Jacob Boehme and the Spiritual Roots of Psychotherapy

Dreams, Ecstasy, and Wisdom

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Glenn J. McCullough
Jacob Boehme (1574-1624) was a wildly creative mystical writer whose extraordinary revelations have often been consigned to obscurity. In this original book, professor and therapist Glenn McCullough shows that Boehme is the source of one of modernity’s most influential movements: psychotherapy.
Bringing clarity to Boehme’s revelations, and providing insights for scholars, therapists, and spiritual seekers, McCullough shows that Boehme furnishes the wider spiritual context for the pioneering therapeutic concepts of both Sigmund Freud and C.G. Jung, including their respective understandings of the unconscious mind and its remarkable potentials. For Boehme, the unconscious is defined by the figure of Sophia—divine Wisdom—and Sophia’s seven drives illuminate the nocturnal world of dreams, guiding the soul on a journey of expanded awareness and spiritual rebirth.
While Boehme has often been dismissed as an esoteric outsider, this book locates him within the mainstream Western theological tradition of Augustine, while highlighting Boehme’s unique approach to the ecstatic dream world of Wisdom, and his importance for therapists today.
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2025
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24 Apr 2025
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Glenn J. McCullough, PhD, RP, is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology and Spiritual Care at Emmanuel College and Knox College in the University of Toronto. He is an ordained minister and a psychotherapist in private practice.
"In this fascinating study, Prof. McCullough adds another significant name to the list of modern psychotherapy’s forerunners and ancestors, the German mystic Jakob Boehme. In doing this, he draws renewed attention to the religious ancestry of what became psychoanalysis and depth psychotherapy with Freud and Jung. This book is a dedicated attempt to recover this lineage and birthright. The author’s exciting argument is a strong contribution to the gathering momentum to integrate spirituality into the clinical work of post-modern psychotherapists." - Murray Stein, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations

Hymn to Wisdom

1 Introduction: Modernity and the Borderland of Dreams
 1.1 The Larger Context: Dreams and Modern Hubris
 1.2 Theorists, Themes, and Thesis
 1.3 Review of Literature
 1.4 Methodology and Primary Texts
 1.5 Chapter Summary

2 Augustine and the Framework of Theological Psychology
 2.1 Augustine as Psychotherapist
 2.2 Map of the Soul: Trinitarian Psychology
 2.3 Dream Theory: Jacob’s Ladder to Heaven
 2.4 Dream Interpretation: Wisdom and Archetypes
 2.5 Conclusion: Therapeutic Implications

3 Jacob Boehme and the Imaginal Rebirth of Theological Psychology
 3.1 Imaginal Rebirth
 3.2 Boehme’s Imaginal Realm in Historical Context
 3.3 Boehme as Magus
 3.4 Boehme as Mystic
 3.5 Boehme as Lutheran Integrationist

4 Boehme as Psychotherapist
 4.1 Method: Psychology and Theology
 4.2 Ontology: Three Levels
 4.3 Approach: Psycho-Mythical Theology

5 Boehme’s Map of the Soul: the Birth of the Unconscious Mind
 5.1 The Soul-Body Nexus in the Micro- and Macrocosm
 5.2 Abyss: the Eternal Dark Fire of Inner Desire
 5.3 Wisdom: the Eternal Holy Light of Inner Understanding (“Verstand”)
 5.4 Knowledge: the Temporal Realm of Outer Reason (“Vernunft”)
 5.5 Interactions and Transformations: the Twofold and Threefold Soul

6 Boehme’s Theory of Dreams: Building the Body of Light
 6.1 Ecstasy, Magia, and Dream Deception
 6.2 Becoming Joseph: Dreaming the New Human
 6.3 Dreaming from Darkness to Light
 6.4 The Great Code of Dream Interpretation

7 Boehme’s Theory of Dream Interpretation: Seven Steps to Heaven
 7.1 Day One: Darkness, Light, and Primordial Life-Energy
 7.2 Day Two: Time, Eternity, and the Oceanic Feeling
 7.3 Day Three: Dry Land, Vegetation, and the Terra Firma of “I-ness”
 7.4 Day Four: Heavenly Bodies, Astral Reason, the Hidden Dark Mind, and the Transforming Centre
 7.5 Day Five: Elemental Creatures, Expanding Awareness, and the Harmonious Soul
 7.6 Day Six: the Microcosm, or Humanity in Full
 7.7 Day Seven: Sabbath, Shalom, and Silence

8 Freud, Jung and the Psychodynamic Rebirth of Dreams
 8.1 Freud’s Map of the Soul: Raising Hell
 8.2 Jung’s Map of the Soul: Collision of Opposites
 8.3 Freud’s Theory of Dreams: Word and Image
 8.4 Jung’s Theory of Dreams: Opening the Inner World
 8.5 Freud’s Dream Hermeneutic and the Psychosexual Stages of Development
 8.6 Jung’s Dream Hermeneutic and Individuation

9 Conclusion
 9.1 The Question of Direct or Indirect Influence
 9.2 Implications for Scholars and Therapists
 9.3 Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names and Subjects
The book will be of interest to academic institutes, libraries, specialists, post-graduate and graduate students, practicing therapists, clergy, chaplains, and spiritual care practitioners. Subject areas include Christian theology; Christian and comparative mysticism; Western esotericism; the history of psychology, psychiatry, and psychotherapy; psychodynamic therapy; psychoanalysis; and analytical psychology.
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