Jung went through years of psychosis, which of course was an experience that had a huge influence on his theories. And I have seen in other videos that he is quite gentle, and Allan Watts says he has a very welcoming presence (I take that with a small grain of salt) and I do have to say – Jung seems to have developed a very stable and empathetic intuition for people, he talks in a very curious way, he listens to his patients and he can draw from his own psychological experiences – like a shaman, yes, actually. In “The Red Book” he describes his psychotic experiences, and it appeared unscientific to many people apparently. He has developed ideas of the collective unconscious, individuation, ego – the conscious, individual ego – and self – a concept i don't really understand yet, apparently the true self of life, what it was meant to be from the beginning. I will paraphrase from the video, and I hope it is close to Jung's view: That personality is the unique expression of universal creativity to understand itself. It makes sense to me, I mean where does personality come from? Apparently out of nothing, out of surroundings, people, experiences, all of which are incredibly complex and chaotic in a way that I don't want to use words like complexity anymore – but words like subjective, destiny, god, more out of this cupboard of language. I want to notice that people like the creator of that video, and people who watch his contents, and people like Jordan Peterson – we might tend to idealize Jung, want to be like him slightly secretly, want to experience psyche as well – but I also want to say that Jung himself, maybe, might also have enjoyed some Buddhism. Now I don't know what Psychosis feels like, and I would have to experience it for myself to see what will happen with me and how I will be in that state – even though the psychedelic experience is very similar to that (and now be careful not to abuse the psychedelic experience to feel funky psychological phenomena – treat it with the respect it deserves. Don't stay away from it – but why drink it like a cup of tea in the evening? Treat it like a day in the unknown jungle, and it kind of is.) and I have felt that Zen and meditation was also very beneficial, while staying simple, while staying true, in this moment, not involved in mental phenomena – and Jung also felt that trying to study and understand too much will not help with psychological phenomena. But how could Buddhism have reached his mind? Just through words, because it is very hard to find a line of Zen Masters and they themselves also seem to just be authority. Zen is here. Right now. You are reading these words, do you notice? This. And this word. Another thought. See it pass. All these words and sentences, they are passing right now, as you read. And now another sentence. Do you feel it? Now what are you reading these words on? A screen? Through your eyes? Through your mind? Your mind? Awareness? I'm breathing in, I'm breathing out. You're breathing too. In. And out. That's just to be in the moment, in presence. It's just a thing to do, I feel it helps a lot with many psychological issues. Since I'm just here, writing this text, obsessing a bit, thinking about Jung, being emotionally invested a bit, thinking that this should be that and I want to be like this and I shouldn't be doing that – I'm just here, with my laptop, breathing, here, now. Okay this escalated quickly