Encounters at Ascona

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Note of Acknowledgment vi
3. Contents vii
4. List of Plates ix
5. List of Text Figures xiii
6. Editor’s Foreword xv
7. Encounters at Ascona xvii
8. On the Significance of the Indian Tantric Yoga 1
9. Spiritual Guidance in Contemporary Taoism 59
10. The Psychology of Ancient Mexican Symbolism 102
11. The Malekulan Journey of the Dead 115
12. Man and Mask 151
13. Symbolic and Sacramental Existence in Judaism 168
14. Contemplation in Christian Mysticism 186
15. The Experience of Light in the Gospel of St. John, in the “Corpus hermeticum,” in Gnosticism, and in the Eastern Church 239
16. The Spiritual Man in the Persian Poet 'Attār 267
17. Spiritual Development as Reflected in Alchemy and Related Disciplines 305
18. Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process 341
19. The Position of Art in the Psychology of Our Time 424
20. Appendices 449
21. Index 471