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...

Carl Jung and Willie Nelson: Living True to Oneself

“I was turning exactly into the person I was…. I’m a man of many parts.”[1] Willie Nelson “Man can suffer only a certain amount of culture without injury.”[2] Carl Jung “The ‘integrity of the personality’ must be...

Our Inner Partner: Jung on the Anima and Animus

Our Inner Partner: Jung on the Anima and Animus “Just as outwardly we live in a world where a whole continent may be submerged at any moment, or a pole shifted, or a new pestilence break out, so inwardly we live in a world where at any moment something similar...