\u201cI quite agree with you that once we are in possession of all facts science will look very peculiar indeed.\u201d \u2014 Carl Jung to J. B. Rhine, November 5, 1942. \u00a0Oh yeah. \u00a0I didn’t write a lot about Rhine and Jung, there’s already a lot out there about their relationship, but I enjoyed reading their letters.<\/p>\n
They first met over lunch in New York in October, 1937.\u00a0 They had the same publisher, who arranged the meeting, and it was described by their mutual editor,\u00a0William Sloane.\u00a0 \u201cIt was exciting to watch him [Jung] and Rhine together … Jung the cosmopolite, the man of enormous erudition,\u201d and Rhine, \u201ca man whom only America could have produced\u2014quiet, low-spoken, intense, with that slow-burning fuse of humor innate in his speech, gravely deferential to Jung, putting his problems before Jung without any plea for help, any servility, any expectation of praise, with the obvious feeling that the problem of man and his nature was so sacrosanct and vital a one that Jung was obliged to help him, as he was to tell Jung what he knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before she died though, Rhea White told me that she left the lab because she was interested in Jung, and Rhine had said that when it came to parapsychology, Jung \u201cwas not helpful.\u201d \u00a0Which seemed odd to me since Jung was very open about parapsychology, but Rhea said it was a just a difference in approach. \u00a0Rhine was more focused on lab experiments. \u00a0I found out about a video interview of Jung where he talks about Rhine, and I’m trying to get a hold of it. \u00a0In the meantime, here’s a YouTube video of Jung talking about the extra-physical aspects of the psyche.<\/p>\n