Carl Jung Depth Psychology

It is the age-old truth that a true religion, expressed by a true symbol, works magic;

The ancient blind seer is mythological; he is physically blind and therefore he has the inner sight.

Oh you mystery of the summer morning! Men and Gods greet you when you rise.

Anahata is also the place where one first beholds Ishvara, the Lord, the symbol of completion.

Mani is a title of Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism

The Chinese magician who performed this was Philemon., the many formed and mutable.

Mani is a title of Buddha in Mahayana Buddhism

In order to express this secret the old masters readily resorted to allegory.

Before I begin with the visions I want to show you some pictures.

People nowadays go to the woods and the mountains just in order to become unconscious;

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

This reminds me of what you have said about man overcoming by killing the dragon, and woman by accepting her suffering.

Dr. Esther Harding, A Psychiatrist, 82 – New York Times Obituary

Why have we neuroses? The ego consciousness is too narrow.

She ought to be in relation to the animus as she ought to be the proprietor of her own shadow.

But then he held out his hand against me and I realized that he was afraid of the evil eye.

In Memoriam: Edward F. Edinger, 1922-1998

Who created the religions of the world? Who produced Christ? Who produced the Buddha?

Modern Day Cannibalism as a “Supreme Act of Devotion.”

So the Pharaoh eats also the eyes of Horus, the white and the black eye.

What do you let yourself suffer through the suffering of another?

We assume that we will be in a blissful state when redeemed

The woman offering the child is Mary; Mary brought forth a child to be sacrificed on the cross.

Jung had the Spanish flu, during which he had some visions of spheres,

Carl Jung: You do not want to meet the Gods halfway?

The animus impersonates the unconscious, as the anima impersonates it in a man’s case.

Carl Jung: What lies in the middle is the truth.

In 1926, Wells presented a striking account of a meeting with Jung in his book The World of William Clissold

Carl Jung: Doors of iron, walls of stone, cold darkness and the rations of penance-that is the bliss of redemption.

Mrs. Fierz Reports on the Visions of Christiana Morgan

Jung’s Soul: I am even jealous of the hate you give others.

Marion Woodman Quotations – With Citations

Carl Jung: I therefore distinguish between the I and the self,

Carl Jung: We can never abandon self, or else we will abandon our work of redemption.

His nature is like the flame; he is like Eros, but a God; Eros is only a daimon.

The atom of which the physicist speaks is not an hypostasis, it is a model.

Carl Jung: What did you gain from the pagan symbol?

The Pleroma, or fullness , is a term from Gnosticism. It played a central role in the Valentinian system.

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

For most civilized people reality is a sort of dream, far away.

The principium individuation is is a notion from the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.

If thou wouldst complete the diamond body with no outflowing,

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

Jung accords special significance to Joachim of Fiore

People who live sterile lives are like that fig tree, they do not fulfill the will of the Lord.

This lack of parallelism is not just accidental or purposeless,

Seen from this perspective, his personal transformation, his individuation, was a preparation for death.

In the Orphic cult there was a snake crawling on the table amongst the little loaves of bread

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

The beginning of the enantiodromia must fall, logically, between the two fishes.

Over the years he [John Weir Perry] became sexually involved with female analysands.

After those three dreams which ended with the remark about the lunatic asylum,

Do you believe that I was dead? I am as living as you.

We were dealing last time with that rather remarkable mythological dream of the four valleys that converge.

He [George French Porter] bequeathed Jung $20,000.

Clement’s view is clearly Monotheistic, as it unites the opposites in one God.

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

As a God, you are the great Abraxas in your world.

But I should be in myself, and be with myself and so with God and in Gods.

Don’t forget that you do people a favor if you let them love you.

We were dealing with that first hypnogogic vision of the peacock last time…

Basilides was a Christian philosopher in Alexandria in the first part of the second century.

Soul: I see Salome at your side, freed from the human symbol.