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“Women to a great extent – and the less they knew about it, the worse it is - rule even life and death in their surroundings. If the husband dies, or the children die, very often, the woman in that family has something to do with it.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Feminine in Fairy Tales

“Above all, for Western people with their hypertrophied rationality, the development and expansion of a direct, emotional experience of reality, unobstructed by words and concepts, would be of evolutionary significance. (Aldous Huxley's "Human Resources")”
― Albert Hofmann, LSD: My Problem Child – Reflections on Sacred Drugs, Mysticism and Science

“Question: Couldn't one say that whenever there is a real spiritual experience it should become manifest?

Dr. von Franz: There is no 'should' about it. I think a real spiritual experience I don't know exactly what you have in mind when you say that does become manifest. Mythos means communication. If you are overwhelmed by a spiritual experience it itself wants you to communicate it, i.e., manifest it; that is the meaning of the word mythos. There is no religious experience where there is not the need to tell of it; that is natural, but one need not add the word 'should.' If it is true, it will become real, its natural flow will be into reality.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology

“There is a strange attitude and feeling that one is not yet in real life. For the time being one is doing this or that, but whether it is a woman or a job, it is not yet what is really wanted, and there is always the fantasy that sometime in the future the real thing will come about. If this attitude is prolonged, it means a constant inner refusal to commit oneself to the moment. With this there is often, to a smaller or greater extent, a savior complex, with the secret thought that one day one will be able to save the world; the last word in philosophy, or religion, or politics, or art, or something else, will be found.”
― Marie-Louise von Franz, The Problem of the Puer Aeternus