Saturday Memory

November 9, 2024

I was sorting through a box of files and came across some notes I had made for a lecture I gave in 1979, entitled: “The Importance of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass.” If I am remembering correctly, this lecture was given at the Jung Institute in Chicago. Reading these notes over now causes me to pause and wonder if I have done enough to enact what I wrote 45 years ago. To some degree I think the answer is “yes.” But to some degree also, the answer is “no.” Whatever the case, finding these notes in the current moment, and considering recent events, I feel an increased charge to do more now!

Here is one trenchant note that feels like a guiding light.

For it is our existence, the existence of the world and all its life, and the lives of the future that now hangs in the balance. Jung saw that the world is hanging by a thread and said that the thread is the psyche. Attending and caring for those threads, the nursing and nurturance of psyche in our time is the fundamental reality that needs to inform all other issues and everything, every single thing that we do.