Carl Jung on apparently hopeless situations. Seminar on Dream Analysis. C.G. Jung [Carl Jung on apparently hopeless situations.] Often we are led to a wall, it is too high, we cannot get over it and we stand there and stare at it. Rationalism says, “There is no getting over it, just go away.” Yet natural…
Carl Jung on Guru – Anthology From the earliest times, Hermes was the mystagogue and psycho pomp of the alchemists, their friend and counselor, who leads them to the goal of their work. He is “like a teacher mediating between the stone and the disciple.” To others the friend appears in the shape of Christ…
Carl Jung on “Missionaries” – Anthology When those doubtful blessings, missionaries, stop the initiation ceremonies of a tribe, it always decays. When you take these rites from the people they lose their sense of life, and then they just go from one cigarette to the next, and from one drink to the next. ~Carl Jung,…
The mental education necessary for Zen is lacking in the West. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 11: Psychology and Religion: West and East When, therefore, after many years of the hardest practice and the most strenuous demolition of rational understanding, the Zen devotee receives an answer—the only true answer—from Nature herself, everything that is…