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The Soul and Death

The Soul and Death Carl Jung and “Life After Death” I have often been asked what I believe about death, that unproblematical ending of individual existence. Death is known to us simply as the end. It is the period, often placed before the close of the sentence and followed only by memories of aftereffects in… 

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Man’s capacity for consciousness alone makes him man.

Man’s capacity for consciousness alone makes him man. Psychology and Religion: West and East (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 11) In the same way that the State has caught the individual, the individual imagines that he has caught the psyche and holds her in the hollow of his hand. He is even… 

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The Dream of Gilgamesh: The First Recorded Dream

The Dream of Gilgamesh: The First Recorded Dream Gilgamesh Dream Gilgamesh got up and revealed the dream, saying to his mother:   Mother, I had a dream last night. Stars of the sky appeared, and some kind of meteorite of Anu fell next to me.  I tried to lift it but it was too mighty for… 

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Carl Jung letter to Upton Sinclair

Carl Jung letter to Upton Sinclair Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume 2, 1951-1961 Dear Mr. Sinclair, 7 January I955Having read your novel Our Lady1 and having enjoyed every page of it, I cannot refrain from bothering you again with a letter. This is the trouble you risk when giving your books to a psychologist… 

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Dreams—a Source of Religious Experience?

Dreams—a Source of Religious Experience? The Symbolic Life: Miscellaneous Writings (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18) This book has the merit of being the first to investigate how the unconscious of Protestants behaves when it has to compensate an intensely religious attitude. The author examines this question with the help of case…