Jungian Myth And AdvaitaVedanta, The

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Title: Jungian Myth And AdvaitaVedanta, The
Author: Whitfield, Carol, Ph.D.(Radha)
Item Code: ISBN9789380049052
Publisher: Arsha Vidya Centre, Chennai
Edition: 1st ed., Date: 2009, 313 pp., PB
Description: This book, based upon the dissertation of Dr.Carol Whitfield (Radha) for her Ph.D. compares Jungian Myth & Advaita Vedanta. This adds spiritual depth to Jung’s myth and makes Advaita Vedanta more accessible to the Western student.The Vedantic myth differs from the Jungian myth in that there is a point of completion, or a winning of the game, which is not true in Jung’s conception. For Jung, the process of individuation is an ongoing process which is never completed. The Vedantin would look at Jung’s process of individuation differently, in reference to the meaning of life. The nature of the Self revealed in the Upanisads is limitless, non-dual, and whole. Liberation is knowledge of this Self which equates to the attainment of wholeness, the apparent lack of wholeness being due only to Self-Ignorance. Self-Knowledge is the recognition and differentiation of an already existent wholeness which is both transcendent and imminent to all of one’s perceptions, but its’ entirety appears to get missed due to the limitations in-born in the human perception. The book includes an Introduction with Preliminary Assumptions, The Jungian Myth, The Vision of Advaita Vedanta, The Need for a Synthesis, and a Chapter Outline. Chapters include: The Need for a New Myth; The Jungian Myth; The Vedantic Vision and Jung; The Western Ways to Wisdom with final Chapter of Conclusion and Bibliography.