From Complex to Spirit

Very early in his life, Jung experienced a climate of uncertainty and the existence of the numinous. At the age of three, he had a sense of the secret, and a little later, knowledge of the two faces of divinity. From the outset, he grasped the value of these experiences and the need to maintain a bond with them by refusing to trivialize or forget them, dominant tendencies in the current collective consciousness. Later, he saw them as being just as valuable as his medical and psychological knowledge in forming the basis for his thinking and the meaning of his life. But this isolated him as a thinker. The lack of an official response to his questioning led him to look for answers elsewhere. All his work is influenced by this. It can be considered as a way of attesting to what official science was not taking into consideration, and to the indissociable bond between the spiritual and the psychological.