An Archetypal Approach to Death Dreams and Ghosts

An Archetypal Approach to Death Dreams and Ghosts: ghost

The snake as earth demon, as savior, and as time.

The snake as earth demon, as savior, and as time.: demon

Introduction to Psychological Types Excerpt

Introduction to Psychological Types Excerpt: type

On Thought and Sense

On Thought and Sense: The Corpus Hermeticum: IX. On Thought and Sense

Carl Jung on the Self

Carl Jung on the Self: self

Beauty does not indeed lie in things

Beauty does not indeed lie in things: beauty

I am Mime, and I will show you the wellsprings.

I am Mime, and I will show you the wellsprings.: You do not follow him, even if he says to you that you could drink wisdom from his source. But forethinking appears to you there as dwarfish cleverness, false and of the night, just as the heavenly mother appears to me down there as Salome. That which is lacking in the pure principle appears as the serpent. The hero strives after the utmost in the pure principle, and therefore he finally falls for the serpent. If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love. The serpent lurks behind the pure principle. Therefore I lost courage, until I found the serpent that at once led me across to the other principle. In climbing down I become smaller.

Carl Jung: The ungodly spirit, Satan

Carl Jung: The ungodly spirit, Satan: The present volume, the sixth of the Psychologische Abhandlungen, contains five essays which are concerned with the symbolism of the spirit: a study of Satan in the Old Testament by Dr. Riwkah Scharf, and four essays from my pen. The first essay in the book, “The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales,” gives an account of the “spirit archetype,” or rather, of a dream and fairytale motif whose behaviour is such that one has to conceive of it as “spirit.”

… a mighty dream vision rose from the depths

… a mighty dream vision rose from the depths: Vision

Our World has become Dehumanized

Our World has become Dehumanized: “Through scientific understanding, our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos. He is no longer involved in nature and has lost his emotional participation in natural events, which hitherto had a symbolic meaning for him. Thunder is no longer the voice of a god, nor is lightning his avenging missile. No river contains a spirit, no tree makes a mans’s life, no snake is the embodiment of wisdom and no mountain still harbors a great demon. Neither do things speak to him nor can he speak to things, like stones, springs, plants and animals.” – Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 585

Ancestral – Anthology

Ancestral – Anthology: ancestral

1. Carl Jung on Faith in a Personal Meeting with Christ.

1. Carl Jung on Faith in a Personal Meeting with Christ.: Carl Jung on Faith in a Personal Meeting with Christ.

Toni Wolff – Principles of Dream Interpretation

Toni Wolff – Principles of Dream Interpretation: Toni Wolff – Principles of Dream Interpretation

Refinding the Soul

Refinding the Soul: 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 happiness. Then my desire for the increase of these trappings ceased, the desire ebbed from me and horror came over me. The vision of the flood seized me and I felt the spirit of the depths, but I did not understand him. Yet he drove me on with unbearable inner longing and I said: My soul you-are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you. After long years of long wandering, I have come to you again.

Carl Jung’s Near Death Experience

Carl Jung’s Near Death Experience: death

Some Carl Jung Quotation

Some Carl Jung Quotation: quotation

Religion as a Psyhic Function

Religion as a Psyhic Function: Religion as a Psychic Function

Naji Abi-Hashem, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion

Naji Abi-Hashem, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: Religion

Naji Abi-Hashem, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion

Naji Abi-Hashem, Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion: Religion

“Silence” “Loneliness” and being “Alone” – Anthology

“Silence” “Loneliness” and being “Alone” – Anthology: The shrieking of the demons is the stillness of the spirit. It means a withdrawal unheard of, until one hears the great silence. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 311-313. What you think of as a few days of spiritual communion would be unendurable for me with anyone, even my closest friends. The rest is silence! This realization becomes clearer every day as the need to communicate dwindles. Carl Jung,  Letters Vol. II, Page 363. The sensitiveness to noise persists. I always seek silence. I am a bundle of opposites and can only endure my- self when I observe myself as an objective phenomenon. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 78. I am glad at last that I have been able (though not through my merit ) to spare my wife what follows on the loss of a lifelong partner-the silence that has no answer. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 292-293.

On the Psychology and Pathology of Occult Phenomena

On the Psychology and Pathology of Occult Phenomena: occult

Nor is it the task of theory to paint a picture of life

Nor is it the task of theory to paint a picture of life: Usually when a writer or any other artist makes fraudulent use of psychology he falls into his own trap, because art can no more be fashioned from concepts than from the Pythagorean theorem. Theoretical formulations give one absolutely no idea of the practice, which is infinitely more multifaceted and alive than any theory could convey. Nor is it the task of theory to paint a picture of life, but rather to create a workmanlike language which is satisfied with conventional signs.

The Wounded Healer Countertransference from a Jungian perspective

The Wounded Healer Countertransference from a Jungian perspective: heal

Orientals regard a thought as being composed of thin matter

Orientals regard a thought as being composed of thin matter: matter

Carl Jung: “Man and His Symbols” – Quotations

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

Carl Jung,Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process

Carl Jung,Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process: individuation

Memories, Dreams, and Reflections – Quotations

Memories, Dreams, and Reflections – Quotations: Carl Jung and "Memories, Dreams and Reflections' - YouTube

Interviews and Encounters by William McGuire – Quotations

Interviews and Encounters by William McGuire – Quotations: C.G. Jung Speaking

Consciousness and the Unconscious, ETH Lectures – Quotations

Consciousness and the Unconscious, ETH Lectures – Quotations: Consciousness and the Unconscious: Lectures Delivered at ETH Zurich, Volume 2: 1934

As my work is largely based on experimental researches

As my work is largely based on experimental researches: FOREWORD

1. As a doctor it is my task to help the patient to cope with life.

1. As a doctor it is my task to help the patient to cope with life.: As a doctor it is my task to help the patient to cope with life. I cannot presume to pass judgment on his final decisions, because I know from experience that all coercion-be it suggestion, insinuation, or any other method of persuasion-ultimately proves to be nothing but an obstacle to the highest and most decisive experience of all, which is to be alone with his own self, or whatever else one chooses to call the objectivity of the psyche. The patient must be alone if he is to find out what it is that supports him when he can no longer support himself. Only this experience can give him an indestructible foundation. ~Carl Jung, CW 12, Page 32

1. I have often been asked what I believe about death.

1. I have often been asked what I believe about death.: The Meaning of Death

Old age and illness released me at last from my professional duties and gave me the necessary time to contemplate the sins of my youth.

Old age and illness released me at last from my professional duties and gave me the necessary time to contemplate the sins of my youth.: youth

This book is the fruit of nearly twenty years’ work in the domain of practical psychology.

This book is the fruit of nearly twenty years’ work in the domain of practical psychology.: It [Psychological Types] grew gradually in my thoughts, taking shape from the countless impressions and experiences of a psychiatrist in the treatment of nervous illnesses, from intercourse with men and women of all social levels, from my personal dealings with friend and foe alike, and, finally, from a critique of my own psychological peculiarity. It is not my intention to burden the reader with case material; my concern is rather to show how the ideas I have abstracted from my practical work can be linked up, both historically and terminologically, with an existing body of knowledge. I have done this not so much from a need for historical justification as from a desire to bring the experiences of a medical specialist out of their narrow professional setting into a more general context, a context which will enable the educated layman to derive some profit from them.

1. Zosimos, Zoroaster, Philo the Jew and Thrice Greatest Hermes

1. Zosimos, Zoroaster, Philo the Jew and Thrice Greatest Hermes: The old Persian founder of a religion, Zoroaster (Zarathustra), is mentioned here.

the doctor and above all the “specialist for nervous diseases” must have psychological knowledge

the doctor and above all the “specialist for nervous diseases” must have psychological knowledge: doctor

Carl Jung: God’s Formation

Carl Jung: God’s Formation: The child, that is, the image of the God’s formation, not only bore my human craving, but also enclosed all the primordial and elemental powers that the sons of the sun possess as an inalienable inheritance. The God needs all this for his genesis. But when he has been created and hastens away into unending space, we need the gold of the sun. We just regenerate ourselves. But as the creation of a God is a creative act of highest love, the restoration of our human life signifies an act of the Below. This is a great and dark mystery. Man cannot accomplish this act solely by himself but is assisted by evil, which does it instead of man. But man must recognize his complicity in the act of evil.

Carl Jung and Absolute Knowledge

Carl Jung and Absolute Knowledge: Man’s consciousness is receptive to what Jung called ‘absolute knowledge’ a cosmic principle or quasi intelligence outside the psyche.

Was C.G. Jung a Mystic ?

Was C.G. Jung a Mystic ?: Mystic

Carl Jung on UFO’s – Anthology

Carl Jung on UFO’s – Anthology: ufo

I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere.

I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere.: I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless I am found everywhere.

Religion, Religious. – Anthology

Religion, Religious. – Anthology: Our age wants to experience the psyche for itself. It wants original experience and not assumptions, though it is willing to make use of all the existing

1. Carl Jung: Essence of Hell

1. Carl Jung: Essence of Hell: What do you think of the essence of Hell? Hell is when the depths come to you with all that you no longer are or are not yet capable of Hell is when you can no longer attain what you could& attain. Hell is when you must think and feel and do everything that you know you do not want. Hell is when you know that your having to is also a wanting to, and that you yourself are responsible for it. Hell is when you know that everything serious that you have planned with yourself is also laughable, that everything fine is also brutal, that everything good is also bad, that everything high is also low, and that everything pleasant is also shameful. But the deepest Hell is when you realize that Hell is also no Hell, but a cheerful Heaven, not a Heaven in itself, but in this respect a Heaven, and in that respect a Hel

THE BELIEF IN GOD ALMIGHTY.

THE BELIEF IN GOD ALMIGHTY.

Creative Power is Greater than its Possessor

Creative Power is Greater than its Possessor: creative

Preface by: M. Nostradamus to his Prophecies

Preface by: M. Nostradamus to his Prophecies: prophecies

Carl Jung on “Prophet” “Prophecy” Anthology

Carl Jung on “Prophet” “Prophecy” Anthology: Carl Jung on “Prophet” “Prophecy” Anthology

1. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

1. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.: 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 no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth. It must not be forgotten that it is just in the imagination that a man’s highest value may lie.

1. Gerhard Dorn Quotations

1. Gerhard Dorn Quotations: Gerhard Dorn

Moira the personification of inevitable fate.

Moira the personification of inevitable fate.: According to it, the Moira, the personification of inevitable fate—the mother—is in the center of Earth.

Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self?

Does individuation originate from the ego or the Self?: The self, like the unconscious, is an a priori existent out of which the ego evolves.

The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man

The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man: Modern

The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man

The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man: Modern

Every man has a quiet place in his soul

Every man has a quiet place in his soul: And suddenly to your shivering horror it becomes clear to you that you have fallen into the boundless, the abyss, the inanity of eternal chaos. It rushes toward you as if carried by the roaring wings of a storm, the hurtling waves of the sea. 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 possibilities of life, because there everything is simple and clear, with a manifest and limited purpose. About nothing else in the world can a man say with the same conviction as he does of this place: “You are nothing but … ” and indeed he has said it. And even this place is a smooth  ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 205

Who is the spirit of the East?

Who is the spirit of the East?: A spirit that came from the East, spreading a whiff of death, he wanted to shroud you in darkness,