Jung and the Social Implications of Individuation

Jung and the Social Implications of Individuation             Earlier essays on this blog site[1] described some of the components of individuation and defined it as… a developmental process which begins in...

What’s Coming Down—and When?

An Examination of America’s Potential Future in Light of Its Astrological Chart What’s Coming Down—and When?An Examination of America’s Potential Future in Light of Its Astrological Chart[1]             In...

Jung and the “New Dispensation”

Jung and the “New Dispensation”             In the previous essay I noted how Jung anticipated a new development in the evolution of religion. Some of his followers call this the “new dispensation.”[1] Just...

Jung and the Numinosum

Jung and the Numinosum “Phoberon to empesein eis cheiras theou zontos.”“It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.”Hebrews 10:31“… the experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”[italics in the...

Jung on the Problem Child

Jung on the Problem Child “… the things which have the most powerful effect upon children do not come from the conscious state of the parents but from their unconscious background.”[1]           ...

The Chosen Few: Analysis as the Hero’s Journey

“The Chosen Few:”Analysis as the Hero’s Journey “To develop one’s own personality is indeed an unpopular undertaking, a deviation that is highly uncongenial to the herd, an eccentricity smelling of the cenobite, as it seems to the outsider. Small wonder, then,...