Western Consciousness and Eastern Spirituality During C. G. Jung’s lifetime and after his death, the reproach was voiced from various quarters that the Swiss depth psychologist had not only encouraged interest in Eastern religiosity, but strengthened syncretistic tendencies toward the blending of religions in modern people. The well-known Dutch theologian Willem A. Vissert Hooft, for…
Mary Watkins, Waking Dreams; Active imagination: C. G. Jung It was primarily through his own experience of the unconscious that Jung came to formulate his ideas concerning active imagination and the imaginal realm. After his split with Freud, Jung decided he would try to adopt an open attitude towards the unconscious, unencumbered pre-thought theory, in…
Meister Eckhart, Selected Writings, The Book of Divine Consolations Benedictus deus et pater domini nostri Jesu Christi (2 Cor. 1:3f.) The noble apostle Paul says this: ‘Blessed be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all consolation, who comforts us in our tribulation.’ There are three…
Evelyn Underhill, Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness Since the object of all contemplation is the production of that state of intimate communion in which the mystics declare that the self is “in God and God is in her,” it might be supposed that the orison of union represented the end…