In a significant revision of his earlier article "The Objective Consciousness," Robert Heyward explores the fundamental foundations of consciousness and the primal duality of subject and object.
The chapters in this volume were originally written as lectures given at the Eranos Meeting at Ascona, Switzerland. A number of scholars from different fields of knowledge meet there annually to discuss certain topics of human interest. My contributions represent the psychological aspect of the problems under discussion, and turn upon a question of peculiar interest-the-so-called process of individuation.
Since the explosion of the first atomic bomb in 1945, reports of UFO encounter and abduction have increased at an exponential rate. Further, more and more people begin to have the distinct feeling that the development of the atomic bomb and the appearance of UFO phenomena somehow belong together. If so, the question arises whether UFOs are physically real. The answer is: yes and no.
Jung took a particular interest in this work from the East. He was personal friends with Wilhielm and Jung joined several other German critics in hailing this work as a major and important translation. This introduction gives an insightful overview by Jung, who spent several summers casting the yarrow stalks himself.
After speaking at the Harvard Tercentenary Conference Jung spent a week at Bailey Island, Maine, giving the first half of a seminar on "Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process," based on his 1935 Eranos lecture. Afterward, Jung traveled to New York City for another week of consultations and lecturing, and he sailed for England on October 3.
