Four, Part V:
A Reflection on the Wholeness of Nature
Presented by Christophe Le Mouël, Ph.D.
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Joseph Henderson at 100 (1903-2007)
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The Red Book and Two Essays
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C.A. Meier (1905 - 1995)
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Laurens van der Post (1906 - 1996)
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Rhythms of the Heart:
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Hilde Kirsch (1902 - 1978)
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The Shadow's Gift:
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Body and Spirit in a Struggle for Cultural Identity
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Psyche and Nature:
The Call of the Wild
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It remained for modern science to despiritualize nature though its so-called objective knowledge of matter. All anthropomorphic projections were withdrawn from the object one after the other, with a twofold result: firstly man's mystical identity with nature was curtailed as never before, and secondly the projections falling back into the human soul caused such a terrific activation of the unconscious that in modern times man was compelled to postulate the existence of an unconscious psyche. Instead of the lost Olympian gods, there was disclosed the inner wealth of the soul which lies in every man's heart. CW 11 - par 375
Just as man has a body which is no different in principle from that of an animal, so also his psychology has a whole series of lower storeys in which the specters from humanity's past epochs still dwell, then the animal souls from the age of the Pithecanthropus and the hominids, then the "psyche" of the cold-blooded saurians, and, deepest down of all, the transcendental mystery and paradox of the sympathic and parasympathic psychoid systems. CW 14 - par 279
Empirical Psychology loved, until recently, to explain the "unconscious" as mere absence of consciousness--the term itself indicates as much--just as shadow is an absence of light. Today, accurate observation of unconscious processes has recognized, with all other ages before us, that the unconscious possesses a creative autonomy such as a mere shadow could never be endowed with. CW 11 - par 141
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Love and Violence
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The Image: A Mirror of the Psyche
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Another dream-determinant that deserves mention is telepathy. The authenticity of this phenomenon can no longer be disputed today. It is, of course, very simple to deny its existence without examining the evidence, but that is an unscientific procedure which is unworthy of notice. I have found by experience that telepathy does in fact influence dreams, as has been asserted since ancient times. Certain people are particularly sensitive in this respect and often have telepathically influenced dreams. But in acknowledging the phenomenon of telepathy I am not giving unqualified assent to the popular theory of action at a distance. The phenomenon undoubtedly exists, but the theory of it does not seem to me so simple. CW 16 - par 503
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Toni Wolff:
Her Forgotten Contribution
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Fantasies, Dreams, and Visions:
Jungian Psychology and The Red Book
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In the series Remembering Jung :James Kirsch (1901 - 1989)
Charles Zeltzer, Ph.D.,
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A symbol loses its magical or, if you prefer, its reddeming power as soon as its liability to dissolve is recognized. To be effective, a symbol must by its very nature unassailable. It must be the best possible expression of the prevailing worldview, an unsurpassed container of meaning; it must also be sufficiently remote from comprehension to resist all attempts of the critical intellect to break it down; and finally, its aesthetic form must appeal so convincingly to our feelings that no arguments can be raised against it on that score. CW 6 - par 401
If something which seems to me an error shows itself to be more effective than a truth, then I must first follow up the error, for in it lie power and life which I lose if I hold to what seems to me true. Light has need of darkness--otherwise how could it appear as light? CW 11 - par 530
A child certainly allows himself to be impressed by the grand talk of his parents, but do they really imagine he is educated by it? Actually it is the parents' lives that educate the child--what they add by word and gesture at best serves only to confuse him. CW 6 - par 665
Man is not a machine in the sense that he can consistently maintain the same output of work. He can meet the demands of outer necessity in an ideal way only if he is also adapted to his own inner world, that is, if he is in harmony with himself. Conversely, he can only adapt to his own inner world and achieve harmony with himself when he is adapted to the environmental conditions. CW 8 - par 162f
We should not rise above the earth with the aid of "spiritual" intuitions and run away from hard reality, as so often happens with people who have brilliant intuitions. We can never reach the level of our intuitions and should therefore not identify ourselves with them. Only the gods can pass over the rainbow bridge; mortal men must stick to the earth and are subject to its laws. CW 12 - par 148
Only through our feebleness and incapacity are we linked up with the unconscious, with the lower world of the instincts and with our fellow beings. Our virtues only enable us to be independent. There we do not need anybody, there we are kings; but in our inferiority we are linked up with mankind. CW 18 - par 109
The spirit of the age will not let itself be trifled with. It is a religion, or, better, a creed which has absolutely no connection with reason, but whose significance lies in the unpleasant fact that it is taken as the absolute measure of all truth and is supposed always to have common sense upon its side. CW 8 - par 652
The hero's main feat is to overcome the monster of darkness: it is the long-hoped-for and expected triumph of consciousness over the unconscious. The coming of consciousness was probably the most tremendous experience of primeval times, for with it a world came into being whose existence no one had suspected before. CW 9 - par 284
The real difficulty begins when the dreams do not point to anything tangible, and this they do often enough, especially when they hold anticipations of the future. I do not mean that such dreams are necessarily prophetic, merely that they feel the way, they "reconnoitre". These dreams contain inklings of possibilities and for that reason can never be made plausible to an outsider. CW 16 - par 89
Everything to do with religion, everything it is and asserts, touches the human soul so closely that psychology least of all can afford to overlook it. CW 11 - par 172
If we do not fashion for ourselves a picture of the world, we do not see ourselves either, who are the faithful reflections of that world. Only when mirrored in our picture of the world can we see ourselves in the round. Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete. Never shall we put any face on the world other than our own, and we have to do this precisely in order to find ourselves. For higher than science or art as an end in itself stands man, the creator of his instruments. CW 8 - par 737
The danger that faces us today is that the whole of reality will be replaced by words. This accounts for that terrible lack of instinct in modern man, particularly the city-dweller. He lacks all contact with life and the breath of nature. He knows a rabbit or a cow only from the illustrated paper, the dictionary, or the movies, and thinks he knows what it is really like--and is then amazed that cowsheds "smell" because the dictionary didn't say so. CW 10 - par 882
Just as the conscious contents can vanish into the unconscious, other contents can also arise from it. Besides a majority of mere recollections, really new thoughts and creative ideas can appear which have never been conscious before. They grow up from the dark depths like a lotus. CW 18 - par 37f
Just as there is a passion that strives for blind unrestricted life, so there there is a passion that would like to sacrifice all life to the spirit because of its superior creative power. This passion turns the spirit into a malignant growth that senselessly destroys human life. CW 8 - par 646
If you imagine someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projection, then you get an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow…Such a man knows that whatever is wrong in the world is in himself, and if he only learns to deal with his own shadow he has done something real for the world. He has succeeded in shouldering at least an infinitesimal part of the gigantic, unsolved social problems of our day. CW11 – par 140
Four, Part IV:
A Reflection on the Wholeness of Nature
Presented by Christophe Le Mouël, Ph.D.
Drawing from Jungian psychology and quantum physics, we will complete our reflection on the wholeness of nature by presenting a model which articulates both psyche and matter. Following the motif of the Four in dreams, we will focus on the ways in which this symbol expresses both a containing quality as well as what von Franz referred to as the "total reality." A brief review of Parts 1, 2, and 3 will be included at the beginning of the lecture.
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“Reflection” should be understood not simply as an act of thought, but rather as an attitude. It is a privilege born of human freedom in contradistinction to the compulsion of natural law. As the word itself testifies (“reflection” mean literally “bending back”), reflection is a spiritual act that runs counter to the natural process… It should, therefore, be understood as an act of becoming conscious. CW11–235n
