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…
His Gnostic assault on conventional theology in his Answer to Job. 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 come from Jerusalem but…
Another useful analogy to the modern psychological Gnostic process is the fourfold structure of the classical Greek drama This process of confrontation and experience has been characterized-once again by Jung himself-as a “Gnostic process”. Another useful analogy to the modern psychological Gnostic process is the fourfold structure of the classical Greek drama: agone or contest;…
[The Gnostic] cross had exactly the same function that the atman or Self has always had for the East 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,…
The desire for self knowledge is just as much a desire as the desire for food or sex. The most enigmatic model for metaphysical fascinations of the mind in our age is undoubtedly the Eastern, particularly the Hindu, which consistently employs metaphysical and cosmological language to express what to Jung would appear to be psychological…