
Alan Watts Radio Talk: Tribute to Carl Jung 1961
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The Meaning of Good and the Meaning of Evil
This is a very, very forceful passage and a memorable one in all Jung's works. He was trying to heal this insanity from which our culture in particular has suffered. We say to the brother within us, Raka, and condemn and rage against ourselves. Then as a rule the whole truth of Christianity is reversed. There is then no more talk of love and long suffering. So if we require as a justification for our rage, a fundamental and metaphysical division between good and evil, we have an insane and in a certain sense schizophrenic universe. No sense whatsoever can be made. All conflict, Jung was saying, all opposition has its resolution in an underlying unity. You cannot understand the meaning
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