The Serpent's Tale

[Paul Ferguson]

"One of the most compelling parts of the prologue is the section on alchemy. Indian and European traditions alike utilize mercury and sulfur as metaphors for spiritual change, the author indicates, but the gendered symbolism of those elements is flipped between cultures, which leads to interpretive clashes-most famously in the lectures that Carl Jung gave on Kuṇḍalinī, wherein he insists that the Indian sources must be wrong about their own symbolism. This anecdote sums up, fairly well, the broader critique of this book: that Western frameworks have too often misread or overwritten indigenous systems of knowing in a search for universal models."

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