Truth did not come into the world naked, but it came in the types and images It is interesting to note that in the Kabbalah, which has been aptly called Jewish Gnosticism, the unitary concept is amplified and modified by the image of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life with its ten vessels, twenty-two paths and…
Stephan Hoeller: To believe is vastly inferior to perceiving the symbols whereby truth is revealed. The time passed and the world changed, the Seven Sermons remained an object of wonder and interest to their one-time scribe. Thirteen years later, in distant California, the dead “came back” to their enthusiastic admirer once more. They did not…
Shamdasani and The Red Book and Liber Novus In Liber Novus, Jung articulated his understanding of the historical transformations of Christianity, and the historicity f symbolic formations. He took up this theme in his writings on the psychology of alchemy and on the psychology of Christian dogmas, and most of all in Answer to Job.…
Marion Woodman: Quotations with Citations Reading ancient myths and fairy tales can be very helpful because these stories came spontaneously from people who had not studied psychology. The stories came straight out of their unconscious and, therefore, show us how the unconscious works unimpeded by conscious intervention. The images are clear and stark. For those…
In its struggle against this Mother Goddess, Erich Neumann Woman’s fear of the female Self, of the experience of the numinous archetypal Feminine, becomes comprehensible when we get a glimpse – or even only a hint – of the profound otherness of female selfhood as contrasted to male selfhood. Precisely that element which, in his…