The Promise of Easter

The Promise of Easter: easter

Individuation is by no means a rare thing or a luxury of the few

Individuation is by no means a rare thing or a luxury of the few: One could say that the whole world with its turmoil and misery is in an individuation process.

1. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

1. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.: To take the opposite position, and to agree with the patient offhand, is also of no use, but estranges him as much as condemnation.

Children have an almost uncanny instinct for the teacher’s personal shortcomings.

Children have an almost uncanny instinct for the teacher’s personal shortcomings.: Children have an almost uncanny instinct for the teacher's personal shortcomings.

Every man has a quiet place in his soul

Every man has a quiet place in his soul: Every man has a quiet place in his soul, where everything is self-evident and easily explainable, a place to which he likes to retire from the confusing

Carl Jung on “Chaos” Anthology.

Carl Jung on “Chaos” Anthology.: The struggle with the unformed, with the chaos of Tiamat, is in truth a primordial experience. ~Carl Jung, CW 13, Para 286

Jung’s Anima: Salome cooks poisonous potions. She is a Medea, adept in magic.

Jung’s Anima: Salome cooks poisonous potions. She is a Medea, adept in magic.: Salome cooks poisonous potions. She is a Medea, adept in magic.

A tough and coldblooded extraversion

A tough and coldblooded extraversion: A tough and coldblooded extraversion is the only thing that carries you across the stormy sea of your manifold activities.

Therefore individuation is a sin

Therefore individuation is a sin: Therefore individuation is a sin; it is an assertion of one particle against the gods, and when that happens even the world of the gods is upset, then there

Anyone who wants to know the human mind

Anyone who wants to know the human mind: Anyone who wants to know the human mind will learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. He would be better advised to put away his scholar's gown,

Carl Jung on “Jews” “Anti-Semitism” – Anthology – Quotations

Carl Jung on “Jews” “Anti-Semitism” – Anthology – Quotations: Evidence of his admiration for the inspired concern of the Jews for all things of the spirit is to be found in the fact that of the three literary trustees

Vincent Brome Prologue to Jung: A Biography

Vincent Brome Prologue to Jung: A Biography: Vincent Brome Prologue to Jung: A Biography

Carl Jung: My Tower Grew

Carl Jung: My Tower Grew: No one shall tear down what I have built. My tower is of iron and has no seams.

1. Carl Jung on “Perfection” – Anthology

1. Carl Jung on “Perfection” – Anthology: The Gods envy the perfection of man, because perfection has no need of the Gods. But since no one is perfect, we need the Gods. ~Carl Jung, Liber Novus, Page

Even the enlightened person remains what he is

Even the enlightened person remains what he is: “Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable

Edward F. Edinger: When the soul is born it drinks lethe so that it forgets its prenatal life.

Edward F. Edinger: When the soul is born it drinks lethe so that it forgets its prenatal life.: Belief is a kind of copy of truth, not the real thing. ~Edward F. Edinger, Aion Lectures, Page 128.

Carl Jung: “Man and His Symbols” – Quotations

Carl Jung: “Man and His Symbols” – Quotations: Man and His Symbols

Dream Symbolism of the Snake

Dream Symbolism of the Snake: . . . I simply want to point out that the capacity of the human psyche to produce such new material is particularly significant when one is dealing with the

1.Memories, Dreams and Reflections Prologue

1.Memories, Dreams and Reflections Prologue: Prologue

If it has been believed hitherto that the human shadow was the source of all evil,

If it has been believed hitherto that the human shadow was the source of all evil,: shadow

Dorn says, you will never make the One unless you become one yourself.

Dorn says, you will never make the One unless you become one yourself.: As Dorn says, you will never make the One unless you become one yourself.

Marie Louise von Franz on Alchemy

Marie Louise von Franz on Alchemy: alchemy

Gems from Liber Novus aka The Red Book

Gems from Liber Novus aka The Red Book: Liber Novus

1. Carl Jung on “Madness” – Anthology

1. Carl Jung on “Madness” – Anthology: madness

Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of psychiatry, tells: “Why I Believe in God.”

Dr. Carl Gustav Jung, one of the founders of psychiatry, tells: “Why I Believe in God.”: god

I speak to you of joy.

I speak to you of joy.: He approached me and said, "I speak to you of joy."

Visions and Voices: Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz by James Cott

Visions and Voices: Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz by James Cott: visions

Sonu Shamdasani: Introduction to Analytical Psychology

Sonu Shamdasani: Introduction to Analytical Psychology: Sonu Shamdasani: Introduction to Analytical Psychology

1. Marion Woodman – The Owl Was A Baker’s Daughter Quotations

1. Marion Woodman – The Owl Was A Baker’s Daughter Quotations: owl

1. For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear.

1. For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear.: The spirit of evil is fear, negation, the adversary who opposes life in its struggle for eternal duration and thwarts every great deed, who infuses into the

Lucifer was perhaps the one who best understood the Divine Will

Lucifer was perhaps the one who best understood the Divine Will: Lucifer

Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Wolfgang Pauli: In the first half of my life I was a cold and cynical devil

Wolfgang Pauli: In the first half of my life I was a cold and cynical devil: W PAULI ~Wolfgang Pauli, Atom and Archetype, Pages 27-28

Carl Jung: In 1896 something happened to me that served as an impetus for my future life.

Carl Jung: In 1896 something happened to me that served as an impetus for my future life.

1. Christ cried out to the Jews, “You are gods”

1. Christ cried out to the Jews, “You are gods”: As Buddha, by virtue of his insight, was far in advance of the Brahma gods, so Christ cried out to the Jews, "You are gods" (John 10:34) ; but men were

Carl Jung on “Instincts” Anthology

Carl Jung on “Instincts” Anthology: Carl Jung on "Instincts" Anthology

The lucidity of consciousness rests upon dark unconscious seeds

The lucidity of consciousness rests upon dark unconscious seeds: The lucidity of consciousness rests upon dark unconscious seeds out of which grow objective cultural values. It is this unconscious background that is

God needs our friendship so much that He cannot wait for us to pray to Him:

God needs our friendship so much that He cannot wait for us to pray to Him:: god

Carl Jung on the “Loss of the Ego.”

Carl Jung on the “Loss of the Ego.”: ego

Carl Jung on the “Loss of the Ego.”

Carl Jung on the “Loss of the Ego.”: ego

1. I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher

1. I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher: For your orientation: I am a psychiatrist and not a philosopher, merely an empiricist who ponders on certain experiences.

Kingdom of Heaven Anthology

Kingdom of Heaven Anthology: He who wishes to take the Kingdom of Heaven by storm, to conquer and eradicate evil by force, is already in the hands of evil. Carl Jung, Conversations with

Carl Jung on Catholicism – Anthology

Carl Jung on Catholicism – Anthology: catholicism

The Mystery of Love

The Mystery of Love: I]f we possess a grain of wisdom, we will completely surrender to this unknowable who embraces in love all the opposites. Whatever the learned interpretation

Carl Jung on Post War Germany

Carl Jung on Post War Germany: You are obviously not yet in a position yourself to form any conception of the mood of the world towards everything and everybody that comes from Germany.

Our talk yesterday on the synchronicity

Our talk yesterday on the synchronicity: Our talk yesterday on the "synchronicity of dreams and external circumstances (Do you also use this term "synchronous” when there is a gap of 2-3 months

1. Wolfgang Pauli on his “World Clock” Vision

1. Wolfgang Pauli on his “World Clock” Vision

Carl Jung: The Supreme Meaning

Carl Jung: The Supreme Meaning: But the supreme meaning is the path) the way and the bridge to what is to come.

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

Carl Jung on how to look upon our “Thoughts.”: He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air,

Yahweh of the Old Testament and the Gnostic Demiurge

Yahweh of the Old Testament and the Gnostic Demiurge: By this I do not mean to say that Yahweh is imperfect or evil, like a Gnostic demiurge. He is everything in its totality; therefore, among other things, he is

Carl Jung on Power and Inferiority Complexes

Carl Jung on Power and Inferiority Complexes: You see, that so-called power attitude is always expressed on the other side by feelings of inferiority; otherwise power makes no sense.

The Psychological Meaning of Sacrifice

The Psychological Meaning of Sacrifice: The Psychological Meaning of Sacrifice:

Man in my view is enclosed in the psyche (not in his psyche).

Man in my view is enclosed in the psyche (not in his psyche).: Psyche

Adolf Portmann & Carl Gustav Jung at Eranos

Adolf Portmann & Carl Gustav Jung at Eranos

My reference to China

My reference to China: My reference to China seems to have given rise to all sorts of misunderstandings.

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

Great art till now has always derived its fruitfulness from the myth: Great art till now has always derived its fruitfulness from the myth, from the unconscious process of symbolization which continues through the ages and

It is always a naked figure because it shows man as he is without any veils, the true man.

It is always a naked figure because it shows man as he is without any veils, the true man.: Therefore if people put a figure in the center of a mandala, it is usually a naked figure, because you are there exactly what you are.

Carl Jung on Lao Tzu Anthology

Carl Jung on Lao Tzu Anthology: Lao Tzu

Carl Jung: It is true that I fight Freud’s psychology

Carl Jung: It is true that I fight Freud’s psychology

Carl Jung on Tao Anthology

Carl Jung on Tao Anthology: tao

Archetype of the Shadow

Archetype of the Shadow: The Archetype of the Shadow:

Carl Jung on the Black Sun Sol Niger.

Carl Jung on the Black Sun Sol Niger.: sun

Carl Jung on Words Anthology

Carl Jung on Words Anthology: I must learn that the dregs of my thought, my dreams, are the speech of my soul. I must carry them in my heart, and go back and forth over them in my mind,