Alan Watts had a radio show in the 60s where he read this passage of Jung's work after Jung died. Alan Watts was a tremendous admirer or Jung and his passage really stuck out in his mind.

In this passage, which Jung read to a group of clergy, he talks about what it takes to successfully heal someone and oneself that one must come to terms with your own dark side, before you can accept the dark side of another.

Once this happens, which Jung says is a moral achievement, then you see how egoism and neurosis in yourself or something else actually LEADS to change.

"The demon of egoism is the royal road to that ingathering that religious experience is about."

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