"certain things in the mind are purely impersonal. You are not responsible for their existence; they drop down from heaven or come up from hell,
you cannot account for them in any way. Certain fantasies, certain dreams, are clearly out of an impersonal sphere,
they are not produced by any intentional purpose.
when you can admit that the psychical contents have autonomy,
the idea comes not because you invented it but by its own autonomous action,
Then the objective process can begin."
"You must clarify the mind until you have perfect objectivity,
until you can admit that something moves in your mind independently of your will."
"those visions we are dealing with are experiences on a different plane
These things happen in the nowhere; they are universal and impersonal—
and if you do not understand them as impersonal, you simply get an inflation through your identification with the universal."
"That is the process of psychic adaptation,
which is going on through the whole history of mankind.
Christianity, for example, is no longer valid for us all, so it does not work. In a few hundred years there will be another system.
This will disappear just as tantric yoga has disappeared.
All these systems are human attempts to grapple with the great problem of life by symbols and sentences which are not only for you and me but for the whole community."
the danger lies in carrying on with that symbol as valid in the new epoch.
As I look at analytical psychology, it is working from the bottom toward a great building, certainly.
Then it will become in a few centuries a most rigid dogma, and the destroyers will come and say it is all wrong.
However, we may be sure that every system has gotten at some truths, which are lasting. We see that there is something true in the Christian;
there are absolute realities which cannot be dispensed with."
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