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 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 at Bollingen “I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!” from: Memories, Dreams, Reflections Before enlightenment chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment chop wood, carry water. Zen Proverb Carl…
1935 Stage 3 of Carl Jung’s Bollingen: Adding a courtyard and a loggia “I added a courtyard and a loggia by the lake, which formed a fourth element that was separated from the unitary threeness of the house.” This fourth element opens the self up to nature and the sky, to the divine and…
1927 Bollingen: Stage 2, the Family House From Mark Larson, “The Architecture of Bollingen” The second phase, built in 1927, begins to resemble more a Family House when a two-story wing was added to the lone tower. The house now opened itself more to the lake, aligning roughly with the shoreline, thereby creating an…
The Inscriptions on the Stone at Bollingen In Bollingen, silence surrounds me almost audibly, and I live “in modest harmony with nature.” Thoughts rise to the surface which reach back into the centuries, and accordingly anticipate a remote future. Here the torment of creation is lessened; creativity and play are close together.In 1950 I made…
”After my wife’s death in 1955, I felt an inner obligation to become what I myself am. To put it in the language of the Bollingen house, I suddenly realized that the small central section which crouched so low, so hidden, was myself! I could no longer hide myself behind the “maternal” and the “spiritual”…
To Gustav Schmaltz 30 May 1957 Dear Schmaltz: I understand your wish very well, but I must tell you at once that it does not fit in my with my situation. I am not getting on at 82 and feel not only the weight of my years and the tiredness this brings, but even more…
Jung: “You can be sure your dream is your nearest friend.” When I went to East Africa, I went to a small tribe in Mount Elgon and I asked the medicine-man about dreams. He said, “I know what you mean; my father still had dreams.” I said, “You have no dreams?” And then…