrs. Crowley, 20 July 1942Your dream of June 26th-the Arab-has anticipated several of my dreams this month, in which I was in Africa, I myself wearing a long shoka …

Carl Jung: Elijah and Salome are together because they are pairs of opposites.

Carl Jung: Elijah and Salome are together because they are pairs of opposites.: This atmosphere was around Salome, and to hear Elijah declare that he was always in that company shocked me profoundly. Elijah and Salome are together because they are pairs of opposi…

Joseph B. Wheelwright Jung’s Influence on the American Scene

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Carl Jung: I would like now to try to present to you something about the psychology of women..

Carl Jung: I would like now to try to present to you something about the psychology of women..: “I would like now to try to present to you something about the psychology of women, using this same diagram, with a few changes (see Diagram 4 in comments). We may say that the …

Carl Jung: " Music certainly has to do with the collective unconscious…"

Carl Jung: " Music certainly has to do with the collective unconscious…": [Carl Jung on Music and the Collective Unconscious] To Serge Moreux Dear M. Moreux, 20 January 1950 While I thank you for your kind letter, I must tell you that unfortunately I am obl…

Carl Jung: Something like a careful shaping of images, such as many patients paint or carve in wood or stone.

Carl Jung: Something like a careful shaping of images, such as many patients paint or carve in wood or stone.: To Dr. S. Dear Colleague, 10 May 1938 In the confrontation with the unconscious there are indeed a considerable number of arid patches to be worked through. They cannot be circumvented. At s…

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Carl Jung on the “Objective Psyche.”

Carl Jung on the “Objective Psyche.”: Carl Jung and Jolandi JacobiMichael Fordham[Carl Jung on the “Objective Psyche.”]Dear Dr. Jacobi, 15 April 1948I understand what Fordham means but it doesn’t agree at all with my view of the …

Carl Jung on Symbolic Love.

Carl Jung on Symbolic Love.: Dear Fraulein Kaufmann, 30 April 1936I cannot possibly answer your question in a letter. I think you would do best to take the whole problem of love as a miracu lum per gratiam Dei which nobody rea…

Books by Irene Champernowne [Jungian]

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Self-Reflection

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Carl Jung: The Gothic style is also in a way hysterical…

Carl Jung: The Gothic style is also in a way hysterical…: This story makes one understand the extraordinary feeling for the material in old Chinese sculpture: the material spoke to them. And it seems as if the marble in old Greek sculpture told the…

Carl Jung: “A Rejoinder to Dr. Bally” [A response to charges of Anti-Semitism]

Carl Jung: “A Rejoinder to Dr. Bally” [A response to charges of Anti-Semitism]: A REJOINDER TO DR. BALLY 1016 1 wish to discuss no surmises with Dr. Bally, but prefer to report the facts which led me to take over the editorship of the Zentralblatt filr Psychotherapie. About th…

Gershom Scholem’s Letter to Aniela Jaffe

Gershom Scholem’s Letter to Aniela Jaffe: Dear Mrs. Jaffe: Jerusalem 7 May 1963 As you are so interested in the story of Baeck and Jung, I will write it down for your benefit and have no objection to being cited by you in this matter. In t…

Carl Jung on the dream of Wilhelm Laiblin

Carl Jung on the dream of Wilhelm Laiblin: [Carl Jung on the dream of Wilhelm Laiblin]Dear Herr Laiblin, 19 March 1934Best thanks for your letter, which interested me very much. Also for your two open letters to the bishop.As to your dream,…

How many will God break?

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Books by C.A. Meier "Jungian"

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Tina Keller: “The Radiant One”

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A Dreams of a Four-Year-Old Girl

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Clare Thompson Jung’s Contribution From the Point of View of a Psychologist

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Carl Jung: It is only possible to live as we should if we live according to our own nature.

Carl Jung: It is only possible to live as we should if we live according to our own nature.: Our starting point is the lake which is a mirroring surface hiding the unconscious. We come to a lake or a pond in almost every journey to the underworld. There are many mediaeval exa…

Carl Jung on the Shattered Knife

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Carl Jung’s Epitaph

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Joseph B. Wheelwright: An Attempt at Appreciation

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Tina Keller: “My Religious Development”

Tina Keller: “My Religious Development”: Essay 1:  “My Religious Development”   My Religion has always been essential to me.   I would define it as the possibility of the small human being to make contact with “divine…

Carl Jung on Ignatius and Prayer

Carl Jung on Ignatius and Prayer: To return to the biography of Ignatius: from Manresa he went to Barcelona and in 1523 he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He took no money with him but begged his way. He was only …

Carl Jung Books

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All opposites are of God……….

All opposites are of God……….: Our aim is to create a wider personality whose center of gravity does not necessarily coincide with the ego, but which, on the contrary, may even thwart the ego-tendencies. Like a magnet, the new c…

Carl Jung: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play…

Carl Jung: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play…: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy any creat…

Carl Jung: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play…

Carl Jung: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play…: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy any creat…

Carl Jung: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play…

Carl Jung: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play…: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy any creat…

Carl Jung: The animus is in this respect rather difficult to deal with because it is a plurality.

Carl Jung: The animus is in this respect rather difficult to deal with because it is a plurality.: The animus is in this respect rather difficult to deal with because it is a plurality. One can compare the animus, as I have said, to a group of people, a court, or a limited company,…

Essay On Wotan By Dr. Carl Jung

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Carl Jung: You know that I am still under the suspicion of being a secret Nazi agent despite all I say or do.

Carl Jung: You know that I am still under the suspicion of being a secret Nazi agent despite all I say or do.: To Hugh Crichton-Miller My dear Crichton-Miller, 28 June 1939 I have seen the list of the English delegates which Dr. Strauss has sent to our secretary. I was surprised not to find on…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: Jung wrote to Erich Neumann: ”In the case of bad books, it is enough that they get written. Good books, however, want to realize themselves and begin to pose questions which one would rather …

A sun that is endowed with human feeling and man’s limited consciousness.

A sun that is endowed with human feeling and man’s limited consciousness.: Take for comparison the daily course of the sun – but a sun that is endowed with human feeling and man’s limited consciousness. In the morning it rises from the nocturnal sea of unconsc…

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Carl Jung: I was enchanted by this sight-it was a picture of something utterly alien and outside my experience,

Carl Jung: I was enchanted by this sight-it was a picture of something utterly alien and outside my experience,: Twenty-five years later, when Jung wass in Central Africa, he was reminded of those experiments by a typical chain of associations. On the train journey from Mombassa to Nairobi, he beheld a browni…

Books by Sonu Shamdasani [Jungian]

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Memoirs of Tina Keller “Quotations”

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Carl Jung: One could describe these movements . . . as levitation…

Carl Jung: One could describe these movements . . . as levitation…: In 1961, the year of his death, looking back on the phenomena he had observed, Jung wrote in a letter: “I have seen objects moving that were not directly touched, and moreover under absolutely sati…

Uniting with the Self we reach the God

Uniting with the Self we reach the God: Through uniting with the Self we reach the God.I must say this, not with reference to the opinions of the ancients or this or that authority; but because I have experienced it. It has happened thus…

Carl Jung: But what is outside time is, according to our understanding, outside change.

Carl Jung: But what is outside time is, according to our understanding, outside change.: In a letter of May 1960, he wrote that in so far as the psyche is capable of telepathic and precognitive perceptions it exists, at least in part, in a “continuum outside time and space,&#8221…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: We had been sitting on the terrace shortly before his death, after a stroke had made speaking infinitely difficult for him. Even then he wanted to be told about what was going on in the world, abou…

Rene Guenon: The Principle of Individuation

Rene Guenon: The Principle of Individuation: The natures of space and time have now been dealt with adequately for the purpose in view, but it is necessary to return to the subject of ‘matter” in order to examine a question not so far m…

Carl Jung letter to Aniela Jaffe

Carl Jung letter to Aniela Jaffe: [Carl Jung letter to Aniela Jaffe]To Aniela JaffeDear Frau Jaffe, Bollingen, 22 December 1942Heartiest thanks for the very welcome and edible Christmas present you have destined for me. I hope you …

Carl Jung: It is also the smile of Mona Lisa.

Carl Jung: It is also the smile of Mona Lisa.: If you notice Luther’s face you can find that he is not quite modern, but belonged to the time before the Reformation also.He has still in a way the Gothic look and the Gothic mouth.There is combin…

If we wish to stay on the heights…

If we wish to stay on the heights…: If we wish to stay on the heights we have reached, we must struggle all the time to consolidate our consciousness and its attitude. But we soon discover that this praiseworthy and app…

If we wish to stay on the heights…

If we wish to stay on the heights…: If we wish to stay on the heights we have reached, we must struggle all the time to consolidate our consciousness and its attitude. But we soon discover that this praiseworthy and app…

Carl Jung: If we can look at a picture of the god long enough, he nods.

Carl Jung: If we can look at a picture of the god long enough, he nods.: If we can look at a picture of the god long enough, he nods. When I was a child it was my Sunday treat to go and visit an aunt and watch a picture of hers, a clergyman, in the act of …

Carl Jung: If we can look at a picture of the god long enough, he nods.

Carl Jung: If we can look at a picture of the god long enough, he nods.: If we can look at a picture of the god long enough, he nods. When I was a child it was my Sunday treat to go and visit an aunt and watch a picture of hers, a clergyman, in the act of …

Earlier Temples ~Carl Jung

Earlier Temples ~Carl Jung: Yet another new adventure occurred: wide meadows spread out before me-a carpet of flowers-soft hills-a fresh green wood in the distance. I come across two strange journeymen probably two completely…

Carl Jung to Hermann Hesse: "Naturally we shouldn’t quarrel about words."

Carl Jung to Hermann Hesse: "Naturally we shouldn’t quarrel about words.": Image: Miguel Serrano and Hermann HesseTo Hermann HesseDear Herr Hesse, 1 October 1934Best thanks for your detailed answer!Naturally we shouldn’t quarrel about words. Nevertheless I would not…

Carl Jung’s letter to Hermann Hesse on “Demian.”

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Carl Jung Quotations “Jung’s Last Years” by Aniela Jaffe

Carl Jung Quotations “Jung’s Last Years” by Aniela Jaffe: I was expected, Jung explained, never under any circumstances to allow myself to be irritated by his anger, nor by his occasional “grumbling,” his roarings and cursings! ~Aniela Jaffe, …

Carl Jung: Your ear troubles are very distressing.

Carl Jung: Your ear troubles are very distressing.: To Dr. S.Dear Colleague, 15 July 1939I am here again in October and can see you then.Your ear troubles are very distressing. They can of course be considerably intensified or reduced by one’s…

Carl Jung: The symbol of the cave is naturally the symbol of the grave…

Carl Jung: The symbol of the cave is naturally the symbol of the grave…: Curiously enough, there was an antique mystery cult in which this idea was carried out concretely. A pine tree was felled during the yearly festival of the cult of Attis and was carri…

Carl Jung: The symbol of the cave is naturally the symbol of the grave…

Carl Jung: The symbol of the cave is naturally the symbol of the grave…: Curiously enough, there was an antique mystery cult in which this idea was carried out concretely. A pine tree was felled during the yearly festival of the cult of Attis and was carri…

Some Carl Jung Quotations

Some Carl Jung Quotations: I was expected, Jung explained, never under any circumstances to allow myself to be irritated by his anger, nor by his occasional “grumbling,” his roarings and cursings! ~Aniela Jaffe, …

Carl Jung on Alchemical Elements, Molecular Movement and Energy.

Carl Jung on Alchemical Elements, Molecular Movement and Energy.: [Carl Jung on Alchemical Elements, Molecular Movement and Energy.]The remarkable thing about this paralleling of states of aggregation with different kinds of fire is that it amounts to a kind of p…

Carl Jung: Woman is world and fate, that is why she is so important to the man.

Carl Jung: Woman is world and fate, that is why she is so important to the man.: To Oskar A . H . Schmitz Dear Herr Schmitz,                          21 July 1927 There is something still a little unclear about the relation to woman, in spite of the great “hit” you …

Dr. Jung: Yes, by desire you are bound to things, and when they become chaotic you are drawn into the chaos.

Dr. Jung: Yes, by desire you are bound to things, and when they become chaotic you are drawn into the chaos.: Dr. Jung: Of course not, we are moving now in a field where she has understood almost nothing. She had these visions after she left here, and I have never had a chance to talk with he…

If you live as he whom you are

If you live as he whom you are: If you live as he whom you are, He will come running against you impetuously, and you can hardly miss him. He will lay violent hands on you and force you into slavery if you do not remember your te…

Marie Louise Von Franz on the Fairy Tale

Marie Louise Von Franz on the Fairy Tale: The fairy tale itself is its own best explanation; that is, its meaning is contained in the totality of its motifs connected by the thread of the story. The unconscious is, metaphoric…

Authentic Text of Chief Seattle’s Treaty Oration 1854

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Carl Jung on the Symbol of the Self and Nuclear Reactions

Carl Jung on the Symbol of the Self and Nuclear Reactions: [Carl Jung on the Symbol of the Self and Nuclear Reactions]The formula presents a symbol of the self, for the self is not just a static quantity or constant form, but is also a dynamic process. In …

Sacrificial Murder

Sacrificial Murder: But this was the vision that I did not want to see, the horror that I did not want to live: A sickening feeling of nausea sneaks up on me, and abominable, perfidious serpents wind their way slowly …

Carl Jung: God needs man in to become conscious…

Carl Jung: God needs man in to become conscious…: God needs man in to become conscious, just as he needs limitation in time and space. Let us therefore be for him limitation in time and space an earthly tabernacle. ~Carl Jung, Letter…

Carl Jung: God needs man in to become conscious…

Carl Jung: God needs man in to become conscious…: God needs man in to become conscious, just as he needs limitation in time and space. Let us therefore be for him limitation in time and space an earthly tabernacle. ~Carl Jung, Letter…

Some Carl Jung Quotations LII

Some Carl Jung Quotations LII: The miracle of the Assumptio obviously began to operate noticeably from the VI century onwards only. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 566-568If the Assumptio means anything, it means a spiritual f…

Carl Jung: Alchemy is founded on the conviction of the spontaneity of the spirit..

Carl Jung: Alchemy is founded on the conviction of the spontaneity of the spirit..: The development of science, which is so extraordinarily characteristic for the West, owes its origin in a great measure to the experimental attitude of mind in alchemy. Alchemy is fou…

Carl Jung on “Death.” Anthology

Carl Jung on “Death.” Anthology: [Carl Jung on “Death.” Anthology]Life is never so beautiful as when surrounded by death. ~Carl Jung, Seminar 1925, Page 85I try to accept life and death. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 546-547W…

Carl Jung: We must read the Bible or we shall not understand psychology.

Carl Jung: We must read the Bible or we shall not understand psychology.: We must read the Bible or we shall not understand psychology.Our psychology, whole lives, our language and imagery are built upon the Bible. ~Carl Jung, The Visions Seminar Vol. 1; Page 156.The psy…

Carl Jung: It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us…

Carl Jung: It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us…: Everyone who becomes conscious of even a fraction of his unconscious gets outside his own time and social stratum into a kind of solitude, as our text remarks. But only there is it possible to meet…

Carl Jung on the real secret of the Gnostics.

Carl Jung on the real secret of the Gnostics.: [Carl Jung on the real secret of the Gnostics.]Now for the Gnostics and this is their real secret the psyche existed as a source of knowledge just as much as it did for the alchemists. Aside from t…

God himself smashed his Weapon

God himself smashed his Weapon: You gain everything from the God whom you bear, but not his weapon, since he crushed it. He who conquers needs weapons. But what else do you want to conquer? You cannot conquer more than the earth.…

Carl Jung: As a matter of fact Freud was the far greater mind than Adler.

Carl Jung: As a matter of fact Freud was the far greater mind than Adler.: To Robert H. Loeb Dear Mr. Loeb, 26 August 1941 I’m very late indeed in answering your letter but I’ve been so busy in the last year that many letters have remained unanswered. N…

The urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered….

The urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered….: “Self-reflection, or – what comes to the same thing – the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial M…

Carl Jung: “It can also lead to the fact that such children do not really get into their bodies…"

Carl Jung: “It can also lead to the fact that such children do not really get into their bodies…": [Carl Jung: “It can also lead to the fact that such children do not really get into their bodies, that many body zones are not connected at all.”]If we may assume, then, that human dispositions are…

A Presentation on the “Devil” from Dr. Jung’s “Children’s Dreams Seminar,”

A Presentation on the “Devil” from Dr. Jung’s “Children’s Dreams Seminar,”: [A Presentation on the “Devil” from Dr. Jung’s “Children’s Dreams Seminar,”]Mrs. Brunner:This leads us to the devil: our concept of the devil has developed out of the Old Testament, the New Testame…

Carl Jung on Material Atheism, Annulment of Human Personality, Advocates of Christianity.

Carl Jung on Material Atheism, Annulment of Human Personality, Advocates of Christianity.: [Carl Jung on Material Atheism, Annulment of Human Personality, Advocates of Christianity.]It is the same problem as in Job. As the highest value and supreme dominant in the psychic hierarchy, the …

Carl Jung on why Fairy Tales and Religious Dogmas are so important.

Carl Jung on why Fairy Tales and Religious Dogmas are so important.: [Carl Jung on why Fairy Tales and Religious Dogmas are so important.]The treatise of Rosinus contains a parallel to Morienus: “This stone is something which is fixed more in thee [than elsewh…

Carl Jung “The unconscious expresses itself chiefly in quaternities.

Carl Jung “The unconscious expresses itself chiefly in quaternities.: To Adolf KellerDear friend, Easter Monday [ 26 March 1951]At the end of this week I am spending April in Bollingen, where I have all sorts of work to attend to. So this week is still open should yo…

Carl Jung: At first it was the negative aspect of the anima that most impressed me.

Carl Jung: At first it was the negative aspect of the anima that most impressed me.: [Carl Jung on the personal aspects of a fantasy he had] Lecture 6 Questions and Discussion Dr. Harding asked for more discussion of the personal aspects of the fantasy given by Dr. Jung in t…

Carl Jung “Belief,” “Believe” – Anthology

Carl Jung “Belief,” “Believe” – Anthology: I believe that we have the choice: I preferred the living wonders of the God. I daily weigh up my whole life and I continue to regard the fiery brilliance of the God as a higher and fuller life tha…

Carl Jung’s Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture X 4 December 1929

Carl Jung’s Dream Analysis Seminar Lecture X 4 December 1929: Lecture X 4 December 1929 Dr. Jung: You remember that we were discussing energy and time, and I suppose you must have wondered why I talked about such abstruse matters in connection with the cross …