The psychology of Kundalini yoga : notes of the seminar given in 1932 by C.G. Jung / edited by Sonu Shamdasani
- Bib ID:
- 2588011
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
- Description:
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- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1996
- xlvi, 128 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0691021279
- Series:
- Bollingen series ; 99.
- Summary:
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Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation.
In his introduction, Shamdasani explains why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop. He goes on to orient today's audience toward an appreciation of some of the questions that stirred the minds of Jung and his seminar group: What is the relation between Eastern schools of liberation and Western psychotherapy? What connection is there between esoteric religious traditions and spontaneous individual experience? What light do the symbols of Kundalini yoga shed on conditions diagnosed as psychotic? Not only were these questions important to analysts in the 1930s but, as Shamdasani stresses, they continue to have psychological relevance for readers on the threshold of the twenty-first century.
This volume also offers newly translated material from Jung's German language seminars, a seminar by the indologist Wilhelm Hauer presented in conjunction with that of Jung, illustrations of the cakras, and Sir John Woodroffe's classic translation of the tantric text, the aj-cakra-Nirpaa.
- Notes:
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- This edition of Jung's Seminars is being published in the United States of America by Princeton University Press. In the American edition the volumes of the seminar notes constitute number 99 in the Bollingen series.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Kundalini -- Psychology
- Other authors/contributors:
- Shamdasani, Sonu, 1962-
- Copyright:
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