Was Jung Really A Mystic?

It is generally believed that Jung was a mystic. While he believed in magic, telepathy and astrology, when it comes to his explanations, he chose materialistic ones. This is why he believed that the anima exists only in men and the animus only in women. He believed that they are created by sexual attractiveness, not as spiritual states. As spiritual states, they are universal, and exist in both men and women. This is the cause of transsexuality, and the reason why some women are attracted to the worship of a Goddess.

His most important error is that he did not believe in the superconscious. He lumped the superconscious and the subconscious together as the unconscious, which lumps spiritual influences with our passions and cravings, and makes people believe that the conscious mind has to lose control. The spiritual state is the superconscious, which includes the conscious and is reflected into it. We practise our devotions with the conscious mind. The highest artistic inspiration comes from the superconscious. The lower inspirations come from the unconscious. To break down control of the conscious is, at best, to weaken self control. At worst, it is to undermine sanity.

Though he said that Freud took sexuality too far, he resorts to phallic symbolism in his commentaries on alchemy. Phallic symbolism is materialistic. It is seeing one material manifestation as a symbol of another, like seeing a football as a symbol of a cricket ball. You look for the spiritual principal. Everything begins with a point, therefore a point contains everything in potential. A cirlce is a radius of the point. A line is an extension of a point in any direction. A vertical line is the descent of the spirit into the manifest world. That is the World Pillar. The point where it touches the material plane is a reflection of the spirit into that point. It descends into the centre of the world and everything thing and creature. It contains all the possibilities of the world, and every thing and creature, in equilibrium in reflection of the harmony of the spirit.

By the collective unconscious, he meant those elements of the unconscious which are common to everybody. He did not mean, as most people think, that everybody's unconscious mind is in telepathic contact with everybody else's.

May She be with you,

David.