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

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

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

an asocial monster.”

And as Jung himself had “a particularly vivid experience of the processes of the collective unconscious,” he would, by his own definition, be a mystic.

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

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

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

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.

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