Consciousness In Jung And Patanjali

Author : Leanne Whitney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
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Release : 2017-08-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781315448145

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Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali by Leanne Whitney Pdf

The East-West dialogue increasingly seeks to compare and clarify contrasting views on the nature of consciousness. For the Eastern liberatory models, where a nondual view of consciousness is primary, the challenge lies in articulating how consciousness and the manifold contents of consciousness are singular. Western empirical science, on the other hand, must provide a convincing account of how consciousness arises from matter. By placing the theories of Jung and Patañjali in dialogue with one another, Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali illuminates significant differences between dual and nondual psychological theory and teases apart the essential discernments that theoreticians must make between epistemic states and ontic beliefs. Patañjali’s Classical Yoga, one of the six orthodox Hindu philosophies, is a classic of Eastern and world thought. Patañjali teaches that notions of a separate egoic "I" are little more than forms of mistaken identity that we experience in our attempts to take ownership of consciousness. Carl Jung’s depth psychology, which remains deeply influential to psychologists, religious scholars, and artists alike, argues that ego-consciousness developed out of the unconscious over the course of evolution. By exploring the work of key theoreticians from both schools of thought, particularly those whose ideas are derived from an integration of theory and practice, Whitney explores the extent to which the seemingly irremediable split between Jung and Patañjali’s ontological beliefs can in fact be reconciled. This thorough and insightful work will be essential reading for academics, theoreticians, and postgraduate students in the fields of psychology, philosophy of science, and consciousness studies. It will also appeal to those interested in the East–West psychological and philosophical dialogue.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
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Release : 2015
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 1339028212

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In our contemporary scientific exploration of reality there is heated debate on the nature of consciousness. Comparing the representations of consciousness in the depth psychology of Carl Jung and the Classical Yoga of Patanjali contributes to the argument on whether consciousness arises from psychic process or whether consciousness is the ground of Being. In Patanjali's world pure consciousness is the ontological reality, which is self-illuminating, singular, eternal, and absolute. There is no unconscious in his model. However, there are unknown and invisible contents of consciousness relative to our human awareness. In Patanjali's world the ego is seen as an afflicted identity, a concept we form by appropriating consciousness, which distorts our view of reality and blocks our knowledge of pure consciousness. For Patanjali, pure consciousness and the contents of consciousness are distinguishable separable but not separate. In Jung's world ego consciousness has evolved out of the unconscious, which for Jung is ontically real. In his view, when ego consciousness develops and maintains a relationship to the unconscious, human beings make the Creator conscious of His creation. In Jung's model there is no distinction between consciousness and the contents of consciousness. In his view a self-illuminating pure consciousness is inconceivable. Although Jung seeks a unifying model throughout his career, for him ego consciousness and the resultant subject/object distinction forever remain. Using a nondual lens, this hermeneutic research takes a closer look at depth psychology's unconscious and its assumed, or inferred, ontological reality. If the ego and the unconscious are psychological concepts that can be deconstructed, then the very foundation of the discipline is ultimately based on false assumptions. Consequently, the outcomes of depth psychological theory may be distorted, limited, and biased. However, a bridge can be forged between depth psychology and yoga through Jung's synchronicity hypothesis, which recognizes mind and matter to be two aspects of one underlying ontic whole. Although Jung never proved empiric consciousness to be a unity, his legacy aims in that direction. Jung's synchronicity hypothesis allows a contemporary bridging argument for an understanding of the ontic reality of pure consciousness.

Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1985-07-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780791499917

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Jung and Eastern Thought by Harold Coward Pdf

Jung and Eastern Thought is an assessment of the impact of the East on Jung's life and teaching. Along with the strong and continuing interest in the psychology of Carl Jung is a growing awareness of the extent to which Eastern thought, especially Indian ideas, influenced his thinking. This book identifies those influences that he found useful and those he rejected. In Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist cultures, yoga is a central conception and practice. Jung was at once fascinated and critical of yoga. Part I of the book examines Jung's encounter with yoga and his strong warning against the uncritical adoption of yoga by the modern West. In Part II Jung's love/hate relationship with Eastern thought is examined in light of his attitude toward karma and rebirth, Kundalini yoga, mysticism, and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Coward's observations are rounded out by contributions from J. Borelli and J. Jordens. Dr. Borelli's Annotated Bibliography is an invaluable contribution to bibliographic material on Jung, yoga, and Eastern religion. A special feature is the Introduction by Joseph Henderson, Jung's most senior North American student and one of the few Jungians to have recognized the important influence of the East on Jung's thinking.

Author : Donald J. DeGracia
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781329706736

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The Yogic View of Consciousness (HQ) by Donald J. DeGracia Pdf

Patanjali's Yoga Sutras are mysterious and cryptic and exert hypnotic fascination on all whose minds they touch. In The Yogic View of Consciousness, Don DeGracia unfolds the theory of consciousness enshrined in the obtuse aphorisms of the Yoga Sutras. Yoga describes the mind as a multi-leveled system closed in on itself yet illuminated from within its innermost depth by a divine spark that gives life and consciousness to every individual. Drawing on ideas Eastern and Western, ancient and modern, from Abhinavagupta to Leibniz, Mahaprabhu to George Berkeley, IK Taimni to Hermann Weyl, DeGracia weaves an intellectual tapestry harmonizing science, philosophy, religion, mathematics, and the mystical. Compared to the grandeur of The Yogic View of Consciousness the hostilities of secular science and philosophy appear as little more than the psycho-babble of lunatics and an affront to the sublime majesty of existence. Take the wild ride to the very source of being revealed by The Yogic View of Consciousness.

Author : C. G. Jung
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07-21
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780691006765

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The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga by C. G. Jung Pdf

"Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model of something that was almost completely lacking in Western psychology--an account of the development phases of higher consciousness.... Jung's insistence on the psychogenic and symbolic significance of such states is even more timely now than then. As R. D. Laing stated... 'It was Jung who broke the ground here, but few followed him.'"--From the introduction by Sonu Shamdasani Jung's seminar on Kundalini yoga, presented to the Psychological Club in Zurich in 1932, has been widely regarded as a milestone in the psychological understanding of Eastern thought and of the symbolic transformations of inner experience. Kundalini yoga presented Jung with a model for the developmental phases of higher consciousness, and he interpreted its symbols in terms of the process of individuation. With sensitivity toward a new generation's interest in alternative religions 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 prewar Europe regarded Eastern spirituality as they discovered more and more of its resources, from yoga to tantric texts. Reconstructing this seminar through new documentation, Shamdasani explains, in his introduction, why Jung thought that the comprehension of Eastern thought was essential if Western psychology was to develop. He goes on to orient today's audience toward an appreciation of some of the questions that stirred the minds of Jung and his seminar 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 do the symbols of Kundalini yoga shed on conditions diagnosed as psychotic? Not only were these questions important to analysts in the 1930s but, as Shamdasani stresses, they continue to have psychological relevance for readers on the threshold of the twenty-first century. This volume also offers newly translated material from Jung's German language seminars, a seminar by the indologist Wilhelm Hauer presented in conjunction with that of Jung, illustrations of the cakras, and Sir John Woodroffe's classic translation of the tantric text, the Sat-cakra Nirupana. ?

Author : Harold G. Coward
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0887060528

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Jung and Eastern Thought by Harold G. Coward Pdf

Jung and Eastern Thought is an assessment of the impact of the East on Jung's life and teaching. Along with the strong and continuing interest in the psychology of Carl Jung is a growing awareness of the extent to which Eastern thought, especially Indian ideas, influenced his thinking. This book identifies those influences that he found useful and those he rejected. In Hindu, Buddhist, and Taoist cultures, yoga is a central conception and practice. Jung was at once fascinated and critical of yoga. Part I of the book examines Jung's encounter with yoga and his strong warning against the uncritical adoption of yoga by the modern West. In Part II Jung's love/hate relationship with Eastern thought is examined in light of his attitude toward karma and rebirth, Kundalini yoga, mysticism, and Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Coward's observations are rounded out by contributions from J. Borelli and J. Jordens. Dr. Borelli's Annotated Bibliography is an invaluable contribution to bibliographic material on Jung, yoga, and Eastern religion. A special feature is the Introduction by Joseph Henderson, Jung's most senior North American student and one of the few Jungians to have recognized the important influence of the East on Jung's thinking.

Author : Judith Harris
Publisher : Inner City Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0919123953

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Jung and Yoga by Judith Harris Pdf

This text looks at the parallels between yoga practice and Jungian analysis, focusing on Jung's ideas as experienced through bodywork. Previously hidden energy brings psyche and body together, uniting them in sacred union that gives birth to a new consciousness.

Author : Swami Rama,Rudolph Ballentine,Swami Ajaya
Publisher : Himalayan Institute Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038731399

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Yoga and Psychotherapy by Swami Rama,Rudolph Ballentine,Swami Ajaya Pdf

Provides and in-depth analysis of Western and Eastern models of the mind and their differing perspectives.

Author : Harold Coward
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791487914

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Yoga and Psychology by Harold Coward Pdf

Harold Coward explores how the psychological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intellectual developments both East and West. Foundational for Hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist thought and spiritual practice, Patañjali's Yoga Sutras, the classical statement of Eastern Yoga, are unique in their emphasis on the nature and importance of psychological processes. Yoga's influence is explored in the work of both the seminal Indian thinker Bhartrhari (c. 600 C.E.) and among key figures in Western psychology: founders Freud and Jung, as well as contemporary transpersonalists such as Washburn, Tart, and Ornstein.. Coward shows how the yogic notion of psychological processes makes Bhartrhari's philosophy of language and his theology of revelation possible. He goes on to explore how Western psychology has been influenced by incorporating or rejecting Patañjali's Yoga. The implications of these trends in Western thought for mysticism and memory are examined as well. This analysis results in a notable insight, namely, that there is a crucial difference between Eastern and Western thought with regard to how limited or perfectible human nature is—the West maintaining that we as humans are psychologically, philosophically, and spiritually limited or flawed in nature and thus not perfectible, while Patañjali's Yoga and Eastern thought generally maintain the opposite. Different Western responses to the Eastern position are noted, from complete rejection by Freud, Jung, and Hick, to varying degrees of acceptance by transpersonal thinkers.

Author : Edward F. Edinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : UOM:39015008889803

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The Creation of Consciousness by Edward F. Edinger Pdf

Seminal work by the author of Ego and Archetype, proposing a new world-view based on the creative collaboration between the scientific pursuit of knowledge and the religious search for meaning.

Author : Edward F. Kelly,Paul Marshall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781538139431

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Consciousness Unbound by Edward F. Kelly,Paul Marshall Pdf

Building on the groundbreaking research of Irreducible Mind and Beyond Physicalism, Edward Kelly and Paul Marshall gather a cohort of leading scholars to address the most recent advances in the psychology of consciousness. Currently emerging as a middle ground between warring fundamentalisms of religion andscience, an expanded science-based understanding of nature finally accommodates empirical realities of spiritual sorts while also rejecting rationally untenable overbeliefs. The vision sketched here provides an antidote to the prevailing postmodern disenchantment of the world and demeaning of human possibilities. It not only more accurately and fully reflects our human condition but engenders hope and encourages ego-surpassing forms of human flourishing. It offers reasons for us to believe that freedom is real, that our human choices matter, and that we have barely scratched the surface of our human potentials. It also addresses the urgent need for a greater sense of worldwide community and interdependence - a sustainable ethos - by demonstrating that under the surface we and the world are much more extensively interconnected than previously recognized.

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15T22:59:00Z
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781669385141

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Summary of C. G. Jung's The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The kleśa of being a personality, or individuality, is the result of the urge to divide and discriminate. It is a natural instinctive form in which libido first appears out of the unconscious. According to tantric teaching, there is an urge to produce a personality, something that is centered and divided from other beings. #2 The instinct of individuation is found everywhere in life. It is the urge to become a complete individual. It is found in all forms of life, for life itself is individuated. Everything that has life is individual, but they are not necessarily conscious of it. #3 The Greek term phobos is better than hatred as the principle of separation. For us, the West, fear is a more important cement than hatred. But in India, the gods are always carrying weapons, and weapons are not an expression of any particular love. #4 When a person complains that he is always on bad terms with his wife or the people he loves, and that there are terrible scenes or resistances between them, you will see that he has been living in participation mystique with them. He has spread himself over them until he has become identical with them, which is a violation of the principle of individuality.

Author : Renos K. Papadopoulos,Graham S. Saayman
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015008492020

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Jung in Modern Perspective by Renos K. Papadopoulos,Graham S. Saayman Pdf

Author : Erich Neumann, Erich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Consciousness
ISBN : 0415864305

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The Origins and History of Consciousness by Erich Neumann, Erich Pdf

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Georg Feuerstein
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-14
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780834829213

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The Psychology of Yoga by Georg Feuerstein Pdf

"Psychoanalysis itself and the lines of thought to which it gives rise," said C. G. Jung, "are only a beginner’s attempt compared to what is an immemorial art in the East"—by which he was referring to the millennia-old study of the mind found in Yoga. That tradition was hardly known in the West when the discipline of psychology arose in the nineteenth century, but with the passing of time the common ground between Yoga and psychology has become ever more apparent. Georg Feuerstein here uses a modern psychological perspective to explore the ways Hindu, Buddhist, and Jaina yogas have traditionally regarded the mind and how it works—and shows how that understanding can enhance modern psychology in both theory and practice.