death

My Life in a Death Cult

I tend to share Jung’s Kantian perspective about subjects like God and life after death. We simply cannot know the ontological truth about these directly. Yet to the psyche their existence seems quite real regardless of what the intellect has to say about the subject. I also possess what I would consider a healthy mistrust of mediums and mediumship, though to be fair, I don’t doubt their inner experiences. While I’m convinced at least some of them are outright charlatans,...

Death: a Jungian perspective. What Face-the Grim Reaper?

When you lie in bed, alone, late at night, contemplating your own mortality, as the Grim Reaper grins at you, what face do you see? I frequently suggest both in my posts and to those I work with personally, the importance of facing up to the reality of death. To face the fact that you are not immortal. That the candle flame of your life will be blown out one day by the unfeeling and unrelenting wind of time. This fundamental...