Hauntings by James Hollis

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This document is the preface to a book about psychological hauntings rather than literal ghosts. It discusses how authors like Ibsen, Joyce, and Yeats saw people as being governed by invisible ancestral influences, dead values, and cultural scripts from the past. Jung explored spiritual phenomena psychologically rather than literally. The preface aims to understand hauntings psychologically to gain personal freedom and see them as inherited cultural systems rather than messages from gods or the soul. It notes that the book was spurred by a haunting dream the author had.

What does life ask of us, and how are we to answer that summons? Are we here just to propagate the species anew? Do any of us really believe that we are here to make money and then die? Does life matter, in the end, and if so, how, and in what fashion? What guiding intelligence weaves the threads of our individual biographies? What hauntings of the invisible world invigorate, animate, and direct the multiple narratives of daily life? In Hauntings, James Hollis considers how we are all governed by the presence of invisible forms-spirits, ghosts, ancestral and parental influences, inner voices, dreams, impulses, untold stories, complexes, synchronicities, and mysteries-which move through us, and through history. He offers a way to understand them psychologically, examining the persistence of the past in influencing our present, conscious lives and noting that engagement with mystery is what life asks of each of us. From such engagements, a deeper, more thoughtful, more considered life may come. James Hollis, PhD, is a co-founder of the C. G. Jung Institute of Philadelphia and Saybrook University's Jungian Studies program, director emeritus of the Jung Center of Houston, vice president emeritus of the Philemon Foundation, and an adjunct professor at Saybrook University and Pacifica Graduate Institute. He resides in Houston, Texas, where he conducts an analytic practice

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