In her introduction, Margaret Case contrasts Zimmer’s approach to India with that of Jung. Heinrich Zimmer (1890-1943) is best known in the English-speaking world for the four posthumous books edited by Joseph Campbell and published in the Bollingen Series: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization, Philosophies of India, The Art of Indian Asia, and The King and the Corpse. These works have inspired several generations of students of Indian religion and culture.Īll the papers in this volume testify to Zimmer’s originality and to his rightful place in that small group of great scholars who were part of the first generation to confront the end of European empires in India and the rest of Asia. I, įrom – Margaret Case – “Heinrich Zimmer – Coming into His Own” “We often think of you and did so quite particularly at the last Eranos meeting, where a Hungarian Hellenist and mythologist, Kerenyi, did his best to take your place for us, though it didn’t quite come off because there is, after all, only one Zimmer who, we concluded, is inimitable.”Ĭ.G. Part V111, The Holy Men of India, Paragraph 952.
Jung, The Collected works, Volume Eleven, Psychology and Religion: West and East. Why didn’t Carl Jung visit Ramana Maharshi after being told by both Zimmer and Brunton?Ĭ.G. Suppose Carl Jung HAD visited Ramana Maharshi during his visit to India. To this day, Western psychology is still bogged down and disabled in brain-based, materialistic, genetically based views. Jung always had ‘tone down’ the mystical side of his psychological insights, which reached far beyond the traditional notions acceptable. Having been in the company of genuine transmission realizers (as was Ramana Maharshi from all accounts), I can’t help but think that Carl Jung would have been profoundly influenced and psychologically illuminated by Ramana’s presence.
What we find in the life and teachings of Sri Ramana is the purest of India” (Forward, in The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi, Shambhala: Boston, 1972 – I can find no direct reference from Jung’s writings nor from second-hand sources verifing this quote). I often wonder if Carl Jung had visited Ramana Maharshi during his three-month visit to India in 1937-38 (December – February), would the world of psychology be any different today? He clearly and profoundly was interested in the Eastern view of the world why not go to its roots, the Realizers? He is said to have written of the sage: “In India, he is the whitest spot in a white space. Map of Jung’s Travels in India (from his notes)
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