"[Jung] reached this conclusion simply by observing in patient after patient how, when the person began to feel grounded in themselves, when they began to feel that their life was no accident, when they began to feel that there was a reason for them to be on earth, when they began to feel that this reason was addressed to them, when they began to feel that there was a plan for their life to be fulfilled, they #dreamed of images of God (often archaic) advising them, supporting them, guiding them. In other words, genuine #personhood, real #selfhood, has to do with the discovery that slumbering in the #unconscious is the pattern of our life waiting for us to realize it, to bring into time and space the unique #individuality we are to develop and the unique contributions that we are to bring into life. This individuality is not a state of isolated aloofness, though periods of intense #introversion may be necessary in certain periods of our lives to rekindle it—through processes like we have been delineating in paradigms drawn from #alchemy and #Gnosticism. Quite the opposite, this individuality (in = not, dividuus = divided) is a condition of the person which is not divided into episodes of self-sabotage, hypocritical proclamations, and spurious utterings. A single, #whole person is making their way in life with forethought and awareness of consequence and integrity. We've seen that this source and #inner center Jung calls the #Self." ~J. Gary Sparks, Jungian analyst, The Call of Destiny: An Introduction to Carl Jung's Major Works, pp. 96-97 On the new episode of Speaking of Jung: Interviews with Jungian Analysts