Post by Naptaq on May 17, 2008 5:50:55 GMT -5
Transcript from Jung's interview in this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOxlZm2AU4o
Q: I remember you said that death is psychologically as important as birth and it is an integral part of life, but surely it can't be like birth, if it's an end.
A: Yes, if it's an end. And there we are not quite certain, about this end. Because, you know, there are these peculiar faculties of the psyche that it isn't entirely confined to space and time. You can have dreams or visions of the future, you can see ?? and such of things, only ignorance denies these facts. It's quite evident that they do exist, and have existed always. Now these facts show that the psyche, in part at least, is not dependent upon these confindments. And then what? When the psyche is not under that obligation to live in time and space alone, and obviously it doesn't, then in, to that extent, the psyche is not suppeted(sp?) to those laws and that means practical continuation of life, of a sort of psychic existence beyond time and space.
Q: Do you, yourself, believe that death is part of the end or do you believe..
A: Well, I can't say.. You see the word believe is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certian hypothesis, if I know a thing and when I know it I don't need to believe it. I don't allow myself, for instance, to believe a thing just for the sake of believing it. I can't believe it. But when there are sufficient reasons for a certian hypothesis, I shall accept this reason, naturally, and we have to reckon with the possibility of so and so.
Q: Well now, you tell us that we should regard death as being a goal and to string away is to evade life and giving life purpose. What advice would you give to people in their later life when to enable them to do this, when most of them must, in fact, believe that death is the end of everything.
A: Well, you see, I have treated many old people and it's quite interesting to watch what their conscience is doing with the fact that it is a battle: threatened with complete end. It disregards it. Life behaves as if it weren't going on. And so, I think it's better for old people, to live on, to look forward to the next day as if you had to spent centuries. Then he lives properly. But when he is afraid, when he doesn't look forward, he looks back, it petrifies him, he gets stiff and he dies before his time. But when he is living on, looking forward to the great adventure, that is ahead, then he lives. And that is about what their conscience is intending to do.
Of course it's quite obvious that we're all going to die and this is the ?? finale of everything. But, nevertheless, there's something in us that doesn't believe it, apperentely, but this is really a fact, a psychological fact. Doesn't mean to me that it proves something. It is simply so.
For instance, I may not know why we need salt, but we eat salt, because you feel better. And so when you think in a certian way, you may feel considerably better and, I think, if you think along the lines of nature, then you think properly.
There are certian flaws in the transcript. If you find them, PM me.
To watch the interview in it's full entirety:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJsiQ4h3fY (part 1 of 4)
Q: I remember you said that death is psychologically as important as birth and it is an integral part of life, but surely it can't be like birth, if it's an end.
A: Yes, if it's an end. And there we are not quite certain, about this end. Because, you know, there are these peculiar faculties of the psyche that it isn't entirely confined to space and time. You can have dreams or visions of the future, you can see ?? and such of things, only ignorance denies these facts. It's quite evident that they do exist, and have existed always. Now these facts show that the psyche, in part at least, is not dependent upon these confindments. And then what? When the psyche is not under that obligation to live in time and space alone, and obviously it doesn't, then in, to that extent, the psyche is not suppeted(sp?) to those laws and that means practical continuation of life, of a sort of psychic existence beyond time and space.
Q: Do you, yourself, believe that death is part of the end or do you believe..
A: Well, I can't say.. You see the word believe is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certian hypothesis, if I know a thing and when I know it I don't need to believe it. I don't allow myself, for instance, to believe a thing just for the sake of believing it. I can't believe it. But when there are sufficient reasons for a certian hypothesis, I shall accept this reason, naturally, and we have to reckon with the possibility of so and so.
Q: Well now, you tell us that we should regard death as being a goal and to string away is to evade life and giving life purpose. What advice would you give to people in their later life when to enable them to do this, when most of them must, in fact, believe that death is the end of everything.
A: Well, you see, I have treated many old people and it's quite interesting to watch what their conscience is doing with the fact that it is a battle: threatened with complete end. It disregards it. Life behaves as if it weren't going on. And so, I think it's better for old people, to live on, to look forward to the next day as if you had to spent centuries. Then he lives properly. But when he is afraid, when he doesn't look forward, he looks back, it petrifies him, he gets stiff and he dies before his time. But when he is living on, looking forward to the great adventure, that is ahead, then he lives. And that is about what their conscience is intending to do.
Of course it's quite obvious that we're all going to die and this is the ?? finale of everything. But, nevertheless, there's something in us that doesn't believe it, apperentely, but this is really a fact, a psychological fact. Doesn't mean to me that it proves something. It is simply so.
For instance, I may not know why we need salt, but we eat salt, because you feel better. And so when you think in a certian way, you may feel considerably better and, I think, if you think along the lines of nature, then you think properly.
There are certian flaws in the transcript. If you find them, PM me.
To watch the interview in it's full entirety:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJsiQ4h3fY (part 1 of 4)
