The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga ：Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932 ( Bollingen Series (General) )

Publication subTitle ：Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

Publication series ：Bollingen Series (General)

Author： Jung C. G.;Shamdasani Sonu

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9781400821914

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691006765

Subject： B982 Brahmanism, Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism

Language： ENG

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"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 tod