C.G. Jung on Alchemy

I enjoyed reading ‘Jung on Alchemy’, a compilation of his various references to this subject, edited by Nathan Schwartz- Salant. What a revelation, to read that consciousness and its focal point ‘the ego’ have not been a constant for man over the ages; instead, he suggests, they have been an ongoing development. Jung saw consciousness …

Jung: The dead, it seems, do not possess great Knowledge!

I was struck by a few lines in C.G. Jung’s ‘Memories, Dreams and Reflections’. They reinvigorated my own growing impression that this three dimensional world, of time and space, is really at the cutting edge of ‘the spiritual endeavour.’ It seems to be where the real ‘graft’ happens. The gems are mined here to be …

Jung — in under a minute

We are fragmented creatures The being that we know and think of as ourself is only the ‘conscious mind’. This is a ‘small’ island in the vast sea of the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind is not just a dusty storehouse of past thoughts and memories. It has its own intelligence. It is a being …