Jung warned against Westerners adopting Eastern spiritual practices, but there has been a growing number of people engaging in both Jungian analysis and Eastern forms of meditation and psychophysical exercises.  The aim of this seminar is to explore the extent to which the two paths are compatible, with particular focus on Buddhism and on energy work.

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Eve Jackson is a retired IGAP member living on the island of Crete. Her interest in eastern practices, and in Jung, date back to her undergraduate years, and these two threads have intertwined throughout her life.  In her late twenties she spent two years living in a Tibetan Buddhist community.  Later, soon after starting analysis, she began studying taiji and qigong, practices which she continues to teach.

Eve has written two books on astrology (Jupiter, Aquarian, 1986 and Astrology: A psychological approach, Dryad, 1987) and one on analytical psychology (Food & Transformation, Inner City,1996) and contributed a chapter on dance to When the Soul Remembers Itself: Ancient Greece, Modern Psyche, ed. Singer, Cashford, San Roque, Routledge, 2019. She has also contributed a number of articles to Harvest.

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Jung, C.G., Collected Works, Vol. 11, Part Two, Eastern Religion, §§ 475 –608

Coward, H., Jung and Eastern Thought, New York, State University of New York Press, 1985

Ed. Stein, L., Eastern Practices and Individuation, Ashville, N. Carolina, Chiron Publications, 2022

Spiegelman, J. M. & Miyuki, M., Buddhism & Jungian Psychology, Phoenix, Arizona, Falcon Press, 1987

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