{"title":"Jung’s Snails","authors":"Christine M. Du Bois","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2023.2211003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2211003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"66 1","pages":"130 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47210992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey. (2018). By Michael Gellert. Prometheus.","authors":"Gordon Nelson","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2023.2211007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2211007","url":null,"abstract":"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","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"66 1","pages":"136 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48167676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate Chaos: A Complex Issue","authors":"J. Kiehl","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2023.2210999","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2210999","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"66 1","pages":"45 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48990317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Rainmaker of Kiauchow","authors":"H. F. Etter","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2023.2210998","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2023.2210998","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"66 1","pages":"19 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43603079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Romulus and Remus","authors":"Mathew V. Spano","doi":"10.1080/00332925.2022.2154589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00332925.2022.2154589","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42460,"journal":{"name":"Psychological Perspectives-A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought","volume":"65 1","pages":"500 - 500"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46163193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}