The Hidden Treasure: Rumi’s Approach to Overcoming the Collective Fear of Death

Abstract

ABSTRACT:Rumi, Adler, and Jung are luminaries who have profoundly influenced the understanding of human psychology. Rumi was not a scientist or psychologist, but a theologist who preferred to express his views on human identity, spirit, being, and becoming through tales and stories with poetic-symbolic language. Adlerian and Jungian psychology enable us to unfold, to some extent, the symbols and learn about the concealed and disguised meaning in Rumi’s tales and poems. Despite some philosophical-theoretical differences among the three, the meanings across their work are similar, including individuation, transformation, social influences, and the challenge of dying.