“Two souls, alas, dwell within my breast,”

Jung is responsible for the widespread resurgence of a more inner-oriented spirituality in the modern world,

And as Jung himself had “a particularly vivid experience of the processes of the collective unconscious,” he would, by his own definition, be a mystic.

Jung often lamented that he “knew things and must hint at things which other people do not know, and usually do not even want to know.”

Jung seemed to have two minds about the supernatural: a public one that wanted to understand it “scientifically,” and a private one that acknowledged ghosts, visions, and premonitions as part of the essential mystery of life.

what some Christian sects of the first centuries after Christ called gnosis, direct spiritual experience.

“becoming who you are”—a

“Mystical experience,” he told his learned listeners, “is experience of the archetypes”

“Everyone who says that I am a mystic is just an idiot.”1