An exploration of spirituality in the modern world using Carl Jung’s insights
Jung believed that a spiritual life lies buried in everyone’s unconscious and could be brought before consciousness with therapeutic results and that rationality and hubris prevented many in the modern world from acknowledging the spiritual aspects of our lives, and repressing the spiritual was as harmful as repressing the sexual.
This book contains a series of chapters which explore the applications and ramifications of Jung’s psychospiritual theory. Starting with how to bring back spirituality into religion, it then looks at the activation of ‘earth energies’ and the primordial mind by bringing the spirit back into nature. It proceeds to examine the spiritual journey, dreams, the individuation of god, and the healing power of spirituality.
Table of Content
1 The Nature of Spirituality
2 Jung, Spirituality, Religion
3 Descent of Spirit
4 The Activation of the Earth Archetype
5 The Spirituality of Nature
6 Individuation as a Spiritual Journey
7 Dreams, The Hidden Doorway
8 The Individuation of God
9 Returning Religion to its Symbolic Roots
10 Spirituality and Healing
11 Toward a Future Religion
About the author
David Tacey is a writer and public intellectual who works across the fields of spirituality, psychology, literature and philosophy. David is interested in the return of the sacred in secular societies and is a specialist in Jungian studies. He is the author of sixteen books in these fields, including How to Read Jung, Remaking Men, Gods and Diseases, The Darkening Spirit, Religion as Metaphor and The Postsecular Sacred. He teaches courses at the Jung Institute in Zürich and is Emeritus Professor at La Trobe University, Melbourne. His books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish and French.
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