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"Physical" is not the only criterion of truth: there are also psychic truths which neither be explained nor proved nor contested in any physical way. If, for instance, a general belief existed that the river Rhine had at one time flowed backwards from its mouth to its source, then this belief would be itself a fact even though such an assertion, physically understood, would be deemed utterly incredible. Beliefs of this kind are psychic facts which cannot be contested and need no proof. CW 11 - par 553

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People who merely believe and don't think always forget that they continually expose themselves to their own worst enemy : doubt. Wherever belief reigns, doubt lurks in the background. But thinking people welcome doubt: it serves them as a valuable stepping-stone to better knowledge. CW 11 - par 170

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Egocentricity is a necessary attribute of consciousness and is also its specific sin. CW 14 - par 364

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The relation between doctor and patient remains a personal one within the impersonal framework of professional treatment. By no device can the treatment be anything but the product of mutual influence, in which the whole being of the doctor as well as that of his patient plays its part... Hence the personalities of doctor and patient are often infinitely more important for the outcome of the treatment than what the doctor says and thinks. CW 16 - par 163

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Fear of fate is a very understandable phenomenon, for it is incalculable, immeasurable, full of unknown dangers. The perpetual hesitation of the neurotic to launch out into life is readily explained by his desire to stand aside so as not get involved in the dangerous struggle for existence. But anyone who refuses to experience life must stifle his desire to live. CW 5 - par 165

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On the paper the interpretation of a dream may look arbitrary, muddled, and spurious; but the same thing in reality can be a little drama of unsurpassed realism. To experience a dream and its interpretation is very different from having a tepid rehash set before you on paper. Everything about this psychology is, in the deepest sense, experience; the entire theory, even where it puts on the most abstract airs, is the direct outcome of something experienced. CW 7 - par 199

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Every psychological extreme secretly contains its own opposite or stands in some intimate and essential relationship to it. Indeed it is from this tension that it derives its peculiar dynamism. There is no hallowed custom that cannot on occasion turn into its opposite, and the more extreme a position is, the more easily may we expect an enantiodroma, a conversion of something into its opposite. CW 5 - par 581

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The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the cooperation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perhaps everything. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 340

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Between "I do this" and "I am conscious of doing this" there is a world of difference, amounting sometimes to outright contradiction. Consequently there is a consciousness in which unconsciousness predominates, as well as a consciousness in which self-consciousness predominates. CW 8 - par 385

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We are moved by the laudable and useful ambition to extirpate the chaos of the irrational both within and without to the best of our ability. Apparently the process has gone pretty far. As a mental patient once told me: "Doctor, last night I disinfected the whole heavens with bichloride of mercury, but I found no God." Something of the sort has happened to us as well. CW7 - par 110

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Ascent and descent, above and below, up and down, represent an emotional realization of opposites...This motif occurs frequently in dreams...This vacillating between the opposites and being tossed back and forth means being contained in the opposites...They become a vessel in which what was previously now one thing and now another floats vibrating, so that the painful suspension between opposites gradually changes into the bilateral activity of the point at the center. CW 14 - par 296

Sunday, April 17, 2011; 10:00AM - 01:00PM

In the series The Religious Nature of the Psyche

The Parable of the Two Arrows:
Awareness, Complexes, and Practice
Presented by Michele Daniel, Ph.D.

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The psychological rules says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves. CW 9 - par 126

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But something I will tell you: the exploration of the unconscious has in fact, and in truth discovered the age-old, timeless way of initiation... Nothing is submerged forever--that is the terrifying discovery everyone makes who has opened that portal... Now it is not merely my credo but the greatest and most incisive experience of my life that this door, a highly inconspicuous side-door or an inconspicuous-looking and easily overlooked footpath--narrow and indistinct because only a few have set foot on it--leads to the secret of transformation and renewal. C.G. Jung's Letters, I - p.141

Public Program

Wednesday, April 13, 2011; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

In the series Religious Nature of the Psyche

Experiencing God:
The Religious Dimension of the Psyche
Presented by Michael Gellert, L.C.S.W.

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Individuation means becoming an "in-dividual," and, in so far as "individuality" embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable uniqueness, it also implies becoming one's own self. We could therefore translate individuation as "coming to self-hood", or "self-realization". CW 7 - par 266

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The creative activity of imagination frees man from his bondage to the "nothing but" and raises him to the status of one who plays. As Schiller says, man is completely human only when he is at play. CW 16 - par 98

Public Program

Saturday, April 09, 2011; 10:00AM - 05:00PM

Remembering Jung:
Marie-Louise von Franz
Presented by Gilda Frantz, M.A., J. Marvin Spiegelman, Ph.D.,
and Barry Miller, Ph.D.

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Western man has no need of more superiority over nature, whether outside or inside. He has both in almost devilish perfection. What he lacks is conscious recognition of his inferiority to the nature around and within him. He must learn that he may not do exactly as he wills. If he does not learn this, his own nature will destroy him. CW 11 - 870

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Long experience has taught me not to know anything in advance and not to know better, but to let the unconscious take precedence. Our instincts have ridden so infinitely many times, unharmed, over the problems that arise [in later] life that we may be sure the transformation processes which make the transition possible have long been prepared in the unconscious and are only waiting to be released. CW 9 - par 528

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Wednesday, April 06, 2011; 07:30PM - 09:30PM

In the series Religious Nature of the Psyche

Scripture:
The Icon of Transformation
Presented by Father William Axe

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The stirring up of conflict is a luciferian virtue in the true sense of the word. Conflict engenders fire, the fire of affects and emotions, and like every other fire it has two aspects, that of combustion and that of creating light. On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings superfluities to ashes. But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion. CW 9 - par 179

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Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. The historical element in man represents a vital need to which a wise psychic economy must respond. Somehow the past must come alive and participate in the present. CW 6 - par 570