Anthology | Carl Jung Depth Psychology

Carl Jung: “What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfill the divine will within me.”
(from the Red Book) Carl Jung, on “The Resurrection of the Christ Within” What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfill the divine will within me. This task gives me so much to do that I have no time or any other. […]
C.G. Jung: “a crucifixion of the ego, its agonizing suspension between irreconcilable opposites…”
C.G. Jung: “The ‘squaring of the circle’ … could even be called the archetype of wholeness.”
Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. “The ‘squaring of the circle’ is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of […]

Dialectics of Enlightenment
The Isha Upanishad offers insight into some core dialectics of enlightenment. Spiritual dialectics are resolved in the Innermost Self (Ātman), as a spiritual seeker realizes higher and higher levels of synthesis, until an ultimate dialectic is… More
The path to Moksha मोक्ष: karma & jñāna in the Isha Upanishad, mantra 2
Moksha मोक्ष is a Sanskrit word meaning “free, release, liberate“. This word is related to the Sanskrit word mukti मुक्ति meaning “liberation”.The root word of both is muc मुच् meaning “to be free” * . In his commentary on the Upanishads, 8th century CE philosopher and theologian Adi Shankara… More
Baby Ganesha: divine child as image of enlightenment
In the image above, we see the Divine Child in the form of Ganesha. The Sanskrit word Ganesha is from gana meaning “multitude” and isha meaning lord “lord” [1]. Ganesha is half elephant and half human. In… More

No matter what your
No matter what your conscious attitude may be, the unconscious has an absolutely free hand and can do what it pleases
But your attitude to
But your attitude to it matters, how you will take it, whether you believe in immortality or not, how you react to such and such an event, that matters to the unconscious.
In the unconscious i
In the unconscious it is not so terribly important whether a man is alive or dead, that seems to make very little impression upon the unconscious.
In the least the gre
In the least the greatest will appear— such is your expectation. And that is the numen, the hint of the god.
Only those people wh
Only those people who can really touch bottom can be human. Therefore Meister Eckhart says that one should not repent too much of one’s sins because it might keep one away from grace. One is only confronted with the spiritual experience when one is absolutely human.

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