The most comprehensive information I could find about Jung’s mother is from Frank McLynn’s 1999 biography, Carl Gustav Jung. He doesn’t hesitate to do a kind of psychoanalysis of her effect on Jung: CHAPTER ONE Carl Gustav Jung By FRANK McLYNN St. Martin’s Press Jung imbibed superstition almost literally with his mother’s milk, for Emilie…
From Shamanic Voices Joan Halifax A ball of fire came down out of the sky and struck Uvavnuk senseless. When she regained consciousness, the spirit of light was within her… And when she sang, all those present were loosed from their burden of sin and wrong; evil and deceit vanished as a speck of dust…
While trying to understand the thinking of Eliade and Jung, I came across this article by Cerena, a graduate in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute… Interesting reading about a very important topic: Alchemy and the Hermetic Tradition: Mircea Eliade and Carl Jung August 9, 2009 (Excerpts) The relationship between Mythology and the Religious traditions…
In the interview conducted by Eliade for Combat, Jung does say this: Religious experience is numinous, as Rudolf Otto calls it, and for me, as a psychologist, this experience differs from all others in the way it transcends the ordinary categories of time, space and causality. Source
In an interview late in his life Eliade again recalled his first meeting with Jung: After half an hour’s conversation I felt I was listening to a Chinese sage or an east European peasant, still rooted in the Earth Mother yet close to Heaven at the same time. I was enthralled by the wonderful simplicity…
The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Carl Jung The history of religions reaches down and makes contact with that which is essentially human: the relation of man to the sacred. The history of religions can play an extremely important…
The work of Mircea Eliade brought shamamism into consciousness in the 20th century. This is some of the material from Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy(1964): . The writer who approaches shamanism as a psychologist will be led to regard it as primarily the manifestation of a psyche in crisis or even in retrogression; he will…
Of course, if there is a world tree, there has to be a world serpent… What’s a tree without a snake?…. In Norse mythology, Jörmungandr is the Midgard Serpent that surrounds the world: when he lets go of his tail, the world will end. . Previous posts have talked about Snake symbolism and the Uroboros:…