Akira The Don, Carl Jung, Alan Watts - THE WOLF (THE WOLF) lyrics

"Healing may be called, " Jung says
"A religious problem
In the sphere of social or national relations
The state of suffering may be civil war
And this state is to be
Cured by the Christian virtue
Of forgiveness and love of one's enemies
That which we recommend
With the conviction of good Christians
Is applicable to external situations
We must also apply inwardly in
The treatment of neurosis
This is why modern man has heard
Enough about guilt and sin
He is solely beset by his own bad conscience
And wants rather to know

How he is to reconcile himself
With his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother


To reconcile himself with his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother

The modern man does not want to know
In what way he can imitate Christ
But in what way he can
Live his own individual life
However meager and uninteresting it may be
It is because every form of imitation
Seems to him deadening and sterile
That he rebels against the force of tradition
That would hold him to well-trodden ways
All such roads for him lead
In the wrong direction he may not know it
But he behaves as if his own individual life
Were God's special will which must
Be fulfilled at all costs
This is the source of his egoism
Which is one of the most tangible
Evils of the neurotic state
But the person who tells him
He is too egoistic
Has already lost his confidence
And rightfully so
For that person has driven him
Still further into this neurosis

How he is to reconcile himself
With his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother
To reconcile himself with his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother

If I wish to affect the cure for my patients
I am forced to acknowledge the
Deep significance of their egoism
I should be blind indeed
If I did not recognize it as
A true will of God
I must even help the patient
To prevail in his egoism
If he succeeds in this
He estranges himself from other people
He drives them away
And they come to themselves as they should
For they were seeking to rob
Him of his sacred egoism
This must be left to him for it
Is his strongest and healthiest power
It is, as I have said, a true will of God
Which sometimes drives him
Into complete isolation
However wretched this state may be
It also stands him in good stead
For in this way alone
Can he get to know himself
And learn what an invaluable treasure
Is the love of his fellow beings? It is
Moreover only in the state of
Complete abandonment and loneliness
That we experience the helpful powers
Of our own natures

How he is to reconcile himself
With his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf with his brother
To reconcile himself with his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother

To reconcile himself with his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother
To his reconcile himself with his own nature
How he is to love the enemy in his own heart
And call the wolf his brother

When one has several times seen
This development at work
One can no longer deny that what was evil
Is turned to good and that what seemed good
Has kept alive the forces of evil
The arch demon of egoism
Leads us along the royal road
To that in gathering
Which religious experience demands
What we observe here is a
Fundamental law of life: enantiodromia
Or, conversion into the opposite
And it is this that
Makes possible the reunion
Of the warring halves of the personality
And thereby brings the civil war to an end"
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