Heinrich Zimmer: Coming into His Own. The Art of Indian Asia is accepted as Heinrich Zimmer’s exegesis of the Buddhist and Hindu art of South and Southeast Asia. Edited by Joseph Campbell from lecture notes prepared by Zimmer at Columbia University in 1941 and from earlier notes, the text, with an accompanying volume of plates,…
Carl Jung on “Madness” – Anthology Socrates distinguished four types of divine madness: (1) inspired divination, such as by the prophetess at Delphi; (2) instances in which individuals, when ancient sins have given rise to troubles, have prophesied and incited to prayer and worship; (3) possession by the Muses, since the technically skilled untouched by…
Toni Wolff: The End of an Intimate Friendship C. G. Jung and Toni Wolff entered their elder years1 the estrangement between them. only grew. Joseph Henderson certifies: “It is true that in later years Toni Wolff and Jung saw less of each other. This must have been a lonely time for her.”1 Just three months…
The Meaning Factor in Synchronicity by Nora Mindell Lecture held in Guarda, Switzerland, on February 24, 1994 (this transcript incorporates Marie-Louise von Franz’s corrections from June 13, 1994). Mindell: C. G. Jung and M.-L. von Franz emphasize the fact that synchronistic events are characterized not only by an equivalence (and relative simultaneity) between inner and…