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“I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change.”

Quote by Carl Jung

Book:The Collected Works of C. G. Jung

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The Collected Works of C. G. Jung

This collection encompasses a wide range of scholarly writings, essays, and clinical studies by Carl Gustav Jung, offering insights into his influential theories and concepts that have shaped the field of psychology. The works cover various topics such as dream analysis, alchemy, mythology, and the relationship between the individual and the collective unconscious. more

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Carl Jung, born on July 26, 1875, and died on June 6, 1961, was a renowned Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist. His theories have had a profound impact on fields such as psychology, psychiatry, and religious studies. Jung proposed the theory of personality types, the concept of the collective unconscious, and founded analytical psychology. more

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“Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse.”

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Book:The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

Source: The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

“To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse.”

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“It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness.”

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“What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.”

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“The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration.”

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“Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.”

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“The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.”

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Book:The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Mysterium coniunctionis, an inquiry into the separation and synthesis of opposites in alchemy

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“The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process.”

“The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.”