A Strange Fire: an exploration of psycho-spiritual development aided by Jungian analysis and Vedanta.
The Journal of analytical psychology November 1, 2016 David Sagar, Marcus West
A personal account of psychological and spiritual development through active imagination, Transcendental Meditation, Jungian analysis, and Vedanta describes how these disciplines together foster a process of transformation. The individual progressively frees themselves from the ego's identifications, potentially gaining a vision of the 'self as consciousness' as understood in Vedanta. The paper presents records of active imaginations tracing key stages in this process, with commentary linking them to Jung's concepts of ego and Self. It discusses Jung's rejection of the Vedantic view of the Self as consciousness and suggests a reconciliation through the understanding of disidentification, where the difference between the two views is attributed to the extent of disidentification from the contents of consciousness.