Jung the Mystic: The Esoteric Dimensions of Carl Jung's Life and Teachings

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

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.”

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

“becoming who you are”—a

“Mystical experience,” he told his learned listeners, “is experience of the archetypes”

“Everyone who says that I am a mystic is just an idiot.”1

“Two souls, alas, dwell within my breast,”

an asocial monster.”

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