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C.G. Jung: ” Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective unconscious.”

 Probably none of my empirical concepts has met with so much misunderstanding as the idea of the collective unconscious…. I. Definition The collective unconscious is part of the psyche which can be negatively distinguished from a personal unconscious by the fact that it does not, like the latter, owe its existence to personal experience and…

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C.G. Jung: “The ‘squaring of the circle’ … could even be called the archetype of wholeness.”

Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. “The ‘squaring of the circle’ is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one 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; “The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested thoughout the ages.”

  “The mandala is an archetypal image whose occurrence is attested throughout the ages. It signifies the wholeness of the Self. This circular image represents the wholeness of the psychic ground or, to put it in mythic terms, the divinity incarnate in man.”   Memories, Dreams and Reflections Pages 334-335

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C.G. Jung: “The mandala is… the path to the center, to individuation. ”

  “My mandalas were cryptograms concerning the state of the self which was presented to me anew each day… I guarded them like precious pearls…. It became increasingly plain to me that the mandala is the center. It is the exponent of all paths. It is the path to the center, to individuation. ”  …

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Carl Jung: “That is the self that dwells in the anahata chakra, the heart center…”

“That the self is understood to be an old sage is also an Eastern idea. There is a Chinese text for example, handed down in philosophical literature, which says, “If though thinketh thou art alone and canst do what one pleases, thou art forgetting the old sage that dwelleth in thy heart and knoweth of…

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Anima: Ten Quotations from Carl Jung

Salome Dancing Gustav Moreau The projection-forming factor is the anima. Wherever she appears in dreams, phantasies or visions, she appears personified, thereby demonstrating that basically she possesses all the outstanding characteristics of a female person. She is not an invention of the conscious, but a spontaneous production of the unconscious; neither is she a substitute…