This is KZSU, Stanford.

In one of the very first episodes of entitled opinions, back in 2005, I talked about the difference between knowledge and self-knowledge,

between an objective understanding of nature and a subjective understanding of the human psyche.

It dismayes me as much today as it did back then that governments and corporations

invest billions upon billions of dollars in scientific research

every year, yet commit only a tiny and diminishing fraction of that to advance the cause of self-knowledge.

In today's show, we're going to discuss the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, so let's hear what he had to say on this topic back in the 40s and 50s.

I quote Jung, everything possible has been done for the outside world.

Science has been refined to an almost unimaginable extent, technical achievement has reached an almost

uncanny degree of perfection. But what of man who is expected to administer all these

blessings in a reasonable way? No one has stopped to consider that neither morally nor psychologically is he in any way adapted

to such changes. Man has come to be man's worst enemy. It is a clash between man and God

in which man's Luciferian genius has produced the power to destroy more effectively

than any ancient God could. We must begin to learn more about man until every Jekyll can see his hide.

Another quote.

Nowadays, the world hangs by a thin thread, and that thin thread is the psyche of man.

We are the great danger.

The psyche is the great danger.

But we know nothing about the psyche. Nothing. Man himself is the greatest

threat to man for the simple reason that there is no adequate protection against psychic epidemics,

which are infinitely more devastating than the worst natural catastrophes.

What has become ever more clear since Jung wrote that is that our failure to know ourselves impacts our knowledge of

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