By Lionel Corbett
ISBN-10: 0415144000
ISBN-13: 9780415144001
Conventional options of God aren't any longer tenable for plenty of those that however adventure a robust feel of the sacred of their lives. The non secular functionality of the Psyche deals a mental version for the certainty of such event, utilizing the language and interpretive tools of intensity psychology, relatively these of C.G. Jung and psychoanalytic self psychology. the issues of evil and affliction, and the thought of human improvement as an incarnation of spirit are handled via a non secular method of the psyche that may be introduced simply into psychotherapeutic perform and utilized by way of the person in lifestyle. The publication deals another method of spirituality in addition to offering an creation to Jung and faith.
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The more the self feels endangered, the more defence predominates, and the more likely we are to exhibit narcissistic rage, erotization, projection or other characterological mechanisms. Rigid defence is needed by more fragile personalities, but the problem is that the numinosum may not respect this need. If the affect generated by the experience is too intense, collapse of the self, or psychosis, may result. FEAR OF THE NUMINOSUM AS A CORE ANXIETY Within classical psychoanalysis, the core anxieties which afflict the individual were thought to be castration anxiety, loss of the object or loss of the love of the object.
Suddenly I am filled with golden light and love which pours out of the chest. Christ appears from 28 PERSONAL SPIRITUALITY the chest, surrounded by the light, and smiles at me. I am engulfed by the light and love, which is so powerful that I become love and light. Christ, the light and the love slowly fade away, and I am once again myself, but now I am filled with light and love that I know will never leave me. When she told the therapist this dream, there was an immediate experience of the coniunctio, because the original affect of the experience was evoked in its telling.
Another woman, dying of colon cancer, had spent most of her time in therapy working on her childhood, which had been made difficult because of very strained relations with her parents and also between her parents themselves. A good deal of routine work was done without the appearance of anything unusual. Then one day, just before she died, she woke up (this was clearly not a dream) with a strong sense of the presence of her parents by her bed. She then saw in front of her a vision of a small golden bowl, shooting off golden rays of light.
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