A well-written autobiography that captures a life well-lived, in a Jungian way: From a review by Stephen Morrisey: Robert Johnson’s Balancing Heaven and Earth is a memoir and celebration of the inner life, the world of dreams, active imagination, and mystical vision. Johnson writes, “I sometimes wonder if all suffering is a vision…
Carl Jung speaks of the Mystery of Love: If we possess a grain of wisdom, we will completely surrender to this unknowable who embraces in love all the opposites. Whatever the learned interpretation may be of the sentence “God is love,” the words affirm the complexio oppositorum of the Godhead. In my medical experience…
Jung Describes His Process of Drawing Mandalas I sketched every morning in a notebook a small circular drawing, a mandala, which seemed to correspond to my inner situation at the time. With the help of these drawings I could observe my psychic transformations from day to day. . .. Only gradually did I discover…
Image from Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy, Psychology and Alchemy Figure 72 from Jung: His life and Work by Barbara Hannah: “Altogether, Jung’s health seemed to be particularly good in the autumn of 1946…. It was, therefore, a completely unexpected shock to hear… that he had another heart attack and was again very…
Marie Louise Von Franz, on the “Unknown Visitor” It seems to me to be one of the greatest contributions of Jung and his work that it taught us to keep our door open to the “unknown visitor.” He also tried to teach us an approach through which we can avoid the wrath of this…
“Many people cannot refrain from picking up stones of a slightly unusual color or shape and keeping them, …. without knowing why they do. It is as if the stone held a mystery in it that fascinates them. Men have collected stones since the beginning of time and have apparently assumed that…
1923 The Tower at Bollingen “Words and paper did not seem real enough to me.To put my fantasies on solid footing, something more was needed.I had to achieve a kind of representation in stone of my innermost thoughts and of the knowledge I had acquired.Put another way, I had to make a confession of faith…
In researching Telesphoros for yesterday’s post, this video of Jung (wait for about minute five) talking about the carving he did at 75 years old presented itself: Interview with Maud Oakes: Jung at Bollingen
Jung and the stone carving of Telesphorus In 1950, Jung carved this stone, partially in celebration of his 75th birthday. The translation: This is Telesphorus, who roams through the dark regions of this cosmos and glows like a star out of the depths. He points the way to the gates of the sun and to…