Joan, Yes, the ‘process of individuation’ is Jung’s Yoga, as highlighted in the first two paragraphs of your reply. With Jung the demiurge is the self – while ‘individualisation’ is, according to the Mother, the task by which the psychic being reunifies all the discordant levels of being around itself, from unconsciousness turning to consciousness; the work on one’s shadow is part of the process. How do the Jungian self and the psychic being relate to each other? As already quoted, referring to the Jungian self Prof. Sen commented, “His affirmation of a ‘centre’ of personality on the basis of dream analysis, particularly what he calls the Mandala dreams and certain other facts, is strikingly similar to the yogic conception of the central psychic or spiritual personality. This ‘centre’, Jung affirms, is other than the normal ego-personality and its various dualities.” (p.92) Sen concluded, “This ‘centre’ is comparable to the ‘Atman’ of Indian psychological systems” (p.115). And here is Jung, highlighting the role of the self in the process of individuation: “I use the term ‘individuation’ to denote the process by which a person becomes a psychological ‘in-dividual’, that is, a separate, indivisible unity or ‘whole’.” “Individuation means becoming a single, homogeneous being and, in so far as ‘individuality’ embraces our innermost and incomparable uniqueness, also implies becoming one’s own self. We could, therefore, translate individuation as ‘coming to selfhood’ or ‘self-realisation’.” Did not the Mother emphasize, apropos of individualization, that our first priority is to become an individual, instead of being an inchoate mass of impulsions and haphazard drives, mere corks floating on the ocean and pulled all over? Jung, who always emphasized life, in this world, continues, “Individuation does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself.” To conclude, “…the self is our life’s goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality…” In my thirty-six years practice of Integral Yoga, besides individuation/individualization, the links I experience all the time with the Jungian path, in myself as well as the other sadhaks, are: the shadow and projection of the shadow – cum Sri Aurobindo’s evil persona; the persona; the Freudian personal unconscious, also acknowledged by Jung; the aspect of the collective unconscious that the Mother calls atavism (akin to the Freudian superego); the meeting of the opposites for a broader synthesis; the four functions and particularly the inferior(s) one(s); the necessity of the psychiatric ego (also much present in Freud), prior to Self-realisation. At a more personal level, I live in an archetypal world, and I relate to the four levels of the Gnostic anima embraced by Jung, and also the quaternity highlighted by (Jungian) Irene de Castilleyo. The "VII Sermones ad Mortuous," (there is also a version with comments published by the Theosophical Society, New York) are Jung’s upanishadic experience. His dictated autobiography "Memories, Dreams and Reflections," is one of the most ever read books, even by people who don’t know anything else on Jung. And the recently published “Red Book” (given its 2x1 metres size, I don’t know if and when it will ever come to Auroville) is, from the articles I have read, the most moving temoignage of Jung’s selfless determination to pursue the truth, whatever the cost: the hero’s journey, which is also what Integral Yoga is for the sadhak. Nothing less. But there is one more book, much revealing, where Jung unveils how he relates to the Indian heritage: “The Magic Circle” by Miguel Serrano, also presenting Herman Hesse in his last years. In 1959, asked during a BBC interview if he believed in God’s existence, Jung replied, “I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something stronger than myself, something that people call God.” It’s well worthy to try. Paulette P.S. These are Jung's references, as they don't appear as footnotes: C.G. Jung, CW VIII, The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche, p.430. C.G. Jung, CW XII, Psychology and Alchemy, p.44. C.G. Jung, CW VII, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, p.274. C.G. Jung, CW VI, Psychological Types, Definitions, p.789. Time, The Old Wise Man, 14 February 1955.