Toni Wolff: ” To deal with the collective unconscious demands a solid ego consciousness and an adequate adaptation to reality.”

“The lucidity of consciousness rests upon dark unconscious seeds out of which grow objective cultural values. It is this unconscious background that is perceived by medial woman’s structural form…. ‘Medium’ means in between, neither this nor that, something intermediate…. The medial woman is immersed in the psychic atmosphere of her environment and the spirit of…

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C.G. Jung: “The mandala’s basic motif is the premonition of a center of personality….”

‘ Carl Jung: The mandala as depicting “a kind  of central point within the psyche.”   The mandala’s basic motif is the premonition of a center of personality, a kind of central point within the psyche, to which everything is related, by which everything is arranged, and which is itself a source of energy…. This…

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C.G. Jung: ” I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.”

  Carl Jung on the Central Position of the Mandala   “I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego…. I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain…