Did Jung believe in reincarnation?

Roger Woolger

In the years between 1920 and 1940 Jung immersed himself in many classic Indian, Chinese, and Buddhist texts on Yoga and meditation. Tentatively he began to introduce some of the concepts from these writings into his matur­ing vision of a psychology that would eventually encom­pass both the personal and the transpersonal levels of the psyche. Most notable is his proposal of the archetype of the Self, the transcendent image of the divine that lives within everyone. The introduction of this term was in­spired by the Hindu concept of the atman, translated variously as the “eternal Self,” the “Higher Self,” or the “Oversoul” by other writers. The concept of the Self is first elaborated … Read the rest