• Hemingway on considering other viewpoints

    [Edited from a conversation of 2010. I asked Hemingway’ what he thought of things Dr. Jung had said of Hemingway’s career.] You know, it’s one thing to react to a new idea, and another thing to think about it. The first is instant and usually emotionally charged, because emotionally driven. The second is slower, because…

  • Hemingway on why we should care

    [Edited from a conversation with Hemingway in 2010] you might ask yourself, what is important about whether Hemingway’s life went off in the wrong direction? Why should you care what happened so long ago? Well, the impression I had was that it concerned the interaction between this side and your side. You could look at…

  • Individuals as Communities

    Monday, July 5, 2010. Yesterday I re-read Adios Hemingway, a novel by Leonardo Padura Fuentes, a Cuban writer. Just a detective novel, but by a Hemingway aficionado, but one who, reading about the life that you lived, has serious reservations. In fact, he is repelled by The Hemingway Myth, the pointless killing of animals, the…

  • Legitimate Suffering and Mental Illness

    [Edited from a conversation held in August, 2010, first with Carl Jung, then also with Ernest Hemingway.] It was interesting to read the pieces from May 24 and 25. I had forgotten that it was from Carl Jung that I first got the concept that Hemingway represented a complete man, that his great attractiveness to…

  • Thinning the veil

    [Slightly edited from a conversation held July 10, 2011] A little bit discouraged, Papa. What I’m putting out isn’t all that new, most of it. Remind me, what’s in it for the reader. Just because everything you’re saying could be found here or there, or could be inferred by reading between the lines of enough…

  • The fourth and fifth dimensions

    [Hemingway talked of achieving the fourth and fifth dimension in his writing. I asked if those dimensions were Time and Beyond Time.] Close enough. Or you might say viewpoint over time, viewpoint beyond viewpoint, or overall viewpoint, or, really, view without the distortion of viewpoint. To hint at going beyond viewpoint (you cannot actually do…

  • From worry to peace, instantly

    [Some years ago, in 2011, I made this note in my journal.] Linda Rogers sent me a book, The Blue Heron Book Of Love And Gratitude, and, up in middle night, looking through it, I found on page 39 my spiritual autobiography. William James said: “The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity,…

  • TGU on body weight

    Friday June 19, 2015 For months I have been silently concentrating on getting my weight below 200. Although I have brought my average weight down by several pounds, I have broken the 200-pound barrier only once, and then shot right up again. Today I thought to ask what’s going on. 205.5 at six a.m., and…

  • JFK: War among strands

    [In going through old entries for another purpose, found this, which may be of interest.] Tuesday July 14, 2015 8 a.m. Mr. Kennedy, Lem Billings said your stomach trouble felt like a had knot – it made me wonder, was it in fact the third chakra, continually clenched, knotted, unable to relax? I say this…

  • Jung and the Nazis

    Saturday August 29, 2015 5:45 a.m. Dr. Jung, Bernie asks how the Nazis affected you personally and your psychiatric practice. I’m not sure what he’s getting at, but do you care to respond? And you having your own agenda wonder why he does not ask directly, you not wishing to realize that different people have…