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Three authors have contributed one paper each to this volume. The currently prevailing interest in death and paranormal phenomena motivated the editor to bring out a book by leading analytical psychologists and to provide the German-speaking public with an authentic ‘Jungian’ point of view on these subjects. The three authors have in common not only C. G. Jung, but also direct, immediate experience of death and paranormal phenomena. Aniela Jaffé's theme is ‘Death from the viewpoint of C. G. Jung’; Liliane Frey-Rohn's contribution deals predominantly with ‘death experiences’, better described as ‘The theme of synchronicity around death’; Marie-Louise von Franz, in her paper, ‘Archetypal experiences when approaching death’, writes on two aspects—the necessity to acknowledge the approach of death and its significance in the individuation process, and she discusses possible manifestations of a spaceless and timeless psyche.
In the experience and thought of Jung, and of the three authors, death (or dying) is an event which opens doors to another form of being, a preparation for the ‘quite different beyond’. It is the hope of the editors that readers will undergo a change of heart and mind, enabling them to face issues more easily avoided.
Aniela Jaffé, who has collected and commented on Jung's views about death, writes: ‘I