Seeking Illumination
in the days following the staggering world events into something positive. My greatest hope,speaking as one person trying to gain some insight from a Jungian prespective, is that this enormous tragedy can in some way bring more light to humanity. May the symbolic lighting of candles in the days following the World Trade Center attack be more than a memorial for those who died. May they not have died in vain; let us as humanity become more illuminated.
References and Suggestions for further reading:
Jung, C.G., Collected Works, Vol. 17; paragraphs 284-323 as quoted by Anthony Storr in The Essential Jung; 1983. Princeton,NJ: Princeton University Press.
Yeats, W.B., "The Second Coming," 1921.
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