Friday Muse: Leaving Ourselves Open to Mystery

Carl Jung, Grace Paley, and the strength in vulnerability

“Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its dominion the individual is pauperized.” —Carl Jung, from Memories, Dreams, Reflections

When I was in high school (and after), I went through a Carl Jung phase. I read Jung’s autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections and selections from The Portable Jung from Penguin.* (What can …