Backwards out of the church (JC Jung Vision Seminars, Vol II): The person moving backwards out of the church is so fascinated by the fact that ... to turn round and see where he is going is exactly what the conscious cannot do, because it always conceives in the way of his past. But the unconscious looks out into the future and says, now, take care, something is approaching which you don’t realize. Therefore it is so important that we study dreams, or these unconscious visions which are built in exactly the same way, they also construct and anticipate. You see, our patient’s descent into the ages to primitive man, even to the animal, was not foreseen at all. She was still looking at the church, while saying to herself with a certain satisfaction: “Now I am two miles away from it, now three miles, it is getting smaller and smaller, it has almost disappeared, and now I am quite enlightened,” and so on. And the unconscious says: you will soon be in the year 2000 BC and now it is 6000 BC – like a time machine – and now this is the animal. Then she gets a shock, and can go no further back, because there consciousness comes to an end. So in order not to lose consciousness, she must now look at the way she has come. For which she was receding to the animal, there were not only Christian churches in front of her, there were Latin and Greek temples, she saw all that. And then she began to move forward, and she has now arrived in the antique sphere where Christianity is beginning. She is now on a tremendous struggle whether to discover Christianity anew, or whether to proceed on the antique line.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 07:14:04 +0000
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