Becca Tarnas on Jung, Tolkien, and the Imaginal
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Jung and the First World War
I think that we certainly can't underestimate the influence of the First World War on each of them, not just again externally, but the zeitgeist. And that they were both deeply influenced by it. If we look at Jung, the way that the visions were coming through him, first his profound visionary experience that repeated twice of the great flood and how he felt like he was going insane. He says that he asked for a sign that the spirit of the depths ruled the inner world and the outer world. The war itself broke out and this realization that what was unfolding for him internally in 1913 and throughout 1914 until the end of that summer when the war was declared is reflected outward.
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