Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes… Jung (1916)[1] The opus consists of three parts: insight, endurance and action…. It is conflicts of duty that make endurance and action so difficult. Jung (1945)[2] The question is, […]
Life is an energy-process. Like every energy-process, it is in principle irreversible and is therefore directed towards a goal…. Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves…. […]
… somebody lifted the iron lid that has been clamped down over my head from without and in came the question: what do you think about the Flying Saucers?—This is the thing that carried me away as soon as I had finished the other work,… Ever since I have been busy on this new errand. […]
I call the two preceding types [T & F] rational or judging types because they are characterized by the supremacy of the reasoning and judging functions. It is a general distinguishing mark of both types that their life is, to a great extent, subordinated to rational judgment. … […]
…death is an important interest, especially to an aging person. A categorical question is being put to him, and he is under an obligation to answer it. To this end he ought to have a myth about death, for reason shows him nothing but the dark pit into which he is descending. Myth, however, can […]
[Don’t Forget the Upcoming Conference: Check Out Our Page on Preparing for the Great Attunement] The afternoon of life is just as full of meaning as the morning; only, its meaning and purpose are different…. Jung (1943)[1] … it would seem to be more in […]
The coming of the Antichrist is not just a prophetic prediction—it is an invariable psychological law whose existence… brought him [John, author of the Book of Revelation] a sure knowledge of the impending enantiodromia… C.G. Jung (1950)[1] In Part I of this essay we defined Jung’s […]
For anyone acquainted with religious phenomenology it is an open secret that although physical and spiritual passion are deadly enemies, they are nevertheless brothers-in-arms, for which reason it often needs the merest touch to convert the one into the other. Both are real, and together they form a pair of opposites, which is one of […]
The Path of Individuation; Thursdays, July 12, 19, 26; Aug 2, 9, 16, 23, 30; 7-9PM; 55 Clover Lane, Waterbury; $90; to register, call Sue (802) 244-7909 An advanced course that integrates many of the other workshops in the Via Practica as well as several other courses in the Center’s curriculum, to foster students’ integration […]
I use the term enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. C.G. Jung (1949)[1] In the philosophy of Heraclitus it [enantiodromia] is used to designate the play of opposites in the course of events—the view that everything that exists […]