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“The Undermining of Western Civilization Paperback” by Leslie Stein
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B6L779ZB
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8840081624

… within much of the West and within American in particular, a Marxist presence containing fanatics with an obsessive hatred of all that their country stands for, has captured large numbers of alienated and benighted followers. As a result, a growing number of people, blind to their country’s achievements, seek the replacement of western societies based on free enterprise capitalism and liberal democratic values, by a communist regime of one form or another. It is this tendency that has induced me to write this book, based on the careful sifting of the evidence, which would provide the reader with a concise and reliable account of how, what I term the “radical left,” has arisen and influenced the Mores of present-day Western society.”
― Leslie Stein

“The reasons for the differences between the hesitant and the emerging mystic are speculative. It could be that those who give attention to that dimension do so because of developmental issues and resultant complexes, perhaps as a reaction to overwhelming trauma, or even arising from a deep pathology. It also could be, more benevolently (and, in my view, more accurately), an inexplicable higher-order calling, an innate aesthetic subtlety, and a consequent desire for the refinement of consciousness. This may be brought on spontaneously or even by a momentary glimpse of that which touches the spirit, a vague hint that there may be that exciting, yet remote possibility of a more expansive reception to that mystery.”
― Leslie Stein, Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts

“The reasons for the differences between the hesitant and the emerging mystic are speculative. It could be that those who give attention to that dimension do so because of developmental issues and resultant complexes, perhaps as a reaction to overwhelming trauma, or even arising from a deep pathology. It also could be, more benevolently (and, in my view, more accurately), an inexplicable higher-order calling, an innate aesthetic subtlety, and a consequent desire for the refinement of consciousness. This”
― Leslie Stein, Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts

“There is, therefore, no logical inconsistency between seeking the numinous through psychological individuation or by immersion in any Eastern practice; that greater dimension of human potential lies in both. It explains so clearly why Jung turned to the East for analogies to explain the Self. Eastern practices and Jungian psychoanalysis can then be said to naturally augment each other, as they turn the mind toward an exploration of inner truths, the only possibility for balance in an often dark and confused world.”
― Leslie Stein, Eastern Practices and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts

“Jesus. Do you still dream? Like, at night?”
― Leslie Stein, Bright-eyed at Midnight

“The next phase after penetrating Matter is to penetrate Life or the life-force in Matter.115 It was not enough to see the purpose and plan of Matter; now he is pursuing the life-force that energizes Matter. The realization given to Aswapathy after perceiving the life-force is the fate of lower life and an understanding of the purpose so as “to release the glory of God in Nature’s mud.”116 In that lower life, he sees the workings of the lower forces—the lower vital force, the animal instincts, and its highest form as thinking. Aurobindo calls this “An unhappy corner in eternity”117 that is under the sway of these animal instincts and that cannot be escaped from except by a connection with the Divine.”
― Leslie Stein, Becoming Whole: Jung's Equation for Realizing God