title: Jung and the Story of Our Time
author: Laurens van der Post
description: Written by a friend of C.G. Jung, who is also a scholar, and who wrote in the preface (1975) that ... "most of those regarded as great in their own lifetime diminish once dead, and only the truly great increase in stature. And this increase in staure precisely is what has happened to Jung ..." Van Der post writes a remarkable biography of Jung, in relation to the events occurring during his lifetime.
zlib_text: **WATCHERS**
  
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  **Dean R. Koontz**
  
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  **This book is dedicated to**
  
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  **Lennart Sane**
  
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  **who is not only the best at what he does but who is also a nice guy.**
  
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  **And to**
  
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  **Elisabeth Sane**
  
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  **who is as charming as her husband.**
  
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
  
   **PART ONE - Shattering the Past**
  
    
    
  
  The past is but the beginning of a beginning,
  
    
  
  and all that is and has been
  
    
  
  is but the twilight of the dawn.
  
    
  
  -H. G. Wells
  
    
  
  The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
  substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
  
    
  
  -C. G. Jung
  
    
    
    
    
  
   **ONE**
  
    
  
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  On his thirty-sixth birthday, May 18, Travis Cornell rose at five o'clock in
  the morning. He dressed in sturdy hiking boots, jeans, and a long-sleeved,
  blue-plaid cotton shirt. He drove his pickup south from his home in Santa
  Barbara all the way to rural Santiago Canyon on the eastern edge of Or