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We are still looking back to the Pentecostal events.

Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961

We are still looking back to the Pentecostal events in a dazed way instead of looking forward to the goal the spirit is leading us to.

Therefore mankind is wholly unprepared for the things to come.

Man is compelled by divine forces to go forward to increasing consciousness and cognition, developing further and further away from his religious background because he does not understand it any more.

His religious leaders and teachers are still hypnotized by the beginning of a then-new aeon of consciousness instead of understanding them and their implications.

What was once called the “Holy Ghost” is an impelling force, creating wider consciousness and responsibility and thus enriched cognition.

The real history of the world seems to be the progressive incarnation of the deity. Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 436.

This phenomenon can in fact be observed in all those countries which were directly

C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950

To Oskar Splett

Dear Dr Splett 23 May 1950

I must confess that your question is very difficult to answer and I would ask you to take my remarks as more or less hypothetical I too doubt whether the term early maturation is the right one.

Like you I would rather speak of a kind of watchfulness or increased awareness

This phenomenon can in fact be observed in all those countries which were directly affected by the war most of all those where war or revolution were worst

Above all probably with the Besprisornji Russians hordes of orphaned children.

It is less a matter of real maturation than of premature watchfulness and a one-sided intensification of instinctive tendencies.

If by maturation is meant an expansion of consciousness or a rounding-out of the personality, then “early maturation” is quite wrong.

In the vast majority of cases consciousness is not expanded but contracted; instead there are sharp ears, wide-open eyes and increased cupidity—the very things we can also observe with primitives under similar conditions.

Only in exceptional cases is there an accelerated, real maturation; the majority show a regressive development back to the primitive.

I regard this development as a direct consequence of political and social upheavals, and it seems to me that such phenomena are less observable in a more peaceful atmosphere than elsewhere.

I am thinking, for instance, of Switzerland and America, where the people escaped the effects of the war.

Since I have not undertaken any thorough researches in this field my opinion is based only on general impressions.

Yours sincerely,

C.G. JUNG ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 558-559.

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Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961

To Paul Campbell

Dear Mr. Campbell, 19 December 1952

Thank you very much for your kind letter and the programme of your Conference.

I fully realize that Catholic analysts are faced with very particular problems which, on the one hand, are an aggravation of the work which is difficult in itself already, yet on the other hand, an asset, since you start within a world of thought and feeling based upon archetypal realities.

I have had a number of TB patients in my time and some really excellent results with psychotherapy, but it is true that the average somatic case generally has a resistance to a psychological approach,
particularly the TB patients, since TB is, in a way a “pneumatic” disease, that is, affecting the life-giving breath.

It is in such cases often as if the patient had a pride and obstinacy in defending the achievement of a somatic answer to an insoluble psychological problem.

With every good wish for Christmas and the New Year,

I remain,

Yours cordially,

C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 100-101

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