![]() ![]() And only by this we can balance our life, to make the ego diminished in its power and use the energy of the unconscious forces to transform our life. And that is by realizing that we have two selves in us, the conscious and the unconscious. The only thing we can do is go forward, to broaden our consciousness. The eating of the apple shows to us we were naked, the time we attained consciousness. This is the time of the unconscious, the time of pre-reflection without conscious decisions and deliberations. We usually, in our primitive era, did things without reflections and depended on instinct. Jung alludes to the story of Adam and Eve where they ate the apple of knowledge as our departing from nature. ![]() I think his conception of consciousness as a curse is truly mind-opening. I had the thought that I can read this fast because of its 100-ish pages but now it feels like I had just read a 300 pages book. This is a book which really gives on what Jung thinks and what his stance on certain things. ![]()
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