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30 Chicken Little: The Inside Story Good luck to them, I say. But that’s not me. I’m at home on the beaten track. Besides, my interest in Chickle Schtick was, after all, at a low point. My current studies in that area were desultory, at best. And I had more than enough to do without going off on a wild, well, chicken chase. The whole business kept me awake for days. 37 I’m afraid even Rachel became impatient. “You’re a grown man,” she grumbled, as once again I crawled over her in the middle of the night and got dressed to go home. “Make up your mind.” Arnold was marginally more sympathetic. “Here’s what Jung says,” and he read out loud: The stirring up of conflict is a Luciferian virtue in the true sense of the word. Conflict engenders fire, the fire of affects and emotions, and like every other fire it has two aspects, that of combustion and that of creating light. 38 “You see?” said Arnold. “It’s good for you.” I finally wrote to Brillig, as follows. Dear Sir, Let me say first of all that I felt honored to hear from you. I still remember your remarkable thesis, “Archetypal Motifs in Existentialism,” which I had the opportunity to read in the Institute library. It is an impressive study, which I often heard students quote passages from in colloquia. You will not be surprised, I’m sure, to learn that the profs were not always pleased! In fact, I once stood up for you myself in a discussion of Jung’s philosophical antecedents. (I was slapped down unmercifully, to my mind, but that’s another story.) I have to tell you, too, that your letter took me completely by surprise. My little piece on “Ms. Little,” as you so charmingly refer to 37 For the record, this has happened to me before. The last time, I forfeited a $500 deposit on a new car. The salesman was quite perturbed when I told him I couldn’t go through with it. “Makes no sense to me,” he said, “it’s a fine machine.” “I don’t doubt that,” I blushed, “but my dreams do.” 38 “Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype,” The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, CW 9i, par. 179.
The Letter 31 her, was written at a time when I naively believed I knew something about the subject. My studies in that area have since lapsed and I had almost forgotten it. I must also confess an embarrassing truth: I have no idea whence came my seemingly confident observation that other tablets “are still to be found.” My original notes have long since disappeared, I’m afraid. My colleague Arnold, who assisted me in the research, believes it was an intuitive leap. I frankly doubt this, since I am predominantly a sensation type. Personally, I think Arnold slipped it in when I wasn’t looking, though he denies this. (What can you do, he’s a friend.) Finally, I have to tell you that I am averse to travel. I get homesick going to the corner store. I do not like climbing mountains and avoid reading about them; even small hills make me nauseous. Years of analysis have not stilled my terror of heights. The thought of trekking bores me. I also have a pretty full agenda these days, what with my practice and the books (catalogue enclosed). The bottom line here, though I might wish it otherwise, is that I don’t see how I can be of any help to you. I sent this off with a heavy heart. That told me I wasn’t sure I’d made the right decision. I should have stewed more, held the tension longer, waited for Jung’s “transcendent function”—a solution from within, not from the head. “Never mind,” soothed Rachel, “you tried.”
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Page 33 and 34: The Meeting 33 Well, strictly speak
Page 35 and 36: The Meeting 35 “Rachel,” I said
Page 37 and 38: The Meeting 37 “May I?” he aske
Page 39 and 40: The Meeting 39 tain-climbing goods
Page 41 and 42: The Meeting 41 Arnold furtively sli
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Page 45 and 46: 3 An Unveiling I awoke at 5:30. Tha
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Page 49 and 50: An Unveiling 49 six hours there and
Page 51 and 52: An Unveiling 51 sensuous mate befor
Page 53 and 54: An Unveiling 53 still devout, and a
Page 55 and 56: An Unveiling 55 I felt a twinge of
Page 57 and 58: 4 Search for the Self After we’d
Page 59 and 60: Search for the Self 59 “Jung spok
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Page 63 and 64: Search for the Self 63 “I also sa
Page 65 and 66: Search for the Self 65 I looked at
Page 67 and 68: Search for the Self 67 Rachel looke
Page 69 and 70: Search for the Self 69 “You could
Page 71 and 72: Intermezzo 71 town and sent to the
Page 73 and 74: Search for the Self 73 Alchemical l
Page 75 and 76: Philosophers’ Stone 75 next door.
Page 77 and 78: Philosophers’ Stone 77 zine these
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Philosophers’ Stone 81 only in hi
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Philosophers’ Stone 83 circled hi
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Philosophers’ Stone 85 fours and
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Philosophers’ Stone 87 how does i
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A Stitch in Time 89 as I can say wh
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A Stitch in Time 91 “Good, bad, w
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A Stitch in Time 93 The prodigal so
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A Stitch in Time 95 “Well,” I s
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A Stitch in Time 97 as I dare say t
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New Dimensions 99 had a session wit
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New Dimensions 101 I was afraid I
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New Dimensions 103 Night after nigh
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New Dimensions 105 culine God-image
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New Dimensions 107 Adam smiled at m
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New Dimensions 109 Adam had said ea
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The Experiment 111 No team of mount
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The Experiment 113 “The major por
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The Experiment 115 While Rachel and
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The Experiment 117 It took some tri
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The Experiment 119 From the Great A
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The Experiment 121 “Hear, hear,
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The Experiment 123 While I scooped
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Bibliography Birkhäuser-Oeri, Siby
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