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And then comes the knowing that in me there is space for a second, large, and timeless life.

According to Carl Jung, the second half of life cannot be lived in the same manner as the first.

Whoever carries over into the afternoon the law of the morning must pay for it with the damage to his soul,

wrote Jung.

In this video we explore the changes that Jung believed were necessary as we

move into our 40s and 50s. These changes, as we will learn, ward off the neuroses and depression

that strikes so many people in the mature years of life, and help us harvest meaning and fulfillment

in life's afternoon. Wholly unprepared, we embark upon the second half of life, wrote Young.

Or are there perhaps colleges for forty-year-olds which prepare them for their coming life in its demands?

No.

Thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life.

Worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals

will serve us as hitherto.

The program of life's mourning, according to Jung, is that of expansion and growth. We must

break from the controlling bonds of family, cultivate self-reliance and independence,

and establish our own footing in the social world. Building a career, earning money,

getting married, having children, attaining personal power and social status, are some of the important

tasks of life's first half. Or as Young explains, the child begins its psychological life within

very narrow limits inside the magic circle of the mother and the family.

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