“The integration of unconscious contents into consciousness, which is the main endeavour of analytical psychology, is just such an alteration of principle, in that it does away with the sovereignty of the subjective ego-consciousness and confronts it with unconscious collective contents.” – C. G. Jung Analytical psychology, alternatively described…
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. My study of Carl Jung’s (Featured Image) psychology has helped…
It’s all about happiness, right? If I were only happy, everything would be okay. I would be satisfied with my life, the universe, and just about everything else. Everybody knows that happiness delivers the good life, a life well-lived is a happy one. Yet, it seems to me…
My clients often ask me how I got into this business. I answer very candidly that it is as much about me as it is about them. I gain a significant degree of satisfaction from helping people, however, my motives are not completely selfless for two reasons: 1) I charge…
In a world with a 24-news cycle, the human mind is constantly inundated with what most would consider “bad news” piled on “bad news.” As I begin to navigate my forties, it seems that more and more people that I befriended or befriended me in my youth are gradually going…
In this blog, I consider whether complex psychology is an empirical science. The challenge of answering such a question is that empiricism, as a subset of epistemology, means different things to different people. In most cases, empiricism is generally accepted as the knowledge gained through the physical senses or experimentation….
Few experiences are as immediate as consciousness. While you are aware, consciousness is always there. Each of us are intimately familiar with consciousness and as you read this blog you are exercising a conscious act of attention. However, consciousness as a phenomenon is as mysterious as it is familiar. Its…
In the prologue of Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung introduced his autobiography as a telling of his personal myth (1961/1989, p. 3). “I can only make direct statements, ‘only tell stories.’ Whether or not the stories are ‘true’ is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell…
Introduction This blog article seeks to address to what extent Albert Einstein influenced C.G. Jung’s formulation of the concept of synchronicity. Few historical personalities have engendered the degree of interest within popular consciousness as Albert Einstein and C.G. Jung. Both men, and their ideas, are permanent fixtures to the cultural…
Carl Jung (Figure 1) viewed the appearance of a mandala—a circular or squared symbol of wholeness—as highly beneficial to one’s own personal development. Mandalas can appear in a person’s dreams, visions, or fantasies, and as numinous symbols they tend to chart the course of one’s own individuation process. Mandala…
