Yoga and psychology : language, memory, and mysticism
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TextSeries: SUNY series in Religious StudiesAlbany, NY State University of New York Press c2002Description: x, 115 p.; ill.; includes bibliographical references (p. 93-95) and indexContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 0791455009
- BF51 .C69 2002
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Preface. 1 Introduction. Part 1. Yoga and Language. 2 Agama in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. 3 The Yoga psychology underlying Bhartrhari's Vakyapadiya. Part 2. Yoga and Western psychology. 5 Freud, Jung, and Yoga on memory. 6 Where Jung draws the line in his acceptance of Patanjali's Yoga. 7 Mystivism in Jung and Patanjali's Yoga. 8 The limits of human nature in Yoga and transpersonal psychology. 9 Conclusion. Notes. Glossary of Sanskrit terms. Index
'...explores how the pscyhological aspects of Yoga philosophy have been important to intellectual developments both East and West. Foundational for hindu, Jaina, and Buddhist thought and spiritual practice, Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, the classicl statement of Eastern Yoga, are unique in their emphasis on the nature and importance of psychological processes.'
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