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…

The Story of the Stone at Bollingen
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The Story of the Stone at Bollingen

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…

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Bollingen: Completion

”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”…