Review: The Gnostic Jung
The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead by Stephan A. HoellerMy rating: 5 of 5 stars Stephen Hoeller’s Gnostic Jung is an invaluable resource, a veritable meditation text as another reviewer noted,…
Carl Jung
Posts related to the thought and work of psychologist Carl Jung.
Dark Star Rising by Gary Lachman
Book Review of Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump A longtime fan of the subjects Gary Lachman writes about and of his way of writing about those chosen topics (the occult,…
Super Synchronicity by Gary E. Schwartz Ph. D.
For someone coming cold upon the concept of synchronicity, Super Synchronicity: Where Science and Spirit Meet might be a “You’ve got to be kidding.” Perhaps why Gary Schwartz’s degrees and experience are necessary to make him a credible messenger.
Carl Jung’s Portrait of the Visionary Artist
Art is kind of an innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purposes through him.
Carl Jung, “Psychology and Literature,” Modern Man in Search of a Soul, p. 169
Carl Jung and Visionary Fiction
It may come as a shock, or at least a revelation, to Visionary Fiction readers and writers that Carl Jung, the eminent Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology, defined Visionary Fiction and described it in detail in a lecture delivered in 1929, “Psychology and Literature,” included in the volume Modern Man in Search of a Soul. Rather than the narrow sub-genre it is often reduced to, Jung depicts Visionary Fiction as a super-genre that forms one of the two major divisions of artistic production: “I will call the one mode of artistic creation psychological, and the other visionary.”
Serpente Gigante by J. Allan Danelek
In total, a captivating and curious yarn by Mr. Danelek, already quite the established expert in Fortean phenomena. Caution: some of the scenes presented in the book may cause macabre nightmares in the susceptible.
Paranormal Series #2: Is Past Life Recall Required for Psychological Wholeness?
Is it possible that Einstein’s dictum—We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them—applies to our view of the life span itself when it comes to those thorny challenges that will not yield to any logic, medicine, prayer or kindness? Should we be looking at the forest rather than the single tree?