Visionaries

Abstract

In a dream I had some time ago, I was walking with a small party of explorers through a wilderness of high mountains, virgin forests, and broad rivers. We were heading West, much as early European explorers must have done on the North American continent, guided by Native Americans, or on their own. However, in my dream we had a unique guide, a mighty eagle who soared and circled above us, leading us to mountain passes or places to ford the broad rivers in our path. The eagle served as our eyes, giving us a perspective far beyond our own abilities to see. I have come to think of Jung as that eagle, a man with incredible vision and perspective, whose works still act as a guide when one begins to explore the inner wilderness, the realm of the personal and collective unconscious. I have been asked by acquaintances in other fields, what is “new” in Jungian psychology these days? My answer is always the same. “We, the second and third generations of Jungians, are still exploring the dimensions of a vast wilderness that Jung discovered and wrote about. He saw far ahead of most of us, and still points the way.”