ABSTRACT
Both Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung express a process for the fulfilment of a life that requires the development of consciousness and thus offers a reason for giving importance to a mystical experience. Sri Aurobindo Ghose is rare in the array of Eastern mystical figures because he was also an intellectual and a political revolutionary. Reducing Sri Aurobindo and C. G. Jung to a causal connection of related complexes may seem to discount extraordinary intelligence, unique creativity, and profound courage. The interviews with established mystics revealed the same pattern – an unavailable father and an entwining mother. Most importantly, there was a common thread among most of the mystics that the mother had been especially connected in the very early years, as was the case with Sri Aurobindo and Jung, in a way that could be expected by an entwining mother; and, in almost all cases, this was accentuated by an unavailable father.
