Chasing the Numinous: Hungry Ghosts in the Shadow of the Psychedelic Renaissance.
The Journal of analytical psychology September 1, 2023 Helge Michael Osterhold, Gisele Fernandes-Osterhold 2 citations
The paper examines the psycho-cultural shadow dynamics within the current psychedelic renaissance, questioning whether the West's intense fascination with psychedelics—from individual use and entheogenic tourism to capitalist commodification and ethical abuses by clinicians and shamans—reflects a deeper psychological and spiritual malaise in the modern Western psyche, as diagnosed by C. G. Jung. It proposes that these phenomena may stem from a Western cultural complex and uses the archetypal image of the Hungry Ghost from Asian traditions to illuminate these shadow aspects and suggest ways to address them.