…computer? Well, in a way, what I think is going on is that the concept of the collective unconscious, which was enunciated by Carl Jung in the early decades of the 20th century, he and Freud basically discovered that the mind had a flip side that could…

…is truth. So it may be that, or it may be deeper. Terrence, what do you say? Well, it's funny, again, to mention Jung. He had this concept which he called synchronicity, which is the apparent coincidence of a mental state with an event in the exterior…

…you owe money, and suddenly there's a fish right on the street in front of you. This is called a synchronicity. And Jung felt that there was a kind of, what he called acausal connectedness, and that this was how the unconscious attempted to communicate…

…computer? Well in a way what I think is going on is that the concept of the collective unconscious, which was enunciated by Carl Jung in the early decades of the 20th century. He and Freud Basically discovered that the mind had a flip side that could…

…sir that's true. So it may be that or it may be deeper Terrence what do you say? Well it's funny again to mention Jung. He had this concept which he called synchronicity, which is the apparent coincidence of a mental state with an event in the exterior…

…whom you owe money and suddenly there's a fish right on the street in front of you. This is called a synchronicity and Jung felt that there was a kind of what he called a causal connectedness and that this was how the unconscious attempted to…

…for spiritual transformation that is extraordinarily applicable in the modern era. It was for this reason that the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung made alchemical motifs as important a part of his theory of the unconscious as the contents of dreams or folklore.…

…a consort, does not have a daughter it's a locker room religion from the get go. Now it was the insight of Carl Jung and his school to understand that myths are narcissistic reflections of our own aspirations as individuals and societies. And when you…

…in the early years of this century all of these people were anticipating aspects of this archaism. And so was Freud, and so was Jung and in their own bizarre way so were the nazis, and so was the psychedelic revival of the 60s. These are all various…

…So I as most people do or would I think looked to tradition for some kind of guidance about what this was and read Jung and read Mercier Liad and saw you know parallels but not a clear congruency and saw in the iconography of Tibetan Buddhism seemed…

…is called in modern parlance neurosis what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that it is and again this may be my the influence of Jung in my background you know Jung felt that there was no such thing as normality that life the task is of life was what…

…what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that it is and again this may be my the influence of Jung in my background you know Jung felt that there was no such thing as normality that life the task is of life was what he called individuation and he felt…

…to Face. But these things have been layered in the unconscious so it's a process of bringing things to light or as Carl Jung said, enlightenment does not consist of visualizing figures of light but making the dark unconscious. Could you say that? Well I'm…

…newton had pretty much proved the same thing. Well long before the viral metaphor, somewhat before the viral metaphor became Au Courant, Jung talked about what he called psychic epidemics. He, in, I think 1934, wrote an essay on the return of wotan as an…

…entered into a kind of participation mystique in which the contents of the unconscious were actually projected onto matter. And Carl Jung made much of this because he realized that these alchemical texts, which are so cryptic and bizarre, could be treated…

…know that occurs to me is we human beings come equipped with something called the unconscious mind, discovered by Freud and Jung in Vienna, you know for us but apparent throughout history. The unconscious mind, and part of this technological and historical…

…movement to and from an eternity in which the species was a living reality. The presence of our dead mother, or Carl Jung, Newton and Bruno, Pythagoras and Heraclitus was an overwhelming and all inclusive intuition that we shared and could not ignore.…

…a consort, does not have a daughter. It's a locker room religion from the get go. Now it was the insight of Carl Jung and his school to understand that myths are narcissistic reflections of our own aspirations as individuals and societies. And when you…

…reality. The thing which got me started on my travels and my career writing about all this was I had been very keen on Carl Jung and all that business and had been raised Catholic, and so when I smoked DMT I had the expectation that the most far out…

…why is it doing this for educating us? It seems like it's educating us but in a funny, funny way, if you read Jung on alchemy. Alchemy is like this: it's a paradoxical realm of symbol structures that seem to contradict themselves and myths that don't…

…Oracle of great antiquity and one of the things that has struck various people who've become involved with it Leibniz, Benjamin Franklin, Carl Jung that it seems to work like psychedelics it seems to be an exception to the general rule that this woo woo…

…of ideas to make a new world, and tell that story again in film, backing it with these tremendously powerful alchemical images that Jung and others showed work inexorably on the psyche, whether you wish to be part of the process or not to merely gaze…

…hold the details and there are many of them of this extremely complex worldview that were it not for people like Carl Jung, the Swiss Death psychologist would have remained completely inexplicable to modern people. It is not chemistry and it is not myth…

…and luna to produce the white essence of the panacea of the Universal Medicine. These are psycho mental processes and Jung, Strangely enough, was he must have been an extraordinary person because he could approach this without psychedelics through a very…

…for spiritual transformation that is extraordinarily applicable in the modern era. It was for this reason that the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung made alchemical motifs as important a part of his theory of the unconscious as the contents of dreams or folklore.…

…I have ever seen that turned anybody around on the dime was psychedelics. You know the talking cures invented by Freud and Jung at the beginning of this century. It takes years, sometimes it never happens the body work that came along behind that with…

…even an encounter with the miserable memories of the battered childhood of the human species that we all went through a La Carl Jung, that is all there, but that's in the hallway where you hang your hat and the antechamber where they take your coat.…

…it in the late 19th century in the burst of oriental mania that was sweeping Europe at that time. And then of course Carl Jung, the founder of depth psychology, found in the images of the I Ching a mirror for his own assumptions about the structure of…

…about the structure of the unconscious as he had found those things in dreams and alchemy and other concerns and physicists. Jung published at one point on the I Ching with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli Physicists found in the acausal connectedness upon…

…of western orientalists James Legge and Richard Wilhelm. Their translations made it available to the western world and the psychologist Carl Jung in inventing and discussing the phenomenon that he called synchronicity popularized the I Ching by using it as an…

…of someone you haven't thought of for years and an hour later in the mail a letter arrives from them. And Jung was fascinated by these kinds of apparent coordinations of the interiorized psychic sphere and the exterior three dimensional objective world. My…

…to understand the unity of ourselves with the real world. That our present approach makes difficult to discern. So whereas Carl Jung the Great Swiss Psychiatrist who wrote, incidentally, the preface to Richard Wilhelm's book of the I Ching and postulated…

…Psychiatrist who wrote, incidentally, the preface to Richard Wilhelm's book of the I Ching and postulated this theory of synchronicity well Jung Didn't really provide any mechanism for synchronicity he simply said it works this way that the mind seems to be…

…phase of thinking about the UFO. Probably the best known of these alternative explanations was the one pioneered by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who in 1953 wrote a book called flying saucers, a modern myth of things seen in the sky and Jung was at…

…psychologist Carl Jung, who in 1953 wrote a book called flying saucers, a modern myth of things seen in the sky and Jung was at great pains to, without passing judgment on the reality of the saucers, of the things seen, to interpret them psychologically,…

…the unconscious, then I think the flying saucer is going to remain quintessentially mysterious. This was Jung's view. One of the things that Jung pointed out in this book is that we must pay attention to the research which Dr J b Ryan was doing at that…

…misunderstanding, and that is, saying that the flying saucer is a psychic object does not mean that it is not a physical object. Jung in mysterium conjunctionis is at great pains to say that the realm of the psychic and the realm of the physical meet in…

…Materialists, atomists essentially in that same way the UFO challenges the assumptions of science and I think in that way, in that sense, Jung was really on to something when he saw it as coming from the unconscious. It is like an object coming from the…

…1954 called flying saucers a modern myth of things seen in the sky, and to my mind no one has really gone beyond Jung. He understood very clearly that saying that something is a denizen of the psychic realm no way precludes its also having efficacious…

…doing? And I don't want to sound like a public relations agent for Jacques Vallée, but to my mind, with the exception of Jung, Jacques is the only commentator on the phenomenon who has really pushed the Frontier back, to my mind in the invisible college.…

…This is presenting a tremendous barrier to us to the expression of our wholeness and I'm completely willing to line up behind Carl Jung on the notion that the UFO is an expression of our longing for wholeness. In concipio AD Verbum, AD Verbo Caro Factum…

…misunderstanding, and I, of course when you read dissident views on time, or when you did in the 50s and 60s you read Carl Jung who wrote about what was called synchronicity, which he called an a causal connecting principle, and I spend a lot of time…

…the publication of the first books, becomes associated with accessing the database of the culture. Well what we've learned through Freud and Jung is that the database of the culture goes deeper than we may have anticipated and that the final keys to the…

…Face that these things have been layered in the unconscious. So it's a process of bringing things to light. Or as Carl Jung said, enlightenment does not consist of visualizing figures of light but making the dark unconscious. Could you say that? Well I'm…

…on the rise and neoplatonic philosophers said that he thought Christianity was a disease of the soul and I think Freud and Jung had pretty much proved the same thing. Well, I'll tell you about monotheism now and I say christianism patriarchy and monotheism…

…been told. And this was fairly shocking to me because part of my intellectual journey had been through the psychology of Carl Jung, and so I was very prepared for the idea that all dreams, all religious mythologies are seamlessly connected to each other…

…saucer thing from one end to the other, and I'm talking 1947 to say 1954. And they studied it and they studied it and Carl Jung was brought in and all kinds of people were brought in and at the end of that period they concluded that what it was…

…completely in the absence of human conventions or values and that convinced me that it wasn't being generated from myself. And I read Jung and I realized that there was a way to define the self that would allow it to produce that kind of thing but…

…how to ask the kinds of questions we ask and so you can only go so far with that and eventually you realize you know Jung Won't help you, or mercileod. You have to make sense of this on your own terms. It's very unexpected that this would happen. I…

…the parallel continuum. It begins with Freud and noticing something about the fantasies of these viennese housewives, and you know then Jung splicing in the myths and then the surrealists and iliad, and then the drug people come along and Huxley and so…

…of ideas to make a new world, and tell that story again in film, backing it with these tremendously powerful alchemical images that Jung and others showed work inexorably on the psyche whether you wish to be part of the process or not. To merely gaze…

…hold the details and there are many of them of this extremely complex world view that were it not for people like Carl Jung the Swiss Death psychologist, would have remained completely inexplicable to modern people. It is not chemistry and it is not myth…

…and luna to produce the white essence of the panacea of the Universal Medicine. These are psycho mental processes. And Jung, Strangely enough, he must have been an extraordinary person because he could approach this without psychedelics, through a very…

…picture. And in some way we have lost our way and it remained for giants of 20th century thought like Freud and Jung to announce the startling fact that there was a human unconscious. And then it took still a different generation of researchers with…

…about Switzerland. I don't know how many of you know who brother Klaus is, probably not more than a half a dozen. Carl Jung wrote about the visions of brother Klaus. Carl Jung was another swisser with a deep love of country. Paracelsus, the great 16th…

…know who brother Klaus is, probably not more than a half a dozen. Carl Jung wrote about the visions of brother Klaus. Carl Jung was another swisser with a deep love of country. Paracelsus, the great 16th century alchemist was born in Switzerland. So this…

…deep involvement with spiritual transformation has given us in the 20th century, in the late 20th century, the heir to Carl Jung, the heir to Paracelsus, the heir to brother Klaus Albert Hoffman, Alchemist, philosopher, chemist, human being, a man of whom…

…at the age of 13 or 14? That seems unusual to me. Well I was a heavy reader and I was interested in the psychology of Carl Jung the Swiss Death psychologist, as a 13 year old. As a 13 year old, well I wasn't good at basketball. I had bad eyes I…

…part of this much larger phenomenon which I call the archaic revival, the discovery of the unconscious through Freud and Jung, the deconstruction of the image, first the image seen through impressionism and then the image imagined as deconstructed through…

…on flying saucers or one of the best was written just a couple of years after the first flying saucers were seen. It's by Carl Jung and it's called flying saucers, a modern myth of things seen in the sky and he talks there about how the human mind…

…in the alembic, the alchemical vessel and what was going on in their own imagination. The two categories weren't separate. So Jung noticed that these descriptions of chemical procedures that develop alchemy are not to be taken seriously as real recipes. They…

…comes in the natural and available form of the dream, which always to some degree has shaped human culture. But for Freud and Jung in the early 20th century and their followers the dream took on a whole new significance that it had never had before it…

…really got me is the presence of these English speaking entities in the trance. I mean that I did not expect I from Jung and from Freud you expect residual memories and but not these entities, these beings. And then the question is: where are they? Who…

…the idea that what we're seeing might be simply conscious drugs from the subconscious? Yes well that's the other possibility. Carl Jung had this wonderful phrase in talking about elves and fairies and he said: autonomous psychic components escape from the…

…is something to be found first of all this is very important for the psychedelic life. Again I was very lucky. I read Carl Jung very early before the jungians really got a hold of him and ruined it and what Jung is saying about conceiving your life…

…I was very lucky. I read Carl Jung very early before the jungians really got a hold of him and ruined it and what Jung is saying about conceiving your life as a quest is absolutely true. Psyche is some kind of semi malleable medium and if you set…

…Male dominated, materialist civilization. It begins with phenomena like pataphysics in the 1880s in France and surrealism and Freud and Jung and abstract expressionism and even the nazis had a piece of the action because of their understanding of how ritual…

…that in the same tendency which had infected mannerism then came in as surrealism in the 20th century and because of Freud and Jung and all this stuff. So I think that the whole history of 20th century art is a reaction against morbid romanticism, which…