International Journal of Jungian Studies
March 1, 2010
Leon Schlamm
1 citation
In spite of the considerable body of scholarly literature on Jung's ambivalent relationship to Indian mystical traditions and his misreading of their canonical materials during the last three decades, Jung's persistent warnings against the practice of yoga by Europeans deserve more systematic examination by Jung scholars than they have so far received. At a time of increasing globalization...
European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling
December 1, 2007
Leon Schlamm
6 citations
By exploring the shades of meaning of the ‘known’ and the ‘unknown’ in Jung's writings and the way they frame his engagement with numinous experience, this paper will demonstrate that Jung's never fully realisable individuation process, whose goal is the ego's acquaintance with the infinite unknowable Self, is suspended between the known and the unknown. The failure to individuate can be...
Religion
2001
Leon Schlamm
13 citations
I identify two problematic strands of Ken Wilber's transpersonal theory. First, I question Wilber's claim that his spectrum model is supported by the materials of all the world's major mystical traditions. I argue that his integral, hierarchical perspective privileges some traditions but distorts others. Drawing heavily upon Andrew Rawlinson's recent, taxonomic study of mystical traditions,...
Religious Studies
December 1, 1992
Leon Schlamm
The purpose of this article is to evaluate Rudolf Otto's account of the relationship between numinous experience and religious language inThe Idea of the Holy, and this will inevitably also involve some more general discussion of the relationship between all religious experience and discursive reason. InThe Idea of the HolyOtto makes a number of controversial claims about the nature of numinous...
Religious Studies
September 1, 1991
Leon Schlamm
Rudolf Otto has often been criticized for not showing enough interest in mystical experience. In this article I want to demonstrate how misplaced this criticism is and to show that it is based on an erroneous interpretation of the relationship between numinous and mystical experience in his work by most of his students. I shall argue that, particularly inThe Idea of the Holy, Otto offers an...