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C. G. Jung as Artisan: Cross Connections with India, Considerations in Times of Crisis is a richly illustrated, carefully interwoven tapestry of cosmological cycles with depths of travelling, trade, and commercial significance through geographical history and politics, and the spread of philosophical, religious, and scientific ideas. Travel as alchemical exploration, in particular the journey through the difficult passage of the Isthmus of Suez and the later Suez Canal-ancient and contemporary mercurial transitional pivot between East and West with Alexandrian highlights, was crucial to Jung's opus. 

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It is the extraordinary achievement of Jung as Artisan to take up where Jung left off in his alchemical, astrological, dreaming, wood carving, stone carving, painting, sketching, expansive writing, etc., intimations of wholeness and interdependence. Going deeply into Jung's actual voyages beyond Europe, Rand makes them into a relinquishment of Eurocentrism. She connects esoteric Jung to pragmatic theorist Jung to artisan Jung, he who offers the twenty-first century a practice and a way. Through Jung as Artisan, we make our painful way to a new cosmovision. -Susan Rowland, PhD, Professor, Depth Psychology and Archetypal Studies, Pacifica Graduate Institute, California Author of Jungian Arts-Based Research and the Nuclear Enchantment of New Mexico, 2021 Dr. Rand's experience as a depth psychologist, traveller, teacher, and artisan come together in this masterpiece of trans-disciplinary connections that allow for the emergence of a unique perspective which is both profound and timely. Weaving together personal experiences, academic research and highly cultivated insights, the author creates detailed links between depth psychology, modern quantum physics, artisan-based activities and pressing social issues. The importance of creating art with our hands is emphasized as being a key factor to assist through times of darkness and disintegration in order to allow for the emergence of new attitudes that can re-enchant ourselves and the world that we want to create and contribute to. Dr Rand's voice is an urgent call to personal responsibility as we enter an age of individuality. -Duanita G. Eleniak, PhD, Art Therapist, Social Worker, Philosopher of Consciousness Studies Dr. Rand's masterpiece, Considerations in Times of Crisis, lets me, the reader, experience the excitement and terror of living life in interconnected worlds. Following threads of her own life, Dr. Rand lovingly weaves a rich tapestry and lets us feel the uncomfortable tensions between and amongst its layers. Her insights, filtered through a canopy of cultural diversity, richly nourish the reader throughout. -Eberhard Riedel, PhDAuthor of Collective Trauma: A Human Ecosystems Perspective (2020) In C. G. Jung as Artisan, Evangeline Rand takes the reader on a remarkable tour through the psychology of C. G. Jung, on a route that runs from the spice trade and Indian textile art to quantum mechanics. Her command of such wide-ranging material is impressive, and she presents it with grace and style. A pleasure to read as well as to learn from. Highly recommended. -George Hogenson, PhDJungian Analyst

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"After her ""first"" career in elementary education, Dr. Evangeline M. L. Rand has been a practicing Registered Psychologist since 1981, initially starting the Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program in Edmonton, Alberta, and then working in full-time private practice. In 2005, she was Chair of the Doctor of Ministry program (which she has served for twenty-one years) of St. Stephen's Theological College, which has an ecumenical and trans-disciplinary faculty.Born and raised in India, Dr. Rand completed undergraduate studies in Education and Music at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her graduate studies were through the University of Alberta, Canada, (MEd) and International College, California, U.S.A., (Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology and Transpersonal Psychology). In various places in North America, Dr. Randhas acted as teacher, lecturer, and workshop facilitator through story, drama, dance, music, ritual, and art.Dr. Rand's orientation for the past forty years has been deeply influenced by the work of Carl Jung. Post-doctoral studies have been as a Fellow of the Assisi Conference that seeks to integrate the insights of the 'new sciences' chaos theory, self-organization theory, and the New Biology with the cutting edge of Archetypal Psychotherapy as it is being developed, andwhich promises 'the potential' of a unified imagination of mind and matter.Since 1982, Dr. Rand has been at work with the evolving mythology of Mary Magdalene-through the Gnostic Gospels, medieval and current popular literature and art, and pertinent Wisdom Teachings. She has made five journeys to France, northern Spain, and Italy to discover ongoing practices of appreciation for this ""woman of mythic proportion"" and the overlap of these archetypal patterns with Black Madonna sites and ""memorial sites"" from the first and second world wars in northern France. In this connection, Dr. Rand has led three pilgrimages-one to the sites of 'Ancient Egypt, ' one to France and northern Spain, and another to France and northern Italy-and has taken herself to the Somme and Picardy battlefields three times.Responding twenty years ago to the hints of dramatic changes in ""dream patterns"" through her severe illness, Dr. Rand has had the privilege of becoming a ""beginning"" and ""ongoing"" student (in Devon and Glastonbury, England, and at the Alhambra, Spain) of Professor Emeritus Keith Critchlow, of the Prince's School of Traditional Arts, London, England.Dr. Rand's research and writing of the last ten years was precipitated by the discovery of an archived box of Jung's souvenirs and even a map (file HS 1057:10, ETH Zurich) from his 1937-1938 two-month tumultuous journey to India and Ceylon. Dr. Rand immediately felt at home in this historical location, recognizing many place names and history from her childhood. Jung travelled with just over a hundred predominantly British scientists for the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of the Indian Science Congress Association, in conjunction with the British Association for the Advancement of Science, held in Calcutta. When Jungseparated from the main group, he and his travelling companion explored further, venturing into aspects of India's amazing arts. The journey peppered his scholarly work for the rest of his life and can be explored through Rand's 2013 book, A Jasmine Journey (available on Amazon)."

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