Inscribed In the Human Heart
“The transcendent element of an inward Gnosis is indelibly inscribed in the human heart; all the trivialities of the everyday world due to inattention and consequent ignorance are unable to extinguish its remembrance.”
–Stephan A. Hoeller (Hungarian-born American Writer, Scholar and Religious Leader, 1931-)
“The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead (Quest Books)” (Stephan A. Hoeller)
Steps Toward Self-Knowledge
“Man must know something of God’s nature and of metaphysical processes if he is to understand himself and thereby achieve gnosis of the Divine.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
(Paragraph #747 in Volume 11 of the Collected Works)
The True Importance of Archetypes in Your Life
“There are no conclusive arguments against the hypothesis that these archetypal figures are endowed with personality at the outset and are not just secondary personalizations.
In so far as the archetypes do not represent mere functional relationships, they manifest themselves as daimones, as personal agencies. In this form they are felt as actual experiences and are not ‘figments of the imagination,’ as rationalism would have us believe.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
(This extraordinarily important insight is from #388 in the Collected Works, Volume 5)
“Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works of C.G. Jung Vol.5)” (C. G. Jung)
Ancient Stories That Guide Our Lives
“Whereas we think in periods of years, the unconscious thinks and lives in terms of millennia. So when something happens that seems to us an unexampled novelty, it is generally a very old story indeed. We still forget, like children, what happened yesterday. We are still living in a wonderful new world where man thinks himself astonishingly new and “modern.” This is unmistakable proof of the youthfulness of human consciousness, which has not yet grown aware of its historical antecedents.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
Something Beyond the Borderline
“That there is something beyond the borderline, beyond the frontiers of knowledge, is shown by the archetypes and most clearly of all, by numbers, which this side of the border are quantities but on the other side are autonomous psychic entities, capable of making qualitative statements which manifest themselves in a priori patterns of order.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
“Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies” (C. G. Jung)
Beyond the Borderline
“That there is something beyond the borderline, beyond the frontiers of knowledge, is shown by the archetypes and most clearly of all, by numbers, which this side of the border are quantities but on the other side are autonomous psychic entities, capable of making qualitative statements which manifest themselves in a priori patterns of order.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961″
“Flying Saucers : A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies” (C. G. Jung)
Separating the Psyche and the Brain
“We must completely give up the idea of the psyche’s being somehow connected with the brain.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
Life Endures
“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above the ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away – an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost the sense of something that lives and endures beneath the eternal flux. What we see is blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains. In the end the only events in my life worth telling are those when the imperishable world irrupted into the transitory one.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
Denying the Negative in the Unconscious
“The dammed-up instinct-forces in civilized man are immensely more destructive, and hence more dangerous, than the instincts of the primitive, who in a modest degree is constantly living his negative instincts. Consequently no war of the historical past can rival a war between civilized nations in its colossal scale of horror.”
–Carl G. Jung (Swiss Psychologist and Psychiatrist, 1875-1961)
“Psychological Types (The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Vol. 6) (Bollingen Series XX)” (C. G. Jung)
