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C.G. Jung: “The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings.”

C.G Jung, on the longissima via: . . . One could say that while the patient is unconsciously and unswervingly seeking the solution to some ultimately insoluble problem, the art and technique of the doctor are doing their best to help him towards it. “Ars totum requirit hominem!” [“The art requires the whole person.”] exclaims an old alchemist….

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Jung’s dream before discovering alchemy: A library with 16th century manuscripts

Before I discovered alchemy, I had a series of dreams which repeatedly dealt with the same theme. Beside my house stood another, that is to say, another wing or annex, which was strange to me. Each time I would wonder in my dream why I did not know this house, although it had apparently always…

Finding the Right Stone

Finding the Right Stone

  I had run out of stones for the Stone Sanctuary, and was resisting another long drive and loading of heavy stones. As I was passing the “transfer station” in Fairbanks, where people leave their trash, a small voice in my head said “turn, turn.” I had not been here for months, but, for whatever…

Carl Jung’s 1925 Essay: “Marriage as a Psychological Relationship”
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Carl Jung’s 1925 Essay: “Marriage as a Psychological Relationship”

Plate 4  Splendor Solis   Marriage as a Psychological Relationship Regarded as a psychological relationship, marriage is a highly complex structure made up of a whole series of subjective and objective factors, mostly of a very heterogeneous nature. As I wish to confine myself here to the purely psychological problems of marriage, I must disregard…

Carl Jung: “I need not have written any books; it is all on the stone.”
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Carl Jung: “I need not have written any books; it is all on the stone.”

  After completing the Orphan Stone, Jung told Maud Oakes, “I need not have written any books; it is all on the stone.”   He placed it outside the tower, as a monument to the place. From Mystical Emergence: An Architectural Journey Through Jung’s Tower Inscribed on the Stone: I am an orphan, alone; nevertheless…

On Carl Jung’s 75th Birthday Stone:  “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere.”
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On Carl Jung’s 75th Birthday Stone: “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere.”

On the Stone at Bollingen   “I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a…

Carl Jung:  “That is my stone.  I must have it!”
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Carl Jung: “That is my stone. I must have it!”

The Rejected Stone The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief corner stone. Psalm 118: 22 From Memories, Dreams, Reflections The story of how this stone came to me is a curious one. I needed stones for building the enclosing wall for the so-called garden, and ordered them from the quarry near Bollingen….