12/12/09

12/12/09
This is the feast day of Our Lady of Guadeloupe. Our dear Mother Mary who appeared to the peasant in the midst of roses scent to tell him how to carry on even in the cruelest of orders. As one young priest termed it her appearance celebrated the birth of "Mexicans" the union of europe and the New World.

I was reading a piece in Huffington Post regarding Jung and his Red Book. I have a feeling that it should never have been published but then how would people in these impoverished times know where to start? I imagine that there are still those like I once was-young and lost and stumbling on to Jung and suddenly feeling that there is a place for them after all.
I was too young indeed for Jung but my position was in emergency need of help and the good doctor and his assistants helped in the publishing of his books and letters and the transcripts of his lectures and I was nourished and therefore saved.
I say this having read his "biography"by Deidre Bair that was published in the past few years. she stripped his life of the inner reality and covered only his daily external life as the husband of a wealthy woman and their five children and his mistress Toni Wolff. the book was completely extraverted and judged him with the convention of his society. I guess this is because Diedre Bair is completely conventional and only understands life from that perspective.