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G. Jung as Artisan: Cross Connections with India, Considerations in Times of Crisis is a richly illustrated, carefully interwoven tapestry of cosmological cycles with depths of travelling, trade, and commercial significance through geographical history and politics, and the spread of philosophical, religious, and scientific ideas. Indeed, Jung’s short but extensive 1937–38 journey to India was on behalf of the Silver Jubilee of the Indian Science Congress Association in conjunction with the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Travel as alchemical exploration, in particular the journey through the difficult passage of the Isthmus of Suez and the later Suez Canal—ancient and contemporary mercurial transitional pivot point between East and West with Alexandrian highlights, was crucial to Jung’s opus.

India’s fabulous cloth creations, coupled with ancient skills of natural dyeing, have a complex place in global trade. Having lost this pre-industrial natural alchemy, the world of fashion has become second only to the oil industry as global polluters. An archived business card indicated that Jung had visited “cloth merchants and manufacturers” in the South India city of Madurai when he and his travel companion had branched off on their own enquiries. Further tiny clues in Jung’s biography, freshly discovered, provide linking threads to the significance of fabric rooted in the matrix of Jung’s life. They thread across time and space to a particular contemporary group of Indian and Canadian artisans, inspired by Gandhi, weaving ancient skills with a contemporary effort to engage with sustainable eco-ethics and economy—Sophia’s wisdom of the sensual.

Physicist Wolfgang Pauli, deeply inspired by his own travel to India, highlighted for Jung the significance of primary number and Euclidean geometry for what the “unknown woman” wants to say—ancient and contemporary, wholehearted and particular—that Jung began to illuminate at the end of the Second World War and is further embroidered here through the tenfold geometric tetractys of the second century Axiom of Maria—the prophetess, Miriam the Jewess, still a potential spirit guide. The overall intent of the book is to prepare ground for an expanded sense of Self through which to consider Depth Psychology in its aesthetic contributions as crucial to global, practical, and political well-being.

Description by Evangeline L. M. Rand

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