C.G. Jung: On the Soul

“The soul, too, according to tradition, has a round form. As the Monk of Heisterbach says, it is not only “like to the sphere of the moon, but is furnished on all sides with eyes” (ex omni parte oculata)… His remark refers in all probability to certain para­psychological phenomena, the “globes of  light” or globular luminosities which, with remarkable consistency, are regarded as “souls” in the remotest parts of the world.

A Study in the Process of Individuation

Again there are boulders, the round and pointed forms; but the round ones are no longer eggs, they are complete circles, and the pointed ones are tipped with golden light. One of the round forms has been blasted out of its place by a golden flash of lightning. The magician and magic wand are no longer there. The personal relationship to me seems to have ceased: the pic­ture shows an impersonal natural process.


Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious

Paragraphs 531-544

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