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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The New Age movement is a significant spiritual phenomenon and Jungians should be more interested in it than they appear to be especially because the movement has appropriated Jung as one of its spiritual leaders. The New Age is generally frowned upon by the religious academic and psychological institutions of our time but it is ‘there” and it has to be taken into account. Although its expressions may be crude or untutored it is able to tell us much about the spirit of the time about what is being left out of Western consciousness and what needs to be reconsidered or regarded with greater respect. The New Age compensates our consciousness in different ways. It compensates our secular materialist society by nakedly displaying the powerful longings of the human spirit even if this compensation is unsuccessful i.e. unacceptable to mainstream secular attitudes. It also compensates our established religious traditions by forcing us to attend to what has been repressed or ignored by Western religion: the sacred feminine the Earth Mother the Goddess the body nature instincts ecstasy and mysticism. When our Western institutions have carefully considered these elements then the New Age will disappear because it will no longer need to compensate the one-sidedness that currently exists. But our institutions appear to be in no hurry to change which suggests that the New Age will be around for a long time and will go through changes of its own. (LL)