And then comes the knowing that in me there is space for a second, large, and timeless life. Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilkes Book of Hours: Love Poems to God According to Carl Jung the second half of li

This is an exceedingly dangerous time and we are confronted with a problem which has never been known in the conscious history of man This is not a light but a darkness; the powers of darkness are c

We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to becomemore comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent. Friedrich Nietzsche, On the G

This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men Throughout Western history, the idea of civilizational collapse has been bound up with visions of apoca

We have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? Where is the beauty that we know we cannot really live without? John-Mark Miravalle, Beauty: What

Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss psychologist who closely collaborated with Carl Jung from 1933 until his death in 1961. One of von Franzs primary topics of interest was fairy tales. For like myths

Will men be able to give up toying with the idea of another war? It is now a question of existence or nonexistence. . .For the danger that threatens us now is of such dimensions as to make this last

And the word courage should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind. Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly In the privacy of our minds many of us dis

News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging. Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News Most people think that consuming the news makes one an inf

The spiritual decline of the earth is so far advanced that people are in danger of losing their last spiritual strength, the strength that makes it possible even to see the disintegration and to reco