…these cigarettes you're slowly committing suicide, giving yourself lung cancer or something. Then you may remember the words of c g Jung that life is an incurable disease with a very bad prognosis which lingers on for years and invariably ends with death.…

…expression. Uh how could you have a mind which is unconscious? Well the terminology is not satisfactory and furthermore, although Jung is quite different in this respect, and some might probably agree with Britten, Freud's Conception of the unconscious tended…

…the joyous life they are always wanting that everything you do is supposed to be good for you. Now life is bad for you, as Jung pointed out he was joking he said life is a disease with a very bad prognosis. It lingers on for years and invariably ends…

…over here and the feelings are over here and the intuition is over there and the sensations are over there. I don't think Jung meant that when he made this fourfold classification. I think every faculty of the mind is continuous with all the others. And…

…is psychotherapeutic thinking today so incredibly superficial when it comes to its metaphysical roots? Why even does a man so perceptive as Jung keep saying: I am just a physician I am not a metaphysician, I am only interested in the about metaphysics. Why…

…Jung keep saying: I am just a physician I am not a metaphysician, I am only interested in the about metaphysics. Why because Jung was canny and he wanted to retain his scientific reputation. He would say a lot of other things privately, but he had to…

…in terms of the philosophy of science and the philosophy of nature that was prevalent in the great days of Freud, Jung. And Adler and other founding fathers of modern psychiatry, and showing that scientific naturalism or the fully automatic model of the…

…paradoxical expression. How can you have a mind that is unconscious? Well the terminology is not satisfactory and furthermore, although Jung is quite different in this respect and in some way grodek too is different, Freud's Conception of the unconscious…

…You are much cleverer than you think and so as this cramp in the consciousness I'm borrowing a phrase from Jung what is called in Hindu Philosophy sankocha or contraction, contraction of consciousness, that's that's conscious attention that is avidya means…

…and low beauty and ugliness and so forth, coming into being together. And this principle which is a form of what Jung calls synchronicity is increasingly finding its way into modern western thought particularly in biology in the study of root relationships…

…situations in which those hexagrams are cast. And this, in turn is connected with the Chinese Philosophy of relationship, which Jung called synchronicity, a resonance relationship now in other words the two strings sound together. Now then, when you have a…

…it is and keep moving into that even in fantasy, you see. Then later on when you have worked on these fantasies which Jung calls active imagination, you can see how in life you are encompassed with all sorts of weird threats which are keeping you…

…isn't contemptuous for that reason. Incidentally, may I be so bold as to recommend a book memories, dreams and reflections by c g Jung Jung's Autobiography, the life story of a man who, in my opinion was a superb human being in this particular sense of…

…That seems so plausible and many very, very intelligent people indeed have worked on it with interest and enthusiasm. The great c g Jung was fascinated with astrology and used it in his work and in his personal life. But I think we have to exercise a…

…about himself under the guise of talking about something else. At least I'm expressing the way it has always seemed to me. Jung had an interesting theory about astrology that seems, at any rate fairly rational, and that was that we are not actually…

…and setting up the context for events that are going to happen to us in the future, and so on and so forth. What Jung suggested was this: that man has used the stars as a kind of measuring device with which he can correlate rhythms that occur in…

…down. Next, the roaring lion, Leo with his golden mane suggestive of the intense heat of the sun in mid summer. And then virgin Jung suggests that this is based on the idea that only a virgin can tame a lion and that the appearance of the sign virgo…

…in Europe, at, for example the eranos congress, which is held in ascona every year in Switzerland, at the c g Jung Institute in Zurich, the world congress of faiths and at Oxford University. He's presented papers at the international congress of…

…the joyous life they're always wanting that everything you do is supposed to be good for you. Now life is bad for you, as Jung pointed out he was joking he said: life is a disease with a very bad prognosis. It lingers on for years and invariably ends…

…and it's um without ambition and it is a negation of the whole idea of being a good consumer. Now I think Freud and Jung had a very great insight when they point out that the constellation of motives in the unconscious is always liable to be opposed…

…animal that I don't think we can ever fundamentally alter that balance. And I think one of the great contributions of c g Jung as a psychiatrist was his constant stress on the importance of what he calls integrating the evil, learning to live with the…

…course I suppose what you're really saying is that if we accepted or somehow came to terms with our dark side, that, as Jung said we integrated the evil, then this would indirectly improve us. In other words we can't improve ourselves by an assault on…

…joyous life. They are always wanting that everything you do is supposed to be good for you. Now life is bad for you as Jung pointed out he was joking, he said life is a disease with a very bad prognosis. It lingers on for years and invariably ends…

…being in some way sick. There are of course exceptions to this and there have increasingly been exceptions in the work of Jung and to some extent even of grodek, of princehorn, of more modern people, rogers and Ronald Lang. Changing consciousness is often…

…enormous company of archbishops and bishops, among whom there are of course as there were with Christianity, Heresiarchs such as Jung and grodek and rank and Reich, and the heresiarchs are duly excommunicated and anathematized. There are rituals, as there are…

…sort of dully mediocre. In fact every sort of child can be given a diagnostic name for his behavior which sounds sick, as Jung once suggested life itself is a disease with a very poor prognosis. It lingers on for years and invariably ends with death.…

…is that the two go together, that what appear to be things opposed unrelated, fighting, are really things that can't do without each other. Jung when I saw Jung in 1958 just before he died, we had a long talk in his summer house on the edge of lake…

…go together, that what appear to be things opposed unrelated, fighting, are really things that can't do without each other. Jung when I saw Jung in 1958 just before he died, we had a long talk in his summer house on the edge of lake zurich and there…

…And then again one thinks of various aspects of the whole field of psychotherapy, particularly I suppose the work of Jung and Carl Rogers, which runs so closely parallel to much older eastern investigations of man's consciousness. Still more fascinating I…

…that's because you see our symbology of god entirely lacks the feminine element. This is one of the most important things I think that Jung has pointed out the Christian God is god the father, male god the son, male god the holy spirit, neuter a bird a…

…Hypnotized indifference simply succumbs but paradoxically, the philosophical acceptance of reality has power it can change things. I think it was Jung who said that we can never change things until we first accept them. And I'd like to talk to you for…

…a lot of people going around today who, as a result of psychedelic experiments, believe themselves to be god and are actually what Jung would call inflated, that is to say confusing the ego with god and as we would say giving themselves airs and graces…

…I know about two books outside of the work of Freud where he discusses death wishes and so on and outside the work of Jung, who has said that he regards his kind of psychotherapy in particular as a task for the second half of life in which a…

…at things and are not that myopic about it, you will begin to see what is I think clumsily foreshadowed by Freud and Jung. Especially Freud in his idea of self punitiveness death wishes and all these things where he is trying to say of the unfunctioning…

…easy to know just in what sense this is to be taken whether the thing is how far it's symbolic how far it's literal. Jung always took it in a very symbolic sense of not referring to anything that had actually a connection with the spinal cord or the…

…you understand it intellectually, because the intellect and the feelings aren't really two different compartments of the mind. You know Jung has a schema of the mind as having four functions: intellect, feeling, intuition and sensation. But these are only, as…

…to mate, they're not sure what they're supposed to do and they begin to fight. I had a long talk about this with c g Jung. He lived on the edge of lake zurich and he had a little summer house right on the water's edge and there were many swans…

…I have had most interesting relationships between these swans and many of my female patients who thought they were homosexual. I mean Jung Wasn't a sexual snob I mean he understood all the legitimacy of all kinds of sexual variations. But he said it has…

…what is other that you have a self at all. So then, I feel that one of the very great things that c g Jung contributed to mankind's understanding was the concept of the shadow, that everybody has a shadow and that the main task of the psychotherapist…

…But boy when the storm comes does that thing get mad and terrify you. So there is in us the ocean you see, and Jung felt that the whole point was to bring the two together and by a kind of a fantastic honesty to penetrate one's own motivations…

…whole point was to bring the two together and by a kind of a fantastic honesty to penetrate one's own motivations to the depths. Jung had a tremendous humor and he knew that nobody can be completely honest, that you will try and you will have a great…

…Freud was scared stiff of the unconscious. He was a good, bourgeois, Jewish, Viennese, well behaved person. Once upon a time Freud and Jung went together to New York and Jung was delighted to walk down fifth avenue and see so many beautiful women. And he…

…He was a good, bourgeois, Jewish, Viennese, well behaved person. Once upon a time Freud and Jung went together to New York and Jung was delighted to walk down fifth avenue and see so many beautiful women. And he turned to Freud and said: my goodness how…

…But there was in all this, you see in Freud, the basic mistrust of the unconscious and this led to a quarrel with Jung, because Jung went down to a lower level of the unconscious, which he called collective, and found out that there was a patterning…

…was in all this, you see in Freud, the basic mistrust of the unconscious and this led to a quarrel with Jung, because Jung went down to a lower level of the unconscious, which he called collective, and found out that there was a patterning process here,…

…and expected to be treated as such. Well we put such people in the nuthouse that's what they did to jesus. That's intolerable and Jung was right in a way when he said that is inflation. It is turning your ego into god instead of having god as your…

…tao is what we would call the flow of the present see, and you're with it. There's no way of being anywhere else. The Jung Yong, the book called the unwobbling pivot, says: the tao is that from which one cannot deviate. That from which one can deviate…

…labels, but when you come into that there's something about it that again you know you're sitting on the edge of your chair. Jung once said he met a man in whom he could find no human failings whatsoever, and he was terribly disturbed because he…

…these cigarettes you're slowly committing suicide, giving yourself lung cancer or something. Then you may remember the words of c g Jung that life is an incurable disease with a very bad prognosis which lingers on for years and invariably ends with death.…

…in classifying people there are various schemes have been worked out. We talk about there being extroverts and introverts, and Jung made up his four functions so that he could describe intuitive types, sensation types, thinking types and feeling types.…

…the yetzer harah I call the yetzer harah in the English Translation the element of irreducible rascality that is in us all, and Jung spoke of this a great deal when he addressed himself to the problem of the assimilation of the evil in us. Once upon…

…of this a great deal when he addressed himself to the problem of the assimilation of the evil in us. Once upon a time Jung met a man in whom he could find no human failing whatsoever, and this man seriously disturbed him. He said: I have at last…

…contained the saint's shadow side. He drove her to desperation because she had to reflect all the repressed things in her husband. So Jung saw through it and never again was tempted to be a saint. I have a most amusing friend who lives with me here…

…In a way, all consciousness expanding drugs have something to do with death. Why? Because all spiritual disciplines are as Jung pointed out, preparations for death. It is a commonplace of these disciplines, spiritual disciplines, that what you do in them…

…They haven't been able to. This experience happened to them but they don't know how to interpret it. So be careful of that. Jung calls it inflation people who get the holy man syndrome, that I've suddenly discovered that I'm the lord and that I'm above…

…this world not more than a few weeks ago, and I'd like to talk tonight about some of the great things that I feel that Jung has done for me and also the things which I feel to be his enduring contributions toward the science of psychology of which he…

…feel to be his enduring contributions toward the science of psychology of which he was such a great master. I began to read Jung when I first began to study eastern philosophy in my late adolescence, and I'm eternally grateful to him for what I would…

…commentary that he wrote to Richard Wilhelm's Translation of a Chinese Taoist text called the secret of the golden flower. It was Jung who helped me to remind myself that I was by upbringing and by tradition always a westerner and I couldn't escape from…

…of all I want to call attention to one fundamental principle that underlay all his work and that was most extraordinarily exemplified in Jung himself as a person, and this is what I would call his recognition of the polarity of life, that is to say his…

…one could justify the sort of crimes which were committed in the concentration camps of Germany. And it's true, certain people accused Jung also of nazi sympathies because he too would not subscribe to the absolute state of a war between good and evil…

…of history. But they're old men, unafraid of losing the dubious dignity of a good academic reputation. It's the same with Jung aged 80 in psychology. Of course all institutions of higher education are increasingly dependent upon the government or upon the…

I suppose that some of you have read a very fascinating work that was written many years ago by c g Jung, a commentary that he wrote to a translation of a Chinese Classic by Richard Wilhelm called the secret of the golden flower. Now you may remember…

…philosophy I've never been tempted to forget that I'm a westerner. But as I think this essay over, I'm not sure that Jung discouraged the practice of yoga by Westerners for quite the right reasons. I find so often the difficulty in Jung's ideas lies…

…And therefore, under the influence of that sort of theory of history which is felt in the work of both Freud and Jung, One gets the feeling of there being a kind of progressive development of human consciousness and Jung is charitable enough to assume…

…of both Freud and Jung, One gets the feeling of there being a kind of progressive development of human consciousness and Jung is charitable enough to assume that because the Chinese and Indian Civilizations are immeasurably older than ours they've had the…

…gathers every year under the auspices of a lady who has for a long time been interested in the work of c g Jung. And the particular paper which Joseph Campbell presented at this conference was called the symbol without meaning. It isn't published in this…

…Now I might say something about the mandala as a world mythological symbol, although anybody who's studied the works of c g Jung is very familiar with it. A mandala is essentially a circle, usually divided into four quarters or multiples of four, and has…

…who knows anything at all about the elementary principles, say, of psychoanalysis, knows that according to the ideas of both Freud and Jung, who are in a way the great patriarchs of what we call depth psychology, that according to their ideas there is a…

…that are going on. You are doing it all. Only be very careful at this point that you don't get into the state which Jung called inflation. It's very easy for a westerner to get into an inflated state about this because of our conception of god as the…

…this culture and therefore, interestingly enough, it is one of the main channels of unconscious communication. Whatever is repressed is, as Jung would say, put into the unconscious and thereby activated in a special way. So a great deal of esp or telepathic…

…in some way sick. There are of course exceptions to this, and there have increasingly been exceptions in the work of Jung and to some extent even of Groddeck, of prinzhorn, of more modern people, rogers and Ronald Lang. Changing consciousness is often…

…enormous company of archbishops and bishops among whom there are of course as there were with Christianity, Heresiarchs such as Jung and Groddeck and rank and Reich, and the heresiarchs are duly excommunicated and anathematized. There are rituals, as there…

…sort of dully mediocre. In fact every sort of child can be given a diagnostic name for his behavior which sounds sick. As Jung once suggested, life itself is a disease with a very poor prognosis. It lingers on for years and invariably ends with death.…