ABSTRACT
In the West, it has been the case for at least two centuries that Eastern religions have been included in the cultural matrix. This trend was certainly evident in Jung's thinking. West and East are coming together more and more on a common ground in modern spirituality. No single culture has the corner on truth about individuation, even if the ultimate goal of this process is identical for all cultures, namely the full incarnation of the human potential for personality, including spiritual development. Chinese thought, as delivered to European culture by Richard Wilhelm, would further an historic transformation. With respect to Jung's own thinking, at least, this seems to have been the case. "Eschatology" is the goal: the creation of wholeness and conscious incarnation of the self, or building "the diamond body" in the language of Chinese alchemy. The infuence of China entered into his everyday life as well as into his psychological theorizing.
