Publisher's Synopsis
Discover a new side to Carl Jung in this beautiful collection of his writings, speeches, seminars, and letters on nature and our connection to the natural world.
Join Jung as he rediscovers the original unity of nature, and the spirits inside matter come to life once again. These selections, not just from his published writings, but also from speeches, obscure seminars, interview, and letters, show a less familiar side of the famous Swiss psychiatrist, whose deep concern over the loss of our emotional and mythic relationship with Nature is expressed in moving, poetic terms. Included are excerpts from Memories, Dreams, Reflections among Jung's other works.
While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species. Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Jung's Own Relationship with Nature
Consciousness Slipped from Its Natural Foundation
Nature Was Once Fully Spirit and Matter
The Primitive Knows How to Converse with the Soul
We Have Conquered Nature is Merely a Slogan
Our Civilizing Potential Has Led Us Down the Wrong Path
We Know Nothing of Man
Nature Must Not Win but Cannot Lose
