Minding the self : Jungian meditations on contemporary spirituality / Murray Stein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stein, Murray, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jung, C. G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961.

Jung, C. G.

Psychoanalysis and religion.

Spirituality.

Physical Description:

viii, 132 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Summary:

"Many people have an aptitude for religious experience and spirituality but don't know how to develop this or take it further. Modern societies offer little assistance, and traditional religions are overly preoccupied with their own organizational survival. Minding the Self: Jungian meditations on contemporary spirituality offers suggestions for individual spiritual development in our modern and post-modern times. Here, Murray Stein argues that C.G. Jung and depth psychology provide guidance and the foundation for a new kind of modern spirituality.Murray Stein explores the problem of spirituality within the cultural context of modernity and offers a way forward without relapsing into traditional or mythological modes of consciousness. Chapters work towards finding the proper vessel for contemporary spirituality and dealing with the ethical issues that crop up along the way. Stein shows how it is an individual path but not an isolationist one, often using many resources borrowed from a variety of religious traditions: it is a way of symbol, dream and experiences of the numinous with hints of transcendence as these come into personal awareness. Minding the Self: Jungian meditations on contemporary spirituality uses research from a wide variety of fields, such as dream-work and the neuroscience of the sleeping brain, clinical experience in Jungian psychoanalysis, anthropology, ethics, Zen Buddhism, Jung's writings and the recently published Red Book. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, Jungian scholars, undergraduates, graduate and post-graduate students and anyone with an interest in modern spirituality"-- Provided by publisher.

"Murray Stein explores the problem of spirituality within the cultural context of modernity and offers a way forward without relapsing into traditional or mythological modes of consciousness. Chapters work towards finding the proper vessel for contemporary spirituality and dealing with the ethical issues that crop up along the way. Stein shows how it is an individual path but not an isolationist one, often using many resources borrowed from a variety of religious traditions: it is a way of symbol, dream and experiences of the numinous with hints of transcendence as these come into personal awareness. Minding the Self: Jungian meditations on contemporary spirituality uses research from a wide variety of fields, such as dream-work and the neuroscience of the sleeping brain, clinical experience in Jungian psychoanalysis, anthropology, ethics, Zen Buddhism, Jung's writings and the recently published Red Book. It will be of interest to psychoanalysts, Jungian scholars, undergraduates, graduate and post-graduate students and anyone with an interest in modern spirituality"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 "New wine needs new skins" 5

2 Making room for divinity 14

3 Changing and emerging God-images 21

4 The way of symbols 27

5 Attending the lunar mind 32

6 Hints of transcendence 38

7 Turning on the transcendent function 43

8 Not just a butterfly 48

9 Spirituality in the psychoanalytic context 54

10 Mapping the psyche 64

11 Initiation into the Spirit of the Depths 76

12 Humanity's shadow monster 83

13 The problem of ethics 92

14 The gifts of cultural dialogue 101

15 Minding the self 111.

ISBN:

9780415377850

0415377854

OCLC:

861966338