In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles: where he battles for […]
Men are habitually insensible to beauty. Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition. It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours. An aesthetic glow may pervade experience, but that circumstance is […]
Role of ‘consciousness’ It’s essential that one makes no mistake about the role of ‘consciousness’:what developed it is our relationship with the ‘external world’. In contrast, the administration, or the care and protection accorded the coordination of the bodily functions, does not enter our consciousness; just as little as does the mental sorting and storing. […]
This new, self-constituting consciousness structure discovers and surpasses the ultimate and most profound antithesis of rationalism between faith and knowledge, religion and science. Not only because it becomes gradually apparent to what an unsettling degree scientific theses themselves often emerge from presuppositions based on belief—even the world of numbers and their laws has a limited […]
In the form in which it comes, a thought is a sign with many meanings, requiring interpretation or, more precisely, an arbitrary narrowing and restriction before it finally becomes clear. It arises in me – where from? How? I don’t know. It comes, independently of my will, usually circled about and clouded by a crowd […]
Distrust of self-observation. That a thought is the cause of a thought cannot be established. On the table of our consciousness there appears a succession of thoughts, as if one thought were the cause of the next. But in fact we don’t see the struggle going on under the table — Nietzsche (Writings from the […]
and in a dreamI was given to livea moment to see my selfmy choices to playand seea wholesituation inwardfocused over timehow I feltand my thinkingthroughout and gratefulthe unconsciousa friend let me seeplay outa gamean extra life my thoughtsand reactions if it comesto pass it seemsmore adeptI’ll be readier and if notinner closure
People who are not consciously aware of the body suffer from a certain unreality of life in that inter-relatedness through ‘participation mystique‘, they don’t know when they are hungry, and they neglect the simple functions of the body. I had a case, a girl of twenty-eight, who no longer heard her steps when she walked […]
Dr. Jung: Inflation is something abnormal and it is not necessarily a part of the creative process, though unfortunately it happens of course to be connected with it very often. But a creative artist, for instance, can create without imagining himself to be a creator. He can create just because it is his damned duty […]
Solitude as the way to Solar Consciousness. As the way to cultivate a personal relationship with Self/Consciousness. A necessary point in the process of individuation and self realization. And the next step: the down going. We may suppose, then, that this sun he is talking to is really the great light that he received and […]
The Uncarved 