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….
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….
From The Asheville Jung Center Len Cruz, M.D. May 15, 2010 Dream: Jung and his father are in a mosque. They find themselves kneeling and beginning to bow. Evidently, Jung’s father bows fully allowing his head to make contact with the floor. However, Jung stops within a millimeter of the floor. He will not permit…
Wall Street Journal May 12, 2010 Arnie Cooper One of the more stunning works on display (image 125) depicts one of Jung’s childhood daydreams “in which,” writes Mr. Shamdasani, “Alsace is submerged by water, [and] Basel is turned into a port” in the bottom third of the picture. Hovering above is a human figure—legs in…
Zdzisław Beksiński The Shadow cannot be eliminated. It is the ever-present dark brother or sister. Whenever we fail to see where it stands, there is likely to be trouble afoot. For then it is certain to be standing behind us. he adequate question therefore never is: Have I a shadow problem? Have I negative…
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow. Such a man has saddled himself with new problems and conflicts. He has become a serious problem to himself, as he is now unable to say that they…
From Susan Smalley, Ph.D: Psychology Professor, UCLA The other night I attended one of the Red Book Dialogues at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, California. The Dialogues are a series of discussions between a celebrity (that night was Helen Hunt) and a psychoanalyst or Jungian scholar (that night was James Hillman) around The Red Book,…