Jungian Psychology and Personal Correlations: Part 7

Recording Location
Lone Pine, Calif.
Recording Date
? November 1977
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Franklin Merrell-Wolff concludes this series by giving an account of two dreams that occurred prior to his Realizations of 1936. He states that he has not found the interpretation of these dreams from a Jungian perspective to be satisfactory and suggests an interpretation based primarily upon the psychology of Sri Aurobindo. He proceeds by making a distinction between the Jungian notion of the “anima” and the Aurobindian notion of the “psychic being” and offers a comparison between the character of Mephisto and that of the “Asura,” as he knows them from his own insight into their inner nature. Wolff provides an analysis of his second dream based on the assumptions that the young woman represents the psychic being, Mephisto represents the mental Asura, and the Sage represents the transcendental component, or what Aurobindo calls the “overhead Divine.” He compares the issue of this dream on the microcosmic level to the story of the fall of Lucifer on the macrocosmic level, and points out that the attempt on the part of the Asura to dominate the psychic being eventuated not in the destruction of the Asura but in its subordination as a vice-regal power under the governance of the transcendental component.

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Recording Duration
54 min
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