Soul Protection in a Time of Psychic Epidemics

  “masses are always breeding-grounds of psychic epidemics”[1] “psychic epidemics …. destroy the individual.”[2] “As a rule, when the collective unconscious becomes really constellated in larger social groups, the result is a public...

Jung on Honing Our Discernment

  “Eros is an interweaving; Logos is differentiating knowledge, clarifying light. Eros is relatedness, Logos is discrimination and detachment.”[1] “… the whole essence of consciousness is discrimination, distinguishing ego from non-ego, subject...

Celebrating Jung’s Life and Work

  Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland. His early life was difficult, as his father Paul, a country parson in the Swiss Reformed Church, was poor and unable to provide Carl with sufficient food or answers to his questions about...

Jung on Experiencing God

“… I do know of a power of a very personal nature and an irresistible influence. I call it ‘God’.”[1]  “God is a universal experience which is obfuscated only by silly rationalism and an equally silly theology.”[2]  “God is an immediate experience of a very primordial...

Jung on Avoiding a “Forlorn Situation”

  “… the religions would find themselves in a very forlorn situation if they believed in the attempt to hold up evolution. Their task, if they are well advised, is not to impede the ineluctable march of events, but to guide it in such a way that it can...