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  “curious accident”: Bertrand Russell, Religion and Science (1935), (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961), pp. 23, 222.

  “seems pointless”: Steven Weinberg, The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (1977), 2nd ed. (New York: Basic Books, 1993), p. 154.

  “only by chance”: Jacques Monod, Chance and Necessity: An Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (1970), (New York: Knopf, 1971), p. 180.

  “we are strange in the universe”: Primo Levi, Other People’s Trades, “The New Sky” (1985), trans. R. Rosenthal (New York: Summit Books, 1989), p. 22.

  “level of civilization never before achieved”: Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905), trans. Talcott Parsons (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1958), p. 182.

  “night continually closing in on us”: Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science (1882), trans. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Random House, 1974), p. 181.

  “heaps of atoms in empty space”: Paul Feyerabend (1978), Science in a Free Society (London: Verso, 1982), p. 70.

  Part II: In Search of a Deeper Order

  “where the difficulties really reside”: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949), p. 17.

  “fills me with dread”: Blaise Pascal, Pensées (written 1659–62, published posthumously, 1670), rans. A. J. Krailsheimer, rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1995), p. 66. “Le silence éternel de ces espaces infinis m’effraie.”

  “the moral law within me”: Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason (1788), trans. and ed. Mary Gregor (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 133.

  “the psychological century”: Peter Homans, “History of a Movement: From Jung to the Present” (Paper presented at the History of Analytical Psychology Symposium, Tiburon, California, April 2002). See also Homans’s Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology, 2nd ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), and The Ability to Mourn: Disillusionment and the Social Origins of Psychoanalysis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).

  “to preserve our civilization”: C. G. Jung, letter of September 23, 1949, to Dorothy Thompson, in C. G. Jung, Letters 1: 1906–1950, ed. G. Adler, A. Jaffé, trans. R. F. C. Hull (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1973), p. 537.

  “continued with satisfactory results”: Jung, “On Synchronicity,” (1951), Collected Works of Carl Gustav Jung, trans. R. F. C. Hull, ed. H. Read, M. Fordham, G. Adler, W. McGuire, Bollingen Series XX (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1953–79), vol. 8, par. 982, pp. 525–26.

  “at last begin to move”: Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (1952), Collected Works, vol. 8, pars. 843, 845, pp. 438–39.

  “performed the act”: Esther Harding, in C. G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, ed. W.McGuire and R. F. C. Hull, Bollingen Series XCVII (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1977), pp. 182–83.

  “animum esse mirabile”: James Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology (New York: Harper and Row, 1975), p. 195–96.

  “the same thing in his own case”: Petrarch, “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux: To Dionisio da Borgo San Sepolcro” (1336), in Petrarch: The First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, ed. and trans. J. H. Robinson (New York: Putnam, 1898), p. 317.

  “book should be published”: Henry Fierz, in C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff: A Collection of Remembrances, ed. F. Jensen (San Francisco: The Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco, 1982), p. 21. This case is also explored in Robert Aziz, C. G. Jung’s Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity, pp. 86–90.

  “the quality of this moment of time”: Jung, “Richard Wilhelm: In Memoriam” (1930), Collected Works, vol. 15, pars. 81–82, p. 56.

  “apparently exists outside man”: Jung, Synchronicity, par. 942, pp. 501–02.

  “transconscious, metapsychic factors”: Jung, letter of July 10, 1946, in C. G. Jung, Letters 1: 1906–1950, p. 433; quoted in Aziz, pp. 176–77.

  “the culture of scientific materialism”: Victor Mansfield, Synchronicity, Science, and Soul-Making (Chicago: Open Court, 1995), p. 1.

  “I don’t know where they are”: Marie-Louise von Franz, “Passions of the Soul,” Ikon Television (Netherlands), 1990, quoted in Mansfield, p. 22.

  “remarkable things have turned up”: Jung, letter to Freud, June 12, 1911, in C. G. Jung, Letters 1: 1906–1950, p. 24.

  “all the psychological knowledge of antiquity”: Jung, “Richard Wilhelm: In Memoriam” (1930), Collected Works, vol. 15, par. 81, p. 56.

  Part III: Through the Archetypal Telescope

  “in process of being born”: Hans J. Eysenck and David Nias, Astrology: Science or Superstition? (London: Penguin, 1982), pp. 208–09.

  “Everything breathes together”: Plotinus, Enneads, II, 3, 7, “Are the Stars Causes?” (c. 268), quoted in Eugenio Garin, Astrology in the Renaissance, trans. C. Jackson and J. Allen, rev. C. Robertson (London: Arkana, 1983), p. 117.

  “question of meaning altogether”: W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greek Philosophers: From Thales to Aristotle (1950), (New York: Harper Torchbook, 1960), pp. 10–11.

  “powerful mythology”: Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief, ed. C. Barrett (Oxford: Blackwell, 1970), p. 51; quoted by Hillman in Re-Visioning Psychology (pp. 155, 249), where he provides a depth psychological alternative to Wittgenstein’s implied simple Enlightenment contrast of “mythology” with “scientific explanation.” Not only does every fantasy have its archetypal reason, Hillman argues, but every reason has its archetypal fantasy.

  “imaginative vision and emotion of the soul”: Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology, pp. xiii–xiv (xix–xx in 1992 edition).

  “I cannot but be in them”: Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology, pp. 169–70.

  “to one God or another”: Hillman, Re-Visioning Psychology, pp. 168–69.

  “resolved into algebraic equations”: Jung, “The Syzygy: Anima and Animus” (1948), in Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self, Collected Works, vol. 9, part ii, par. 25, p. 13.

  “pour into human cultural manifestation”: Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1949), p. 3.

  “the world itself is speaking”: Jung, “The Psychology of the Child Archetype” (1940), in The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, Collected Works, vol. 9, part i, par. 291, p. 173 (emphasis in original). Jung’s reference is to Karl Kerényi’s companion essay, “The Primordial Child in Primordial Times.”

  “makes any unilateral formulation impossible”: Jung,” Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious”(1934), Collected Works, vol. 9, part i, par. 80, p. 38.

  “they change their shape continually”: Jung, “The Psychology of the Child Archetype,” par. 301, p. 179.

  “being one with the external world as a whole”: Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents (1929), trans. W. Strachey (New York: Norton, 1989), pp. 11–12. The term was originally employed and the phenomenon described in a letter to Freud from his friend Romain Rolland who after reading Freud’s The Future of an Illusion wondered whether the “oceanic feeling” of an underlying connection with the universe that he observed in himself and others was perhaps the true source of humanity’s religious urges.

  “who themselves have not tried them”: Kepler, Letter to Herwart and Feselius, Kepler’s Astrology: Excerpts, trans. and ed. Kenneth G. Negus (Princeton, N.J.: Eucopia, 1987), p. 13.

  “harmony of the celestial aspects”: Kepler, On the More Certain Fundamentals of Astrology, (1602), in Kepler’s Astrology: Excerpts, p. 13.

  “ultimately of all existence”: David Bohm and David Peat, Science, Order, and Creativity (New York: Bantam, 1987), p. 134. 108: “current ways of thinking”: Bohm and Peat, pp. 133, 136.

  “but once in a lifetime”: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, preface to third English edition, in The Basic Writings of Sigmund Freud, trans. A. A. Brill (N
ew York: Modern Library, 1938), p. 181.

  “the secret of dreams was revealed”: Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, 3 vols. (New York: Basic Books, 1953–57), vol. 1, pp. 323, 354.

  “as a hen at a hawk”: Jones, Freud, p. 242.

  “both intellectually and emotionally”: Jones, Freud, p. 255. 113: “at the beginning of 1896”: Jones, Freud, p. 351.

  “the prima materia for a lifetime’s work”: Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffé, trans. R. and C. Winston, rev. ed. (New York: Vintage, 1965), p. 199.

  “to make her own heaven or hell”: Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (preface, July 1962; 1st edition published 1963), (New York: Norton, 2001), p. 12.

  “the threshold of intellectual maturity”: D. T. Whiteside, quoted in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 10, p. 48.

  “more than at any time since”: Isaac Newton, quoted in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 10, p. 50.

  “willingly devote continued labor”: Gertrude Stein, Fernhurst (1904–05), in Fernhurst, Q. E. D. and Other Early Writings (New York: Norton, 1971), pp. 29–30; quoted in Stephen Arroyo, Astrology, Karma, and Transformation (Davis, Calif.: CRCS Publications, 1978), p. 84.

  “irresponsible days of my youth are over”: Tennessee Williams, “Amore Perdida,” Michigan Quarterly Review 42 (Summer 2003), p. 545. “The old life seemed to be over. The new one had not begun yet. This was a time in between.”

  “only more inveterate habits”: W. J. Earle, summarizing James’s mature philosophy as having emerged directly out of his earlier psychological insights, in “William James,” Encyclopedia of Philosophy (New York: Macmillan, 1967), vol. 4, p. 248.

  “hardly before the age of twenty-eight”: Arthur Schopenhauer, “Of Women,” Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), trans. T. B. Saunders (New York: A. L. Burt, n.d.), p. 436.

  “slowly does it come to maturity”: Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays (1851), vol. 2, trans. E. F. J. Payne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. 615.

  “I change but I cannot die”: Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cloud” (1819), The Norton Anthology of Poetry, ed. A. Allison et al. (New York: Norton, 1975), p. 672.

  “differentiation without difference”: J. N. Findlay, “The Logical Peculiarities of Neoplatonism,” in The Structure of Being: A Neoplatonic Approach, ed. R. Baine Harris (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York, 1982), p. 1.

  “of the arts, of ideas and culture”: James Hillman, “Why ‘Archetypal’ Psychology?” in Loose Ends (Zurich: Spring Publications, 1975), p.139.

  Part IV: Epochs of Revolution

  “I’ll rail at all his servants”: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, “Street Fighting Man,” from the album Beggar’s Banquet (1968).

  “the dominant reality of the human community”: William H. McNeill, The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), pp. 726–27.

  “but over themselves”: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), 2nd ed., ed. Carol H. Poston (New York: Norton, 1988), p. 62150: “it is as great to be a woman as to be a man”: Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” Leaves of Grass (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 45.

  “we are free at last”: Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Available online at U.S. Department of State International Information website, http://us info.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/democrac/38.htm. Accepted as part of the Douglass Archives of American Public Address (http://douglass.speech.nwu.edu) on May 26, 1999. Prepared by D. Oetting (http://nonce.com/oetting).

  “turned upside down”: Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution (New York: Viking, 1972).

  “how men thought before it was made”: Christopher Hill, The Century of Revolution, 2nd ed. (London: Sphere Books, 1972), pp. 165 ff.

  “rebellion was everywhere in the air”: Orest Ranum, “The Age of Revolutions,” in Columbia History of the World, ed. J. A. Garraty and P. Gay (New York: Harper & Row, 1972), p. 730.

  “controlled and sustained flight”: John Noble Wilford, “How the Wright Brothers Did What No One Else Could,” New York Times, December 9, 2003.

  “on the origin of species in the years 1794–95”: Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species, 1st edition with An Historical Sketch (1859), (New York: Avenel, 1979), p. 55.

  “a second Darwinian revolution”: I. Bernard Cohen, Revolution in Science (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), p. 297.

  “Exuberance is beauty”: William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, 4th printing with revisions, ed. D. V. Erdman, commentary by H. Bloom (New York: Doubleday, 1970), pp. 34–37.

  “social principles are or should be”: Jacques Barzun, “Society and Politics,” in Columbia History of the World, p. 699.

  “in the history of life”: Max Eastman, quoted in Robert Gottlieb, review of Isadora: A Sensational Life by Peter Kurth, New York Times Book Review, December 30, 2001.

  “the drench of my passions”: Whitman, Leaves of Grass (1855), pp. 78, 9, 30, 86, 88, 94.

  “I feel as if I had not created this myself”: Letter from Mahler to his friend and colleague, the soprano Anna Bahr-Mildenburg, July 18, 1896. Quoted in Edward Downes, Guide to Symphonic Music (New York: Walker, 1976), pp. 535–36.

  “in the geological sciences in this century”: William Glen, The Road to Jaramillo: Critical Years of the Revolution in Earth Science (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982), p. 271. Quoted in Cohen, Revolution in Science, p. 463.

  “the preservation of the world”: Henry David Thoreau, from his essay “Walking,” which began as a lecture called “The Wild,” delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. Thoreau gave this lecture many times during the 1850s, eventually turning it into an essay published posthumously in 1862 in the Atlantic Monthly.

  “distinct from his soul is to be expunged”: Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793), in The Poetry and Prose of William Blake, pp. 34–38.

  “we still believe it is fine weather”: Jung, “Wotan” (1936), in Civilization in Transition, Collected Works, vol. 10, par. 375, p. 182; par 389, p. 186.

  “and other purposes through nuclear ‘transmutation’”: Leo Szilard, 1934, quoted in Nuclear Age Timeline, Nuclearfiles.org: A Project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, http://www. nuclearfiles.org/hitimeline/1930s.html.

  “make this old world vanish in smoke”: Ernest Rutherford, quoted in R. W. Clark, Einstein: The Life and Times (New York: Avon, 1971), p. 661.

  “the sceptre from tyrants”: Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, quoted in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v., “Franklin, Benjamin.”

  “begun with the Discourse on Method”: Jules Michelet, quoted in Paul Schrecker, “Revolution as a Problem in the Philosophy of History,” Nomos, 1967, 8:34–53.

  Part V: Cycles of Crisis and Contraction

  “values of discipline and restraint were denigrated”: Margaret Thatcher, quoted in Arthur Mar-wick, “How We Taught the World to Swing,” The Sunday Times Magazine (London), 30 May 2004.

  “war of opposing fundamentalisms”: John Mack, “Considering the Current Crisis,” Conference of the International Transpersonal Association, Palm Springs, California, June 2004.

  “burst his hot heart’s shell upon it”: Herman Melville, Moby Dick or The Whale (1851), (Franklin Center, Penn.: Franklin Library, 1979; based on the revised and corrected 1947 Oxford University Press edition), p. 181.

  “I act under orders”: Melville, Moby Dick, p. 515.

  “fury and vengeance”: Owen Chase, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, ed. I. Haverstick and B.Shepard (New York: Harcourt Brace, 1999), p. 12.

  “very latitude of the shipwreck”: Herman Melville, quoted in afterword of Chase, The Wreck of the Whaleship Essex, p. 100.

  “choose a mighty theme”: Melville, Moby Dick, pp.
423–24.

  “significance lurks in all things”: Melville, Moby Dick, p. 401.

  “long-term and vigilant containment”: George F. Kennan (“X”), “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs, July 1947.

  “not be mistaken for missionary work”: Henry Kissinger, testimony before U.S. congressional committee, 1975, quoted in The Observer, August 12, 2001.

  “martyr in the calendar of philosophy”: Karl Marx, doctoral dissertation (1841), quoted in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. “Marx, Karl.”

  “animals the souls they torment”: Arthur Schopenhauer, “The Christian System” (1851), in Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays (New York: Macmillan, 1891), pp. 105–17.

  “fully exploit space until we can control it”: United States Air Force Space Command, Strategic Master Plan FY04 and Beyond (Peterson AFB, Colorado: November 5, 2002), pp. 4–5.

  “not’ing more dan de shark well goberned”: Melville, Moby Dick, p. 286.

  “knowledge which they cannot lose”: J. Robert Oppenheimer, “Physics in the Contemporary World,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists IV, 3 (March 1948), p. 66.

  “to gratify its desires”: Saint Paul, Letter to the Romans, 13:13–14, Revised Standard Version.

  “all the shadows of my doubts were swept away”: Augustine, Confessions, VIII, in Augustine of Hippo: Selected Writings, trans. and intro. Mary T. Clark (Mahwah, N.J.: Paulist Press, 1984), p. 98.

  “no widening of the spiritual horizon”: Jung, “After the Catastrophe” (1945), in Civilization in Transition, Collected Works, vol. 10, par. 240, pp. 215–16.

  “on whom a world depends”: Jung, “The Undiscovered Self” (1957), Collected Works, vol. 10, par. 587–88.

  “With kindest regards, C. G. Jung”: Letter of August 20, 1945, Bollingen, in C. G. Jung Letters Vol. I: 1906–1950, ed. G. Adler, A. Jaffé (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973), p. 375.

  “is where God learns”: Rainer Maria Rilke, “Just as the Winged Energy of Delight” (Da dich das geflügelte Entzücken, 1924), trans. Robert Bly, Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke (New York: Harper & Row, 1981), p. 175.

 

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