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Robertson challenges how scholars interact with the category Gnosticism, and contributes to our understanding of the complex relationship between primary sources, academics and practitioners in category formation. The field of Jungian psychology has been growing steadily over the last twenty years and awareness is increasing of its relevance to the predicaments of modern life.

Jung appeals not only to professionals who are looking for a more humane and creative way of working with their clients, but also to academics in an increasingly wide range of disciplines. The Handbook of Jungian Psychology is the definitive source of authoritative information on Jungian psychology for Jungian analysts, psychotherapists, counsellors and related professionals. It will be an invaluable aid to those involved in Jungian academic studies and related disciplines.

Stephan Hoeller's handbook for heightening consciousness is unrivaled for its clarity in explaining the ancient mystical Kabbalah in relation to the Tarot's Major Arcana. On the new enclosed CD, Dr. Hoeller narrages twenty-two meditations to guide the reader easily into a contemplative state.

This bold, compact new biography of Carl Jung fills a gap in our understanding of the pioneering psychiatrist by focusing on the occult and mystical dimension of Jung's life and work, a critical but frequently misunderstood facet of his career.

Although he is often called the "founding father of the New Age," Carl Jung, the legendary Swiss psychiatrist best known for his groundbreaking concepts like the collective unconscious, archetype theory, and synchronicity, often took pains to avoid any explicit association with mysticism or the occult. It is these critical experiences-often fleetingly touched on in other biographies or critical studies, and just as frequently used to make a case against Jung and his philosophies-that form the core of this exciting new biography, Jung the Mystic.

While Jung's ghostwritten memoirs, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, touch on the role his mystical and occult experiences played in his life, Gary Lachman's Jung the Mystic completes the circle: Lachman assesses Jung's life and work from the viewpoint of Western esoteric tradition and helpfully places Jung in the context of other major esoteric thinkers, such as Rudolf Steiner, G. Gurdjieff, and Emanuel Swedenborg.

In that respect, this new biography appeals directly to the sensibility of spiritual readers who rightly see Jung as a pioneer of today's contemporary metaphysical culture.

This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G. Jung and science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick, two figures who have done far more than most to revive an interest in the Gnostic tradition in the modern world. Despite profoundly different approaches - one was a depth psychologist whose unique insights and approach to psychology forced him to explore the depths of the unconscious in a way that inevitably led him to touch frequently on metaphysical or spiritual matters; the other was an author of science-fiction - there are some striking parallels between their unique Gnostic visions.

Dick , respectively - in which they articulate their Gnostic visions, it seems timely to make this comparison. In this powerful and incisive book Alan Jackson completely revises the reputations of Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Carl Jung and Karl Marx amongst others and in doing so characterises the clashing spiritual forces that work upon us in this time.

Snippets of information about the likely contents of the Red Book had been in circulation for years, and there was much debate and eager anticipation of its publication within the Jungian field and the larger reading public. The Red Book: Reflections on C.

This book will be essential reading for any Jungian interested in the importance of The Red Book, analytical psychologists, trainee analysts, those with an interest in the history of ideas and historians. A Book by Stephan A Hoeller. Including Seven Sermons to the Dead by C. A Book by Stephan A. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Publication date Topics Jung, C.

Carl Gustav , Septem sermones ad mortuos , Jung, C. Carl Gustav , , Septem sermones ad mortuos Jung, C. Under the guise of Basilides, a second-century AD Gnostic sage, Jung wrote in the Seven Sermons to the Dead after he had received intense psychic experiences.

The Christian Gnostics within the Church established a reputation for openness and democracy. His letters were composed around 53—55 CE. Thereupon he gave them the precept never to do harm to one another, 1 and he went away from them up to the region of the Mother Though perhaps Jesus was specially in the Gnostic's mind while writing this, it is clear that all God's Skip to content.

At the foot of a cliff along the Nile River, near the city of Nag Hammadi, an Egyptian peasant unearths a large storage jar containing ancient manuscripts. The discovery turns out to be one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of the past century. A treasure of fourth-century texts, the manuscripts are the scriptures of the ancient mystical tradition commonly called Gnosticism, from the Greek gnosis, that is, secret knowledge.

It is a discovery that challenges everything we thought we knew about the early Christian church, ancient Judaism, and Greco-Roman religions.

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures is the most complete and up-to-date English-language edition of these sacred texts from Egypt. It is full of treatises, testimonies, and secret books that had been lost for centuries. In addition to gospels purportedly by the apostles Thomas and Philip, and the revelations of James, Peter, and Paul, this collection also includes the Gospel of Mary and the controversial Gospel of Judas.

The documents have been newly translated by a team of prominent international scholars. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and that self-knowledge is the supreme path to the divine.

Only in the past fifty years has it become clear how far the gnostic influence spread in ancient and medieval religions—and what a marvelous body of scriptures it produced.

The selections gathered here, in poetic, readable translation, represent Jewish, Christian, Hermetic, Mandaean, Manichaean, Islamic, and Cathar expressions of gnostic spirituality. Hoeller Publisher: Quest Books ISBN: Category: Religion Page: View: Gnosticism developed alongside Judeo-Christianity over two thousand years ago, but with an important difference: It emphasizes, not faith, but direct perception of God--Gnosticism being derived from the Greek word gnosis, meaning "knowledge.

Also included are such important and topical texts as the Gospel of Mary Magdalene and the Gospel of Thomas.

Religious thinkers engaged in the quest for wisdom and knowledge, the gnostics proclaimed that salvation could be found through mystical knowledge and intuition. In contrast, others adamantly denied that the supreme being came in the flesh, claiming Jesus to be merely a human who attained enlightenment through gnosis and taught his disciples to do the same.

Still, other traditions identify Mani and Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve, as salvific figures. In the course of a century and a half, Gnosticism comes and goes before us like a splendid vision.

And yet, its influence upon Christianity was profound and permanent. It gave occasion to a great expansion of Christian thought, to a clearer idea of the historical relation of Christianity to earlier and surrounding religions, and to a better definition of the basis of true faith. Therefore, it deserves a more careful study than it has only recently received. Jesus preaches the coming of a new man, the genesis of the man of knowledge.

In this gospel, Jesus describes a journey from limited to unlimited consciousness. The Jesus of Thomas invites us to drink deeply from the well of knowledge that lies within, not so that we may become good Christians but so we may attain the self-knowledge that will make each of us, too, a Christ. It is available at Amazon.

Buy the Book. The compact " Reader's Edition ," which includes the text only, is also now available see our review for more information on this edition.

You will also enjoy viewing the video about the digital reproduction of the Red Book available on YouTube. A complete digital version of the Red Book: Liber Novus , including all images and text, is currently available online at the Internet Archive. An excellent introductory lecture by Dr. Hoeller on Jung's vision of a coming new aeon of consciousness -- a central theme of the Red Book-- is available free at BC Recordings.

Two series of introductory lectures presented by Dr. Lance Owens at Westminster College in and are now available free online. In these lectures Dr.

Owens discusses the historical genesis and content of the Red Book, and explains the central place of Liber Novus in the life and work of C. To download or listen to the lectures, visit the Red Book lectures page.

A catalog of other online presentations by Dr. Owens is available here. Owens here examines the roots of Jung's interest in Gnostic mythology. The focus of these talks is on Jung's study and use of Gnostic mythology during his work on Liber Novus, and the manner in which these primary Gnostic myths carried into his life work.

While Jung considered the Red Book to be the central work of his life, there is another independent text from this period of importance: the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos Seven Sermons to the Dead. Written and privately published around , and originally included within the Red Book, the Septem Sermones are Jung's earliest revealed formulation of his visionary experience.

Unlike the Red Book which remained hidden and unpublished, throughout his life Jung shared the Sermones with a select group of his trusted students.

When examining the imaginative work of Jung, it is essential to examine the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos in context of, and along with, the great Red Book. These are together the two crucial primary documents of Jung's "confrontation with the unconscious". In , Stephan A. Hoeller published the first critical study of Jung's Red Book writings, giving a compelling Gnostic hermeneutic to Jung's Septem Sermones ad Mortuos, the only then-published fragment from the Red Book. This ground-breaking study, The Gnostic Jung and the Seven Sermons to the Dead , still stands as a keynote introduction to Jung's visionary experience; it is highly recommended to those preparing to explore the Red Book.

Hoeller: "The Gnosis of C. The essay is republished here , with permission of the author. It serves as an addendum to the work he originally published in Hoeller's translation of the Septem Sermones ad Mortuos is also available in our library collection.

This article, first published in Psychological Perspectives Journal of the C. Jung Institute of Los Angeles is now available online in pdf format. The article abstract reads:.