Rooted in the metaphysics of bygone times, the notion of soul in our Western tradition is packed with associations and meanings that are incompatible with the anthropological and naturalistic thinking that prevails in modernity. Whereas treatises of old conceived of the soul as an infinite, immaterial substance which was the ground of man's hope for eternal salvation, modern psychology has for the most part discarded the concept in favor of mo...
This brilliant book brings Pan back to life by following C. G. Jung's famous saying: "The Gods have become our diseases." Chapters on nightmare panic, on masturbation, rape and nympholepsy, on instinct and synchronicity, and on Pan's female loves-echo, Syrinx, Selene, and the Muses-show the goat-God at work and play in the dark drives and creative passions of our lives.
As the world moves closer to the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, it seems that the whole earth is in turmoil. In the Bible we find that the Savior himself foretold such events. But we are also told that the Lord's followers will find refuge from the storm. How will that occr, and where will that happen?
Why do some places restore us while others deplete us? Why do certain figures out of folklore and myth haunt specific locales? Do borders around a nation parallel borders around the heart? Do wastelands and depleted landscapes delineate gaps in the collective imagination? Why have so many indigenous cultures insisted on the world's aliveness? And if the world is alive, how does it let us know? To explore such questions, Craig Chalquist calls f...
How do historians recreate historical moments as if they can reach out and touch, smell, hear, see and even taste the past? How do historians make that imaginative leap back into time? According to Dr. Ruth Meyer, dreams, visions and altered states form an unacknowledged and misunderstood part of the historian's creative process. Drawing on the autobiographical writings of historians such as Arnold Toynbee and Simon Schama, Meyer weaves togeth...
Articles and reviews by Wolfgang Giegerich, Greg Mogenson, Stanton Marlan, Benjamin Sells, Del McNeely, Noel Cobb and many more. Also featured is an in-depth interview with Rafael Lopez-Pedraza about the beginnings of archetypal psychology. Guest Editors: David L. Miller and Edward C. Casey.
This is a collection of revealing interviews with leading Jungian analysts, including James Hollis, Robert Johnson, Mario Jacoby, John Dourley, Nancy Qualls-Corbett, Robert Bosnak, Lyn Cowan, Verena Kast, John Weir Perry, Suzanne Wagner and more.
This work explores the psychological meaning of the brother-sister connection both externally in the world of inter-personal and cultural relationships and internally in the relationship between conscious and unconscious, masculine and feminine. Working with brothers and sisters in fairytales, myths and true-life stories, the author describes a psychological experience of union with, and faith in, ones own inner life, which evolves when we fac...
A special 2-issue set on the theme of Psyche and Nature with contributions from Jungian analysts, ecopsychologists and environmental activists, including Wolfgang Giegerich, Greg Mogenson, Michael Whan, Roberto Gambini, Meredith Sabini, Ed Casey, David Kidner, Glen Mazis, Peter Bishop, Andy Fisher, David Schoen, Vine Deloria and many, many more!
A special 2-issue set on the theme of Psyche and Nature with contributions from Jungian analysts, ecopsychologists and environmental activists, including Wolfgang Giegerich, Greg Mogenson, Michael Whan, Roberto Gambini, Meredith Sabini, Ed Casey, David Kidner, Glen Mazis, Peter Bishop, Andy Fisher, David Schoen, Vine Deloria and many, many more!
A reflection on the twin notions of Christ's descent into the underworld and on the belief in life after death. "We may be amazed to discover how these seemingly obsolete notions, if understood metaphorically rather than literally, can illuminate and deep