Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2023.2211003
Christine M. Du Bois
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2023.2211007
Gordon Nelson
T he Divine Mind, Michael Gellert’s new book, draws one into the mind of God and holds one there for a sojourn with the gods, and then becomes an excursion into what it means to be God from God’s point of view. Gellert takes a humanistic, psychological point of view of God as part of our historical world. He tells us his method in his subtitle that the book is “exploring the psychological history of God’s inner journey.” It is a hard book to put down if one is at all interested in the core questions of analytical psychology, particularly in those parts of the psyche that behavioral and reductionist psychologies (which mostly ignore this issue) might call “the God problem.” Jungian work finds the subject of these matters to be archetypal realities, and eminently psychological in their substance. Gellert engages these numinous energies by awakening the dynamism of the self in ourselves that is forever questioning the reality of the archetype, and then feeling that power in one that is held in its thrall. Working through this archetypal/human issue via history and experience demonstrates that something called “God” is developing and changing, and this change is not only in us, but in “God” himself. Gellert shows this development by going straight to the source material: the historical record of God’s interventions in the world (the Bible and similar scriptures); our interactions with these interventions (as the record of the prophets, teachers, and judges for God); and, finally, our attempts to practice, live, and understand what it means to be a god and a human (via the mystics and the products of mystical experience). His book is rich with authentic source material, beautiful quotations, and depth insights that paint a full canvas of our cultural experience as psychological individuals who are not limited to materialism or spiritualism. Without intentionally trying, Gellert brings together the transpersonal with the mundane, and the ancient, almost universal stories of God with the intensely individual experiences of those hearing and bearing those stories. He brings these into an understanding of how we have come to know God, experience what God is, and how he has evolved. Gellert’s feeling tone makes it clear he is exploring the history of the God-image in our human experience— not imposing dogma, but he makes it equally clear that he is discussing a God that is beyond the image. This may be a nothingness in our conventional language, but as the experiences of God develop, Gellert makes it clear that nothingness is one of the many facets of God
迈克尔·盖勒特（Michael Gellert）的新书《神圣的心灵》（T the Divine Mind）将一个人带入上帝的心灵，并将一个人带到那里与众神旅居，然后从上帝的角度出发，探索成为上帝意味着什么。盖勒特将上帝作为我们历史世界的一部分，从人本主义、心理学的角度看待。他在副标题中告诉我们他的方法，这本书是“探索上帝内心旅程的心理历史”。如果一个人对分析心理学的核心问题感兴趣，尤其是对行为心理学和还原论心理学（大多忽略了这个问题）可能称之为“上帝问题”的心理部分感兴趣，这是一本很难放下的书。荣格的作品发现，这些问题的主题是原型现实，其实质是心理的。盖勒特通过唤醒自我的活力来激发这些神秘的能量，这种活力永远在质疑原型的真实性，然后在一个被束缚的人身上感受到这种力量。通过历史和经验来处理这个原型/人类问题表明，被称为“上帝”的东西正在发展和变化，这种变化不仅发生在我们身上，也发生在“上帝”自己身上。盖勒特通过直接进入原始材料来展示这一发展：上帝干预世界的历史记录（《圣经》和类似的经文）；我们与这些干预的互动（作为先知、教师和上帝法官的记录）；最后，我们试图实践、生活和理解作为神和人意味着什么（通过神秘主义者和神秘经验的产物）。他的书充满了真实的原始材料、优美的语录和深刻的见解，描绘了我们作为不局限于物质主义或唯心主义的心理个体的文化体验。盖勒特没有刻意尝试，而是将超个人与世俗、古老、几乎普遍的上帝故事与那些听到和承载这些故事的人的强烈个人体验结合在一起。他将这些带入了对我们如何认识上帝、体验上帝是什么以及他是如何进化的理解。盖勒特的情感基调清楚地表明，他正在探索我们人类经验中上帝形象的历史——不是强加教条，但他同样清楚地表明他在讨论一个超越形象的上帝。在我们的传统语言中，这可能是一种虚无，但随着上帝经验的发展，盖勒特明确表示，虚无是上帝的许多方面之一
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2023.2210999
J. Kiehl
Climate chaos due to human burning of fossil fuels is destabilizing not only Earth’s weather and climate systems but also disrupting societal structures around the world. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that humans need to quickly stop using fossil fuels in order to avoid further disruption on the planet, far too little is actually being done to avoid catastrophic, chaotic collapse in the near future. Why do we resist taking necessary action on this globally life-threatening issue? Using Jungian psychology, the roles of unconscious complexes and defenses at the personal and cultural level are examined as key factors in thwarting action to address climate chaos. A plea is made to the analytic community to contribute more to addressing the psychological barriers preventing us from ensuring a livable planet for all future life.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2023.2210998
H. F. Etter
The legend of the Rainmaker of Kiauchow, originally told by Richard Wilhelm, influenced C. G. Jung throughout his life. The depth psychologist became convinced that this story from China reflected the essence of his own conception of the human psyche. It describes in symbols the harmony between psyche and matter as it can be experienced by a single person. Through such events a secret order is revealed. With the help of oracles, which have been consulted for thousands of years all over the world, the most diverse cultures have tried to relate to this irrational order and to adjust their actions accordingly. The meaning and handling of this ancient tradition are testimonies to the effect of a principle that C. G. Jung called “synchronicity.” Jung’s hypotheses on synchronicity, which largely coincide with ideas in Taoism, seem to open a door for our Western way of thinking—a door that will enable us in the future to expand our way of looking at the world to include parallel phenomena between the collective psyche and matter, as well as psychophysical phenomena in individuals.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00332925.2022.2154589
Mathew V. Spano
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