Discover a new side to Carl Jung in this beautiful collection of his writings, speeches, seminars, and letters on nature and our connection to the natural world. Join Jung as he rediscovers the original unity of nature, and the spirits inside matter come to life once again. These selections, not just from his published writings, but also from speeches, obscure seminars, interview, and letters, show a less familiar side of the famous Swiss psychiatrist, whose deep concern over the loss of our emotional and mythic relationship with Nature is expressed in moving, poetic terms. Included are excerpts from
Memories, Dreams, Reflections among Jung’s other works.
While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species. Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole.
TABLE OF CONTENTS • Jung’s Own Relationship with Nature
• Consciousness Slipped from Its Natural Foundation
• Nature Was Once Fully Spirit
and Matter
• The
Primitive Knows How to Converse with the Soul
•
We Have Conquered Nature is Merely a Slogan
• Our Civilizing Potential Has Led Us Down the Wrong Path
• We Know Nothing of Man
• Nature
Must Not Win but
Cannot Lose
While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species. Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole.
"In the excellent choices of Jung's writings presented here, he shows us what we have lost and how we might find it again."—Joseph L. Henderson, M.D.