A Long Way to Go Yet
I invested a lot of time and energy
reading his books and listening to his
lectures and interviews and writing my
own book One Rule to Live By: Be Good,
inspired by his bestseller 12 Rules for Life:
An Antidote to Chaos, but the questing
psychology professor no longer spoke
to me; not because he stopped being one
of the most provocative intellectuals
of the 21th Century, but because he had
given up his secret and had nothing more
to say to me but novel iterations of the
same wisdom, following his successful
bestseller with the hopeful sequel Beyond
Order: 12 More Rules for Life. But I
refused to admit it, until something Jung
said reminded me of how he would lose
interest in people when he discovered the
secret of who they were, the divine mystery
of soul-making essential to his psychology
of individuation, a secret so sacred that
it led him to say, in a moment of exasperation,
“Thank God I am Jung, and not a Jungian!”
And I moved on from the world-famous
mentoring professor, knowing full well
that as far as his heroic path had taken him,
he had a long way to go yet.
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