Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will Civilization in Transition So when I counsel my patient to pay attention to his dreams, I mean: “Turn back to the most subjective part of yourself, to the source of your being, to that point where you are making world history without being…
Carl Jung on “Shaman” – Quotations Even the so-called highly scientific suggestion therapy employs the wares of the medicine-man and the exorcising shaman. And why not? The public is not much more advanced either and continues to expect miraculous cures from the doctor. And indeed, we must rate those doctors wise worldly-wise in every sense—who…
Carl Jung: A green tree grew from the ruins of the temple. Red Book But I was no longer the man I had been, for a strange being grew through me. This was a laughing being of the forest, a leaf green daimon, a forest goblin and prankster, who lived alone in the forest and was itself a…
Carl Jung: The Ouroboros has been said to have a meaning of infinity or wholeness. Carl Jung Depth Psychology Facebook Group Mysterium Coniunctionis The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the Ouroboros, the snake that…