Jung believed God was a projection of the Collective Unconscious. Was he rejecting religion or was he in good company among religion's mystics? A case study of the motif of the Sefirot, as a symbol for the relationship between the Mind of God and Humanity, in Kabbalah and Hasidism.
Also, find out why Jung said “the Hasidic rabbi.. the Great Maggid.. anticipated my entire psychology.”
00:00 “The Maggid anticipated my entire psychology”
00:23 Jung on Religion and Psychology
02:55 Was Jung Arguing Against Religion?
03:48 History of Kabbalah Psychologising Itself
05:57 Hasidism on God and Humanity
09:47 Explaining the Letter
11:42 Other Candidates?
12:19 How bout some Sources
14:45 Conclusion and Summary
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Carl Jung on Kabbalah: • Carl Jung on Kabbalah
Kabbalistic Concepts in Jungian Thought: • Kabbalah in Jungian Thought
Jung’s Mystical Experience: • Carl Jung's Jewish Mysticism
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“If God’s consciousness is clearer than human consciousness, then creation makes no sense and humanity has no purpose for existence”
Sources and Further Reading:
Erich Neumann and Hasidism, Tamar Kron, 2018
Hasidism, Between Ecstasy and Magic, Moshe Idel, 1995, pp. 227-35.
Jung and Kabbalah: Imaginal and Noetic Aspects, Steven Joseph, 2007
Jung and the Kabbalah, Sanford Drob, 1999
Jung, Kabbalah, and Gnosis, Stephan Hoeller, 2012
Jung’s Kabbalistic Visions, Sanford Drob, 2005
Kabbalah: New Perspectives, Moshe Idel, 1988, pp. 146-53, 175-9.
Kabbalistic Visions: C.G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism, Sanford Drob, 2010
The Jung-Kirsch letters, Ann Lammers, 2011
The Origins and History of Consciousness, Erich Neumann, 1954. P. 7.
The Parting of the Ways, Richard Kradin, 2015
C. G. Jung Speaking, McGuire and Hull (eds.), 1977, pp. 271-2.
Psychology and Religion, Carl Jung, 1969
Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung, 1968
Letters, Carl Jung, 1975
Tags: #Jung #Kabbalah #Hasidism
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