Category: Book reviews
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A Tale of Two Heroines & The Acorn Theory
Hillman reminds us although mainstream Western society would have us believe otherwise, life was never meant to be an ego-fuelled race to the finish-line.
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Character & Calling (Part 5)
In modern western society, we are addicted to the societal fantasy that in bringing us up (or failing to do so), our parents screw us up.
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Domesday
Actually, the Domesday Book is five separate books, or at least that’s where it stands today.
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Freud & Women
Women come to appreciate that they are ‘mutilated’ (in the sense they do not have a penis) and thus they and their bodies are deficient.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 7)
In many ways, Jung considered Paracelsus, the founder of depth psychology.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 6)
The prize of all alchemical work was the philosopher’s stone which outwardly turned base metal into gold and inwardly turned the baseness inherent in man (having fallen from the Garden of Eden) into the state divine grace.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 5)
In this, Jung took the view from Jewish magic that ‘guardian angels’ could be pretty much the same thing as one’s daimon.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 4)
As Dr Liz Greene reminds us, not only was Carl Jung very familiar with Ficino’s work, but he relied on it extensively in his own work in the Liber Novus.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 3)
The primary text of Alexandrian Hermeticism is known as the Corpus Hermeticum, which itself is a collection of 17 different primarily philosophical treatises written in Greek in 2nd and 3rd centuries AD.
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The Western Esoteric Traditions (Part 2)
In line with the Persian philosophers whom he had studied, Corbin identified the human imagination as ‘an autonomous world of intermediaries, the mundus imaginals, where visions, apparitions, angels, and hierarchies occurred independently of any perceiving subject’.