Joseph Henderson – Foreword to A Memoir of Toni Wolff, FOREWORD Irene Champernowne was a remarkable English woman who founded and directed a unique treatment center for emotionally disturbed people at a country house, Withymead, near Exeter, from 1942 to 1966. The Withymead center had a Jungian orientation from the beginning owing to Mrs. Champernowne’s … Read more
Edward F. Edinger: The Olympian Gods It is remarkable that the early civilized mind took it as self-evident that there were beings who lived forever. This is not so obvious to the modern mind; one has to dig into the depths of psychological experience to rediscover what was self-evident to our ancestors. Taken as a whole, the … Read more
C.G. Jung’s Active Imagination by Leon Schlamm C.G. Jung’s development of the dissociative technique of active imagination, the visionary practice of ‘‘dreaming with open eyes,’’ arose out of his early experimentation with paranormal phenomena, especially mediumship, itself a dissociative technique of contacting the dead which traces its provenance to shamanism. His discovery of active imagination … Read more
Carl Jung: Self as the primal source of all things LECTURE 7 Here’s another sentence that causes the Westerner categorical difficulties. For we are used to the idea that whatever a man says is human, all too human. “So, whoever said so and so is after all only a man, and he simply said so … Read more