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

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?

Date
Apr 14 2026
Time
10:00 am - 11:45 pm CEST (08:00 UTC)
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ISAP Zurich
ISAP Zurich
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