All this reading I'm doing is an antidote to the reductive and mechanistic nature of rational materialism that has overtaken Western civilization.
- Shadows of the Sacred - Frances Vaughan
- Cosmos and Psyche - Richard Tarnas
- The Eternal Drama - Edward Edinger (Reading Greek Mythology as an expression of the human psyche)
- The Discovery of Being - Rollo May (Existential psychotherapy)
- States of Grace - Charlene Spretnak
- Ego and Archetype - Edinger
- The Psyche in Antiquity book 2; Gnosticism and Early Christianity - Edinger
- The Bible and the Psyche; Individuation Symbolism in the Old Testament - Edinger
I'm really loving the Edinger books right now - he's a great explicator of Carl Gustav Jung's ideas.
Jung's great discovery (one of them) was that in pre-Enlightenment times, when mankind's psyche was still rather primitive, he tended to project it out into the void to create myth and religion, as well as early philosophy and alchemy. By studying these ancient sources we can witness the inner workings of the psyche itself. Each of Edinger's books delves into a different era, but they all demonstrate that the psyche is the real source of the numinous and the miraculous.
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