I love Jung's way of approaching "ancestral baggage," comprised of the unanswered questions asked by previous generations. I write about this very energy, calling it simply, "story." I believe we are all carrying the stories we inherited, filled with questions, untold tales, beliefs, attitudes, and other story pieces that want to be told. We do not have to know the stories to inherit and carry them. As author Chinua Achebe said, the story may be carrying us. I have always believed that an untold story will travel across generational lines and tell itself, if not in our own lives, in the lives of our children and grandchildren.
I’ve been wanting to read Jung for years now and looking forward to more of your writing on him. I had no idea he wrote about family history!
I love Jung's way of approaching "ancestral baggage," comprised of the unanswered questions asked by previous generations. I write about this very energy, calling it simply, "story." I believe we are all carrying the stories we inherited, filled with questions, untold tales, beliefs, attitudes, and other story pieces that want to be told. We do not have to know the stories to inherit and carry them. As author Chinua Achebe said, the story may be carrying us. I have always believed that an untold story will travel across generational lines and tell itself, if not in our own lives, in the lives of our children and grandchildren.
I'm totally on the same page here and I love the way you express it! Thanks.