Editing What Carl Jung Learnt from India (section)

==== Jung’s Warning ====
In India, Jung found a civilization anchored to spirit. However, he worried that the shiny productions and flashy achievements of the West might tempt Indians into ditching their millenia old “spiritual culture” and hitching their wagon to the materialist West. Jung wrote that India must not turn blind and deaf to the “demands of the soul” when presented with “the novelties of Western civilization.” Jung’s final word:<blockquote>The breathless drive for power and aggrandizement in the political, social, and intellectual sphere, gnawing at the soul of the Westerner with apparently insatiable greed, is spreading irresistibly in the East and threatens to have incalculable consequences. Not only in India but in China, too, much has already perished where once the soul lived.</blockquote>When our eyes grow weary of our own treasures, it sometimes takes an outsider to come in, take a look around, and point out our ancestral riches to us. Carl Jung was one such kind outsider – but will we look where he’s frantically pointing?

Authored by Jash Dholani.
Published by Brhat.[[Category:Philosophy]]