Jung writes, "The spirit of the depths took my understanding and all my knowledge and placed them at the service of the inexplicable and the paradoxical. He robbed me of speech and writing for eveything that was not in his service, namely the melting together of sense and nonsense, which produces the supreme meaning." [Folio 1]
Jung's drawing of the serpent king on this page grabbed my attention.
What ails me?
Before I answer that question, I'll say that I'm not that interested in showing up on Oprah, and I very much dislike the current American tendency to over-expose oneself psychologically in public.
Having said that, I would answer (echoing Dante), "I am wholly lost." I find that I have little interest in most things thave have gone on before me in my life. And yet nothing has replaced those interests. So I find myself in a limbo state.
Jung's quote that I began with speaks to me because Jung's words feel very similar to my experience. I very much feel like I am at the service of the inexplicable and paradoxical.
And I don't even know what that means.
