Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-236) and index.
Contents:
A traditional approach to Hawthorne and the problem of materialism in Eiseley -- Primordial consciousness: transcendental monism in Milton's Paradise Lost -- Altered states : the wanderer and the psychology of sailing -- Out-of-body experience : metaphor in Monroe's metaphysical trilogy -- UFOs : Dr. Jung versus Dr. Greer and the case of Orfeo M. Angelucci -- Synchronicity : Wordsworth's stolen boat episode in the prelude -- Remote viewing and channeling: the sonnets of Shakespeare and Shakespeare -- Amplification and quaternity in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series -- Sublime allegory : ways of seeing in Blake's Milton.
Summary:
"The One Mind: C. G. Jung and the Future of Literary Criticism explores the implications of C. G. Jung's unus mundus by applying his writings on the metaphysical, the paranormal, and the quantum to literature. As Jung knew, everything is connected because of its participation in universal consciousness, which encompasses all that is, including the collective unconscious. Matthew A. Fike argues that this principle of unity enables an approach in which psychic functioning is both a subject and a means of discovery--psi phenomena evoke the connections among the physical world, the psyche, and the spiritual realm"--Publisher website.
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