psychology & kabbalah
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Jung, Kabbalah& Tarot:
an integrative approach
TPIG presentation 22 Feb 2013
10 sefiroth (emanations of light)22 pathways32 expressions of creation
The aim of Kabbalah(to receive)
•To awaken, manifest and achieve your destiny via the ordered stations of initiation (life stage challenges). •To become in the image of the creator also with a will of bestowal (to give).
Tree of Life Inventory
Enneagram (Sufism)& the Tree (Etz Chayim) have a lot in common
Chesed
Geburah
Contrasting the Enneagram with Kabbalah
The Complete Life Cycle
Contrasting the Enneagram, Kabbalah, Tarot and Integral Psychology
The complexities of being human
Living up here and not down here is Spiritual Bypassing
Which therapy is required for which state or stage of consciousness?
Spiritual bypassing includes• Exaggerated detachment
• Emotional numbing and repression
• overdone niceness V’s emotional depth and authenticity
• Overemphasis on the positive
• Anger-phobia (confusing anger with aggression and ill will)
• Blind or overtly tolerant compassion
• Weak or too porous boundaries
• Lopsided development e.g. Cognitive intelligence too far ahead of emotional and moral intelligence
• Debilitating judgement about ones shadow side
• Devaluing of the personal relative to the spiritual
• Delusions of having arrived at a higher level of being
The complexities of being human
Being stuck on either side of the tree keeps us avoiding intimacy
Which therapy is required for which state or stage of consciousness?
Pathological versions of Gender typeStuck on the left or Right side of the tree
ANIMUS-the female unconsciously seeking more agency – in left hemisphere
ANIMA-the male unconsciously seeking more
communion – in right hemisphere
Stuck in the right brain/column (Chochmah, Chesed & Netzach)
Stuck in the left brain/column(Binah, Gevurah & Hod)
Needs to learn to speak own mind, build autonomy, stand up for self and views
Needs to be a ‘part of’, to connect, to touch, be impacted and influenced by others
Avoiding the middle columnAvoiding intimacy- the invisible divorce
Jung’s personality Types
Perceiving10.Wheel of fortune
Judging 7.The Hangman
Intuiting13. Death15.The Devil
Feeling (endomorph)17.The Star19.The Sun
Thinking (ectomorph)20 Judgement21.The World
Sensing (mesomorph)18.The Moon21.The World Red=Extroversion
Blue=Introversion
Jung's four functions can help enrich our understanding of the Minor Arcana, and conversely the cards can
assist in psychological exploration:
Similarities between Maslow’s hierarchy and Kabbalah
A galacticentric approach to therapy