Lament of the Dead
What The Red Book shows is that the dead are experienced as contents of the unconscious, as discarnates or disembodied souls and they have a psychological relationship.
Stephani L. Stephens • C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain
From that time on, the dead have become ever more distinct for me as the voices of the Unanswered, Unresolved, and Unredeemed; for since the questions and demands which my destiny required me to answer did not come to me from the outside, they must have come from the inner world. These conversations with the dead formed a kind of prelude to what I
... See moreSandra Easter • Jung and the Ancestors: Beyond Biography, Mending the Ancestral Web
He discusses in detail the opinion that ‘souls . . . “know” only what they knew at the moment of death’.
Stephani L. Stephens • C. G. Jung and the Dead: Visions, Active Imagination and the Unconscious Terrain
What the ancients did for their dead! You seem to believe that you can absolve yourself from the care of the dead, and from the work that they so greatly demand, since what is dead is past. . . . Do you think that the dead do not exist because you have devised the impossibility of immortality? . . . The dead produce effects, that is sufficient.1 —
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