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…
Metamorphosis in Animals: The Transformations of the Individual and the Tуpе The transformations undergone by certain animals in the course of their es have provided human expression with some of its oldest images. From the immemorial the metamorphosis of the caterpillar into a butterfly has served as a metaphor for intimations of higher being. And…
Gerhard Dorn, On the Spagyric Art On the Propositions of Johannes Trithemius concerning the Spagyric Art ‘The unary is not itself a number, but it is from the unary that every number arises’- Johannes Trithemius. Before the waters of the universal abyss described in the Book of Genesis were divided, they were one. It is…
Paul Bishop, Jung’s Answer to Job KNOWLEDGE OR FAITH? In addition to the tradition of theological and philosophical commentary on the Book of Job, there is a broader socio-theological context in terms of which the composition of Answer to Job should be seen: the continuing decline in religious belief in general, and in Christianity in…
Edward F. Edinger on Mysterium Coniunctionis ‘Do not be disturbed because you sometimes find contradictions in my treatises, after the custom of the philosophers; these are necessary if you understand that no rose is found without thorns.’ This good advice to any reader of Mysterium Coniunctionis was given by an alchemist who compared his method…