Jung Pynchon's Synchronistic Parabola

rhaenda at iag.net rhaenda at iag.net
Tue Feb 6 14:27:14 CST 1996


Lookee what I found!!--

"Consciousness stays up in the air, while the curve of the parabola 
sinks downward with ever-increasing speed... From the middle of life 
onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. 
 For in the secret hour of life's midday, the parabola is reversed, 
death is born.  The second half of life does not signify ascent, 
unfolding, increase, exuberance, but death, since the end is its 
goal.  The negation of life's fulfilment is synonymous with the 
refusal to accept its ending.  Both mean not wanting to live, and 
not wanting to live is identical with not wanting to die.  Waxing 
and waning make one curve." -- C.G. Jung  "The Soul and Death"

		Lurkin' Penny R.




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