Thread: Carl Gustav Jung - Videos, Books, Ruminations

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All this reading I'm doing is an antidote to the reductive and mechanistic nature of rational materialism that has overtaken Western civilization.

Shadows of the Sacred - Frances Vaughan
Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tarnas
The Eternal Drama - Edward Edinger (Reading Greek Mythology as an expression of the human psyche)
The Discovery of Being - Rollo May (Existential psychotherapy)
States of Grace - Charlene Spretnak
Ego and Archetype - Edinger
The Psyche in Antiquity book 2; Gnosticism and Early Christianity - Edinger
The Bible and the Psyche; Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament - Edinger

Note - on my blog the list of books has links directly to the Amazon items: Latest haul of books

I should also add here for the Dreamviews readers - I really didn't care much for Shadows of the Sacred, Cosmos and Psyche, or States of Grace, but all the Jungian-related books are amazing! And I also really dug Rollo May's Discovery of Being as a sort of complement to the Jungian Depth Psychology. It doesn't relate directly to Jung in any way really, but goes with it like peanut butter with jelly, ok?

I'm really loving the Edinger books right now - he's a great explicator of Carl Gustav Jung's ideas.

Jung's great discovery (one of them) was that in pre-Enlightenment times, when mankind's psyche was still rather primitive, he tended to project it out into the void to create myth and religion, as well as early philosophy and alchemy. By studying these ancient sources we can witness the inner workings of the psyche itself. Each of Edinger's books delves into a different era, but they all demonstrate that the psyche is the real source of the numinous and the miraculous.

Kindle purchases:

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