I ask all A&O students to keep an intimate diary/ a scrapbook of their soul ... now I know why. “I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can — in some beautifully bound book,” Jung instructed. “It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them. . . . Then when these things are in some precious book you can go to the book & turn over the pages & for you it will be your church — your cathedral — the silent places of your spirit where you will find renewal. If anyone tells you that it is morbid or neurotic and you listen to them — then you will lose your soul — for in that book is your soul." (Carl Jung’s advice to a client for processing recoveries from the non-conscious mind. Found in the client’s self-published book and quoted by Sonu Shamdasani in NYTimes Magazine 9/16/2009; Jung's own diary was "The Red Book" recently released by the estate ... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/20/magazine/20jung-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine)
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