Overview: This book will introduce you to yourself in a new way. It will transform how you think about yourself and help you recognize your own self-limiting beliefs about who you are and can be. It is the author’s story but it is also all of our story.

Verdict: The book moves through time from right after World War II, when the author was born, through the fifties, sixties and seventies as she grows up, eventually becoming a Jungian psychologist in the eighties. You have a front-row seat as you travel through the decades right up to the present witnessing Plunket’s sometimes harrowing, but always wondrous experiences with the invisible world.

Astral travel, angel visits, travel to the life between life realm, encounters with ghosts, conversations with the dead, including Jung, out of body experiences, possession by a dark being, dream realities, and visits to other dimensions, are some of the things she will share with you in A Jungain Understanding of Transcendent Experiences.

A Jungian Understanding of Transcendent Experiences, by renowned author Susan Plunket, is a simply fascinating journey into the realms of the paranormal; all whist being guided by the Jungian theory.

To bring everyone up to speed, a little, the cooperation of conscious reasoning with the data of the unconscious is called the transcendent function. This function progressively unites the opposites. Psychotherapy makes use of it to heal neurotic dissociation’s, but this function had already served as the basis of Hermetic philosophy for seventeen centuries.

It is both a process and a method at the same time. The production of unconscious compensations is a spontaneous process; the conscious realization is a method. The function is called ‘transcendent’ because it facilitates the transition from one psychic condition to another by means of the mutual confrontation of opposites.

The transcendent function does not proceed without aim and purpose, but leads to the revelation of the essential man. It is in the first place a purely natural process, which may in some cases pursue its course without the knowledge or assistance of the individual, and can sometimes forcibly accomplish itself in the face of opposition. The meaning and purpose of the process is the realization, in all its aspects, of the personality originally hidden away in the embryonic germ-plasm; the production and unfolding of the original, potential wholeness.

For years, I myself - when I had first encountered Jung’s references to the “transcendent function” - always wondered what he meant, or, more precisely, how it showed up in life. Knowing Jung was an empiricist, I was sure he got his idea about this from his experience. But what was this experience, and how did this phenomenon manifest in life?

Subsequent research over the years has all but recently answered my questions. But that was before this beauty of a book was brought out, of course.

Lovingly packed with some of her very own, and very personal paranormal experiences with Jungian theory, Plunket deeply explores the much deeper mysteries of human consciousness, bringing forth a prose that is one of the most intriguing explorative on the subject that I have personally had the pleasure to read.

Inclusive of events, factors and historical ruminations that touch upon astral travel, angel visits, ghostly encounters, conversations with the dead, out-of-body experiences, possessions, dream realities, visits to other dimensions and oh-so much more, the author dutifully addresses life’s big questions: Who are we? Why are we born? Where do we come from? Where are we going? and so forth.

About the Author - This book is part of a series of books by different authors sharing their perspectives on the paranormal. Gavin Davies conceived the idea and invited the rest of us. The title all the books begins with Paranormal Perspectives: -- and then the author’s subtitle. That should make it possible to find all of them on Amazon. I hope you enjoy the whole series. The first bunch will be released October 30, 2024. [Susan Plunket]

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