C.G. Jung: “The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious.”

“The great problems of life—sexuality, of course, among others—are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of…

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C.G. Jung: “Just as the constellations were projected into the heavens, similar figures were projected into legends…”

  Carl Jung: Projection of the Collective Unconscious   The collective unconscious – so far as we can say anything about it at all – appears to consist of mythological motifs or primordial images, for which reason the myths of all nations are its real exponents. In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken…

C.G. Jung: “In addition to our immediate consciousness….there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature.”

“In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective…

C.G. Jung: “There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self…”

“I began to understand that the goal of psychic development is the self. There is no linear evolution; there is only a circumambulation of the self. Uniform development exists, at most, at the beginning; later, everything points toward the centre. This insight gave me stability, and gradually my inner peace returned.” C.G. Jung Memories, Dreams,…

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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: ” I knew that in finding the mandala as an expression of the self I had attained what was for me the ultimate.”

  Carl Jung on the Central Position of the Mandala   “I had to abandon the idea of the superordinate position of the ego…. I saw that everything, all paths I had been following, all steps I had taken, were leading back to a single point — namely, to the mid-point. It became increasingly plain…

C.G. Jung: “The mandala symbolizes, by its central point, the ultimate unity of all archetypes.”

“The mandala symbolizes, by its central point, the ultimate unity of all archetypes as well as the multiplicity of the phenomenal world, and is therefore the empirical equivalent of the metaphysical concept of a unus mundus. The alchemical equivalent is the lapis and its synonyms, in particular the Microcosm.” C.G Jung Mysterium Coniunctionis Page 463…

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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’s Dream: “I must keep my little light going through night and wind, regardless of all dangers…”

from the Red Book It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything depended on my keeping this little light alive….