"What is fundamentally important about 'Catafalque' is that Kingsley demonstrates convincingly that Jung recovered the shamanic path exemplified by Pythagoras, Parmenides, and Socrates.

Jung tried to save us from the “insanity of reason” by descending to the underworld, serving the archetypes, and disavowing the impiety of “the Greeks” who reduce the sacred to rationalizations."

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"In 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections', where Jung describes his encounter with the unconscious, in his original draft he wrote: “I wanted to achieve something in my science, and then I bumped into this stream of lava, and then it brought everything into order.”

In Aniela Jaffé’s transcription, this becomes “… I hit upon a stream of lava and the heat of its fires reshaped my life.”...

In the original, it is not Jung the rational scientist who takes the initiative; it is the lava itself, the mysterious unconscious, that works through Jung...

Jung was following the alchemical dictum: from darkness I give birth to light.

The key point here is that Jung realized that it is the unconscious itself, the darkness, that does its work through us."

- Gregory Shaw, The Cry of Merlin

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Source: https://themarginaliareview.com/the-cry-of-merlin-carl-jung-and-the-insanity-of-reason/