Wednesday, April 20, 2011

From Last Two paragraphs of Man and His Symbols, Edited by Carl Jung

Paradox: Although one may be sure Jesus Christ is the Lord our God, or any other truth, this is also true, and art very much shows us:

"Therefore, what might at first sight strike the reader as a certain vagueness in his ideas comes in fact from this scientific attitude of intellectual modesty -- an attitude that does not exclude (by rash, superficial pseudo-explanations and oversimplifications) new possible discoveries, and that respects the complexity of the phenomenon of life. For this phenomenon was always an exciting mystery to Jung. it was never, as it is for people with closed minds, an 'explained' reality about which it can be assume that we know everything.

Creative ideas, in my opinion, show their value in that, like keys, they help to 'unlock' hitherto unintelligible connections of facts and thus enable man to penetrate deeper in to the mystery of life. I am convinced that Jung's ideas can serve in this way to find and interpret new facts in many fields of science 9and also of everyday life) simultaneously leading the individual to a more balanced, mroe ethical, and wider conscious outlook. if the reader should fee stimulated to work further on the investigation and assimilation of the unconscious--which always begins by working on oneself--teh puropose fo this introductory book would
be fulfilled."

These paragraphs are from the last chapter, by by Marie-Louise Franz
Today I saw a college-age woman with the punk rock meets granny look. She had white, blond purple hair with a long dress and modern jewelry. Bravo.

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