“If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.” Carl Jung ___________________ “If the only prayer you ever said in your whole life, was, thank you, that would suffice.” Meister Eckhart
One cannot individuate without being with other human beings. One cannot individuate on top of Mt. Everest, or in a cave where one doesn’t see anyone for seventy-years; one can only individuate with or against something or somebody. Being an individual is always a link in a chain. Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”: notes of the seminar given…
(Jung is talking here about the Philosophers’ Stone) “The union of opposites in the stone is possible only when the adept has become One him/herself. The unity of the stone is the equivalent of individuation, by which [we are] made one; we would say that the stone is a projection of the unified self. 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…
Clearly, Carl Jung makes people happy…. Click this link for more about Jung’s carving on his 75th Birthday Archetypal Symbolism in Possessing the Secret of Joy Southern Literary Journal Alice Walker’s fifth novel, Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), marks a new beginning for an author/activist who explicitly appropriates Carl Jung’s archetypal patterns of the…
Jung’s first mandala “In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures. ” Memories, Dreams and Reflections “Most mandalas have an intuitive, irrational character and, through their symbolical…
Pablo Picasso The Dream 1932 Mark Harris: C.G. Jung and Picasso In 1932, Carl Gustav Jung wrote a perceptive analysis of Picasso’s psychology after seeing an exhibition of his paintings at the Zürich Kunsthaus. The analysis was published in the Neue Züricher Zeitung. The article offended many of Picasso’s admirers in the artworld. In it…
Carl Jung was recruited by Allen Dulles, through Mary Bancroft, to provide psychological profiles of Hitler and the German psyche. Dulles met with him on several occasions; Eisenhower read his report before the final invasion of Germany. It is quite difficult to track down this information; some of it can be found in the furnished…