Transformation

My Life in a Death Cult

I tend to share Jung’s Kantian perspective about subjects like God and life after death. We simply cannot know the ontological truth about these directly. Yet to the psyche their existence seems quite real regardless of what the intellect has to say about the subject. I also possess what I would consider a healthy mistrust of mediums and mediumship, though to be fair, I don’t doubt their inner experiences. While I’m convinced at least some of them are outright charlatans,...

Four Steps to Transformation in Jungian Psychology and Gnostic Alchemy

I have been doing some research into the Mysterium for our upcoming Jungian Mystery School this year on the theme of the Unus Mundus. This combined with some prior research I have done on the “Four Stages of Transformation”1 has allowed me to map the corresponding stages of the Mysterium Coniunctionis2 onto the four stages of depth psychology that Jung describes in an earlier text and onto the four stages of the Magnum Opus, i.e., the four stages of transubstantiation...