The document discusses Carl Jung's views and experiences with parapsychology and occult topics. It notes that Jung had an open mind and interest in areas like spiritism, alchemy, divination and Eastern religions. However, as a scientist he struggled to find clear evidence or answers and wanted to stay somewhat detached. The document also examines Jung's relationship and discussions with parapsychologist J.B. Rhine on controversial topics like precognition. Overall, the document suggests Jung's position on parapsychology was complex and ambiguous due to his scientific background but personal fascination.
6. American psychical
researcher
Cofounded (with William
McDougall) the
Parapsychology Laboratory
at Duke University in 1935
Father of parapsychology
Coined the term ESP
Relationship with Jung
8. “It was exciting to watch him [Jung] and Rhine
together … Jung the cosmopolite, the man of
enormous erudition,” and Rhine, “a man whom only
America could have produced—quiet, low-
spoken, intense, with that slow-burning fuse of humor
innate in his speech, gravely deferential to
Jung, putting his problems before Jung without any
plea for help, any servility, any expectation of
praise, with the obvious feeling that the problem of
man and his nature was so sacrosanct and vital a one
that Jung was obliged to help him, as he was to tell
Jung what he knew.’’
9. Jung has inspired the New Age movement with his interest in
occultism, Eastern religions, the I Ching, and mythology.
With his cousin Helene ("Helly") Preiswerk, he conducted spiritistic
experiments.
According to William Sloane, Jung was intrigued with not only
astrology, but the Chinese method of divination that he termed “rune
sticks”. A type of divinity.
While Jung was still a student, he read various works on occultism and
attended Spiritualist séances.
In Jung’s later years, he became absorbed with the ancient cosmologies
and spent a considerable amount of time analyzing
Gnostic, alchemical, and mystical systems of thought (Drury, 1992).
10. Always interested in spirituality and
parapsychology, Carl Jung dabbled in the arts of the
spiritual world, which led him to the exploration of the
realms of the human unconscious that was often being
ignored in modern-day medicine.
The old Chinese text, The Secret of the Gold
Flower, awakened Jung's interest in alchemy. His major
study in this field, Psychologie und Alchemie, was
published in German in 1944. In his own library Jung
had a number of rare alchemical books and folios.
11. Denotes a seemingly significant coincidence in time of
two or more events that are related but not causally
connected (Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, 2006)
It is about a causal connection of two or more psycho-
physic phenomena
NOT about cause and effect
12. Personal development that
involves establishing a
connection between the ego
and the self.
The ego is the center of
consciousness; the self is the
center of the total psyche,
including both the conscious
and the unconscious.
There was a religious instinct:
that psychic energy was, in
essence, spiritual; that we are
driven by this instinct to
become whole and to strive
for meaning.
13. Psychology and Alchemy
NOT the transformation of material lead into gold
BUT the transformation of the human soul on its path
to perfection
14. Are UFOs real or are they
mere products of fantasy
which are psychically
projected?
He leaves the impression
that the UFO phenomenon
exists as a projection of our
collective psyche
No clear answer found
15. Freud’s theories
6 year meltdown
The Red Book
Fantasies of great floods
sweeping over northern
Europe
Prophetic visions of World
War I
16. Spring 1909, Vienna
Jung asked for Freud’s opinion on precognition and
parapsychology
Loud cracks
Perfect example of paranormal phenomenon
17. He was very open minded. He
believed in the occult and
wanted to find answers but
since it was hard to find these
answers his point of view
wasn’t very clear. He didn’t
want to get too personal
either because he always had
this feeling of obligation to
stay more in the scientific
side of view, so truth be
told, Jung’s point of view in
parapsychology is very fuzzy.
18.
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Drury N. (1992). Dictionary of Mysticism and the Esoteric
Traditions. ABC-Clio Inc.
Shepard, L.A. (1984). Encyclopedia of Occultism &
Parapsychology (2nd ed.). Vol. 2. Detroit, Michigan: Gale
Group, Inc.
Sloane, W. (1975). Jung and Rhine. The Journal of the C. G.
Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, 2(8), 73-75.
