Changing Paths challenge day 30 — reflections.
The most amazing autobiography I have ever read was Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Gustav Jung.
It discusses how he arrived at his psychoanalytical theory — but the bits I found most fascinating were about his childhood and his occult experiences.
One bit that stayed with me was when he finally thought the Unthinkable Thought (no spoilers, it’s amazing and you have to read the book to enjoy it to the fullest).
Also (somewhat more sublimely) the time that he realized that he was distinct from his environment.
And his amazing visions that gave rise to his writing his Seven Sermons to the Dead.
Changing Paths is published by 1000Volt Press and is available from all the usual online stores. Ask your local bookseller or library to stock it!
The goal of the book is to help you decide your own path by guiding you through the perils and pitfalls of the terrain, and asking questions to help you deepen your understanding of the reasons for your desire to change paths.
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Reading Jung saved with me I was going through a mental health crisis in my early twenties. I got turned away from help by a psychiatrist because I wasn’t ill enough (hadn’t attempted suicide) and his work helped me understand that what I was going through was an initiatory process in the development of my psyche. It helped me find meaning in it and come out the other end. I didn’t know about Paganism/Polytheism and initiatory experiences at that point.
Ha ha yes ‘the Unthinkable Thought’ will always stick with me!
Have you read his Red Book? It’s amazing. It’s something I keep returning to.
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I have not yet read The Red Book but I certainly want to. Does it have The Seven Sermons to the Dead in it? One of the most mind blowing things I’ve ever read.
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Yes, at the end, but if I recall correctly not by that name.
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Also I’m glad Jung helped you out of that mental health crisis
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