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Jungs experience of the Pueblo Indians was much more enjoyable then his recount of North Africa…

His trip to central Africa was also fascinating but not quite as with the Pueblo Indians

What’s so interesting about reading his account is picturing what travelling in the early 20th century was like… it seems so dangerous unlike today, we no longer have much to risk by going out into these places

Travels #1 North Africa

I have to admit Jung lost me a little here I much prefer is analysis of his personal experiences and context than those of another location… loved the Holbine quote tho “where there is danger there is also salvation”

The monologue from 280-282 has great resonance with me, the promise of techno-solutionism is a farce, largely propagated by greed. Despite the fact that we know our current lifestyle does not serve our deepest needs we unthinkingly carry on and resent any attempt to change course that goes beyond an acknowledgment of the problem…

The book takes a different tone entirely when it comes to chapter seven “works”

I don’t know if it is just my immense interest in what is being conveyed but I sense it is because the nature of the content of the writing is so important to Jung and so well integrated in his mind with himself and his other works that it can not come out fast enough and it reads like a train speeding ever faster along its track

6: confrontation with the unconscious

I hate to make light of such a profound chapter but at page 34 I chuckled to myself thinking “Jung was in a very Chinese time in his life”

But seriously this chapter details experiences that were obviously so meaningful and so formative to Jung, how they coincide with the dates of the First World War is incredibly significant as the corpus of his work and the war prove to