Visions and altered states From: Memories, Dreams, Reflections Towards the autumn of 1913 the pressure which I had felt was in me seemed to be moving outwards, as though there were something in the air. The atmosphere actually seemed to me darker than it had been. It was as though the sense of oppression no…
Meister Eckhart: The Dominican Life Eckhart was born in around 1260 and joined the Dominican priory in nearby Erfurt probably at fifteen years of age. In joining the Friars Preacher, he was following a well-trodden path which would guarantee him an education commensurate with his ability: the opportunity to study, to teach and to travel. Eckhart…
Lucien Levy-Bruhl, How Natives Think Author’s Introduction The representations which are termed collective, defined as a whole without entering into detail, may be recognized by the following signs. They are common to the members of a given social group; they are transmitted from one generation to another; they impress themselves upon its individual members, and…
Carl Jung: Four Archetypes – Introduction INTRODUCTION1 The hypothesis of a collective unconscious belongs to the class of ideas that people at first find strange but soon come to possess and use as familiar conceptions. This has been the case with the concept of the unconscious in general. After the philosophical idea of the unconscious,…