Jung at Bollingen
C.G. Jung’s investigation and inquiry into the nature of the human psyche and his thorough study of mythology, comparative religions, anthropology, and finally alchemy, led him to conclude that the current myth of his time did not meet the psychological needs of the individual. This idea is still true today in the 21st century. His psychology reminds us that our own wholeness contributes to the healing of the world soul or the Anima Mundi.
He is considered among the giants of modern psychological thought. Many of Dr. Jung’s ideas are now fundamental to our understanding of the mysteries of the mind. Ideas such as persona, the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious, and his theory of psychological types have become mainstream concepts and are used in advertising, marketing, corporate trainings, as well as in the many and varied Jungian Analytic and psycho-therapeutic consultation rooms across the globe.
If our individual healing is important to the healing of family, community and our global neighbors, then it is dependent upon each one of us to develop a more conscious relationship with those unexplored or rejected parts of ourselves hidden in the unconscious, which he termed the shadow. In knowing ourselves well, we are less likely to project this shadow on to others. In knowing ourselves well, we are better able to transform the world.
