Why or why not? This book wouldn't turn a person off on Carl Jung, but it doesn't promote him either.
It is a supplemental work, and it would be best to purchase the hard copy as there are many illustrations that the audio book listener misses out on. The voice is not unpleasant. It is hard to use this work, which is quite unemotional, as a measure of a reader's talents. Could you see Becoming Whole being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be? This book is like listening to a doctoral dissertation about Carl Jung.
It doesn't get much more exciting than that. Don't let this book be your introduction into Jung's work, because it does not introduce. It gives explanations of equations that primarily relate consciousness to alchemy.
If that turns you on, go for it. The book is fascinating. Parallels and some polemic with the Sufi, Kabbala and Indian mysticism and philosophy are presented, which makes it interesting for any explorer. What surprised me was that Audible produced a book with a reader who mispronounces even the name of the book!
You have to be prepared to endure the whole book with the name of Jung pronounced as "young" and many other non-English names and words tortured into caricatures. Well, at least it is an audio-book, presumably better than computer-read. I am grateful for that. How could the performance have been better?
The narrator mispronounces Jung through the entire book. Considering that the book is about Jung's theory, it's hard to overlook. What the book implies: Read about the sources mentioned in the book and you will figure out the puzzle. Get it free with day trial. People who bought this also bought Andrey Davydov, Olga Skorbatyuk Narrated by: Jose Gabriel Ramos Arteaga Length: The Alchemy of Psychology By: James Hillman Narrated by: Mark Vernon Narrated by: Murray Stein Narrated by: Modern Man in Search of a Soul By: Carl Gustav Jung Narrated by: Maps of Meaning By: Steven Pressfield Narrated by: Dean Radin Narrated by: Beyond Good and Evil By: Friedrich Nietzsche Narrated by: Gary rated it really liked it Sep 16, Sherbon marked it as to-read Jan 05, Brian Falk marked it as to-read May 14, Alexis added it Sep 04, Cristina Boggs marked it as to-read Oct 15, Dan Burns marked it as to-read Sep 01, Edward Smith marked it as to-read Jan 22, Craig Delarge is currently reading it Feb 24, Matt marked it as to-read Dec 09, Edward marked it as to-read May 30, Leo Vervoort added it Jun 17, Chris added it Sep 13, Christy marked it as to-read Oct 23, Michael Goldman marked it as to-read Dec 06, Richard Pickett added it Jun 03, N P Benikos is currently reading it Oct 11, Laszlo Makay added it Dec 04, KPAX added it Dec 25, Sirja Ellen marked it as to-read Apr 29, Lemniskate67 added it May 12, Wanyoung Kim marked it as to-read Dec 16, Katie added it Oct 11, I recommend reading both Preface and Introduction.
After scanning the details shown in the Contents, go to Ch. I found it best to first deduce what stage he meant by the four capital letters, and then afterwards determine how a quaterino helped him connect from one capital letter to the next.
The first page of the Contents lists and names the four quaternios. A common feature of them is that the square lies in a 2D plane of space with each corner named.
Time runs from top to bottom of the quaternion. The top where the four triangles meet at the top of a pyramid represents the start early time ; the bottom pyramid tip represents the finish late time. As an example, for the Lapis quaternion, he chose for the corners of the square Earth, Water, Air, and Fire to represent the transformation from Lapis to Rotundum. The Paradise Quaternio and the Lapis Quaternio and the discussion of them are available in the online preview of Ch.
Thus his quaternions were a very big disappointment for me.