Storming Eastern Temples: A Psychological Exploration of Yoga (Quest Books)

By Lucindi Frances Mooney and Eucindini F. Mooney

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0835604799
• ISBN13: 9780835604796
• Release Date: January 1976
• Publisher: Theosophical Pub House
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

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Storming Eastern Temples

What is there about the religions of the American Indian that remind one of Jungian psychology? How do these disciplines relate to Hinduism? Is the adoration of a guru, membership in a club or a society vital to the individualization process? This commentary on the psychology of Carl Gustav Jung is original. It is probably the first time such in-depth emphasis has been placed upon Jung's predeliction for drawing parallels between revolutionary hypnosis, those of the "Eastern Temples," and the Shamanistic rites of the American Indian. But, as the author is an Indian woman of Seminole/Choctaw heritage, this is understandable. Still, after one takes proper notice of these important corelations, it must be emphasized that the thrust of Storming Eastern Temples is classical Jungian psychology. For instance, when you read this book, you will discover why Your Neurosis Is Normal ("Everyone has a neurosis - hopefully"). A strong feature of this book is its "how-to" technique: how to become a whole person. ("There are several methods by which one can begin to know something of the depths of one's own unconscious, many of which methods utilize active imagination, or visionary meditation"). It is a book meant for the courageous, for the potential (and we all are) Goethes', Kierkegaards' and Whitmans', for here we learn how to put to use the iceberg portion of our psyche that is hidden beneath the waters - our unconscious - always a highly courageous action. --- from book's back cover