The Bad Mother: An Archetypal Approach by James Hillman I. What follows takes up again a well-worn theme: mother and child. The mother archetype, the child archetype-depth psychology founds itself, and founders, usually, on these rocks. That life and depth psychology begin with mother and child says that we are in the rhetoric of beginnings,… 

Taoism and Jung: Synchronicity and the Self In my book Jung and Eastern Thought, I explored the influence of Indian concepts such as karma, citta, buddhi tattva tapas, and mandala on the development of Carl Jung’s notions of “archetype,” “psyche,” the “collective unconscious,” “active imagination,” and “circumambulation.” But the question of Eastern influence on Jung’s… 

Emanuel Swedenborg, Heaven and its Wonders and Hell The Resuscitation of Man from the Dead and His Entrance into Eternal Life When the body is no longer able to perform the bodily functions in the natural world that correspond to the spirit’s thoughts and affections, which the spirit has from the spiritual world, man is… 

Meister Eckhart on True Obedience On true obedience. True and perfect obedience is a virtue above all virtues, and there is no work, however great it may be, that can take place or be performed without this virtue, and even the very least of works, whether it be saying or listening to Mass, praying, meditating,…