From Atom and Archetype: The Pauli-Jung Letters, 1932-1958 JUNG AND PAULI: A Meeting of Rare Minds BY BEVERLEY ZABRISKIE Readers of the Swiss psychiatrist C. G. Jung are more familiar with Wolfgang Pauli’s unconscious than with his waking life and achievement. Through Jung’s Psychology and Alchemy–an exposition of “the problem of individuation” and “normal development…
From Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, and the Acausal Connecting Principle: A Case Study in Transdisciplinarity Charlene P. E. Burns Jung’s fascination with physics actually began early in his career as a result of a series of dinners with Albert Einstein between 1909 and 1912. He later wrote that “It was Einstein who first started me…
scarabaeid beetle (Cetonia aurata) scarab beetle/dung beetle A young woman I was treating had, at a critical moment, a dream in which she was given a golden scarab. While she was telling me this dream, I sat with my back to the closed window. Suddenly I heard a noise behind me, like a gentle tapping….
Foreward to the Richard Wilhelm’s I Ching Carl Jung Foreward to the Richard Wilhelm’s I Ching Carl Jung Excerpt 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…
In 1909, when sailing with Freud to the United States, Jung had the following dream: I was in a house that I did not know,which had two stories. It was “My House”. I found myself in the upper story, where there was a kind of salon furnished with fine old pieces in rococo style. On…
Jung narrates his first dream, when he was three or four years old: In the dream I was in this meadow. Suddenly I discovered a dark, rectangular, stone-lined hole in the ground. I had never seen it before. I ran forward curiously and peered down into it. Then I saw a stone stairway leading down….
SPIRITUALITY TODAY Autumn 1988, Vol.40 No. 3, pp. 249-261. James Arraj: Jungian Spirituality:The Question of Victor White IN 1960, when Fr. Victor White lay dying in England, C. G. Jung wrote to the Mother Prioress of the convent where the Dominican scholar had been cared for: “I had nursed the apparently vain hope that Fr….
St. Thomas Aquinas Jung’s Betrayal of Father Victor White (Catholic Priest) June 16, 2010 by Steven Buser This week’s blog is the conclusion of Murray Stein’s lecture on Betrayal, given at Jungian Odyssey 2010. In it he looks at the intense friendship and later dramatic breakup of Carl Jung and Father Victor White. If you…
In alchemy the lion, the “royal” beast, is a synonym for Mercurius, or, to be more accurate, for a stage in his transformation. He is the warm-blooded form of the devouring, predatory monster who first appears as the dragon. Usually the lion-form succeeds the dragon’s death and eventual dismemberment. … The lion has among other…