Main description:

Includes reference to Jung's writings on religion and well as contemporary psychoanalytic theory throughout. Presents an approach to spirituality based on direct personal experience of the sacred. Explores the various portals through which the sacred presents itself to us, from dreams, relationships and nature to creativity, visions and the body.

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Part 1: Meeting The Mystery: Developing a Personal Spirituality; Chapter 1: The Numinosum: Direct Experience of the Sacred; Chapter 2: The Reality of the Psyche: The Archetype as a Spiritual Principle; Chapter 3: Personality, Psychopathology, and Personal Spirituality; Part 2: Through Psyche's Lens: A Depth-Psychological Approach to Spiritual Questions; Chapter 4: A Depth-Psychology View of Some Religious Ideas; Chapter 5: A Depth Psychology of Evil; Chapter 6: The Dark Side of the Self and the Trials of Job: Transformation of thw God-Image; Chapter 7: A Sense of the Sacred: Spirituality Beyond Religion; Notes; Index