Carl G. Jung

10/01/2026

The difference between the Christian and the Jew is that for the Christian the Messiah has already come, while for the Jew he is still to come.
Psychologically speaking, however, it is a matter of complete indifference whether the Redeemer has already appeared in history or is still expected in the future. What is important is the fact that the Redeemer is a living psychic reality.

The decisive thing is not the historical event, but the fact that Christ is experienced as a present reality.

— Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and Religion, Collected Works Volume 11, Lecture IV, Paragraph 149–150

Artwork | Christ of Saint John of the Cross, Salvador Dalí, 1951

21/01/2025

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VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT
Invoked or not invoked the diety is still present.

Aniela Jaffe says: "It is the answer the Delphic Oracle gave the Lacedemonians when they were planning a war against Athens" (1979: 136).

In a letter of November 19, 1960, Jung explains the inscription:

“By the way, you seek the enigmatic oracle Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit in vain in Delphi: it is cut in stone over the door of my house in Kusnacht near Zurich and otherwise found in Erasmus's collection of Adagia (XVIth cent.). [Jung had acquired a copy of the 1563 edition of Erasmus's Collectaneas adagiorum, a compilation of analects from classical authors, when he was 19 years old.] It is a Delphic oracle though. It says: yes, the god will be on the spot, but in what form and to what purpose? I have put the inscription there to remind my patients and myself: Timor dei initium sapiente ["The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."] Here another not less important road begins, not the approach to "Christianity" but to God himself and this seems to be the ultimate question. (1975: 611)”

The God is there inside everyone, regardless of their state of awakening. Namaste!

🙏 Abundant Gratitude.

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03/10/2024

“The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man.
Nowadays we are not threatened by elementary catastrophes. There is no such thing as an H-bomb; that is all man's doing.
WE are the great danger. The psyche is the great danger!

What if something goes wrong with the psyche? You see, and so it is demonstrated to us in our days what the power of the psyche is of man; how important it is to know something about it. But we know nothing about it!
Nobody would give credit to the idea that the psychical processes of the ordinary man have any importance whatever. One thinks, "Oh, he has just what he has in his head. He is all from his surroundings, he is taught such and such a thing, believes such and such a thing, and particularly if he is well housed and well fed, then he has no ideas at all."
And that's the great mistake, because he is just that as which he is born, and he is not born as "tabula rasa," but as a reality.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, Transcript from the interview conducted by Dr. Richard I. Evans, 1957. Video of interview with Jung in the comments section.

Photograph of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima

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20/09/2024

“The more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more of the unconscious and the more of myth we are capable of making conscious, the more of life we integrate.
Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its dominion the individual is pauperized.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, P. 302

Artwork | Saturn Devouring His Son by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1636–1638)

18/09/2024

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth.

If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say — this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to
a hidden light.

— Carl Gustav Jung, The Symbolic Life, Par. 1375 (In reference to the German people during World War 2)

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30/07/2024

A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.

"The artist’s life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him—on the one hand the common human longing for happiness, satisfaction and security in life, and on the other a ruthless passion for creation which may go so far as to override every personal desire. The lives of artists are as a rule so highly unsatisfactory—not to say tragic—because of their inferiority on the human and personal side, and not because of a sinister dispensation. There are hardly any exceptions to the rule that a person must pay dearly for the divine gift of the creative fire. It is as though each of us were endowed at birth with a certain capital of energy. The strongest force in our make-up will seize and all but monopolize this energy, leaving so little over that nothing of value can come of it. In this way the creative force can drain the human impulses to such a degree that the personal ego must develop all sorts of bad qualities—ruthlessness, selfishness, and vanity (so-called “auto-eroticism”)—and even every kind of vice, in order to maintain the spark of life and to keep itself from being wholly bereft.
How can we doubt that it is his art that explains the artist, and not the insufficiencies and conflicts of his personal life? These are nothing but the regrettable results of the fact that he is an artist—that is to say, a man who from his very birth has been called to a greater task than the ordinary mortal.
A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, P. 173-174

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17/05/2024

"I am not concerned about the world. I am concerned about the people with whom I live. The other world is all in the newspapers. My family and my neighbors are my life—the only life that I can experience. What lies beyond is newspaper mythology. It is not of vast importance that I make a career or achieve great things for myself. What is important and meaningful to my life is that I shall live as fully as possible to fulfil the divine will within me.

This task gives me so much to do that I have no time for any other. Let me point out that if we were all to live in that way we would need no armies, no police, no diplomacy, no politics, no banks. We would have a meaningful life and not what we have now—madness.

What nature asks of the apple-tree is that it shall bring forth apples, and of the pear-tree that it shall bring forth pears. Nature wants me to be simply man. But a man conscious of what I am, and of what I am doing. God seeks consciousness in man. This is the truth of the birth and the resurrection of Christ within. As more and more thinking men come to it, this is the spiritual rebirth of the world. Christ, the LOGOS—that is to say, the mind, the understanding, shining into the darkness. Christ was a new truth about man.

Mankind has no existence. I exist, you exist. But mankind is only a word. Be what God means you to be; don't worry about mankind. In worrying about mankind, which doesn't exist, you are avoiding looking at what does exist—the self."

— C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, P. 75

Artwork | Carl Gustav Jung in Luxembourg, 1949

26/11/2023

Everyone has two souls.

“My contention that man is born equipped with a highly differentiated and fully developed brain with innumerable attributes has often met with antagonism. Most people continue to believe that everything they have become, every reaction of their psychic ego to everyday occurrences, is determined by their education and their environment.

Few people know anything about the ancestral soul and even fewer believe in it. Aren't we all the carriers of the entire history of mankind? Why is it so difficult to believe that each of us has two souls? 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. Every newborn child has come into this world with a fully equipped brain. Although in the early stages of life the mind has not gained complete mastery over the body, it is clearly preconditioned for reacting to the outer world—that is, it has the capacity to do so. Such mental patterns exert their influence throughout life and remain decisive for a person's thinking. The newborn does not begin to develop his mental faculties on the first day of his life. His mind, a finished structure, is the result of innumerable lives before his and is far from being devoid of content. It is unlikely that we shall ever discover the remote past, into which the impersonal psyche of the individual reaches.

There is no doubt that man’s personal psyche develops only during his lifetime, and that environment and education are decisive influences in this process. These influences become effective from the first days of a child's life. On the whole, the receptivity of a small child's brain tends to be widely underestimated, but the practicing psychologist has frequent evidence to the contrary. With neurotics, one constantly comes up against psychic defects that date back to very early childhood experiences. It is not a rare occurrence for a somewhat severe reprimand administered to a child in his playpen or his bed to affect him during his entire life.

The two souls give rise to frequent contradictions in a person's thinking and feeling. Quite often the impersonal and the personal psyche are even in direct opposition. There are hundreds of examples which demonstrate to the psychologist that two souls live in every man. Exercising their imagination—which I call the mother of human consciousness—many of my patients painted pictures and described dreams which displayed a strange conformity with definite laws and showed peculiar parallels to Indian and Chinese temple, images. Where were these people supposed to have obtained knowledge about the ancient temple cultures of the Far East? I have treated patients who had visions about events which happened hundreds of years ago. All this can come only from the unconscious, the impersonal soul, the finished brain of the newborn. Contemporary man is but the latest ripe fruit on the tree of the human race. None of us knows what we know.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, 1932, C.G. Jung Speaking, Pages 57-58.

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03/11/2023

VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT

In English translation, the inscription reads: "Summoned or not, the god will be there."

Aniela Jaffe says: "It is the answer the Delphic Oracle gave the Lacedemonians when they were planning a war against Athens" (1979: 136).

In a letter of November 19, 1960, Jung explains the inscription:

“By the way, you seek the enigmatic oracle Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit in vain in Delphi: it is cut in stone over the door of my house in Kusnacht near Zurich and otherwise found in Erasmus's collection of Adagia (XVIth cent.). [Jung had acquired a copy of the 1563 edition of Erasmus's Collectaneas adagiorum, a compilation of analects from classical authors, when he was 19 years old.]

It is a Delphic oracle though. It says: yes, the god will be on the spot, but in what form and to what purpose?

I have put the inscription there to remind my patients and myself: Timor dei initium sapientiae ["The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom."]

Here another not less important road begins, not the approach to "Christianity" but to God himself and this seems to be the ultimate question. (1975: 611)”

Artwork | Entrance to Jung’s house in Kusnacht

24/10/2023

“It is the stillest words that bring the storm.
Thoughts that come on doves’ feet guide the world.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus spoke Zarathustra, “The Stillest Hour”

Artwork | Christ In The Wilderness, by Ivan Kramskoi

28/09/2023

"To decide when to apply the one or the other method rests with the analyst's skill and experience. Practical medicine is, and has always been an art, and the same is true of practical analysis. True art is creation, and creation is beyond all theories.
That is why I say to any beginner: Learn your theories as well as you can, but put them aside when you touch the miracle of the living soul. Not theories, but your own creative individuality alone must decide.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, Contributions to Analytical Psychology, P. 361 (1928)

Artwork | Alexander Milov

23/10/2022

“The Eastern peoples are threatened with a rapid collapse of their spiritual values, and what replaces them cannot always be counted among the best that Western civilization has produced.
From this point of view, one could regard Ramakrishna and Shri Ramana as modern prophets, who play the same compensatory role in relation to their people as that of the Old Testament prophets in relation to the “unfaithful” children of Israel. Not only do they exhort their compatriots to remember their thousand-year-old spiritual culture, they actually embody it and thus serve as an impressive warning, lest the demands of the soul be forgotten amid the novelties of Western civilization with its materialistic technology and commercial acquisitiveness.
The breathless drive for power and aggrandizement in the political, social, and intellectual sphere, gnawing at the soul of the Westerner with apparently insatiable greed, is spreading irresistibly in the East and threatens to have incalculable consequences. Not only in India but in China, too, much has already perished where once the soul lived and throve.
The externalization of culture may do away with a great many evils whose removal seems most desirable and beneficial, yet this step forward, as experience shows, is all too dearly paid for with a loss of spiritual culture. It is undeniably much more comfortable to live in a well-planned and hygienically equipped house, but this still does not answer the question of who is the dweller in this house and whether his soul rejoices in the same order and cleanliness as the house which ministers to his outer life. The man whose interests are all outside is never satisfied with what is necessary, but is perpetually hankering after something more and better which, true to his bias, he always seeks outside himself. He forgets completely that, for all his outward successes, he himself remains the same inwardly, and he therefore laments his poverty if he possesses only one automobile when the majority have two. Obviously the outward lives of men could do with a lot more bettering and beautifying, but these things lose their meaning when the inner man does not keep pace with them. To be satiated with “necessities” is no doubt an inestimable source of happiness, yet the inner man continues to raise his claim, and this can be satisfied by no outward possessions. And the less this voice is heard in the chase after the brilliant things of this world, the more the inner man becomes the source of inexplicable misfortune and uncomprehended unhappiness in the midst of living conditions whose outcome was expected to be entirely different.
The externalization of life turns to incurable suffering, because no one can understand why he should suffer from himself. No one wonders at his insatiability, but regards it as his lawful right, never thinking that the one-sidedness of this psychic diet leads in the end to the gravest disturbances of equilibrium. That is the sickness of Western man, and he will not rest until he has infected the whole world with his own greedy restlessness.”

— Carl Gustav Jung, Psychology and religion: West and East, The Holy men of India, P. 584-585, par. 962

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