Carl Jung on Guru – Anthology

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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 … Read more

Carl Jung on “Missionaries” – Anthology

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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, … Read more

The mental education necessary for Zen is lacking in the West.

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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 … Read more

Carl Jung on Introjection Lexicon

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Carl Jung on Introjection Lexicon Carl Jung Lexicon NYAAP Introject!on: A process of assimilation of object to subject, the opposite of projection. Introject!on is a process of extraversion, since assimilation to the object requires empathy and an investment of the object with libido. A passive and an active introjection may be distinguished: transference phenomena in … Read more