It is beyond our power to prevent obsessive thoughts from troubling and disturbing the soul. But it is within our power to forbid such imaginings to linger within and to forbid such obsessions to control us. (Theodore the Ascetic)

C. G. Jung's Red Book will be available in bookstores for Christmas.

For sixteen years the psychologist confronted - and recorded - his most obsessive, troubling, and disturbing thoughts.

According to various reports, the book's language is poetic, mystic, and strange; it's illustrations weirdly wonderful.

Jung did not try to prevent his obsessive thoughts. Theodore might argue C.G. lingered over them too long. But rather than passive lingering , Jung applied active engagement.

Jung did not deny his obsessions nor did he grant them control. He cultivated the unconscious to enrich the conscious. He opened consciousness to what the unconscious knows.