Jungian Spirituality

On the spirituality of Carl Jung:

“Jung attributes the surprising appearance of leadership qualities in some individuals as possible evidence of a quasi-biological idea that he considered but never developed: ancestor possession—that is, literally, spiritual possession by one’s ancestors. ‘Another way of putting these ideas of ancestor possession would be that these autonomous complexities exist in the mind as Mendelian units, which are passed on from generation to generation intact, and are unaffected by the life of the individual.’ Jung may be thinking of his own latent heredity of German genius. ‘…that unit now takes possession of him, and from that time on he has a different character. God knows what has become of him, [sic] it is really as though he had lost himself and the ancestral unit had taken over and devoured him.’” –The Jung Cult, p. 23-24