The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 - Hardcover

Jung, C.G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415149266 ISBN 13: 9780415149266

Publisher: Routledge, 1996

Synopsis

Jung's Seminar of Kundalini Yoga, presented to the Psychology Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and the symbolic transformations of inner experience. With sensitivity towards a new generation's interest in alternative religion and psychological exploration, Sonu Shamdasani has brought together the lectures and discussions from this seminar. In this volume, he re-creates for today's reader the fascination with which many intellectuals of pre-war Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts.

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Review

"The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga" serves as an excellent introduction to the higher realms of consciousness.... I enthusiastically recommend this book as an introduction to realms of analytic thought generally outside the classical and mainstream views.--David Nichol "Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews "

In these four lectures ... Jung placed some very complex Indian concepts within the Western psychological understanding of his time, thereby helping us to grasp better both systems of thought and realization.--Betsy Halpern "Quadrant "

Shamdasani has performed a valuable service by editing these seminar notes and making them available to a wider audience. In addition to Jung's four lectures [he] provides an excellent introduction as well as informative footnotes.... This volume is a welcome addition to the Bollingen Seminar Series.--William E. Kotsch "Journal of Analytical Psychology "
"The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga" serves as an excellent introduction
to the higher realms of consciousness.... I enthusiastically recommend this
book as an introduction to realms of analytic thought generally outside the
classical and mainstream views.
--David Nichol "Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews "
In these four lectures ... Jung placed some very complex Indian concepts
within the Western psychological understanding of his time, thereby helping
us to grasp better both systems of thought and realization.
--Betsy Halpern "Quadrant "
Shamdasani has performed a valuable service by editing these seminar notes
and making them available to a wider audience. In addition to Jung's four
lectures [he] provides an excellent introduction as well as informative
footnotes.... This volume is a welcome addition to the Bollingen Seminar
Series.
--William E. Kotsch "Journal of Analytical Psychology "

""The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga" serves as an excellent introduction to the higher realms of consciousness.... I enthusiastically recommend this book as an introduction to realms of analytic thought generally outside the classical and mainstream views."--David Nichol, "Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews"

"The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga serves as an excellent introduction to the higher realms of consciousness.... I enthusiastically recommend this book as an introduction to realms of analytic thought generally outside the classical and mainstream views."--David Nichol, Psychoanalytic Books: A Quarterly Journal of Reviews

"In these four lectures ... Jung placed some very complex Indian concepts within the Western psychological understanding of his time, thereby helping us to grasp better both systems of thought and realization."--Betsy Halpern, Quadrant

"Shamdasani has performed a valuable service by editing these seminar notes and making them available to a wider audience. In addition to Jung's four lectures [he] provides an excellent introduction as well as informative footnotes.... This volume is a welcome addition to the Bollingen Seminar Series."--William E. Kotsch, Journal of Analytical Psychology

Synopsis

Jung's seminar on Kundalini Yoga, presented to the Psychology Club is a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and the symbolic transformations of inner experience. With sensitivity towards a new generation's interest in alternative religion and psychological exploration, Sonu Shamdasani has brought together the lectures and discussions from this seminar. In this volume, he re-creates for today's reader the fascination with which many intellectuals of pre-war Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. In particular, Shamdasani guides his audience towards an appreciation of the questions that stirred the minds of Jung and his group: What is the relation between Eastern schools of liberation and Western psychotherapy? What connection is there between esoteric religious traditions and spontaneous individual experience? What light to the symbols of Kundalini Yoga shed on conditions diagnosed as psychotic? In his introduction, Shamdasani reconstructs the seminar through new documentation.

He explains why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology were to develop. Depicting the ways in which Jung's work has such a decisive influence on the alternate religious movements, Shamdasani highlights the continued psychological relevance of these writings. In addition, this volume offers newly translated material from Jung's German language seminars, (a seminar by the indologist Wilhelm Hauer presented in conjunction with Jung's), illustrations of the cakras , and Sir John Woodroffe's classic translation of the tantric text, the Sat-Cakra-Nirupana .

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0415149266
• ISBN 13: 9780415149266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192
• Editor: Shamdasani Sonu