Christ rose not literally but symbolically. Civilization in Transition If, for instance, the statement that Christ rose form the dead is to be understood not literally but symbolically, then it is capable of various interpretations that do not conflict with knowledge and do not impair the meaning of the statement. The Churches stand for traditional… 

The Creative Impulse. You cannot put something on a table which is already laden; you must first clear those things away in order to put new ones in their place. And to build a house where an old house stands, you must first destroy the old house. Here the process of thought turns into an… 

Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious. The lake in the valley is the unconscious, which lies, as it were, underneath consciousness, so that it is… 

Carl Jung on the Self Anthology The Self is not a philosophical idea, since it does not predicate its own existence, i.e., does not hypostatize itself. From the intellectual point of view, it is only a working hypothesis. Its empirical symbols, on the other hand, very often possess a distinct numinosity, i.e., an a priori…