JOHN FREEMAN:
“I remember you said that death is psychologically just as important as birth and like it it’s an integral part of life. But surely it can’t be like birth if it’s an end, can it?”
JUNG:
“Yes, if it’s an end, and there we are not quite certain about this end, because you know there are these peculiar faculties of the psyche, that it isn’t entirely confined to space and time. You can have dreams or visions of the future, you can see around corners, and such things. Only ignorance denies these facts, you know; it’s quite evident that they do exist, and have existed always. Now these facts show that the psyche, in part at least, is not dependent upon these confinements. And then what? When the psyche is not under that obligation to live in time and space alone, and obviously it doesn’t, then to that extent the psyche is not subjected to those laws, and that means a practical continuation of life, a sort of psychical existence beyond time and space.”
FROM: Face To Face | Carl Gustav Jung (1959) John Freeman interviews Professor Jung at his home in Switzerland. [ONLINE AT YOU TUBE HERE]
PUBLISHED AS: C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Princeton University Press, 21 Feb 1987, p.437. [This collection captures C.G. Jung's personality in more than fifty memoirs and transcripts of interviews for radio, television, and film, ranging from a former playmate's impressions of Jung as a boy to an account of a conversation one month before his death in 1961. The book includes contributions by friends such as Esther Harding, Charles Baudouin, Mircea Eliade, and Miguel Serrano, and others by such figures as Victoria Ocampo, Alberto Moravia, and Charles Lindbergh, who spoke with Jung about UFOs.
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