C.G. Jung: Imprisoned in Three Dimensions

It was a silent invisible festival

permeated by an incomparable, indescribable feeling of eternal bliss,

such as I never could have imagined

as being within reach of human experience.

Death is the hardest thing from the outside

and as long as we are outside of it.

But once inside

you taste of such completeness and peace and fulfillment

that you don’t want to return.

As a matter of fact, during the first month after my first vision I

suffered from black depressions

because I felt that I was recovering.

It was like dying.

I did not want to live

and to return into this fragmentary, restricted, narrow,

almost mechanical life, where you were subject to the laws of gravity and cohesion, imprisoned in a system of 3 dimensions

and whirled along with other bodies in the turbulent stream of time.

There was fullness, meaning fulfillment,

eternal movement (not movement in time).

C.G. Jung

Letter to Kristine Mann

From Letters, Vol. 1, pp. 357–59