Here we bring forth all of our tools of epistemology and fall short.

To bring to bear the best of our human capacities, we might look to every lens, to rehabilitate old scientific paradigms, to look from the viewpoint of the ancients, the moderns, the artists and the mathematicians.

Of course much has transpired since Carl Jung wrote, and yet I do find him to be a great inspiration. He was a medical doctor, and took the his practice using the best empirics of which he knew, yet at the same time with an occult inquiry dove into his own inner world, discovering in his wild imagination, factors that his careful empirics could barely hold, until late in life he would reveal the depth of his mysticism.