“Introduction to Kranefeldt’s ‘Secret Ways of the Mind,’” 761 In order to interpret the products of the unconscious, I also found it necessary to give a quite different reading to dreams and fantasies. I did not reduce them to personal factors, as Freud does, but-and this seemed indicated by their very nature – I compared…
Meister Eckhart: The Book of Consolation Benedictus deus et pater domini nostri Jesu Christi (2 Cor. 1:3f.) The noble apostle Paul says this: ‘Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all consolation, who comforts us in our tribulation.’ There are three kinds of tribulation…
Marie-Louise von Franz – The Transformed Berserk: Unification of Psychic Opposites At the core of the relationship between individual transformation and social responsibility is the problem of psychic opposites. For, as Carl Gustav Jung once pointed out, ”there always will be the two standpoints: the standpoint of the social leader who, if he is an…
Marion Woodman: “And a Crone Shall Lead Them” Reading ancient myths and fairy tales can be very helpful because these stories came spontaneously from people who had not studied psychology. The stories came straight out of their unconscious and, therefore, show us how the unconscious works unimpeded by conscious intervention. The images are clear and stark. For…
The seeress of Prevorst revelations concerning the inner-life of man The following phenomena are similar to those known of persons who could read what was laid on the pit of the stomach, or else, by the sense of feeling, obtained a knowledge of it. I gave Mrs. H two pieces of paper, carefully folded: “There…