Carl Jung began to feel that reducing human beings to soulless biochemical machines did not do justice to what we know about ourselves. Therefore he began to explore the "occult": spiritism, astrology, fortune telling, parapsychology, etc. This made him the most important influence on the "New Age Movement" of the 1980s.This Book Changed Everything, 36
How can one close one's eyes at the fact that the demons themselves have taken over the rule of the world, that it is the powers of darkness who have here made an awful conspiracy and could break out at any moment? - How could one think that these demons could be driven out, these powers annihilated with a bit of education in international understanding, with a bit of goodwill?Lecture, Aug 29 1932