Anomalous Phenomena

The Complex: Jung’s Royal Road to the Unconscious

      As mentioned in previous blogs, there are a few “big” ideas in Jung’s psychology and without exception the complex is one of them. So two questions arise: 1) What is a complex? and 2) Why did Jung assign [...]

By |2020-04-25T17:06:02-07:00April 25th, 2020|Jungian Psychology, Personal Development, Practical Ideas, Science, The unknown|Comments Off on The Complex: Jung’s Royal Road to the Unconscious

Understanding the Ego

In a world with a 24-hour news cycle, the human mind is constantly inundated with “bad news” on top of “bad news.” As I begin to navigate my forties, it seems that more and more people that I befriended or befriended [...]

By |2019-11-23T22:10:31-08:00November 23rd, 2019|Jungian Psychology, Personal Development, Science, The unknown|Comments Off on Understanding the Ego

How Carl Jung Saved my Soul

      I have never considered myself a religious person but nonetheless believe in God, which I view in non-traditional terms. One could say that God is a symbol which represents the highest value, at least that is how I see it. [...]

By |2019-08-31T20:56:53-07:00August 31st, 2019|Jungian Psychology, Personal Development, Philosophy, Spirituality, The unknown|Comments Off on How Carl Jung Saved my Soul

The Unconscious According to Jung

      What is the unconscious? What did Jung mean by the term and how does the idea fit into Analytical Psychology? The unconscious is another big idea in the Jungian lexicon, one of which literally and figuratively underpins the very foundation [...]

By |2019-08-31T16:33:05-07:00July 27th, 2019|Jungian Psychology, Philosophy, Spirituality, The unknown|Comments Off on The Unconscious According to Jung

Honoring the Psyche

      In 1937, C. G. Jung wrote that The psyche is the starting-point of all human experience, and all the knowledge we have gained eventually leads back to it. The psyche is the beginning and end of all cognition. It is not [...]

By |2021-03-27T19:50:25-07:00May 27th, 2019|Jungian Psychology, Philosophy, Science, Spirituality, The unknown|Comments Off on Honoring the Psyche