Jung's Global Vision: Western Psyche Eastern Mind, With References to Sri Aurobindo, Integral Yoga, The Mother
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Jung's Global Vision: Western Psyche Eastern Mind Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from India were contemporaries of Carl Gustav Jung. Their Integral Yoga can be characterized as based on the former's observation that All Life is Yoga, just as Jung's individuation process is founded on the fact that Everything Living Dreams of Individuation. In each case, the path involves a specific concentration of a natural phenomenon, which speeds up the process. This firm establishment in nature is a significant factor in distinguishing their spirituality and psychology and from other disciplines and methods. Both ways involve the incarnation of the Divine through individuals that leads to far-reaching transformation of both the individual and culture. In Jung's Global Vision: Western Psyche Eastern Mind, Dr. Johnston outlines the striking similarities as well as differences between the path of individuation as outlined and lived by C.G. Jung, and the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. David T. Johnston is a practicing psychologist living in Victoria, BC, Canada. He resided in Pondicherry (now Puducherry), India from 1970 to 1973, where he was introduced to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. He lived there during Sri Aurobindo's centenary in 1972. He subsequently studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland in 1975, the year of Jung's centenary. On several occasions, for extensive periods of time, he has visited Auroville, a township near Puducherry dedicated to the Mother's vision. He received his Ph.D., phil. in Clinical Psychology at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California in 1996. Dr. Johnston is also an artist, where his art is a meditative means for him to enhance a living relationship between consciousness and the unconscious.

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David T. Johnston is a practicing psychologist in Victoria, BC,
Canada. He resided and studied in Pondicherry, India from 1970-1973,
where he was introduced to the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother. He lived there during Sri Aurobindo’s centenary in 1972. He
subsequently studied at the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland
in 1975, the year of Jung’s centenary. He has been an ardent student of
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, as well as Jung ever since. On several
occasions, for extensive periods of time, he has visited Auroville, a
township near Pondicherry dedicated to the Mother’s vision.
He received his Ph.D., phil. in Clinical Psychology at the Pacifica
Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California in 1996. He has written
several studies about the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother in comparison to Jung’s psychology of the individuation process,
which he sharply differentiates from other approaches to psychology.
Dr. Johnston is also an artist, where his art is a meditative means
for him to enhance a living relationship between consciousness and the
unconscious and to bring meaning to life and the individuation process.

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CONTENTS
Preface i
Introduction vii
PART I
Intelligence in Nature
CHAPTER 1 Jung and the Spirit of the Natural World 3
CHAPTER 2 The Intelligent Unfolding of the Universe 17
• The Fundamental Unitary Fourfold Law of Life 25
CHAPTER 7 Sri Aurobindo’s Unconscious and Circumconscient:
Jung’s Rotundum and Archetypal Psyche 87
• Sri Aurobindo’s Circumconscient and
Jung’s Archetypal Psyche 93
CHAPTER 8 Sri Aurobindo and the Evolution of Human Consciousness 95
• The Way of the Triple Transformation 97
CHAPTER 9 Jung, the Archetypal Psyche and
the Evolution of Consciousness 103
• Archetype and Instinct 103
• The Reality of the Psyche 108
CHAPTER 10 Jung and the Evolution of Human Consciousness 119
• New Skins for New Wine 121
• Judaism and the Christian Myth 128
• Perfection vs. Completeness,
Jung’s Act of Seeing and Freedom 133
CHAPTER 11 Contemporary Society 147
CHAPTER 12 Individuals and the Transformation of Community 155
• The Individual and Relationship to the Anthropos 165
CHAPTER 13 Creation of Auroville 169
• Realization of Divine Law and Auroville,
the City of the Dawn 171
• The Anthropos and the Matrimandir 172
CHAPTER 14 Creative Individuals and the Group-Soul 185
• The Mother, Living Numbers and the New Creation 187
CHAPTER 15 Jung’s Deification: Prophet and Vibhuti 193
Jung’s Structure of the Self as Fourfold Quaternities 196
CHAPTER 16 Jung’s Path of Individuation as Ante-Integral Yoga 199
CHAPTER 17 Archetype as Psychoid, the Unus Mundus and
Synchronicity 213
• Archetypal Intelligence and the Unfolding Future 25
CHAPTER 3 The Cosmic Dimension and the Human Equation 27
CHAPTER 4 Laws of Nature and Neurobiology
and the Development of Mind 45
• Rupert Sheldrake: Habits in Nature and
Creative Change 45
• Formative Causation and Soft and
Strong-Creativity 47
• Daniel J. Siegel: the Brain, the Mind and
Healthy Integration 52
CHAPTER 5 Jung’s Natural Affiliation with Alchemy 61
PART II
Jung’s Vision and the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
CHAPTER 6 Involution and Evolution of Consciousness:
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother 77
• Definitions: Sri Aurobindo,
Jung and Evolutionary Psychiatry 80
CHAPTER 18 Sri Aurobindo’s Supermind and Overmind,
and Jung’s Unus Mundus 223
• Sri Aurobindo’s Visionary Experiences as
Recorded in Savitri 237
• The Mother and the Transformation of the Cells
and Jung’s Glorified Body 258
CHAPTER 19 Jung and the Mother Goddess 265
CHAPTER 20 Jung in Sri Aurobindo’s Classification
of the Mind and Supermind 283
• Jung’s Late Differentiation of the Self 293 • Intuition and the Lapis Philosophorum 295
• Involution from Above and Evolution from Below 298 • Jung’s Final Dream-Vision 313
CHAPTER 21 The Mother, Jung and Internalizing the Gods 317 • The Supermind, the Axiom of Maria and the Four 329
CHAPTER 22 Bridge to the Past, Bridge between East and West:
The New World 339
Conclusions 359
References 363
Index 379
Glossary of Terms and Definitions 411
About the Author 429
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