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988Innate and Emergent: Jung, Yoga and the Archetype of the Self Encounter the Objective Measures of Affective NeuroscienceCosmos and History 14 (2): 292-303. 2018.Jung’s individuation process, the central process of human development, relies heavily on several core philosophical and psychological ideas including the unconscious, complexes, the archetype of the Self, and the religious function of the psyche. While working to find empirical evidence of the psyche’s religious function, Jung studied a variety of subjects including the Eastern liberatory traditions of Buddhism and Patañjali’s Classical Yoga. In these traditions, Jung found substantiation of h…Read more
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599Jung, Yoga and Affective Neuroscience: Towards a Contemporary Science of the SacredCosmos and History 14 (1): 306-320. 2018.Materialist and fundamentalist reductive ideologies obscure our capacity to directly experience the numinous. Thus, importantly, given the weight of the observable and measurable in orthodox science, and oftentimes a dismissal of both the soul and the subjective, a viable means of reconciling science and religious experience has continued to elude us. As a counter-measure to this obscuration, Jungian-oriented depth psychology has developed as an empirical science of the unconscious, researching …Read more
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415Beyond Conception: Ontic Reality, Pure Consciousness and MatterCosmos and History 11 (2): 47-59. 2015.Our current scientific exploration of reality oftentimes appears focused on epistemic states and empiric results at the expense of ontological concerns. Any scientific approach without explicit ontological arguments cannot be deemed rational however, as our very Being can never be excluded from the equation. Furthermore, if, as many nondual philosophies contend, subject/object learning is to no avail in the attainment of knowledge of ontic reality, empiric science will forever bear out that limi…Read more
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409Jung in Dialogue with Freud and Patañjali: Instinct, Affective Neuroscience, and the Reconciliation of Science and Religious ExperienceCosmos and History 13 (2): 298-312. 2017.For both Jung and Patañjali our human desire to understand “God” is as real as any other instinct. Jung’s and Patañjali’s models further align in their emphasis on the teleological directedness of the psyche, and their aim at reconciling science and religious experience. As an atheist, Freud was in disagreement, but all three scholars align in their emphasis on the study of affect as an empirical means of entering into the psyche. For Patañjali, the nadir of affect lays in transcending sorrow…Read more
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7Consciousness in Jung and PatañjaliRoutledge. 2017.By placing the theories of Jung and Patañjali in dialogue with one another, Consciousness in Jung and Patañjali illuminates significant differences between dual and nondual psychological theory and teases apart the essential discernments that theoreticians must make between epistemic states and ontic beliefs.
Leanne Whitney
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Alumnus, 2015
Los Angeles, CA, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy, Misc |
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy, Misc |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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