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Welcoming Our Gods Back Home: The Wisdom of Psychological Mysticism
by Jerry R. Wright
The Final Volume in the Trilogy Jungian Psychology and the Future of Our Species
An urgent call to humanityās soulā¦
Welcoming Our Gods Back Home brings the wisdom of Psychological Mysticism to the religious, political, and cultural divides that threaten our species and planet. This book validates the universality of numinous experiences and challenges all forms of religious and political nationalism that claim divine election, validation, power, and authority. Authoritarian claims in the United States and around the world are fueled by long-standing religious delusions of external, supernatural, interventionist beings variously named gods, goddesses, and, more recently, God. Such claims promote unconscious cult behavior by leaders and their followers. Carl Jung spoke often about the dynamics and dangers of mob psychology.
From the perspective of Psychological Mysticism, our gods are internal, intrapsychic experiences, images, and resources to support our organic connection to the mysterious Sacred Source of the universe and to support our at-one-ment with all else. Psychologically, healthy individuals, religions, and institutions view the universe as an inter-connected, inter-related, and inter-dependent web of being.
Jungian psychoanalyst Dr. Jerry R. Wright considers welcoming our gods back home to the human psyche, where they were birthed and where they belong, to be our most urgent psychospiritual task. Until that happens, our species will likely continue to do great harm to ourselves, to each other, and to our Earth home.
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| | The Jungian Psychology and the Future of Our Species Trilogy
Welcoming Our Gods Back Home completes the trilogy āJungian Psychology and the Future of Our Species.ā The two previous volumes are Reimagining God and Religion (Chiron, 2018) and A Mystical Path Less Travelled (Chiron, 2021).
The trilogy challenges individuals to invest in the power of individual consciousness in general, and religious consciousness in particular, in order to heal our collective religious and political pathology. To that end, recognizing, withdrawing, and owning our personal and collective shadow becomes the best gift we can offer the future of our species.
"These three volumes provide the reader with an introduction to the Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, especially his concern for the recovery of soul in all aspects of life, including religion," says Dr. Wright. "The trilogy also provides an introduction to Psychological Mysticism, an interim psychospiritual paradigm as we await a new collective myth. The three volumes are part of my personal and professional testament, a kind of memoir. They bear witness to my lifelong search for meaning that combines religion and depth psychology."
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| Volume 1 Reimagining God and Religion: Essays for the Psychologically Minded
Drawing on the insights of Jungian or analytical psychology, Dr. Wright offers depth psychological analysis of our contemporary religious and political dilemmas, as well as invites readers to be midwives for the emerging religious myth that many believe to be on our collective horizon ā a myth that will be more inclusive, intellectually and scientifically honest, and soul satisfying.
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| | Volume 2 A Mystical Path Less Traveled: A Jungian Psychological Perspective ā Journal Notes, Poems, Dreams, and Blessings
ā¦ Drawing on the Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung, on the discoveries of modern science, and on mystical traditions from numerous world religions, this book proposes a psychological mysticism that preceded, and now replaces, the historical theological mysticism that has been dependent on theistic images of god. Such images are no longer meaningful for many people ā or necessary.
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| | ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jerry R. Wright, D. Min. is a Jungian psychoanalyst, teacher, and writer who lives in Flat Rock, North Carolina. He is a senior training analyst with the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and serves on the faculty of the Haden Institute. An experienced conference and retreat leader, he has also led pilgrimages to sacred sites on Iona, Scotland, Ireland, Peru, India, Greece, and Southeast Asia. |
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