Answering Answer to Job: Jung, Job and Buber
In this compelling essay, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon moves past Jung with the help of Martin Buber.
Essays on Healing
Answering Answer to Job: Jung, Job and Buber
In this compelling essay, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon moves past Jung with the help of Martin Buber.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon walks through the five spiritual interpretations of pain: Pain as punishment, as opportunity for transcendence, as test or competition, as atonement, and as gaining or retaining control. He then goes on to describe the difference between pain and suffering and elucidates the spiritual content of the latter.
Choreographer Pina Bausch and Incarnation
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon explores the mysticism of dance in this fascinating essay on Pina Bausch.
Binocular Vision and Seeing God
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon looks at some recent cognitive research into depth cues and connects it to traditional Jewish concepts of vision and spirituality.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon explores Step 2 in the 10 step recovery paradigm and draws some interesting connections to Jung, pain management, and spirituality.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon discusses the ancient art of cartography and asks what map might be appropriate for the spirituality of our post-Holocaust world.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon narrates his triumphant return to Uman.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon reflects on the meaning of pain six months after his near-fatal car accident.
The Spirituality of Pain and Suffering
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon explores the interfaces between culture, spirituality, and the body in this compelling essay.
In this essay, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon explores the themes of free will and determinism and elucidates the spiritual significance of these seemingly incompatible concepts.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon meditates on the art of listening in this theologically charged essay.
Graduation From the School of Near Death Experiences
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon continues the slow path to recovery and reflects on the ways in which the accident has changed his life.
As Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon recovers from his terrible car accident, he reflects on his life.
Reflections on my Accident and Post Rupture
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon narrates the dramatic events that left him in the ER and discusses what this brush with death means to him.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon hypothesizes a new tool for measuring the quality of pain.
In this comprehensive essay, Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon elucidates the different ways in which the body produces pain and then moves on to explain the techniques available to patients for controlling and mitigating pain, along with a brief exploration of the spirituality of pain.
Exploring Esoteric Models of Healing
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon begins this illuminating essay by explaining the molecular biology of genes and then moves into a meditation on the metaphoric significance of coding and decoding and its relevance to the doctor-patient relationship.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon addresses his patients and asserts that the baggage of suffering that comes with disease is no accident.
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon makes a pledge to his patients about what kind of physician he aspires to be.
Letter: The Mystical Side of Judaism
Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon elucidates the mystical side of Judaism and discusses the role that it played in his own personal healing on three levels:
1. The historical
2. The phenomenological
3. The personal existential