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Carl Jung
Jung is responsible for the widespread resurgence of a more inner-oriented spirituality in the modern world,
Gary Lachman • Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings
In 1957, near the end of his life, Jung spoke to Aniela Jaffé about the Red Book and the process which gave rise to it. In that interview he stated:
The years... when I pursued the inner images, were the most important time of my life. Everything else is to be derived from this. It began at that time, and the later details hardly matter anymore. My... See more
Carl Gustav Jung • The Red Book (Jung)
individual. I have sat through lectures in which psychiatrists have argued that Jung was schizophrenic because he felt ‘God’ spoke to him on a regular basis.
David Tacey • The Darkening Spirit: Jung, spirituality, religion
Jung went so far as to suggest that his patients prepare their own Red Books. Morgan recalled him saying: I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can—in some beautifully bound book. It will seem as if you were making the visions banal—but then you need to do that—then you are freed from the power of them. If you do that with th
... See moreC. G. Jung • The Red Book
the making of Liber Novus was by no means a peculiar and idiosyncratic activity, nor the product of a psychosis. Rather, it indicates the close intersections between psychological and artistic experimentation with which many individuals were engaged at this time.