The soul demands your folly, not your wisdom

I have been keen to have a meetup that draws inspiration from Carl Jung. So here we are.

A Jungian Analyst acquaintance of mine once noted how Jung was anything if not a contradiction of himself. Long-lived and prolific, he produced well over 10,000 pages of “content” — lectures, essays, densely argued volumes — yet the most revealing pages may have been the ones he never intended for publication, that illuminated mystical visions, where consciousness dissolved into encounters with the supernatural, where myth came to life.

His controversial and sublime Red Book is the foremost example. Published nearly 50 years after his death, it reflects Jung’s experience over four years of descending into near insanity. Early in the first chapter Jung writes evocatively to his soul, “My soul, where are you? Do you hear me? I speak, I call you—are you there? I have returned, I am here again. I have shaken the dust of all the lands from my feet, and I have come to you, I am with you .... Should I tell you everything I have seen, experienced, and drunk in? Or do you not want to hear about all the noise of life and the world? But one thing you must know: the one thing I have learned is that one must live this life.

****We will meet at the U of Guelph’s University Centre. Google maps can peg the UC if you don't know the campus. There is free parking Sunday mornings. We will meet at 10:30 am to better coincide with Starbucks opening.****.

If you are intrigued, please consider attending to explore and share.