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 Read More
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 Read More
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 Read More
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… Read More
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, amo… Read More
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 whic… Read More
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… Read More
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 Read More
Carl Jung: …I believe that misery is an intrinsic part of human life: On the contrary, I believe that misery is an intrinsic part of human life, without which we could never do anythi… Read More
Carl Jung on Buddha and Christ: I grasped the life of the Buddha as the reality of the self which had broken through and laid claim to a personal life Read More
1. Carl Jung on Detachment: You will remember that I read you a long passage from Meister Eckhart's sermon on "Detachment" at the end of the last lecture Read More
E.A. Bennet: The witch doctor at Bollingen: He saw this as a commentary upon his life, divided between the continents and somehow coming together, for he is constantly passing from one to th… Read More
Carl Jung: Hermeticism is not something you choose.: Hermeticism is not something you choose, it is a destiny, just as the ecclesia spiritualis is not an organization but an electio Read More
1. The Hero, the Leader, The Savior.: But, in the end, the hero, the leader, the savior, is one who discovers a new way to greater certainty. Everything could be left undisturbed did not the… Read More
1. Carl Jung on Intuition and Intuitives – Quotations: Intuitives are often very poor because they never wait for the harvest. Carl Jung, Lecture V 25May1934, Page 107 Read More
Wolfgang Pauli: Space and time were virtually turned by Newton into God’s right hand: sincerely, W. PAULI ~Wolfgang Pauli, Atom and Archetype, Pages 32-33 Read More
The snake as earth demon, as savior, and as time.: When I stressed three main aspects—the snake as earth demon, as savior, and as time symbol—this was just an attempt to organize… Read More
The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious:: The Buddhist Unconscious (Alaya-vijnana) and Jung’s Collective Unconscious: Read More
1In the evening I light the old lamps: I have refrained from electricity and heating itself stove and oven. In the evening I light the old lamps ... thoughts emerge, which date back to centu… Read More
Often the Hands will solve a mystery: "Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain." ~Carl Jung, CW 16, Para 181 Read More
1. For you should leave some trace in this world: It is utterly important that one should be in this world, that one really fulfills one’s entelechia, the germ of life which one… Read More
For you should leave some trace in this world: It is utterly important that one should be in this world, that one really fulfills one’s entelechia, the germ of life which one is Read More
We can see today that the entire alchemical procedure…: "We can see today that the entire alchemical procedure for uniting the opposites could just as well represent the individuation… Read More
1. Carl Jung: Classification (By Type) did not interest me very much.: Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX) Read More
1. I never try to convert a patient to anything: I never try to convert a patient to anything, and never exercise any compulsion. What matters most to me is that the patient should reach his… Read More
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 Read More
Carl Jung on “The Introverted Type.”: Although the introverted consciousness is naturally aware of external conditions, it selects the subjective determinants as the decisive one… Read More
Carl Jung on “Anima” “Soul” – Anthology – Quotations: That indeed is reality if it is not a reality in ourselves, an esse in anima? Living reality is the… Read More
1. Love is like God: both give themselves only to their bravest knights.: Love is like God: both give themselves only to their bravest knights Read More
You cannot individuate if you are a spirit: You cannot individuate if you are a spirit; moreover, you don’t even know how spirit feels because you are in the body Read More
Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements.: Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our a… Read More
The threat to one’s inmost self from dragons and serpents: ”More especially the threat to one’s inmost self from dragons and serpents points to the danger of the newly acqu… Read More
Carl Jung on “Sapientia” (Wisdom): We finished the excerpts from the writings of the alchemists on the scientia in the last lecture, and come today to an almost synonymous idea… Read More
Carl Jung on “Sapientia” (Wisdom): We finished the excerpts from the writings of the alchemists on the scientia in the last lecture, and come today to an almost synonymous idea… Read More
We are the instruments of Cosmogonic Love: “At this point the fact forces itself on my attention that beside the field of reflection there is another equally broad if not broader… Read More
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 eterna… Read More
Nancy Furlotti: Tracing a Red Thread: Synchronicity and Jung’s Red Book: Nancy Furlotti: Tracing a Red Thread: Synchronicity and Jung's Red Book Read More
Carl Jung: Sex is a playground for lonely scientists.: Sex is a playground for lonely scientists. You might as well study the psychology of nutrition as the psychology of sex Read More