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More than anyone else in the 20th century, the psychologist is responsible for our wide interest in what we can call “inner directed spirituality.” He saw the unconscious mind as a hidden treasure, not a basement or cellar where we hide away everything about ourselves we’d rather not face. For Jung, the unconscious was a positive, life-giving part of our psyche and we ignored it at our peril.
Jung’s conviction about the creative role of the unconscious came to him during a traumatic psychic upheaval that followed his break with Freud. Jung charted the course of this “creative illness” in his legendary Red Book, a mysterious tome filled with fantastic watercolor paintings and intricate calligraphy, that Jung kept secret for many years, and which was published for the first time only in…(click title to keep reading)
by Bonnie Bright
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