Editorial

For the Journal's editorial team this has been a busy time, wires humming with papers from last August's International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) Kyoto Congress and a deluge of proposals to consider for the Journals own conference coming up in April 2017. This event, to be held in New York, promises the best of what the Journal can offer to the Jungian analytic community: the pick from a wealth of original, thoughtful and interesting workshop proposals sent by readers from around the world, well known plenary speakers and social opportunities to make and renew friendships with fellow practitioners across continents.

First, let's take a look back to Kyoto. This February issue offers readers a ‘sneak preview’: nine Congress papers in advance of the Proceedings that Daimon Verlag will publish later this year. With its theme of ‘Anima mundi in transition: cultural, clinical and professional challenges’, the Congress enabled a meeting of colleagues, philosophies and ideas from East and West. The absorbing papers seemed to become infused by the meditative atmosphere of the conference centre's Zen garden, set between hills and woods beside the stork-fished river running down into old Kyoto with its temples, spiritual history and cultural traditions.

The first of the plenaries, entitled ‘A lemma science of mind: the potential of the Kegon [Flower Ornament] Sutra’ was from Shin'ichi Nakazawa. He introduced us to a Buddhist science of mind and its radical differences from the Aristotelian logos which has so informed Western tradition. The Eastern background derived from Buddhist practice is one where ‘everything that makes up the cosmos is generated from the mind’: this includes material phenomena. As Nakazawa explains: ‘Whereas logos understands phenomena in the world using the linear structure of language, lemma is an expression of the intellection of grasping reality directly without such transformative mediation’ (p. 9). Nakazawa sets out the different lay