Spielrein is the person I wrote you about. … She was, of course, systematically planning my seduction, which I considered inopportune. Now she is seeking revenge. Letter of Jung to Freud, 4 June 1909 . Sabina Spielrein was Jung’s first patient. In the records at Burgholzli Hospital, Jung (1905) described her as “oriental” and “voluptuous,”…
From Fortean Times The Occult World of CG Jung Another who seemed to feel supernatural presences was his cousin, from his mother’s side of the family, Helene Preiswerk. In a letter to JB Rhine about the shattered bread knife, Jung refers to Helly – as she was known – as a “young woman with marked…
The most comprehensive information I could find about Jung’s mother is from Frank McLynn’s 1999 biography, Carl Gustav Jung. He doesn’t hesitate to do a kind of psychoanalysis of her effect on Jung: CHAPTER ONE Carl Gustav Jung By FRANK McLYNN St. Martin’s Press Jung imbibed superstition almost literally with his mother’s milk, for Emilie…
She was the foundation of my house. Carl Jung A man’s foremost interest should be his work. But [for] a woman, man is her work and her business. Yes, I know it sounds like a convenient philosophy of the selfish male when I say that. But marriage means a home. And home is like a…
From Shamanic Voices Joan Halifax A ball of fire came down out of the sky and struck Uvavnuk senseless. When she regained consciousness, the spirit of light was within her… And when she sang, all those present were loosed from their burden of sin and wrong; evil and deceit vanished as a speck of dust…
While trying to understand the thinking of Eliade and Jung, I came across this article by Cerena, a graduate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute… Interesting reading about a very important topic: Alchemy and the Hermetic Tradition: Mircea Eliade and Carl Jung August 9, 2009 (Excerpts) The relationship between Mythology and the Religious traditions…
In the interview conducted by Eliade for Combat, Jung does say this: Religious experience is numinous, as Rudolf Otto calls it, and for me, as a psychologist, this experience differs from all others in the way it transcends the ordinary categories of time, space and causality. Source
In an interview late in his life Eliade again recalled his first meeting with Jung: After half an hour’s conversation I felt I was listening to a Chinese sage or an east European peasant, still rooted in the Earth Mother yet close to Heaven at the same time. I was enthralled by the wonderful simplicity…