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“Surrender to Ultimate Reality”: An Exploration of Mysticism in World Religions

Date
Apr 14 2026
Time
UTC+1
10:00 am - 11:45 pm CEST
4:00 am - 5:45 pm(Local Time)
Location
Online

Speaker

This lecture offers an introduction to mysticism, with examples from Christianity and other world religions. Evelyn Underhill’s classical definition of mysticism implies a “surrender… to ultimate Reality… from an instinct of love” (Mysticism, 1911).
Jung wrote his major work Mysterium Coniunctionis about the alchemical union, the “central mystical experience of enlightenment … aptly symbolized by Light in most of the numerous forms of mysticism” (CW XI, §828). What does this mean for the relevance of mysticism to Jungian psychology?

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