Jungian Psychology and Personal Correlations: Part 1

Recording Location
Lone Pine, Calif.
Recording Date
5 September 1977
Recording Information

Franklin Merrell-Wolff begins this series by commenting on Robert Johnson’s analysis of the Grail myth found in his book titled He. He continues by listing three fundamental postulates of Jungian psychology; namely, Jung’s conceptions of the personal and the collective unconscious, of psychological types, and of the archetypes of the collective unconscious. Wolff explores the meaning of the blanket term ‘unconscious’ as it is presented by Jung and gives an outline of the more highly differentiated states of consciousness described by Aurobindo. He then provides an explanation of the possible origins of dream experience and calls attention to an important distinction between “dream” and “actual” experience during sleep. He offers further clarification by stressing the value of trance in realizing the superconscient Light and the value of the dream for understanding the subconscient problems of life. He points out that the great teacher on the yogic path is not the dream, but rather, the discipline connected with trance that in some degree opens the door to superconscient states of Consciousness. Wolff then issues a warning against the use of drugs that seem to duplicate authentic yogic experience, and refers to Aurobindo’s conception of the “intermediate zone” to emphasize the dangers associated with the use of drugs that mimic or counterfeit authentic mystical experience.

Transcript
Recording Duration
47 min
Sort Order
266.00