Jung on Yoga: Insights and Activities to Awaken with the Chakras

In 1932, renowned analyst Dr. Carl G. Jung gave four talks on the psychology of kundalini yoga. You may know Dr. Jung for his work with archetypes, ego, functions of personality, the shadow self, and other aspects of psyche. This book adds to those. It is a tour of his words and wisdom on the chakras, reorganized and couched in more everyday language and plentiful graphics for the benefit of all. What’s inside? • Dr. Jung’s insights on the ego, consciousness, and the unconscious • An introduction to kundalini yoga • The chakras, in Jung's own words • Over fifty exercises for health, happiness, and holiness • Science! Today's knowledge of the brain and larger nervous system illuminates the fact of body-mind connections • Advice tailored to each of the Jungian functions of personality: Sensing, Intuiting, Thinking, and Feeling • Making use of what Jung called the Transcendent function • How entheogens like ayahuasca can greatly aid awakening