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

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The world comes into being when man discovers it.

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With this realization the doctor sets foot on territory which he enters with the greatest caution.

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Fire and water are inherent opposites and it is just this which causes rebirth.

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Carl Jung: “On Pictures in Psychiatric Diagnosis”

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Hitler himself (from what I heard) is more than half crazy. ~Carl Jung, 1939 Letters Vol. I, Page 278

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Carl Jung on "Evil."

Carl Jung: Like all archetypes, the self has a paradoxical, antinomial character.

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The real mystery does not behave mysteriously or secretively; it speaks a secret language,

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The body lays claim to equal recognition; it exerts the same fascination as the psyche.

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Everything is present, altogether and all at once, in the constant presence of the pleroma.

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Spirituality is not be be learned by flight from the world…

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Chapter 2: The motif of children speaking while still in the womb appears in various primitive myths.

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Carl Jung: CW 5 “Symbols of Transformation” – Quotations

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Great art till now has always derived its fruitfulness from the myth,

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It is always interesting to me to see a craftsman at work.

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Feminine divinities were invoked at the beginning.

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

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What lies in between is in the dream book, but still more in the images of the Red Book.

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The future should be left to those of the future. ~Carl Jung

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I should like to confine myself to this picture, and shall say nothing about the findings of anthropology.

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Carl Jung on Elijah and Salome – YouTube

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Essence of Hell ~Carl Jung

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Carl Jung on “Animals” – YouTube

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Carl Jung: Man, you have even forgotten that you too are an animal.

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Carl Jung on “Love” – YouTube

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Children are not half as stupid as we imagine. They notice only too well what is genuine and what is not.

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The Golden Fabric of God

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A Document: Jung to Freud 1905: a report on Sabina Spielrein

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Toni Wolff was brought by her mother to see Jung.

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Emma Jung: On the Nature of the Animus

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Marie Louise Von Franz excerpt from "Alchemy."

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Carl Jung and "The High Chant is OM."

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The collective psyche is a real power as is the external world.

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Oh, Light of the Middle Way,,,,

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Carl Jung: Man is the mirror which God holds up to himself, or the sense organ with which he apprehends his being.

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The body lays claim to equal recognition; it exerts the same fascination as the psyche.

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I want to emboss you like a coin

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Carl Jung on “Children” – YouTube

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Carl Jung on “Children” – YouTube

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Carl Jung: You too are infected with this collective sickness.

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Question: How does the inferior function connect with the collective evil?

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Carl Jung: The dream of the horse represents the union with the animal soul…

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Emma Jung gave a presentation to the Psychological Club, “Considerations on a Word of Meister Eckhart.”

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Gerhard Wehr, Modern Esoteric Spirituality – Quotations

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Barbara Hannah – The Animus: The Spirit of Inner Truth in Women – Quotations

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In reading Dr. Jung’s writings I felt this man had found a new one, fit for our own period.

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In reading Dr. Jung’s writings I felt this man had found a new one, fit for our own period.

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Aniela Jaffe – Was Jung a Mystic “Quotations”

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Carl Jung on Yoga and Karma

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Carl Jung on “Astrology” – YouTube

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Alan Watts: I found Jung an even greater, more intuitive, more humorous,…

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Jesus Christ was probably a definite human person…

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Carl Jung on "Evil."

Darkness of Magic ~Carl Jung

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If it wants to reach the goal of synthesis, it must first get to know the nature of these factors.

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Mrs. Jung: I think we got this idea of the word as being spirit from the Bible,

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Carl Jung: Abstract thinking can lead us no further than to intellectual sophistries,…

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Yes, I’m thinking about the assignment that Toni has received from the Great Mother.

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My soul, my soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you- are you there?

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Dark One: My skin is dark and the white of my eyes shines. I bring you the Eastern way.

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All that is past, all that is present and all that is to come, God creates in the inmost part of the soul.

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Barbara Hannah in July 1933 in Berlin with Carl, Emma, Toni, Heinrich Zimmer.

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Every creative person is a duality …

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If the spirit is to perform further, this must be another work and in a different time.

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Sometimes he falls ill, physically, and is not restored to health until he begins to shamanize.

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Carl Jung: "What is Illusion?"

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Carl Jung: The union of opposites is a trans-conscious process and, in principle, not amenable to scientific explanation.

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Carl Jung: The union of opposites is a trans-conscious process and, in principle, not amenable to scientific explanation.

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The presence of the new moon at the start beautifully introduces the feminine principle.

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Carl Jung: She [Emma] wears a long white dress with mystical figures,…

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Carl Jung on “Women” – Quotations

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Carl Jung: We sink into a final depth Apuleius calls it “a kind of voluntary death.”

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Herr [Franz] Jung went to the bookshelves and brought back two books to show us.

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It is the birthplace of everything, even of the Dharmakaya. It is the Dharmakaya itself.

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Phanes: Completion is poverty. But poverty is means gratitude. Gratitude is love.

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Phanes: Completion is poverty. But poverty is means gratitude. Gratitude is love.

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The fairy tale is the great mother of the novel, and has even more universal validity than the most-avidly read novel of your time.

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Emma Jung on Women and the Self

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Carl Jung: As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.

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Marie Louise Von Franz on Eros

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Carl Jung: The picture shows the self as a star out of chaos.

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The Crucified Serpent and Alchemy…

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Meister Eckhart: All the powers of the soul, and all their works – these are the crowd.

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Carl Jung: In the redemption of the individual, the whole past will be redeemed,

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Our text promises to ‘reveal the secret of the Golden Flower of the great One.

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Lucid dreaming and astral travel in the early Church

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Every individual and every nation has its own modes of experiencing this psychic reality.

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~Marie-Louise von Franz The Idea of the Macro- and Microcosmos in the Light of Jungian Psychology

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How can we expect righteousness to prevail…

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