"One is not enlightened by imagining all kinds of images of light, but by becoming aware of one's own inner darkness" is a telling and characteristic statement of the Swiss psychiatrist who died in 1961 and great thinker Carl Gustaf Jung. Besides thinker, he's also a person with emotions. Good thing, because it's his idea that to understand and learn something from what's going on inside you, you got to feel it, too, if there's to be a change. His lonely path is the path of individualization, as he calls his process. The above quote is part of that. Ready and clear if you can. His idea is that whoever looks outside dreams, but whoever looks inside awakes. It's as if you're sending out the moon at night, alone, from Earth to the moon, without realizing that the moon must have the light and visibility of the sun.
At the end of the night there is the morning. Those who persist on their journey through the night, despite all misery, failures and maliciousness, will eventually wake up to their truth. It's not simple, I admit. The moon is there as a watcher in that night, as a friend and old wise woman, mother perhaps, but also as the fickle anima in the man, to help him on his journey through the unknown dark side of his personality, the unconscious, the other side of the moon. Carl Jung once said: "A meeting between two personalities is like merging two chemicals. When a reaction follows, both have changed." Maybe he made that statement after meeting Albert Einstein or Charlie Chaplin, two other great and creative thinkers. For me, in my reading encounters with Jung, in the form of the only eighty centimetres long row of books with treatises written by him, on my shelf, is definitely going on. If there was a trace of Carl Gustaf Jung's energy anywhere in the universe, I hope it was mutual.
