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Journey to Hell - The Path to Self-Knowledge

Eternalised

CHAPTER

The Dark Side of Life

Jung's personal guide was Philharmon, a magician and wise old man that represented superior insight. In his hypnagogic state, he plunged into unknown depths, which he later called his confrontation with the unconscious. Fearing psychosis, Jung kept a loaded revolver in the drawer of his night table in case the visions became unbearable. Hell is when you can no longer attain, what you could attain; hell is when you think and feel, and do everything that you know you do not want. If we do not see a thing, fate does it to us.

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