“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 craze, a mental epidemic that may lead to revolution or war or something of the sort. These movements are exceedingly contagious – […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
“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 from object, positive from negative, and so forth. The separation into pairs of opposites is entirely due to conscious differentiation; only consciousness can […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
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 religion and faith, while his mother Emilie had two […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
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“… 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 nature, one of the most natural products of our […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
“… 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 proceed without fatal injury to the […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
Jung and Others on Fascism A Reply to a Question from a Jungian Center Student “Fascism is the Latin form of religion, and its religious character explains why the whole thing has such a tremendous fascination.”[1] “… we are entitled to speak of a collective presence. Similar ‘presences’ today are the Fascist and Communist ideologies, […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
“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 preserved at all costs.”[3] Carl Jung “That is our only hope – to get back to a condition […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
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 may occur, albeit in the […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
Jung on Family Constellations and the Alchemy of Colors “Patients constantly illustrate for me the determining influence of the family background on their destiny. In every neurosis we can see how the emotional environment constellated during infancy influences not only the character of the neurosis, but also the patient’s destiny even down to its details. […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
“Transitions between the aeons always seem to have been melancholy and despairing times, as for instance the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Egypt between Taurus and Aries, or the melancholy of the Augustinian age between Aries and Pisces. And now we are moving into Aquarius…. And we are only at the beginning of this […] The post Self/self Sustenance in an Era of Trump: From MAGA to Manna appeared first on Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences.| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
“The numinous experience of the individuation process is, on the archaic level, the prerogative of shamans and medicine men; later, of the physician, prophet, and priest; and finally, at the civilized stage, of philosophy and religion. The shaman’s experience of sickness, torture, death, and regeneration implies, at a higher level, the idea of being made […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
Part IV: Managing Our Fears … make your fears your agenda.” Hollis (1996)[1] … by “going through,” one breaks a hold of the primal fear that holds sway over much of our lives. To go through it with the insight and courage of an adult, to make friends with it, somehow, breaks that tyrannous […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences
… active imagination… is a method (devised by myself) of introspection for observing the stream of interior images.” “… the method of ‘active imagination’ … I have been using for more than thirty years in the treatment of neurosis, as a means to bring unconscious contents to consciousness.” “… active imagination… enables us to get […]| Jungian Center for the Spiritual Sciences