Dark Light of the Soul

Dark Light of the Soul explores the inner journeys of Jacob Boehme, the seventeenth-century Protestant mystic, and C.G. Jung, the twentieth-century depth psychologist. Each was concerned with the immediacy of experience, yet comprehended the importance of spirit as a transforming presence in human life. Kathryn Wood Madden connects the experiences of these two pioneers, focusing on a “ground of being that contains all opposites in potentiality.” She examines those experiences from the perspective of depth psychology and religion, offering meaningful insights for anyone on a path of inner development, as well as for professionals in clinical settings.

“If, as I contend, a unitary reality underlies all psychological experience, then as clinicians we ignore the ‘spiritual realm and the divine’ at the risk of the total psychic health of those in our care” ?Kathryn Madden

Dark Light of the Soul will be of interest to all therapeutic clinicians and anyone who wishes a deeper understanding of and fresh paths into the human psyche.

CHAPTERS:

1. Unitary Reality
2. Distinctions between Psychology and Religion
3. Radical Otherness
4. Jung and the Pleroma
5. When Deep Calls unto Deep
6. The Self: Uniting Opposites
7. Meeting Clinical Otherness
8. Trauma, Dreams, and Resistance to Otherness
9. Soul Retrieval: The Lonely One
10. Through the Air Hole