Jacob Boehme and the Spiritual Roots of Psychotherapy: Dreams, Ecstasy, and Wisdom

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ISBN: 9789004678552
Author : Glenn J. McCullough
Published: 2025
Publisher: BRILL
Number of pages: 460
Language: English
Format: Hardback

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Jacob Boehme (1574-1624) was a wildly creative mystical writer whose extraordinary revelations of God, the soul, and the universe have been consigned to obscurity. In this original book, Glenn J. McCullough argues that Boehme is the ultimate source of a key modern movement: psychotherapy. Bringing clarity to Boehme’s revelations, McCullough shows how he anticipates the pioneering concepts of Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, including their ideas of the unconscious mind and its remarkable potentials. At the centre of Boehme’s thought is the figure of Sophia—divine Wisdom—and her seven drives, which guide the soul on a journey of expanded awareness and rebirth. While Boehme has been dismissed as an esoteric outsider, McCullough situates him in the mainstream Western tradition of Augustine and Luther, while highlighting his unique approach to the ecstatic dream-world of Wisdom.

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