Ginny Hill

Jung, the Rebirth Motif and Psychedelics I: Documenting Jung's Contact with the British Pioneers.

Journal of Analytical Psychology September 1, 2024 Ginny Hill 1 citation

C. G. Jung wrote very little about psychedelic drugs and he took a sceptical view of them. However, he was sufficiently impressed by Aldous Huxley's 1954 account of taking mescaline, The Doors of Perception, to invite Huxley to visit him in Switzerland. Huxley declined Jung's invitation but Huxley's collaborator Humphry Osmond met Jung instead. This paper documents Jung's contact with the...