9 Best religion books like Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity by Peter Kingsley

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Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity

By: Peter Kingsley

4.50

Format: 844 pages, Paperback

Catafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnosti…

If you liked the religion plot in Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity by Peter Kingsley , here is a list of 9 books like this:

Cover of The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung, Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, John Peck

1. The Red Book: Liber Novus

By: C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck

4.50

Format: 371 pages, Hardcover

When Carl Jung embarked on an extended self-exploration he called it his “confrontation with the un… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
"You are a slave to what you need in your soul."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"La verdad suprema es una y la misma con lo contrario al sentido."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"Los antiguos vivían sus signos porque el mundo aún no se les había vuelto real."

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

"«Nada os salva de lo desordenado y lo carente de sentido, pues ésta es la otra mitad del mundo.»"

-C.G. Jung, The Red Book: Liber Novus

Cover of The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i) by C.G. Jung, R.F.C. Hull, Herbert Read, Michael Fordham

2. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull , Herbert Read , Michael Fordham

4.30

Format: 550 pages, Hardcover

Bollingen Series XX. Essays which state the fundamentals of Jung's psychological system: "On th… read more

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  • nonfiction
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  • psychology
"Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness."

-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

"Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full."

-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

"Strong natures – or should one rather call them weak? - do not like to be reminded of this [their unconscious nature], but prefer to think of themselves as heroes."

-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

"When, for instance, a highly esteemed professor in his seventies abandons his family and runs off with a young red-headed actress, we know that the gods have claimed another victim."

-C.G. Jung, The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

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3. The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View

By: Richard Tarnas

4.23

Format: 560 pages, Paperback

"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'West's mainstream high… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
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  • nonfiction
"For the deepest passion of the Western mind has been to reunite with the ground of its own being. The driving impulse of the West’s masculine consciousness has been its dialectical quest not only to …"

-Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View

"Thus Western man enacted an extraordinary dialectic in the course of the modern era - moving from a near boundless confidence in his own powers, his spiritual potential, his capacity for certain know…"

-Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View

"Il mondo esprime il proprio significato attraverso la coscienza umana. […] Attraverso l’intelletto umano in tutta la sua individualità, contingenza, e lotta personale, il contenuto del pensiero del m…"

-Richard Tarnas, The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View

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4. The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche (Collected Works, Vol 8)

By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull , Gerhard Adler

3.11

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Bollingen Series XX The Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche is one of the better volumes of the Prin… read more

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  • philosophy
  • mysticism
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Man and His Symbols by C.G. Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz, Jolande Jacobi, Aniela Jaffé, Joseph L. Henderson, John    Freeman

5. Man and His Symbols

By: C.G. Jung , Marie-Louise von Franz , Jolande Jacobi , Aniela Jaffé , Joseph L. Henderson , John Freeman

4.19

Format: 415 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Man and His Symbols owes its existence to one of Jung's own dreams. The great psychologist dreamed … read more

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"There is a desert on the moon where the dreamer sinks so deeply into the ground that she reaches hell."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls …"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

"It is a common illusion to believe that what we know today is all we ever can know. Nothing is more vulnerable than scientific theory, which is an ephemeral attempt to explain facts and not an everla…"

-C.G. Jung, Man and His Symbols

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6. Peter Camenzind

By: Hermann Hesse , None

4.04

Format: 417 pages, Paperback

Peter Camenzind, a young man from a Swiss mountain village, leaves his home and eagerly takes to th… read more

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7. The Hero With a Thousand Faces

By: Joseph Campbell

3.79

Format: 32 pages,

The first popular work to combine the spiritual and psychological insights of modern psychoanalysis… read more

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  • history
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • religion
  • nonfiction

8. My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

By: Jill Bolte Taylor

3.93

Format: None pages,

A brain scientist's journey from a debilitating stroke to full recovery becomes an inspiring explor… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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9. Answer to Job

By: C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull

4.17

Format: 121 pages, Paperback

Jung has never pursued the "psychology of religion" apart from general psychology. The unique impor… read more

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  • psychology
  • philosophy
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  • spirituality
"«Es necesario acostumbrarse a la idea de que 'tiempo' es un concepto relativo, y que propiamente tiene que ser completado por el concepto de una pleromática existencia 'simultánea' o 'bárdica' de tod…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"«El que algo sea una realidad 'física' no es el único criterio de verdad. También existen verdades 'anímicas', las cuales no pueden ni probarse ni explicarse, pero tampoco negarse físicamente. [...] …"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"I would even go so far as to say that the mythical character of a life is just what expresses its universal human validity. It is perfectly possible, psychologically, for the unconscious or an archet…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

"The difference between the "natural" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one which is consciously realized, is tremendous. In the first case consciousness nowhere inte…"

-C.G. Jung, Answer to Job

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10. The Sparrow (The Sparrow, #1)

By: Mary Doria Russell

3.77

Format: None pages,

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico… read more

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Cover of King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine by Douglas Gillette, Robert L. Moore

11. King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine

By: Douglas Gillette , Robert L. Moore

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

The corporate "yes man," the wife-beater, the hot-shot male junior executive and the emotionally di… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • spirituality
  • psychology

12. Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

By: Terence McKenna

4.57

Format: 201 pages, Paperback

s/t: A Radical History of Plants, Drugs & Human Evolution For the first time in paperback, the crit… read more

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13. Memories, Dreams, Reflections

By: C.G. Jung , Richard Winston , Clara Winston , Aniela Jaffé

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his li… read more

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14. The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

By: Iain McGilchrist

4.35

Format: 608 pages, Hardcover

In a book of unprecedented scope, Iain McGilchrist presents a fascinating exploration of the differ… read more

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  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
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  • psychology
"We don't need a lot more quick fixes. We need a change in the paradigm."

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

"[C]hildren with right-brain deficit disorder ignore task obstacles, accept impossible challenges, make grossly inadequate efforts, and are stunned by the poor outcomes. These children act fearless be…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

"The left hemisphere prefers the impersonal to the personal, and that tendency would be in any case be instantiated in the fabric of a technologically driven and bureaucratically administered society.…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

"Believing is not to be reduced to thinking that such-and-such might be the case. It is not a weaker form of thinking, laced with doubt. Sometimes we speak like this: ‘I believe that the train leaves …"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

15. Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works 12)

By: C.G. Jung , Herbert Read , Michael Fordham

4.17

Format: None pages, Paperback

Verso la fine degli anni venti Jung scopre singolari affinita tra antichi simboli cinesi e i sogni … read more

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16. Trauma and the Soul: A Psycho-Spiritual Approach to Human Development and Its Interruption

By: Donald Kalsched

3.91

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

In 'Trauma and the Soul', Donald Kalsched continues the exploration he began in his first book 'The… read more

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17. Iron John: A Book About Men

By: Robert Bly

3.64

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

In this deeply learned book, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision o… read more

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18. Modern Man in Search of a Soul

By: C.G. Jung

4.20

Format: 244 pages, Paperback

A provocative and enlightening look at spiritual unease and its contribution to the void in modern … read more

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"Is that which science calls the “psyche"

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"Art has a way of anticipating future changes in man’s fundamental outlook."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

"The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."

-C.G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Cover of The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku

19. The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

By: Brian C. Muraresku

4.26

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience… read more

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"...there’s only one thing the Vatican finds more suspicious than drugs. And that’s women."

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

"Over twenty-five hundred years into this experiment we call the West, is there any chance of reconciling the two competing worldviews that clashed so dramatically at the end of the fourth century AD?…"

-Brian C. Muraresku, The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

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20. The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

By: Iain McGilchrist

4.80

Format: 1500 pages, Hardcover

Is the world essentially inert and mechanical - nothing but a collection of things for us to use? A… read more

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"On the left hemisphere of the brain: 'Because it knows less, it thinks it knows everything."

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

"Cynicism appears to be a coping strategy by the cognitively less gifted to avoid being duped by others."

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

"To Heraclitus it was the logos; to Lao Tzu the tao; to Confucius lǐ; in Hinduism Brahman, and to the Vedic tradition Ṛta; in Zen ri; o Arabic peoples, since pre-Islamic times, Allah; to Hebrews YHWH.…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

"Wittgenstein wrote: 'To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life.' And he continued: 'To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end o…"

-Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World

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21. Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity

By: Peter Kingsley

4.50

Format: 844 pages, Paperback

Catafalque offers a revolutionary new reading of the great psychologist Carl Jung as mystic, gnosti… read more

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6 Top history books like Catafalque: Carl Jung and the End of Humanity by Peter Kingsley

Transform Your Habits

The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas that Have Shaped Our World View

Richard Tarnas

4.23

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

3.79

Transform Your Habits

The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

Iain McGilchrist

4.35

Transform Your Habits

The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name

Brian C. Muraresku

4.26

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Tom O'Neill

4.03

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How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

Michael Pollan

4.27

Transform Your Habits

The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America

Coleman Hughes

4.46

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American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

D.W. Pasulka

3.91

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