So while there is “nothing mystical about the collective unconscious,” there certainly seems something archetypal about mystical experience, at least according to Jung.

Jung to the mystical bull’s-eye is his claim to special, secret knowledge, knowledge not obtained through the normal methods of cognition,

“Do you know who reads my books? It’s the ordinary people, often quite poor people.”

“No one who has undergone the process of assimilating the unconscious,” Jung wrote, “will deny that it gripped his very vitals and changed him.”

an asocial monster.”

Jung is responsible for the widespread resurgence of a more inner-oriented spirituality in the modern world,

Jung often lamented that he “knew things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.”

what some Christian sects of the first centuries after Christ called gnosis, direct spiritual experience.

Jung seemed to have two minds about the supernatural: a public one that wanted to understand it “scientifically,” and a private one that acknowledged ghosts, visions, and premonitions as part of the essential mystery of life.