It would all be so much simpler if only we could deny the existence of the psyche.
But here we are with our immediate experiences of something that is—something that has taken root in the midst of our measurable, ponderable, three dimensional reality, that differs mysteriously from this in every respect and in all its parts, and yet reflects it.
The psyche could be regarded as a mathematical point and at the same time as a universe of fixed stars.
It is small wonder, then, if, to the unsophisticated mind, such a paradoxical being borders on the divine.
If it occupies no space, it has no body.
It would all be so much simpler if only we could deny the existence of the psyche.
But here we are with our immediate experiences of something that is—something that has taken root in the midst of our measurable, ponderable, three dimensional reality, that differs mysteriously from this in every respect and in all its parts, and yet reflects it.
The psyche could be regarded as a mathematical point and at the same time as a universe of fixed stars.
It is small wonder, then, if, to the unsophisticated mind, such a paradoxical being borders on the divine.
If it occupies no space, it has no body.
Bodies die, but can something invisible and incorporeal disappear?
What is more, life and psyche existed for me before I could say "I," and when this "I" disappears, as in sleep or unconsciousness, life and psyche still go on, as our observation of other people and our own dreams inform us.
Why should the simple mind deny, in the face of such experiences, that the "soul" lives in a realm beyond the body? ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 671
Everything psychic is pregnant with the future. ~Carl Jung, CW 14, Para 53
What is more, life and psyche existed for me before I could say "I," and when this "I" disappears, as in sleep or unconsciousness, life and psyche still go on, as our observation of other people and our own dreams inform us.
Why should the simple mind deny, in the face of such experiences, that the "soul" lives in a realm beyond the body? ~Carl Jung, CW 8, Para 671
Everything psychic is pregnant with the future. ~Carl Jung, CW 14, Para 53
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