Carl Jung on the Reduction of Mind to Matter

Carl Jung, as quoted in The Conscious Universe  (1997, 324-25) by Dean Radin:

It is almost an absurd prejudice to suppose that existence can only be physical. As a matter of fact, the only form of existence of which we have immediate knowledge is psychic [i.e., in the mind]. We might as well say, on the contrary, that physical existence is a mere inference, since we know of matter only in so far as we perceive psychic images mediated by the senses.

About Santi Tafarella

I teach writing and literature at Antelope Valley College in California.
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One Response to Carl Jung on the Reduction of Mind to Matter

  1. eggplantinspace says:

    Saying that the physical is the fiction and the psychic is reality is one thing, but its a very very long way away from saying that there is a loving, caring onmipresent gods surely.

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