Jung and Teilhard de Chardin
Carl Jung was reading Teilhard de Chardin during the last
few days of his life. According to Miguel Serrano, when he visited Jung
on May 10, 1961,
"On the small table beside the chair where Jung
was sitting, was a book called The Human Phenomenon by Teilhard
de Chardin. I asked Jung whether he had read it. 'It is a great book,'
he said. His face was pale, but seemed strangely illuminated by an inner
light."
(Miguel Serrano, C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record
of Two Friendships [New York: Schocken Books, 1968] pp. 100-101)