Carl Gustav Jung and The Red Book: Liber Novus by Lance S. Owens and Stephan A. Hoeller Description The Red Book is an exquisite red leather‐bound folio manuscript crafted by the Swiss psychologist and physician Carl Gustav Jung between 1915 and about 1930. It recounts and comments upon the author’s imaginative experiences between 1913 and … Read more
June Singer, Jung and the Lost Gospels Foreword When the canon of the Bible was closed, those who determined what should constitute the Holy Writ and stand as a bulwark against heathenism and heresy had their reasons for excluding some writings while including others. Surely there were questions of authenticity and quality, but there was … Read more
MY PARENTS ARE NOT ‘MY’ PARENTS I was about five years old when one day at lunch father spoke about his ‘manager’. I was always interested in everything the grown-ups talked about, and so I asked straight away, ‘Father, who is this manager?’ ‘The Director is the top man in the office,’ he answered. ‘All … Read more
Undermining the Tendency to Pathologize Spirit Possession Analytical psychology does not differentiate between the many cultural or nthropological variations of ‘spiritual’ experience. Instead it conflates all transcendent phenomena – such as spirit possession and mystical experience – into one general kind of psychological experience. It refers to this experience as ‘dissociation’, or being in a … Read more