The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

And side note here that very interesting.

This book was written after he helped put together another book called The Secret of the Golden Flower, which is a translation of a Chinese alchemical text.

And the interesting part is that Mr.

Pick was very into that book.

By the way, if I have had, I think, one real contribution to the field over the decades, it has been... to separate psyche and mind in Jung's thought and say that they're often used interchangeably, but they're not the same.

At the beginning of The Secret of the Golden Flower, Jung makes a comment about some people probably, you know, there are probably some fish in the sea that think that the sea is inside them, but we all know that the fish is inside the sea.

And in the same way, you know, human beings are obviously inside the psyche.

The psyche is not inside us.

by creating a dialogue between East and West on the theme of individuation.

Jung's understanding of the individuation process crystallized when he studied a translation of the Chinese Taoist text, The Secret of the Golden Flower, and his theory of the self expanded through his study, as I mentioned, of the Hindu concept of the Atma.

Engaging East and West in further dialogue today this is part of the mission statement, and sharpen a lens to see the individuation process as both diverse culturally and universally archetypal, and to advance its goals with a deeper understanding of the wisdom and the interplay of civilizations that may contribute to the greatest psychological and spiritual consciousness of individuation, cultures, and humanity.

That's the mission statement.

if you really get into studying Jung's writings on non-European cultures, I think most people know they're there, but they haven't studied them deeply.

But if you really look at them, you will see what Jung extracted from them, what he learned from them, how deeply he was engaged in studying them.

beginning with The Secret of the Golden Flower, as Jung mentioned, but also Kundalini Yoga, his seminars on Kundalini Yoga, his commentary on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, his writings on yoga.

He gave many lectures on yoga and Eastern religious practices in his Etihad lectures.

But even the Red Book only came out in 2010, 2009, 2010.

So it wasn't, but it was after he finished with the Red Book that he received the Secret of the Golden Flower, the I Ching from Wilhelm.

and that he realized that alchemy is at the heart of everything, that our Western way of perceiving, and he says this in this little clip that I will be sharing, is the way the Western psyche operates.

And that brings us back to what Dion Fortune was talking about too, that the Kabbalah is a yoga of the West, right? And that the way, and I think in a way she's intimating what Jung was talking about too, in terms of it being an alchemy.

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Today I'll be sharing information from the 1975 book titled Meditation and the Mind of Man, based on the Edgar Cayce readings by Herbert B. Perriere, Ph.D., and Mark A. Thurston, Ph.D. Chapter 4 of this book gives some basic foundational definitions of and reasons for meditation as found in the Cayce material.

The Edgar Cayce readings offer several definitions of meditation.

In each case, the focus is upon an attunement process, which involves the aligning or harmonizing of the body, mind, and soul of man.