ABOUT THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WESTERN RELIGION AND EASTERN RELIGION
Frequency: Second and fourth Saturday of each month.
Hours: 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Day: Saturdays
Duration: 4 months (September to December)
Religion occupies a central place in the work of Jung who, especially in the writings of his last years, paid special attention to the religious phenomenon. Jung’s great merit lies in having been able to recognize that the original representations that underlie and are common to the different religions constitute archetypal contents of the human soul.
“Answer to Job”. In the second, commentaries and prologues to oriental religious texts such as I Ching or the Bardo Todol are compiled above all.
In this volume, six interesting studies by Jung on some texts and traditions of India and China are collected, which represent an exceptional example of the encounter of a Westerner with the wisdom of the East.
Specifically, the reading of oriental texts offers Jung the support of ancient traditions, of very subtle and elaborate doctrines, and of privileged methods of becoming aware with which thousands and thousands of individuals have tried, throughout the centuries. , to reach a greater self-knowledge and higher states of overcoming their material and ordinary limitations, in contrast to the different psychological, psychoanalytic and spiritual methods that have been typical of the Western tradition.