Carl Jung - Ending Your Inner Civil War (read by Alan Watts)

Carl Jung - Ending Your Inner Civil War (read by Alan Watts)

Alan Watts had a radio show in the 60s where he read this passage of Jung's work after Jung died. Alan Watts was a tremendous admirer or Jung and his passage really stuck out in his mind.

In this passage, which Jung read to a group of clergy, he talks about what it takes to successfully heal someone and oneself -- that one must come to terms with your own dark side, before you can accept the dark side of another.

Once this happens, which - Jung says - is a moral achievement, then you see how egoism and neurosis in yourself or something else actually LEADS to change.

"The demon of egoism is the royal road to that in-gathering that religious experience is about."