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Summary: clearly written and informative....
Review: ....as all Edinger's books are, but this one contains more of his less useful Jungian prejudices in one place than most of his other books, with the possible exception of ARCHETYPE OF THE APOCALYPSE.In discussing the transformation of the Western God-image, Edinger implies that "animism"--experiencing the divinity of nature--is a less advanced psychological stage than realizing that a God-image organizes the psyche. The animism argument is an outdated one and has been pummeled both by ecopsychology and by the aboriginal feeling for the sacredness of place. Edinger was an excellent Jungian analyst, but he was obviously no ecologist. Nor do his descriptions of traditional spirituality as less developed than, say, individuative methods do him or Jung much credit. Why do Jungians so often forget that Jung was a theist? Given this, his dream (p. 74) is informative: finding himself in an alien-feeling world, he sees that the people listening to him are afraid of catching an infection from him--upon which he dances a jig, no longer afraid of them, and says, "Jumping Jehosephat"--an able description of the missionary enthusiasm with which a former Jehovah's (Jehosephat) Witness goes about acting his part in a kind of exteriorized play in which the world's a dangerous stage of "conflict and intrigue." A plus is that this book is free of all the alchemical, etc. imagery originally reproduced to good expository purpose by Jung but wearyingly repeated by so many of his followers in their explanations of his thought; even the mandatory photo of Jung is absent. Another plus is that the selections from Jung's letters were well thought out and provide fascinating insights to readers who haven't read what's been published and translated so far of Jung's voluminous correspondence.
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Summary: Genius Level Follow-up To Jung
Review: This book is an expansion and follow-up to Jung's equally wonderful book "Answer to Job." Edinger talks extensively about the evolution of Western man's idea of God. His "God-Image" (not God literately), but rather man's perception of God and how that has changed through-out the centuries. Edinger continues to strike a wonderful balance between scholarship and accessablity. Although, this book is by no means "lite-reading", it is a thoughtful book that the educated lay-person would find helpful, particluarly for those on a spiritual path.
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Summary: Genius Level Follow-up To Jung
Review: This book is an expansion and follow-up to Jung's equally wonderful book "Answer to Job." Edinger talks extensively about the evolution of Western man's idea of God. His "God-Image" (not God literately), but rather man's perception of God and how that has changed through-out the centuries. Edinger continues to strike a wonderful balance between scholarship and accessablity. Although, this book is by no means "lite-reading", it is a thoughtful book that the educated lay-person would find helpful, particluarly for those on a spiritual path.
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