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Authors: Meredith Sabini, C. G. Jung, Meredith Sabini
ISBN-13: 9781556433795, ISBN-10: 1556433794
Format: Paperback
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Date Published: May 2002
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Meredith Sabini

Editor Meredith Sabini, M.A., Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, teacher, and author. She is Director of Depth Psychology Programs, a continuing education providership in Berkeley, California, which specializes in dream seminars and self-care retreats for healing arts professionals.

Book Synopsis

While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species. Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction1
Ch. 1Jung's Own Relationship with Nature25
Excerpts from Memories, Dreams, Reflections25
On Being at the Tower at Bollingen35
Jung's Travels: Letters to Emma Jung39
Jung's Travels: Taos, New Mexico, 192542
Jung's Travels: Kenya and Uganda, 1925-2647
Letters61
Ch. 2Consciousness Slipped from Its Natural Foundation67
Excerpts67
Ch. 3Nature Was Once Fully Spirit and Matter79
Excerpts79
Letters88
Ch. 4The Primitive Knows How to Converse with the Soul91
Excerpts92
Archaic Man99
Ch. 5We Have Conquered Nature Is a Mere Slogan121
Excerpts122
Marginalia on Contemporary Events129
Ch. 6Our Civilizing Potential Has Led Us Down the Wrong Path137
Excerpts138
The Transformation of Dragons into Machines147
Americans Must Say No150
The Effect of Technology on the Human Psyche152
Man and His Environment154
Letters157
Ch. 7We Know Nothing of Man163
Excerpts164
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man177
Ch. 8Nature Must Not Win but Cannot Lose195
Excerpts196
The Rainmaker Story211
A Talk with Students at the Institute215
Letters218
Suggested Readings223
Permissions225
Index227

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