9.10.26 | Lecture: Alchemy & The Individuation Process

In 1928, after Jung received the Chinese alchemical text titled The Secret of the Golden Flower from the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, he closed the Red Book mid-sentence and devoted the next thirty-plus years of his life to researching and reflecting on the images, writings, and practices of the Western alchemical tradition. Jung was the first […]

9.3.26 | C.G. Jung: Paracelsus the Physician (CW 15) | Free Reading Discussion

Concluding a lecture titled Paracelsus al Arzt, delivered to the Swiss Society for the History of Medicine and the Natural Sciences on September 7th 1941, Jung concludes, ” I shall be content if I have succeeded in giving you at least a few impressions of the strange personality and the spiritual force of the celebrated […]