Jung and Shamanism in Dialogue: Retrieving the Soul, Retrieving the Sacred

The Heart of Jung and Shamanism
	Preface to Second Edition
	ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
	SERIES FOREWORD
	Introduction
	PLAN AND ORGANIZATION
Part One: SHAMANISM | Chapter One: Overview of Classic Shamanism
	DEFINITIONS
	CLASSIC SHAMANISM
	METHODS OF RECRUITMENT
	SHAMANISM: COSMOLOGY AND RELIGION
	IMAGINAL COSMOLOGY: INVERTING MYTH AS MAP AND GUIDE
	MAGICAL TREE AND AXIS MUNDI
	HOW THE SHAMAN IMAGINES DISEASE
	IMAGINATION AS CAUSE AND CURE OF SICKNESS
	CHEROKEE USE OF IMAGERY IN CONCEIVING ILLNESS AND CURE
	SHAMANIC SPECIALIZATION
	ARE SHAMANS CRAZY? SHAMANISM AND PSYCHOPATHOLOGY
	INITIATORY ORDEALS
	RELATIONS WITH SPIRITS AND SHAMANIC CONTROL
	FUNCTIONS AND TECHNIQUES OF ECSTASY
	MINOR SHAMANIC FUNCTION
	SHAMANIC PARAPHERNALIA
	NORTH AMERICAN SHAMANISM
	OBJECT INTRUSION AND SPIRIT INTRUSION
	SOUL LOSS: DIAGNOSIS AND CURE
	OTHER ASPECTS OF NORTH AMERICAN SHAMANISM
Chapter Two: Technician of the Sacred
	SHAMANISM AND THE SACRED
	ANIMISM
	RUDOLF OTTO: THE SACRED IN ITS NON-RATIONAL ASPECTS
	MYSTERY
	FASCINATION
	TREMENDUM: THE REPELLING/HORRIFIC COMPONENT
	THE AMBIVALENT NATURE OF THE HOLY
	EXPRESSION OF THE NUMEN
	VAN DER LEEUW’S CONCEPT OF THE SACRED
	THE SACRED AS POWER
	SHAMANISM, HEALING, AND POWER
	THINGS, POWER, AND SHAMANISM
	TABOO AND POWER
	ELIADE: THE SACRED AS ARCHAIC ONTOLOGY
	NOSTALGIA FOR THE SACRED
	CELESTIAL ARCHETYPES
	THE PRESTIGE OF THE CENTER AND AXIS MUNDI
	REPETITION
	THE SACRED AND RITUAL PROCESS
	SACRED SPACE AND RITUAL TRANSFORMATION
	TRANSFORMATIVE PROCESS AND RITUAL LEADERSHIP
Part Two: JUNG AND SHAMANISM | Chapter Three: Jung the Wounded Healer
	SOME SHAMANIC ELEMENTS OF JUNG’S LIFE
	JUNG’S CHILDHOOD: THE WOUNDING OF A HEALER
	LATE CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH: THE WOUND DEEPENS
	YEARS OF APPRENTICESHIP
	FATHER FREUD
	SEPARATION AND SOUL LOSS
	JUNG’S RITUAL ELDERS AND TRIBE
	THE DESCENT: JOURNEY AND SPIRIT GUIDES
	VISIONS OF THE DEAD
	THE ANIMA: RECOVERING SOUL AT MIDLIFE
	DISCOVERING THE GOAL AND RETURNING WITH THE BOON
	WAS JUNG A SHAMAN?
Chapter Four: Jung’s Theory of the Soul
	COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS WITH SHAMANISM
	THE ANCESTRAL AND ARCHAIC LAYERS OF THE SOUL
	ARCHETYPES
	ARCHETYPE AND NUMINOSITY
	THE NUMINA: SHAMANIC AND JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVES
	INDIVIDUATION AND THE RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK
	INDIVIDUATION AND TRIBAL SOCIETIES
	THE ARCHETYPAL SELF (THE INNER AXIS MUNDI)
	MANDALAS: IMAGES OF SELF AS AXIS MUNDI
	JUNG’S THEORY OF PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDER
	COMPLEXES: THE “LITTLE DEVILS”
	MAKING COMPLEXES CONSCIOUS VS. SHAMANIC EXORCISM
	FORMS OF COMPLEXES
	WHAT IS THE STATUS OF SPIRIT GUIDES IN SEEING SHAMANICALLY?
	THE SELF-SELF CONNECTION IN SHAMANIC SEEING
Chapter Five: Jung’s Interpretation of Shamanism
	SHAMANISM AS A PRECURSOR TO JUNG’S ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
	JUNG ON ALCHEMY AND SHAMANISM
	THE STONE AS SACRED OBJECT
	THE ALCHEMICAL TREE AND THE MAGICAL TREE OF THE SHAMAN AS SYMBOL OF ARCHETYPAL SELF
	SHAMAN’S SELF AND THE SYMBOLISM OF THE INDIVIDUATION PROCESS
	CELESTIAL BRIDE SYMBOLISM AND THE SHAMANIC ANIMA
	THE SHAMAN AND ARCHAIC INDIVIDUATION
	SHAMANIC TRANSFORMATION AND THE HERO ARCHETYPE
	SHAMANIC INITIATION: TRANSFORMATION
	SHAMAN: TRICKSTER
	SHAMAN AS SHAPE-SHIFTER/EPISTEMOLOGICAL MEDIATOR
	SHAMAN AS WOUNDED HEALER AND SAVIOR (SOTER)
	JUNG ON SOUL LOSS, POSSESSION, AND EXORCISTIC RITES
	RITUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION
	THE UNDERLYING ARCHETYPAL STRUCTURE OF SHAMANISM
Part Three: SOME IMPLICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
Chapter Six: Dissociation, Possession, and Soul Loss: Clinical and Theoretical Applications Today
	DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER (MULTIPLE PERSONALITY)
	WHAT IS MULTIPLE PERSONALITY?
	ORIGINS OF MULTIPLICITY
	THE THERAPY OF DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS TODAY
	SHAMANIC RESOURCES FOR TREATING PATHOLOGIC DISSOCIATION TODAY I: COLIN ROSS, M.D., AND THE HYPNOTHERAPEUTIC ADAPTATIONS
	SHAMANIC RESOURCES FOR TREATING PATHOLOGIC DISSOCIATION TODAY II: SANDRA INGERMAN’S CLASSIC SOUL RETRIEVAL
	SOUL LOSS AND DISSOCIATION IN JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE
	SOME PROBLEMS IN JUNG’S PERSPECTIVES
	NOXIOUS ALTERS, POSSESSION, AND EXORCISM
	POSSESSION AND RITUAL EXORCISM IN JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVE
Chapter Seven: The Power of Ritual, Image, and Archetype to Bring About Profound Psychological and Spiritual Transformation
	MASCULINE PUBERTY RITES AND RITUAL TRANSFORMATION
	RITUAL AND THE BRAIN
	RITUAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE WORLD IMAGE (THE COGNITIVE MAP)
	RITUAL IMAGE AND BRAIN ASSYMETRY
	THE REPTILIAN BRAIN AND THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS IN RITUAL
	JUNGIAN PERSPECTIVES: RECONCILING WITH THE TWO-MILLION-YEAR-OLD PERSON INSIDE
	THE MAGICIAN ARCHETYPE, RITUAL, AND NEUROBIOLOGY
Chapter Eight: Implications for the Future
	TOWARD A POSTMODERN SHAMANISM
	THE LOSS OF THE SENSE OF THE SACRED
	SHAMANIC DIAGNOSIS OF WESTERN CULTURE: LOSS OF THE SACRED
	THE FUNCTION OF MYTH AND RELIGION
	NAVAJO USE OF MYTHIC HERO AND RITUAL HEALING
	COMPARISONS OF NAVAJO AND JUNGIAN METHODS OF WORKING WITH IMAGES
	JUNG’S ANSWER TO THE LOSS OF THE SENSE OF THE SACRED
Notes
	CHAPTER ONE. OVERVIEW OF CLASSIC SHAMANISM
	CHAPTER TWO. TECHNICIAN OF THE SACRED
	CHAPTER THREE. JUNG THE WOUNDED HEALER
	CHAPTER FOUR. JUNG’S THEORY OF THE SOUL
	CHAPTER FIVE. JUNG’S INTERPRETATION OF SHAMANISM
	CHAPTER SIX. DISSOCIATION, POSSESSION, AND SOUL LOSS
	CHAPTER SEVEN. THE POWER OF RITUAL, IMAGE, AND ARCHETYPE
	CHAPTER EIGHT. IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE
Selected Bibliography