The Apocalypse of the Reluctant Gnostics Carl G. Jung and Philip K. Dick [Paperback]

This book presents a comparison of the Gnostic worldviews of Carl G. Jung and science-fiction author, Philip K. Dick, two figures who have done far more than most to revive an interest in the Gnostic tradition in the modern world. Despite profoundly different approaches - one was a depth psychologist whose unique insights and approach to psychology forced him to explore the depths of the unconscious in a way that inevitably led him to touch frequently on metaphysical or spiritual matters; the other was an author of science-fiction - there are some striking parallels between their unique Gnostic visions.

With the relatively recent publication of both Jung's and Dick's personal journals - The Red Book(2009), and, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick(2011), respectively - in which they articulate their Gnostic visions, it seems timely to make this comparison.

Preface Chapter one Introduction Chapter two The living and the dead Chapter three Ex nihilo, ex plenitudo Chapter four The darkness and the light Chapter five Archons and archetypes Chapter six The cave and the prison Chapter seven The dream and the hologram Chapter eight The seed and the sheaf Chapter nine The self and the homoplasmate Chapter ten The virgin and the whore Chapter eleven Slavery and freedom Chapter twelve Christ and Sophia Chapter thirteen The imagination and the third eye Chapter fourteen Reluctant gnosis

'Few readers of either Jung or Dick have Dr Douglas's deep engagement with both, or his long-term experience with the primary Gnostic material discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945. In The Reluctant Gnostics , Stuart painstakingly unpacks and aligns key themes in gnostic ml3‡