I called to my aunt: “He is walking!”
Every Sunday I was allowed to spend the morning with an old aunt who had a quaint old room with beautiful engravings on the wall.
I always looked at these with intense interest.
One was a picture of a vicarage in the country, and the parson was coming out in his robes to go to the Sunday service; he was just shutting the door and about to go down the steps to the street.
I looked at him very hard because he was such an interesting old chap, and once I discovered that he began to walk down the stairs.
I called to my aunt: “He is walking!”
Of course, she said it was impossible. “But I have seen him, sure enough he is walking down the stairs!”
And every Sunday thereafter, that was my great pleasure-to stare at the old parson till he walked down the steps.
If you look at a picture long enough it will move.
If not, it is your mistake, you do not put yourself into it. ~Carl Jung, Visions Seminar, Page 122-123
Carl Jung: I now go for a walk twice a day for about 3/4 of an hour.
C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950
To Jakob Stahel
Dear Colleague, 17 March 1947
Cordial thanks for your friendly picture postcard and kind remembrances.
I have-touch wood!-only good to report.
I keep to my daily regime: two hours of scientific work in the morning, and in the afternoon a rest plus a visitor.
I now go for a walk twice a day for about 3/4 of an hour.
Things are already going a bit better, though not yet brilliantly.
On Thursday I go to Locarno, Hotel du Pare.
I am sorry you’re having such beastly weather, I walk in all weathers and am glad I can do it, thanks to your efforts.
I hope you are making a good recovery.
The rest will do you good too.
With best wishes, also to your wife,
Yours gratefully,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 451-452.
Dr. Jung “short” 3-6 hour walks at 63 years of age.
C.G. Jung Letters, Vol. 1: 1906-1950
[Dr. Jung’s “short” 3-6 hour walks at 63 years of age.]
To Edwin Schmid
Dear Colleague, 18 April 1938
I am doing excellently on your diet.
The “short” walks have already stretched out to 3-6 hours.
I can also go mountain-climbing again, which suits me fine. Yesterday I climbed about 8oo metres without difficulty, from 900 to 1700.
The heart is coping well, only the legs are a bit stiff afterwards.
Should I take only dextrose, for instance in tea and coffee?
l am scrubbing oil on myself with a hard brush.
I hope to get some sunbathing. Up there in the snow it was too cold.
I have also dug, spread manure, and set potatoes, and besides that have written a longish paper in English.
As you see, I am bursting with energy.
With very best thanks,
Yours sincerely,
C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. 1, Page 244.
Note: [Dr. Schmid was treating Jung for the amoebic dysentery he contracted during his stay in India (Memories, p.280/262)]
The schizophrenic may be pictured as a dreamer who walks about and acts like a person awake ~Carl Jung, CW 3, Para 174
When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the earth? ~Carl Jung, CW 10, Page, Para 988
Let’s stroll through the garden, across to the hall. Have a look around … We start from the large terrace, where the round table awaits us for dinner. This table is the centre of Eranos, its heart and soul, where its many discussion take place. Here, dinner really means “to receive,” in both senses of the word …
Let us pass this table and head out into the garden … On the narrow path, we have now reached the lecture hall, whose doors and windows are open. Do you see the speaker, who, gripped by his subject, lays aside his manuscript and speaks freely? … The audience listens attentively, only the waves beat quietly, rhythmically, down on the shore. ~Erich Neumann, Life and Work of Erich Neumann, Page 140 Olga
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