Carl Jung and Billy Corgan

“The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. That is to say, when an individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner contradictions, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposite halves.” – Carl Jung

I encountered this quote in an email today, and got thinking about Jungian ideas; shadow integration, and dream symbols/archetypes.

Later, I went on youtube to search for videos on Jung, and found this video where Billy Corgan is part of a talk about Jung with a psychologist named Morgan Stebbins. It’s not a very good quality video, but if you’re into this type of thing, it’s pretty easy to get past.

Stebbins is the psychoanalyst presenting Billy Corgan with archetypal imagery and they talk about what it could mean. He mentions how imagination is a tool to integrate shadow, the repressed sides of ourselves, where our potential also lies.

Hicks: “We are the imagination of ourselves”

Einstein: “Imagination is more important than knowledge”

Reality is at the mercy of our perceptions, our inner world. It’s all a big spiral of mind-blow.