It is said that the Jungian journey is a mystical journey. According to the ancient Christian view self-knowledge is the path to knowledge of God. The presenter will explore some aspects of Jung’s journey of self-realisation beginning with his early experience of religion and how it awakened in him a longing for a direct inner knowing and experience of the ‘transcendent’. Jung’s painting of maṇḍalas in a time of profound personal crisis led him to knowledge of a sacred centre in the psyche that was later confirmed in his numinous Liverpool dream. The speaker will demonstrate how this realisation and some key theories that developed from it connects Jung to the mystic wisdom of ancient Indian and Meister Eckhart’s mysticism of the Ground.
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