Dr. Eric Soreng

President

Personal/Educational Details:

Date of Birth: 19.10.1971

Religion: Roman Catholic (Latin Rite)

School: St. Xavier’s School, New Delhi

College: Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (B.A., M.A. & Ph.D.)

Present Professional Details:

Professor, Department of Psychology

Workplace Address:

Room No. 148, Department of Psychology, Arts Faculty Extension Building, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007

Previous Experience:

After two jobs (Amity University and St. John’s College, Agra), I joined the University of Delhi as an Assistant Professor

University of Delhi:

Date of Joining: 26.12.2006

Promotion to Associate Professor: 02.03.2019

• Promotion to Professor: 30.07.2024 (from back date 02.03.2022)

Ph.Ds awarded under my supervision: 11

Registered on-going Jungian-Mythological Ph.D.: 4

Analyst:

Ms. Lisbet Myers Zacho

Areas of Interest:

Analytical Psychology and Archetypal Psychology, Pre-Socratic Philosophy, Mythology, Mystical and Esoteric Traditions, Shamanism

Published Papers:

• Matrix in Bardo Thödol

• Origin of Tibetan Medicine: Psychological Reflections

• The Duration of Life

• Khara-Gyran: First Buryat Spider Shaman

• Myth of Zunug Khairkhan: Shamanic Initiation and Individuation

• The Garden of Eden: Creation and Catholicism

• The Shianasha: Mythological Origin of Campass and Boat

• The Upanishadic Concept of Prima Materia

Hobbies:

Movies (War, Science Fiction & Chinese), Music (English Classics of 70s to 90s)(I enjoy Music of Various Nations), Hunting

Email: ericsoreng1910@gmail.com

Phone: +91-9999765734

“Quod est superius est sicut quod inferius, et quod inferius est sicut quod est superius” (That which is above is like that which is below, and that which is below is like that which is above). ‘As above, so below’—concisely—is the canon, principal research instrument to interpret the myths and it gives me a worldview. If ocean is the “spirit of the world” (Jung, 1959, p. 142), the fishes, mirroring each other, are a “newly arisen world of consciousness” (Jung, 1959, p. 148) for me from such a Hermetic vision of the world. This gives me the eyes of the eagle and opens me to the primordial images that speak in thousand tongues. Gospel according to St. John is symbolized by the eagle because it is the only creature of nature that touches the higher realms and can directly gaze into the sun without hurting its eyes. I must have the eyes to see and ears to hear in order to open up to the world of imaginations, dreams and myths. Ephphatha (Mark 7:34): “Be Thou Open”…

Jung, C. G. (1959). Aion, Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

In my final year of M.A. (1997-1998), I once saw a vision of two fish moving in a circle. It was the time when I was trying to write my dissertation on dreams.

In my M.A. final year, I had an auditory dream: I hear a female saying to me, “Analyze your dreams”. I woke up…