Psychological Imbalance in Religion:  This set of ten lectures investigates the origins of Islam, its history, its great mystical visions, and its current fundamentalist distortions. “Fundamentalism” must not, however, be seen as a danger unique to Islamic tradition, but as a dark shadow also present in Western Christian culture.  This set offers vital perspectives on the fundamentalist challenges facing both monotheistic traditions, especially since the Enlightenment, beginning a period Jung called “The real (actual) Dark Ages”.

The individual titles are:

• The Shadow of Monotheism and Its Antidote.  The mystical struggle against an oppressive God Image.  82:55  #600101  (Free here and available separately!)
• Mystical Imagination against Fundamentalism. Neo-Platonic and Sufi realizations and their enlightening power.  77:34  #600102
• Islam’s Original Teachings vs. Fundamentalist Distortions.  A majestic faith distorted by ignorance. Vulnerabilities of Islam arising from ethical monotheism.  Some suggested remedies for fundamentalism.  81:15  #600103
• Light and Shadow in Islam.  The conflict of timeless Divinity and changing times.  84:14  #600104
• Vision, Book and Sword in Islam. Mysticism, doctrine and militancy.  80:59  #600105
• Gnostic Sages of Islam:  Rumi and Omar Khayaam.  An in-depth evaluation of the work of two great mystical poets.  73:54  #600106
• Ibn Arabi: Master Mystic:  The teacher of teachers and his great spiritual message.  81:11  #600107
• Islamic and Jewish Kabbalah:  The Gnostic Twins.  The underlying brotherhood of Moslem and Jewish mysticism.  79:40  #600108
• Christian Fundamentalism:  The Homegrown Menace.  Is the so-called Christian Right our own al Qaeda?  73:55  #600109
• Defeating Fundamentalism:  Mystical Self-knowledge as the antidote to literal belief-systems.  75:20  #600110

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