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It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness

It is not what we can do with numbers but what they do to our consciousness The anthroposophist Ernst Bindel has likewise explored the meaning of natural numbers in connection with the musical scale, a field I do not intend to consider in this book because it would lead too far from my main argument.… 

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A cultivated white man—and beneath that a primitive shadow,

A cultivated white man—and beneath that a primitive shadow, One might well ask at this point why it should be necessary for a person to be in contact with his or her historical-spiritual roots. In Zurich we have the opportunity to analyze many Americans who come to the Jung Institute and thus to observe the… 

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One cannot escape one’s fate; the whole pain of it must be accepted

One cannot escape one’s fate; the whole pain of it must be accepted Jung writes that women with a negative mother complex often miss the first half of life; they walk past it in a dream. Life to them is a constant source of annoyance and irritation. But if they can overcome this negative mother… 

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Touchy people are proud of their sensitiveness, by which they tyrannize others.

Touchy people are proud of their sensitiveness, by which they tyrannize others. When the prince appears after a hundred years, the thorny hedge growing around the castle blossoms suddenly into beautiful roses. The rose, says one medieval author, belongs to the goddess Venus and means love, for “there is no love without thorns.” They also… 

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The woman is not yet what is really wanted

The woman is not yet what is really wanted Generally, great difficulty is experienced in adaptation to the social situation. In some cases, there is a kind of asocial individualism: being something special, one has no need to adapt, for that would be impossible for such a hidden genius, and so on. In addition, an…