George Orwell’s iconic 1984 stand as perfect examples of the societal structures Jung warns against. Granted, all dystopian literature set in a totalitarian future could fall into this category, but two of his books are probably the two best examples of the genre. Animal Farm, and Orwell’s novel, Nineteen Eighty-four show totalitarian systems and are highly relevant … Continue reading
Category Archives: C.G.Jung
The psychoanalytic Jung
Mao’s great faimine – Our blight is ideologies — Revolution is not a dinner party.
When I worked in Beijing during the late nineties I got invited by a local resident consultant (an expat) to a dinner party at a very chic ethnic event restaurant. She was a little bit esoteric, but knew her city. There was good food and even a better spirit. Expats and local people from all over … Continue reading
C.G. Jung, Kepler and Pauli – The Synchronicity Triangle
The psychoanalytic C.G.Jung and the famous astronomer Kepler were both intuitive thinkers and empiric scientists with strong mystic tendencies. Pauli was a famous particle physicist, who collaborated with C.G. Jung on the concept synchronicity. When I studied Kepler’s work, I found a similarity of C.G. Jung’s and Kepler’s view on astrology and to my surprise, … Continue reading
Confession of an unchurched spiritual and religious person.
For the past decades, steps forward to my Self (as defined by C.G. Jung) or spirituality have always been attempted at moments of incipient crisis time or when I had time to take a breath. None, though, has been really followed through. The ability and given a chance to switch my career to a lower … Continue reading
Alan Watts Tribute to C.G.Jung
This record of Alan Watts, done shortly after C.G. Jung’s death really blew me away. Alan Watts brings C.G. Jung’s concept of Good and Evil right to the point. Listen to Alan Watts. Watts believed that the key to the universe is fundamentally a higher consciousness or mind. The world is an emanation of the … Continue reading
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