A deep change of mind and attitude. Jung links metanoia with spiritual rebirth (“The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future),” § 536) and, in another passage, speaks of a change of mind that recognizes the whole human being (“Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth,” § 719). Both texts appear in Civilization in Transition, Collected Works, vol. 10. In Doors II and VII, the author links it with his experience of inner transformation, whose path he discovers by walking it. That personal description is not a technical definition of Jung’s. The author also describes it as “that other inner space where, for me, two plus two can open onto the infinite.” This image, together with those in the entries “Orthonoia” and “Paranoia,” expresses his personal way of telling what happens to him.
Text from the glossary of Quietud Sagrada.