of realizing that the ultimate truths were not necessarily remote but could be recovered in the simplest of pleasures.

It seems to me that is enormously important because otherwise this becomes a new Bible and then we have Imitatio Dei.

The tragedy was that his work was never really accepted by the medico-scientific public, so was that effort worth it?

remembrance of the smallness of your human personality in a world filled with figures.

We think we’re posing the questions but we’re not. The dead are animating us.

Karl Jaspers says so and lists five reasons why this going into the underworld and talking with figures and listening to voices, and doing what Jung did, is demonic, it’s non-Christian.

If you shift from that language to the confrontation with the dead, accepting the lament of the dead, one’s understanding changes dramatically in that one enters a world and the problems one takes up and is confronted with are not one’s own.

It’s a religious struggle that he’s going through at the same time.

He is not the author, there is a prophetic figure in him whom he then steps back from. There’s a differentiation of the voices.