Research in Analytical Psychology by Joseph Cambray Leslie Sawin

Author:Joseph Cambray,Leslie Sawin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)
Published: 2018-05-07T00:00:00+00:00

As Jung wrote in the introduction to the Tibetan Book of the Dead:

It is highly sensible of the Bardo Thödol to make clear to the dead man the primacy of the psyche, for that is the one thing which life does not make clear to us.

( Jung, 1970a)

From a Jungian point of view, meditation is attention to the psyche. This can take the form of resisting instinctual urges (the level of control, described as the field of the psyche in Aion); playing with arising images (similar to guided meditations but without the guide); holding an emotion until it moves into an image, moving according to a kinesthetic image, noticing what arises (similar to meditations of steady awareness); allowing a psychic impregnation (like Tibetan dream yoga); hovering awareness with attention split between one’s own process, the other’s process, and the field, and attunement to what changes us (the numinous or devotional aspect). This last is akin to the following:

We might say … that the term “religion” designates the attitude peculiar to a consciousness which has been changed by experience of the numinosum.

( Jung, 1970b, para. 9)

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