The Seba library treats John Sanford in 4 passages, across 3 authors (including Sanford, John A., Schoen, David E., Hollis, James).
John Sanford calls dreams, ‘God’s forgotten language.’ He points out that the Bible is filled with examples of revelations made by God through a dream.
This passage introduces Sanford’s central thesis that dreams function as an ongoing divine revelatory medium, bridging modern depth psychology and biblical tradition.
, Dreams: Gods Forgotten Language, 1968thesis
Wholeness is not a static condition, a closed circuit within the psyche, but an activity which must be lived to be realized. Our dreams seek to lead us to a kind of inner wholeness.
Sanford defines psychic wholeness as an active, lived process disclosed through dreams, aligning Jungian individuation with a practical spirituality of engagement with the outer world.
, Dreams: Gods Forgotten Language, 1968thesis
In Sanford’s survey, he does a nice job of summarizing the concepts of evil in different myths and religious traditions.
Schoen enlists Sanford’s comparative mythological survey as scholarly grounding for the Jungian-archetypal account of evil central to his study of addiction.
, The War of the Gods in Addiction: C.G. Jung, Alcoholics Anonymous and Archetypal Evil, 2020supporting
For an extended study of this process, see John Sanford, The Invisible Partners: How the Male and Female in Each of Us Affects Our Relationships.
Hollis cites Sanford’s The Invisible Partners as the definitive Jungian resource on animus and anima projection within intimate relationships.
, The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife, 1993supporting