C.G. Jung, On the Soul and Dreams “I must learn 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 dearest to me. Dreams are the guiding words of…
Carl Jung: “I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the circumambulation of the self.” I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the circumambulation of the self. Uniform development exists, at most, at the beginning; later, everything points toward the centre. This insight gave me stability, and gradually…
(from the Red Book) Carl Jung, on “The Resurrection of the Christ Within” What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfill the divine will within me. This task gives me so much to do that I have no time or any other….
Carl Jung, on projections: “What is farthest is actually nearest.” We must bear in mind that we do not make projections, rather they happen to us. This fact permits the conclusion that we originally read our first physical, and particularly psychological, insights into the stars. In other words what is farthest is actually nearest….
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…
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 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….