Just as an acorn contains in its unconscious the dream of the oak tree and that dream expresses the coming into being of the oak tree, working with a person, we have to have a method of drawing forth what is in the seed of the person, the unlived potentials.
- Ira Progoff At A Journal Workshop

My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious. Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and experience itself as a whole. I cannot employ the language of science to trace this process of growth in myself, for I cannot experience myself as a scientific problem.

What we are to our inward system, and what man appears to be sub-specie aeternitatis, can only be expressed by way of myth. Myth is more individual and expresses 1ite more precisely than does science.

Thus, it is that I have now undertaken, in my eighty-third year, to tell my personal myth. I can only make direct statements, only "tell stories.’ Whether or not the stories are "true" is not the problem. The only question is whether I tell my fable, my truth.
- Carl Jung, from the Prologue to Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Life journeys, creative journeys, can be viewed in mythic terms, in spiritual terms. The manifestation of a seed.