Cary F. Baynes Livres

This simplified pocket edition is for the modern reader who, it is admitted, may well be sceptical of a book of oracles. But W.S.Boardman suggests that we should approach it with an open mind, allowing it to remind us of the apparent preponderance in life of chance (which might yet be something else). Recommending the traditional way of working with the text - tossing coins - W.S.Boardman says this helps us to let go of our struggle to control events and to stop taking ourselves too seriously. Both assist the detachment that can unlock us and allow real changes into our lives.

Modern Man in Search of a Soul is the perfect introduction to the theories and concepts of one of the most original and influential religious thinkers of the twentieth century. schovat popis

This unique text of esoteric Taoism provides insight into the secret religious traditions of ancient China while exploring the relationship between Western and Eastern traditions, as well as Jung's concept of the unconscious. The ancient esoteric text, influenced by Buddhism, Confucianism, and possibly Nestorian Christianity, includes practical instructions for meditation exercises that enable the practitioner to break free from worldly attachments, achieve health, and ultimately experience the "birth of the golden flower," symbolizing spiritual rebirth. C. G. Jung utilized the opportunity to comment on the text not only to write a study comparing the psychology and spiritual lives of Western and Eastern individuals, highlighting important practical implications of this comparison, but also to vividly articulate the foundations of his theory of the collective unconscious, for which the Chinese text provided valuable evidence.