2018-02-03 00:19
Phanes hatched from the world egg & circled by the zodiac, Greco-Roman bas relief C2nd A.D., Modena Museum
PHANES was the Protogenos (primeval god) of procreation in the Orphic cosmogon… Read More
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2018-02-02 16:56
Life’s Second Half: The Adventure Inward by by Andy Drymalski, EdD
|“..we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning–for what wa… Read More
2018-02-02 11:15
[Carl Jung: It was only quite late that we realized (or rather, are beginning to realize) that God is Reality itself and therefore last but not least man.]
Although the birth of Christ is… Read More
2018-02-02 08:10
Lucid dreaming and astral travel in the early Church by Robert Moss
St.John of Lycopolis
Early fathers of the Christian church were in favor of active… Read More
2018-02-01 21:12
THE HOLY GHOST
234 The psychological relationship between man and the trinitarian life process is illustrated first by the human nature of
PSYCHOLOGY AND RELIGION t WEST
Christ, an… Read More
2018-02-01 13:12
The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Complete Digital Edition [Kindle Edition]
For the first time, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung are now available as individual e-books and as a complete… Read More
2018-02-01 13:03
[The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious are not subject to our will and are to be regarded not a objects but as subjects with laws of their own.]
I would go a step further and say t… Read More
2018-01-31 20:34
Phanes hatched from the world egg & circled by the zodiac, Greco-Romanbas relief C2nd A.D., Modena Museum
On September 11, Philemon describes him as follows: “Phanes is the God w… Read More
2018-01-31 11:12
In the following night, I wandered to the northern land and found myself under a gray sky in misty-hazy cool-moist air. I strive to those lowlands where the weak currents, flashing in broa… Read More
2018-01-31 10:46
To one familiar with our psychology, it may seem a waste of time to keep harping on the long-established difference between becoming conscious and the coming-to-be of the self (individuati… Read More
2018-01-31 06:13
The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator – Saint Catherine’s Monastery. The two different facial expressions on either side emphasize Christ’s dual nature as both divi… Read More
2018-01-30 20:53
The Bookworm, 1850, by Carl Spitzweg.
Perhaps you think that a man who consecrates his life to research leads a spiritual life and that his soul lives in / larger measure than anyone else&r&helli…Read More
2018-01-30 20:51
The spirit of the depths even taught me to consider my action and my decision as dependent on dreams. Dreams pave the way for life, and they determine you without you understanding their… Read More
2018-01-30 20:49
Scholar and his books by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout
The spirit of our time spoke to me and said: “What dire urgency could be forcing you to speak all this?” This was an awful te… Read More
2018-01-30 16:07
The Incredulity of Saint Thomas by Caravaggio
You can never deny your knowledge of good and evil to yourself so that you could betray your good in order to live evil. For as soon as you sep… Read More
2018-01-30 13:19
Just as Christ was crucified between the two thieves, our lowest lies on either side of our way. And just as one thief went to Hell and the other rose up to Heaven, the lowest in us will b… Read More
2018-01-30 13:11
The sacrifice has been accomplished: the divine child, the image of the God’s formation, is slain, and I have eaten from the sacrificial flesh. The child, that is, the image of the G… Read More
2018-01-30 09:52
Jung carved a Latin inscription above the door of his house in Kusnacht, Switzerland: “VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT.” In English translation, the inscription reads: &l&hellip…Read More
2018-01-30 08:55
“Life wants to be real. If you love life you want to live really, not as a mere promise hovering above things. Life inevitably leads down into reality.
Life is of the nature of wate… Read More
2018-01-29 11:30
Justice and Divine Vengeance in pursuit of Crime — 1808 oil-on-canvas by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon
Nothing is more valuable to the evil one than his eye, since only through hi… Read More
2018-01-29 11:18
“Man is a gateway, through which you pass from the outer world of Gods, daimons, and souls into the inner world, out of the greater. into the smaller world. Small and inane is man, al… Read More
2018-01-29 11:11
A statue of the Buddha meditating, Borim Temple, Korea
”You must not forget that the Pleroma has no qualities. We create these through thinking. If, therefore, you strive for d… Read More
2018-01-29 10:46
The Draft continues: “Why should our spirit not take upon itself torment and restlessness for the sake of sanctification? But all this will come over you, for I already hear the step… Read More
2018-01-28 16:01
As I spoke thus, the spirit of the depths suddenly erupted. He filled me with intoxication and mist and spoke these words wi th a powerful voice:
I have received your sprout, you who are t… Read More
2018-01-28 11:29
Oh dark act, violation, murder! Abyss, give birth to the nredeemed. Who is our redeemer? Who our leader? Where are the ways through black wastes? God, do not abandon us! What are you summo… Read More
2018-01-28 10:13
This play that I witnessed is my play, not your play. It is my secret, not yours. You cannot imitate me.
My secret remains virginal and my mysteries are inviolable, they belong to me and c… Read More
2018-01-28 07:25
Carl Jung remained faithful to his wife Emma in one way only serious scholars can understand:
He promised never to talk or write about the Grail Legend, as Emma Jung spent thirty years of… Read More
2018-01-27 12:02
We are, at this very moment, passing through a change of age.
The age of industry the age of oil, electricity and the atom; the age of the machine, of huge collectivities and of science &md&helli…Read More
2018-01-27 07:24
Phanes himself says: “The mystery of the summer morning, the happy day; the completion of the moment, the fullness of the possible, born from suffering and joy; the treasure of eterna… Read More
2018-01-25 10:44
Jung’s psychological types are another way in which he looked at the process of individuation, and they, too, can become a fitting object of reflection for the philosopher of nature… Read More
2018-01-25 08:16
The only thing that burns in hell
is the part of you that won’t let go of your life:
your memories, your attachments.
They burn them all away, but they’re not punishing you,
the… Read More
2018-01-24 09:47
Source: Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr. Jung: Yes, the god Pan is obviously a nature spirit, a sort of philosophical nature god.
The post Carl Jung Depth Psychology: Dr. Jung: Yes, the god P… Read More
2018-01-23 18:36
“I hope for my patients and for myself that everything, light and darkness, decision and agonizing doubt, may turn to ‘good’ –and by ‘good’ I mean a deve… Read More
2018-01-17 09:14
Craig Nelson’s Carl Jung Depth Psychology Quotation Images
The post A Link to Craig Nelson’s Carl Jung Depth Psychology Quotation Images appeared first on Carl Jung Depth Psycho… Read More
2018-01-16 21:53
The best cannot be told, anyhow, and the second best does not strike home. One mut be able to let things happen. I have learned from the East what is meant by wu-wei: “not-doing,&rdqu&helli…Read More
2018-01-16 21:30
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2018-01-13 11:47
The idea of a middle way between the opposites is to be found also in China, in the form of tao.
The concept of tao is usually associated with the name of the philosopher Lao-tzu, born 604… Read More
2018-01-12 14:57
Our material is, however, fully in accord with the widespread, primitive shamanistic conceptions of the tree and the heavenly bride, who is a typical anima projection. She is the ayami (fam… Read More
2018-01-12 14:47
According to ancient tradition men came from trees or plants.
The tree is as it were an intermediate form of man, since on the one hand it springs from the Primordial Man and on the other h… Read More
2018-01-12 14:27
Attributes of Tao:
The way
The middle way between the opposites
Method
Principle
The natural force or life force
The regulated processes of nature
The idea of the world
The prime cause of a… Read More
2018-01-12 08:53
European philosophy must take into account the existence of feminine psychology. ~Carl Jung, , Letters Vol. 1, Pages 69.
The hero is the protagonist of God’s transformation in man; h… Read More
2018-01-12 08:20
THE CONJUNCTION
O Luna, folded in my sweet embrace
Be you as strong as I, as fair of face.
O Sol, brightest of all lights known to men
And yet you need me, as the cock the hen.
[Figure 5]
T… Read More
2018-01-11 11:13
IMMERSION IN THE BATH
A new motif appears in this picture: the bath. In a sense this takes us back to the first picture of the Mercurial Fountain, which represents the “upwelling.&rdq&helli…Read More
2018-01-10 15:53
THE NAKED TRUTH
The text to this picture (fig. 3) is, with a few alterations, a quotation from the Tractatus aureus.
It runs: “He who would be initiated into this art and secret wisdo… Read More
2018-01-09 10:50
KING AND QUEEN
The arcanum artis, or coniunctio Soils et Lunae as supreme union of hostile opposites, was not shown in our first picture; but now it is illustrated in considerable detail, a… Read More
2018-01-05 14:47
THE MERCURIAL FOUNTAIN
We are the metals* first nature and only source/
The highest tincture of the Art is made through us.
No fountain and no water has my like/
I make both rich and poor m… Read More
2018-01-01 10:34
Archive for Research in Archtypal Symbolism [ARAS] http://aras.org/
Alchemy Journal Archives http://www.alchemyjournal.com/archived_issues.htm
The Alchemy Website www.levity.com/alchemy/hom… Read More
2017-12-30 12:27
Carl Jung on “History” – Anthology
One could almost say that if all the world’s traditions were cut off at a single blow, the whole of mythology and the whole histor… Read More
2017-12-29 18:42
Moral law is nothing other than an outward manifestation of man’s innate urge to dominate and control himself. This impulse to domestication and civilization is lost in the dim, unfat… Read More
2017-12-29 08:03
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, like the words of the person dear… Read More
2017-12-28 11:37
It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would… Read More
2017-12-28 08:23
Children have an almost uncanny instinct for the teacher’s personal shortcomings.
They know the false from the true far better than one likes to admit.
Therefore the teacher should wa… Read More
2017-12-26 16:33
For the man of today the expansion of life and its culmination are plausible goals, but the idea of life after death seems to him questionable or beyond belief.
Life’s cessation, that… Read More
2017-12-26 16:20
The ideas of the moral order and of God belong to the ineradicable substrate of the human soul.
That is why any honest psychology, which is not blinded by the garish conceits of enlightenme… Read More
2017-12-26 12:02
Anyone sufficiently interested in the dream problem cannot have failed to observe that dreams also have a continuity forwards—if such an expression be permitted—since dreams occ… Read More
2017-12-24 15:09
Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.
When fate, for four whole years, played out a war* of monumental frigh… Read More
2017-12-24 11:46
The dream of X. means chiefly that it would be advisable to you to give yourself that kind of loving attention as well as whatever X. means for you in yourself. In other words: worry about… Read More
2017-12-23 09:36
The man whose interests are all outside is never satisfied with what is necessary, but is perpetually hankering after something more and better which, true to his bias, he always seeks outs… Read More
2017-12-22 19:09
These mythological statements, coming from within the Christian sphere as well as from outside it, adumbrate an archetype that expresses itself in essentially the same symbolism and also oc… Read More
2017-12-22 16:54
They think they have to do with rational facts, whereas it entirely escapes them that it is and always has been primarily a question of irrational psychic phenomena.
That this is so can be… Read More
2017-12-22 14:56
If we are to answer this psychological question, we must first of all examine the Christ-symbolism contained in the New Testament, together with the patristic allegories and medieval iconog… Read More
2017-12-22 14:21
If, as many are fain to believe, the unconscious were only nefarious, only evil, then the situation would be simple and the path clear: to do good and to eschew evil.
But what is “goo… Read More
2017-12-22 12:35
The dual aspect of the Father is by no means unknown to religious speculation.
This is proved by the allegory of the monoceros, or unicorn, who symbolizes Yahweh’s angry moodiness.
Li… Read More
2017-12-22 11:06
In our diagram, Christ and the devil appear as equal and opposite, thus conforming to the idea of the “adversary.”
This opposition means conflict to the last, and it is the tas… Read More
2017-12-21 20:52
If we disregard the specifically Persian system of dualism, it appears that no real devil is to be found anywhere in the early period of man’s spiritual development. In the Old Testam… Read More
2017-12-21 20:13
Hence the devil remained outside the Trinity as the “ape of God” and in opposition to it.
Medieval representations of the triune God as having three heads are based on the three… Read More
2017-12-21 15:41
From a psychological standpoint this view can be translated as follows: Christ lived a concrete, personal, and unique life which, in all essential features, had at the same time an archetyp… Read More
2017-12-19 10:25
I must recall at this point a serious misunderstanding to which my readers often succumb, and doctors most commonly.
They invariably assume, for reasons unknown, that I never write about an… Read More
2017-12-19 09:52
The Seven Sermons to the Dead Septem Sermones ad Mortuos by Carl Gustav Jung, 1916
(Translation by Stephan A. Hoeller)
Seven exhortations to the dead, written by Basilides of Alexandria, th… Read More
2017-12-16 10:28
In my rather long psychological experience I have observed a great many people whose unconscious psychic activity I was able to follow into the immediate presence of death.
As a rule the ap… Read More
2017-12-14 20:27
The term “self” seemed to me a suitable one for this unconscious substrate, whose actual exponent in consciousness is the ego.
The ego stands to the self as the moved to the mov… Read More
2017-12-10 10:21
In 1961, the year of his death, looking back on the phenomena he had observed, Jung wrote in a letter:
“I have seen objects moving that were not directly touched, and moreover under a… Read More
2017-12-08 20:26
The psyche pre-existent to consciousness (e.g., in the child) participates in the maternal psyche on the one hand, while on the other it reaches across to the daughter psyche.
We could ther… Read More
2017-12-08 15:01
“I owe to Wilhelm the most valuable elucidations of the complicated problem of the I Ching and also the practical evaluation of the results obtained. . . .
When Wilhelm was staying wi… Read More
2017-12-05 10:36
The Prophecies of Nostradamus
Jung says that the course of our religious history and an essential part of our psychic development could have been more or less accurately predicted – a… Read More
2017-12-04 13:41
A Personal Experience by Jane Wheelwright
Jung’s attention was always riveted to the long-term development of the soul, many souls, generations of souls.
The great stream of life seem… Read More
2017-12-04 13:16
C. G. Jung: A Personal Memoir by Elizabeth Osterman
The heavy wooden door on which I had just knocked was set in a thick stone wall which seemed solidly part of the earth.
This was the entr… Read More
2017-12-04 11:54
Jung’s Influence on My Life and Work by John W. Perry
My first encounter with Jung arose out of one of those auspicious blendings of circumstance which seem so often to mark the turni… Read More
2017-12-03 16:42
The Early Days by M. Esther Harding
That C. G. Jung was a giant among men must be obvious to all who have had even a slight acquaintance with the man or his writings, but for many today the… Read More
2017-12-03 13:54
The Most Significant Stimulus Derived From C.G. Jung by Barbara Hannah
As has been repeatedly pointed out in the press since the death of C. G. Jung, the most striking thing about him was t… Read More
2017-12-03 11:25
Language and Archetypes by L. Stein
Any attempt to assess the value of Jung’s work by one who has used his ideas in his own professional life, and to a considerable extent based his p… Read More
2017-12-02 10:53
A Personal Recollection by Ruth Strauss
There is a special memory of a meeting with Jung which I want to recall on this occasion.
While on a holiday in the Swiss mountains I tried to get an… Read More
2017-12-01 20:55
A Tribute to C.G. Jung by A. I. Allenby
I first got in touch with Jung after the end of the second world war. I then wrote to him, and told him who I was and what I was doing, which include… Read More
2017-12-01 20:17
In Memoriam C.G. Jung by Culver M. Barker
As a contribution to the symposium on aspects of C. G. Jung’s life and work which have a significant bearing on both the personal and profess… Read More
2017-12-01 18:48
Jung’s Psychology in Britain by G. Stewart Prince
It will be undisputed that H. G. Baynes, more than any other individual, established the roots of analytical psychology in Britain.
H… Read More
2017-11-27 12:02
The post Wolfgang Pauli’s dream of 23 January 1938 from “Atom and Archetype” appeared first on Carl Jung Depth Psychology Read More
2017-11-27 11:51
Max Knoll’s Letter to Wolfgang Pauli on UFOs.
M. Knoll to Pauli
Dear Mr. Pauli,
Technische Hochschule Miinchen Institute for Technological Electronics [Munich] . u. 57
[Typewritten ca… Read More
2017-11-27 11:04
THE MEANING OF PARITY (MIRROR SYMMETRY) by Wolfgang Pauli
The parity law of physics states that for any atomic or nuclear system no new physical consequence or law should result from the co… Read More
2017-11-27 10:27
Pauli’s Observations on Cosmic Rays [Handwritten note from Pauli, undated]
OBSERVATIONS ON “COSMIC RAYS” AS DREAM SYMBOL.
I have long been familiar (U-15… Read More
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2017-11-26 12:39
April 20, 1958
What Makes a Man the Way He Is?
By JOOST A. M. MEERLOO
The last surviving giant of modern psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, will be 83 years old this July. It is amazing how f… Read More
2017-11-25 11:56
Publication Deliberations
From 1922 onward, in addition to discussions with Emma Jung and Toni Wolff, Jung had extensive discussions with Cary Baynes and Wolfgang Stockmayer concerning what… Read More
2017-11-24 19:59
At first it was the negative aspect of the anima that most impressed me. I felt a little awed by her.
It was like the feeling of an invisible presence in the room one enters.
Then a new ide… Read More
2017-11-18 15:11
Jung seemed to say that the new era can come through only by means of the feminine principle (through Eros) and that is not only in the man’s experience of his anima.
It obviously has… Read More
2017-11-14 21:08
SERMON ONE (Pf 1, Q 1 0 1 , QT 57)
DUM MEDIUM SI LENTIUM TENERENT OMNIA ET NOX IN SUO CURSU MEDIUM ITER HABERET, ETC. (Wisdom 18:14 )
Here, in time, we are celebrating the eternal birth whi… Read More
2017-11-12 15:14
Dear Mrs. Jaffe: Jerusalem 7 May 1963
As you are so interested in the story of Baeck and Jung, I will write it down for your benefit and ha… Read More
2017-11-12 11:22
A REJOINDER TO DR. BALLY
1016 1 wish to discuss no surmises with Dr. Bally, but prefer to report the facts which led me to take over the editorship of the Zentralblatt filr Psychotherapie… Read More
2017-11-10 10:10
The causalism that underlies our scientific picture of the world breaks everything down into individual processes which it punctiliously tries to isolate from all other parallel processes… Read More
2017-11-10 10:02
Jung’s book Aion (1951) can, depending on one’s standpoint, be regarded either as an astrological treatise or as the proof of a synchronistic phenomenon of cosmic proportions.
I… Read More
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