The Suffering of Anima Mundi
…What you are describing to me is the death of the soul, of yours, of that of the world. You have many other problems. The war, which you will not be able to get rid of, because it is the relationship between East and West that is wrong and sick, and you are not understanding it, and you foolishly talk about a clash of civilisations.
Terrorism, which will not cease, because you have banned the uncertainty and death from your Western society, in a vain obsession with security, and it is inevitable that death will creep in again, and in the darkest and most sudden way.
The ecological catastrophe and the endemic depression that is its effect, because what you are bringing to the world is a destruction of the soul: if there is a soul of the world and we are part of it, then what happens in the external soul also happens to us, like that of the plants, is a suffering inherent in the world.
We are part of the anima mundi and intimately suffer from the suffering that is being produced there.
— James Hillman
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The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know the world will tell you.
— Carl Jung
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I have not always chosen the safest path. I’ve made my mistakes, plenty of them. I sometimes…
