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Is not every experience, even in the best of circumstances, at least fifty-per-cent subjective interpretation? On the other hand, the subject is also an objective fact, a piece of the world; and what comes from him comes , ultimately, from the stuff of the world itself, just as the rarest and strangest organism is none the less supported and nourished by the earth which is common to all. It is precisely the most subjective ideas which, being closest to nature and to our own essence, deserve to be called the truest. CW 4 - par 770

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The meeting with ourselves is one of the most unpleasant things that may be avoided as long as we possess living symbolic figures into which everything unknown in ourselves is projected. CW 9, I, 69f

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The art of letting things happen, action through non-action, letting go of oneself... became for me the key opening the door to the way. We must be able to let things happen in the psyche. For us, this actually is an art of which few people know anything. Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, and never leaving the simple growth of the psychic process in peace. It would be simple enough, if only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. CW 13 - par 20

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After a while, it will be discovered that nothing really "new" has ever happened in world history. It would be possible to speak of something really new only in the inconceivable event that reasonableness, humanity and love should win a lasting victory. CW 18 - par 1456

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Our hypotheses are uncertain and groping, and nothing offers us the assurance that they may ultimately prove correct. That the world inside and outside ourselves rests on a transcendental background is as certain as our own existence, but it is equally certain that the direct perception of the archetypal world inside us is just as doubtfully correct as that of the physical world outside us. If we are convinced that we know ultimate truth concerning metaphysical things, this means nothing more than that archetypal images have taken possession of our powers of though and feeling. CW 14 - par 786

Public Program

Friday, July 22, 2011; 7:30PM - 9:30PM

Musical Theatre and the Mythic Imagination
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No path leads beyond perfection into the future--there is only a turning back, a collapse of the ideal, which could have easily have been avoided by paying attention to the feminine ideal of completeness. CW 11 - par 627

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If we understand and feel that there is in this life we already have a link with the infinite, desires and attitudes change. In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted. In our relationships to other men, too, the crucial question is whether an element of boundlessness is expressed in the relationship. Memories, p. 325

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In consequence of the inevitability of psychic phenomena, a single approach to the mystery of existence is impossible, there have to be at least two: namely, the material or physical event on the one hand and its psychic reflection on the other. Letters, II.

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There is so much that fills me: plants, animals, clouds, day and night, and the eternal in man. The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things. Memories, Dreams, Reflections, p. 359

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Friday, July 15, 2011; 7:30PM - 9:30PM

In Search of the Self
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In reality... individuation is an expression of that biological process--simple or complicated as the case may be--by which every living thing becomes what it was destined to become from the beginning. CW 11, par. 144

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The body is the original animal condition; we are all animals in the body, and so we should have animal psychology in order to live with it. Yes, if we had no body then we could live with contracts and marvelous laws which everybody could easily fulfill. But since we have a body it is indispensable that we exist also as an animal, and each time we invent a new increase of consciousness we have to put a new link in the chain that binds us to the animal. Nietzsche's Zarathustra, 2: p. 967

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So when I counsel my patient to pay attention to his dreams, I mean: "Turn back to the most subjective part of yourself, to the source of your being, to that point where you are making world history without being aware of it. Your apparently insoluble difficulty must, it is obvious, remain insoluble, for otherwise you would wear yourself out seeking for remedies of whose ineptitude you are convinced from the start. Your dreams are an expression of your inner life, and they can show you through what false attitude you have landed yourself in this blind alley." CW 10 - par 316

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There is a prejudice that analysis is the art of letting out the unconscious, like opening the cages in a zoo. That is part of analysis, but it must not be done in an irresponsible and foolish way. This is only the preparatory part. The main analysis is what to do things that have emerged from the unconscious. One must see what the underlying trend is--what the will of God is. You are damned if you don't follow it. It will ruin your life, your health. You have sold part of your soul, or have lost it. C.G. Jung Speaking, p. 361

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Whenever we touch nature we get clean... Domesticated animals are dirty, but never wild animals. Matter in the wrong place is dirt. People who have got dirty through too much civilization take a walk in the woods, or a bath in the sea. They may rationalize it in this or that way, but they shake off the fetters and allow nature to touch them. It can be done within or without. Walking in the woods, lying on the grass, taking a bath in the sea, are from the outside; entering the unconscious, entering yourself through dreams, is touching nature from the inside and this is the same thing, things are put right again. Dream Analysis, p. 142

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All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination? In the ordinary course of things, fantasy does not easily go astray; it is too deep for that, and too closely bound up with the tap-root of human and animal instinct. CW 16 - par 98

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Aren't we the carriers of the entire history of mankind? ... When a man is fifty years old, only one part of his being has existed for half a century. The other part, which also lives in his psyche, may be millions of years old... Contemporary man is but the latest ripe fruit on the tree of the human race. None of us knows what we know. C.G. Jung Speaking, pp. 57-58

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When animals are no longer included in the religious symbol or creed, it is the beginning of the dissociation between religion and nature. Then there is no mana in it. As long as the animals are there, there is life in the symbol. Otherwise, the beginning of the end is indicated. Interpretation of Visions, p. 284