The Celestial Journey occupies a distinctive and richly contested position within the depth-psychology corpus, functioning simultaneously as a literal ecstatic technique, a cosmological schema, and a metaphor for inward transformation. Eliade’s monumental account in Shamanism establishes the celestial journey as the shaman’s definitive exploit: the ecstatic ascent through layered heavens to petition divine powers, retrieve souls, and receive prophetic knowledge — an act whose archaic grammar is shared across Siberian, Central Asian, Polynesian, and North American cultures. Hans Jonas relocates the journey within Gnostic soteriology, where the soul’s gradual subtractive ascent through planetary spheres enacts liberation from cosmic bondage, a model whose afterlife extends from the Mithras Liturgy to Omar Khayyám. Von Franz draws the explicitly Jungian connection, reading the celestial journey of doctor-priests and shamans as the primordial form of what depth psychology would later call the confrontation with the unconscious. Campbell reframes the schema entirely in mythological terms, insisting that the moon landings constitute a literal and mythological celestial journey of civilizational proportions. Corbin, from within Iranian Sufism, recasts the journey as an interior illumination guided by the suprasensory pole — a visionary ascent that is simultaneously cosmological and intrapsychic. Across all these positions, the central tension persists: whether the celestial journey is best understood as an outer cosmological narrative, an inner transformative ordeal, or the irreducible coincidence of both.