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it will go with and for our loved ones. look forward to 80 and so on. It does not
I believe the days of being satisfied with end; self-discovery continues and every
stagnant confusion and naive illusion in bit of life both positive and negative
our love relationships are over. Knowing had and continue to have meaning.
another and having them really know In Jung’s autobiography Memories,
us will be considerably improved by the Dreams, Reflections he describes his
use of Astrology and depth psychology. life changes from 2 years old (his first
This can be learned by consultations, dream) to old age. As Edward Edinger
taking courses, reading for ourselves, and says in the preface of his book, Ego and
keeping our hearts open to going into Archetype, “Starting as a psychiatrist
our unconscious as that is what it takes. and psychotherapist, he discovered in
In our quest for autonomy and authentic his patients and in himself the reality of
being, this is what is necessary. What the psyche and the phenomenology of
we each know about ourselves is just the its manifestation at a depth never before
tip of an iceberg of what is in our vast observed systematically.” Jung also made
unconscious. it clear that evolution will occur only
as one individual at a time is working
In becoming 70 years old this year, I can on their own personal development.
look back to what I knew at 30, 40, 50, It is the individual’s efforts at self-
even 60 compared to what I know about responsibility that will change the
myself now. From this perspective, I collective psyche of man.
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