Oct 31, 2026 | Essays
“Science is the tool of the Western mind, and with it one can open more doors than with bare hands.” “Scientific thought, being only one of the psyche’s functions, can never exhaust all its potentialities.” “Dogma is like a dream,...
Sep 28, 2026 | Essays
The State as a “Lunatic Asylum” An Explication de Texte of a Paragraph in Aion “Where rationalistic materialism holds sway, states tend to develop less into prisons than into lunatic asylums.”[1] After his post-doc studies with Pierre Janet in...
Aug 27, 2026 | Essays
Doctors in general not only have a repugnance to reading voluminous books, they also have a regular horror of thinking, for which they have ceased to be trained ever since their high-school days.[1] The accumulated greed of a nation becomes utterly...
Jul 29, 2026 | Essays
This essay was to be posted in May; I cannot explain why it was not. I apologize for the mis-up. Sue Mehrtens Finding Light in the Darkness: Jung and Others on Lucifer and Active Hope “… just as evening gives birth to morning, so from the darkness arises a new...
Jul 6, 2026 | Essays
“If science is an end in itself, man’s raison d’être lies in being a mere intellect. If art is an end in itself, then his sole value lies in the imaginative faculty, and the intellect is consigned to the lumber-room. If making money is an end in itself,...
Jun 13, 2026 | Essays
Jung and Others on Greed, Hacking and Artificial Intelligence “Egotism always has the character of greed, which shows itself chiefly in three ways: the power-drive, lust, and moral laziness. These three moral evils are supplemented by a fourth which is...
