The Science of the Greater Jihad Quotes

“Jungianism is filled with errors and dangers, and consequently can be of no help on the spiritual path-until, that is, it is definitively criticized according to sound metaphysical principles so as to reject whatever is clearly erroneous and recast the rest according to the traditional norms of the Path of self-transcendence - a process I have begun, in a small way, below.
What did I learn from the Jungians? I learned that dreams are of great import, that they have a language of symbols, and that I knew how to read that language; I learned that psychological understanding is a necessary element of the spiritual Path, and that such understanding can throw a valuable light on life as a whole; I learned that psychic experience provides insight into dimensions of reality that are often neglected but that nonetheless impinge upon all of us; and I learned that mythopoesis- poetry, folklore, fairy tales, folk songs, scripture, myth per se, as well as most of all the pre-modern arts taken in their symbolic or "didactic" aspect- concealed and revealed profound mysteries...”
― Charles Upton, The Science of the Greater Jihad: Essays in Principial Psychology