When I was in college in California in the late 60’s, the interest in Eastern philosophy was emerging in the Western culture; this was one of the forces behind the “Hippie Movement”. Richard Wilhelm’s translation of the I Ching and the Secret of the Golden Flower was one of the major influences in this cultural…
From the Forward: This assumption involves a certain curious principle that I have termed synchronicity, a concept that formulates a point of view diametrically opposed to that of causality. Since the latter is a merely statistical truth and not absolute, it is a sort of working hypothesis of how events evolve one out of another,…
A few years later Wilhelm was staying as a guest in my house, and came down with an attack of amoebic dysentery. It was a disease he had had twenty years before. His condition grew worse during the following months, and then I heard that Wilhelm was in the hospital. I went to Frankfurt to…
Harper’s Weekly October 19, 2009 What the text presents is a series of fantasies in which dramatic dialogues occur. Jung enters into discussion with the figures that emerge, and then attempts to draw lessons from their exchange. He viewed these characters as different aspects of his personality. The text describes his attempt to recognise and…