The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious. One would be as little justified in regarding life as an epiphenomenon of the chemistry of carbon compounds. This narrow perspective is alien to the Eastern view of the world, which therefore has no need of any philosophical conception of super-reality. Eastern reality includes all this as a matter of course. All this, without its being granted anything more than an indirect reality.
Every science is a function of the psyche, and all knowledge is rooted in it.
The psyche is the greatest of all cosmic wonders. It does not surprise me that psychology debouches into philosophy, for the thinking that underlies philosophy is after all a psychic activity which, as such, is the proper study of psychology. I always think of psychology as encompassing the whole of the psyche, and that includes philosophy and theology and many other things besides. For underlying all philosophies and all religions are the facts of the human soul, which may ultimately be the arbiters of truth and error. Every science is descriptive at the point where it can no longer proceed experimentally, without on that account ceasing to be scientific.