Thank you for the interesting question. Indeed there are many
parallels between Tibetan Buddhism and the Jungian theory of the
collective unconscious that so heavily impacted the Western
psychoanalytic tradition. Below are some links relating to these
parallels and some relevant excerpts.
BOOKS
*You should definitely consider picking these books up - they seem
very topical.
*Jung's Psychology and Tibetan Buddhism: Western and Eastern Paths to
the Heart
Author: Radmila Moacanin
http://www.addall.com/Browse/Detail/0861710428.html
*Buddhism and Jungian Psychology
by J. Marvin Spiegelman, Mokusen Miyuki
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1561841110/impermanencespir/104-7908300-2902301
*Jung and Eastern Thought by Harold G. Coward
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/088706051X/impermanencespir/104-7908300-2902301
*Self and Liberation: The Jung-Buddhism Dialogue (Jung and
Spirituality Series)
by Daniel J. Meckel (Editor), Robert L. Moore (Editor)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0809133016/impermanencespir/104-7908300-2902301
*Buddhism and the Art of Psychotherapy
By Hayao Kawai, a psychologist and Japan's first Jungian
psychoanalyst.
Published by The Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical
Psychology, Texas A&M University Press, 1996
Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul/Retrieving the
Sacred (Jung and Spirituality) by C. Michael, Ph.D. Smith
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0809136678/impermanencespir/104-7908300-2902301
Boundaries of the Soul: The Practice of Jung's Psychology
By June Singer
Zen and the Art of Imitating the Ineffable
by John E. McCloud
http://www.wynja.com/personality/zeninefff.html
ntroduction to Jungian Psychotherapy: The Therapeutic Relationship
by David Sedgwick
The Japanese Psyche: Major Motifs in the Fairy Tales of Japan
By Hayao Kawai
WEBSITES
The Jung and the Restless
http://www.mcmanweb.com/article-81.htm
"Ultimately, healing for Jung meant reconciling all the various
opposites in our natures and achieving an alchemical kind of
transmuting of our base metals into gold, a process he described as
"individuation"...
His idea of the animus and animi - the male and female natures we all
possess - is largely derivative of Kundalini yoga and Shivaite
Hinduism, and for the completion of the journey he borrowed heavily
from Tibetan Buddhism.
Analytical psychology and Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin
http://www.cgjungpage.org/articles/gsell1.html
"On the one hand I find similarities between the Buddhist law of cause
and effect and Jung's concept of synchronicity; the Buddhist karma and
the Jungian archetype; the Buddhist ninth level of consciousness and
the Jungian collective unconscious and, finally, between the Buddhist
and Jungian concepts of spirit, matter and time."
Reincarnation, The Collective Unconscious, and Individuation
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mr.king/writings/essays/essaysukc/reincarn.html
"In this paper the concept of reincarnation and Jung's theories of the
collective unconscious and the individuation process are looked at, in
relation to mysticism. Eastern and Western attitudes to reincarnation
are discussed, and some personal experiences described. Both the
collective unconscious and reincarnation are seen as relevant to the
individuation process, which in turn can be seen as part of the
purgative phase on the mystic path. The reader is reminded that the
term 'individual' relates to that which cannot be divided."
Meeting Abstracts A29: Buddhism and Psychology
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~buddhism/aar-bs/1999/abstractsA029.htm
"The close similarity between Ch'an practice according to Peter
Hershock and Jung's therapeutic methods as described by his patients
and students, as well as his own scattered references to synchronicity
as a therapeutic principle suggests (a) a psychology of "dharma
combat" and (b) analysis as an initiatory ritual. It gives us a far
more dynamic image of Jung's "Self than the endless photos of mandalas
he had printed in his books."
Collective Unconscious - Tony Crisp
http://www.dreamhawk.com/d-collun.htm
"If this connection is a fundamental part of everybody’s life, the
waters of self and the waters of the ocean are not separated. This
universal consciousness is what Jung called the collective
unconscious. Other cultures have given it other names – the ocean of
Brahm for instance in Hinduism. Within Buddhism there is also the
phrase, ‘the dewdrop slips into the shining sea’. This illustrates the
individual becoming aware of melting the boundaries of their personal
awareness, and becoming aware of the ocean of sentience within which
they exist."
Additional Resources
Collection of Quotations from Jung
http://www.usd.edu/~tgannon/txts/jungquot.txt
A bunch of Jung resources
http://www.mythosandlogos.com/Jung.html
A strong Buddhism booklist - including a "buddhism and psychology"
section
http://www.key.org.au/tasbuddhist/booklist.htm
Search Terms Used
jung "tibetan buddhism"
Buddhism, jung
Psychology buddhism
I'm running out of time on my lock - if you have any additional
requests or need for clarification, please let me know.
Thanks again,
Anthony (adiloren) |
