Jung and the Occult

Carl Jung's work has been hijacked by those who would have him be a mystic, spiritualist or occultist. His published work suffers from mistranslation, misunderstanding and misrepresentation. Even his "autobiography" is not really Jung's own work. He wrote the first chapter, but that was revised. Because Jung's output was so vast and the scope of his investigations so broad, people can draw selectively from his writings and interpret exactly as they like, to support their particular viewpoint.

Jung: Scientist or Mystic?

It is nonsense to call Carl Jung a mystic just because he was interested in the occult. It is unfortunate that his work is often hi-jacked by those needing to give legitimacy to a particular supernatural view of the universe. There is no doubt that Carl Jung considered himself to be a scientist. His psychology was to have been a natural science, not merely a school of psychotherapy. Jung wrote: "The treatment of psychology should in general be characterised by the principle of universality. No special theory or special subject should be propounded, but psychology should be taught in its biological, ethnological, medical, philosophical, cultural-historical and religious aspects". - Quote from The Psychology of Jung, CA Meier (1984)