We can see today that the entire alchemical procedure… Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.14) “We can see today that the entire alchemical procedure for uniting the opposites could just as well represent the individuation process of a single individual, though with the not unimportant difference that no single individual ever attains to … Read more
The first childhood dreams contain the samskaras, the archetypes. Carl Jung: Kundalini Yoga The first childhood dreams contain the samskaras, the archetypes. It is thus in no way surprising that we find obvious cakras or mandalas in children’s drawings. Small children are very old; later on we soon grow younger. In our middle age we … Read more
The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society Carl Jung – The Undiscovered Self – 1957 The Plight of the Individual in Modern Society Scientific education is based in the main on statistical truths and abstract knowledge and therefore imparts an unrealistic, rational picture of the world, in which the individual, as a merely marginal … Read more
Time Out Before Marriage: Paris and Oxford October 4, 1957 At the end of September 1957, Kurt Wolff visited Zurich and read some of my notes for the first time. He requested that Jung add more about the role of art, music and literature in his life. He was also interested in hearing Jung describe … Read more