I recently re-read Carl Jung's "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", a great book and easily one of the most profound and meaningful I've ever read. At a certain point in his youth he is assailed by the troubling image of God taking a crap on the Christian Church; an image so troubling to him from his conservative and wholesome background because he recognizes it as a direct communication from what we might call "the mind at large." This revelation of the amoral nature of the universe is reflected in the Shakespeare line "there's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so". Or Pink Floyd's "We all have a dark side to say the least, and dealing in death is the nature of the beast." Always good articles Geoff, great food for thought.
Same. Jung’s autobiography was one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Certainly the best memoir. And yes, I remember the passage about his troubling fecal steeple thought. Also, visiting the church in Ravenna, and seeing a fresco that ‘wasn’t there’ along with a witness, was one of many mind-bending anecdotes in a book I must reread.
I recently re-read Carl Jung's "Memories, Dreams, Reflections", a great book and easily one of the most profound and meaningful I've ever read. At a certain point in his youth he is assailed by the troubling image of God taking a crap on the Christian Church; an image so troubling to him from his conservative and wholesome background because he recognizes it as a direct communication from what we might call "the mind at large." This revelation of the amoral nature of the universe is reflected in the Shakespeare line "there's nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so". Or Pink Floyd's "We all have a dark side to say the least, and dealing in death is the nature of the beast." Always good articles Geoff, great food for thought.
Same. Jung’s autobiography was one of the greatest books I’ve ever read. Certainly the best memoir. And yes, I remember the passage about his troubling fecal steeple thought. Also, visiting the church in Ravenna, and seeing a fresco that ‘wasn’t there’ along with a witness, was one of many mind-bending anecdotes in a book I must reread.
Thanks for the tip of the hat, Alan.