Alan Watts Lectures

Alan Watts Radio Talk: Tribute to Carl Jung 1961

Dec 31, 2022
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INSIGHT

Balance Eastern Wisdom With Western Roots

  • Jung reminded Watts that cultural conditioning shapes thought and cannot be escaped, so balance eastern ideas with western roots.
  • Watts credits Jung's commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower for grounding his youthful enthusiasm in cultural reality.
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Polarity Over Absolute Moral War

  • Jung rejected a metaphysical absolute conflict of good versus evil, seeing polarity as resolvable within human psychology.
  • Watts links this to projection: condemning evil in others often hides the same unconscious dark in oneself, fueling atrocities like Eichmann's.
ANECDOTE

Jung's Twinkle Revealed His Self Acceptance

  • Watts recounts his 1958 conversation with Jung, portraying him as wise yet approachable and self-aware of his own faults.
  • He remembers Jung's twinkle and Hintekitanka showing loving acceptance of his 'irreducible rascality'.
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