~Jeffrey Raff, Jung and the Alchemical Imagination, Page 8-10 INTRODUCTION When I was 22 years old, I experienced a spiritual awakening. Long before I ever heard of either C. G. Jung, or alchemy, a spiritual current raced through my soul and summoned me to experiences I had never imagined could exist. I was young and…
Paracelsus: In the same way that God maintains our bodies to grant us a long life because we love him. God is so faithful to us and to all those who live in accordance with his will that, rather than desisting from this relation, he commanded the devil to do all those things to reveal…
The Amplified World of Dreams by Erel Shalit and Nancy Swift Furlotti The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far out egoconsciousness extends.…
Mircea Eliade: Yoga and Immortality THE STRUCTURE OF THE PSYCHIC EXPERIENCE Yoga begins where classical Samkhya ends. Patan-jali appropriates almost entirely on the dialectics Samkhya, but does not believe that metaphysical knowledge can, by itself, lead man to the supreme liberation. In fact, Gnosticism does nothing but prepare the ground for the acquisition of freedom…