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Don’t Sober Up
…they had to invite me and I would never find what to do with my hands. And that’s the big problem; the big problem of all timid people are the hands. You don’t know what to do with them. Then I still have that feeling and that’s why I always try not to be but with friends. Because with my friends I’m absolutely sure I don’t get sober. That’s why I never go to cocktails, I never go to openings, I don’t go to crowded parties: because I always feel like I’m sober.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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…Salome saw Jung and began to worship him. When Jung asked why she was worshiping him, she replied: “You are Christ.” As she uttered these words, a black serpent coiled its body around Jung’s, completely enveloping his heart. Suddenly, it dawned on Jung that he had assumed “the attitude of the Crucifixion.” He looked at the wise old man, who was in fact the Biblical Elijah. “Why, it’s just the same, above or below,” Elijah said. Then Jung’s face changed into the face of a lion.
The above may sound like a dream, but it wasn’t. It was a daydream, one Carl Jung experienced as part of what he later referred to as the “most difficult experiment” of his career…
… Carl Jung…In an effort to consciously observe the machinations of his unconscious mind… spent years conditioning himself to let his imagination run wild. He eventually compiled…
