The idea is that we see three dimensions, but the fourth is invisible.
Unconscious sensations, and still more intuitions, are in a curious borderland which defies exact definition.
Intuition is never quite conscious.
H. G . Wells in his book “The Time Machine” mirrors a curious machine which does not run in space but in time.
Three wheels can be seen, but the fourth is only faintly visible.
The idea is that we see three dimensions, but the fourth is invisible.
The same is true of the functions. Intuition is never tangible and we know as much of it as we do of the fourth dimension.
Sometimes intuitions and sensations are caused by such things as the holes made by the termites.
An intuitive type, for instance, was in analysis with me.
I received her in my garden room.
She said :You had a man here before”.
I was really amazed as there had been a luncheon interval and she could not have seen him.
She could only say she had a feeling it was so and I subsequently noticed many cigarette stumps on the table and concluded, as I do not smoke cigarettes, that her unconscious had registered the fact and diagnosed a man.
It is a fact that coincidences can tend to heap up.
A professor once said to his students “This is a unique case, tomorrow we shall have another”.
During my own exp erience in the clinics I saw a very rare case for the first time, seven days after another, and then no more for seven years. ~Carl Jung, ETH Lecture 18 May 1934.
Of course this term is not meant to denote an inherited idea
Esther Harding, the author of this book, is a physician and specialist in the treatment of psychogenic illness.
She is a former pupil of mine who has endeavoured not only to understand the modern psyche but also, as the present book shows, to explore its historical background.
Preoccupation with historical subjects may at first glance seem to be merely a physician’s personal hobby, but to the psychotherapist it is a necessary part of his mental equipment.
The psychology of primitives, folklore, mythology, and the science of comparative religion open our eyes to the wide horizons of the
human psyche and give us that indispensable aid we so urgently need for an understanding of unconscious processes.
Only when we see in what shape and what guise dream symbols, which seem to us unique, appear on the historical and ethnic scene, can we really understand what they are pointing at.
Also, once equipped with this extensive comparative material, we can comprehend more nearly that factor which is so decisive for psychic life, the archetype.
Of course this term is not meant to denote an inherited idea, but rather an inherited mode of psychic functioning, corresponding to the inborn way in which the chick emerges from the egg, the bird builds its nest, a certain kind of wasp stings the motor ganglion of the caterpillar, and eels find their way to the Bermudas.
In other words, it is a “pattern of behaviour.”
This aspect of the archetype, the purely biological one, is the proper concern of scientific psychology. ~Carl Jung, CW 18, Para 1228
The Turk: The world of ideas is paradise and paradise is the world of ideas.
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Many women amount to many books.
Each woman is a book, each book a woman. The houri is a thought and the thought is a houri.
The world of ideas is paradise and paradise is the world of ideas.
Mohammed teaches that the houris admit the believer into paradise.
The Teutons said as much. ~The Turk, The Black Books, Vol. VI, Page 230
Cf. the Koran, 56:12- 39.
[12. In the Gardens of Bliss.
13. A throng from the ancients.
14. And a small band from the latecomers.
15. On luxurious furnishings.
16. Reclining on them, facing one another.
17. Serving them will be immortalized youth.
18. With cups, pitchers, and sparkling drinks.
19. Causing them neither headache, nor intoxication.
20. And fruits of their choice.
21. And meat of birds that they may desire.
22. And lovely companions.
23. The likenesses of treasured pearls.
24. As a reward for what they used to do.
25. Therein they will hear no nonsense, and no accusations.
26. But only the greeting: “Peace, peace.”
27. And those on the Right—what of those on the Right?
28. In lush orchards.
29. And sweet-smelling plants.
30. And extended shade.
31. And outpouring water.
32. And abundant fruit.
33. Neither withheld, nor forbidden.
34. And uplifted mattresses.
35. We have created them of special creation.
36. And made them virgins.
37. Tender and un-aging.
38. For those on the Right.
- A throng from the ancients.]
In Norse mythology, the Valkyries escort the brave who are slain in battle to Valhalla and tend them there. ~The Black Books, Vol. VI, Page230, fn 122
