One of the main points of departure of Jungian theory from its Freudian precursor was the emphasis on and elaboration of the transpersonal as pects of the psyche. Jung's central concept of individuation makes ex plicit his thesis that the individuation of the single person is indissolu bly linked with and even tends to recapitulate the individuation of the whole human race. A significant implication of this thesis is that ad vanced stages of a person's individuation must transcend his personal psychology and reach into the realm of the transpersonal. That subjective contact with the transpersonal which furthers individua tion is designated by Jung as a centering of the self. A major difference between Jungian and Freudian theory is the fact that, for Jung, the true center of the psyche is not the ego but, instead, it is the self. Jung's con cept of the self is admittedly mystical, because it extends from the psyche of the individual into the far reaches of the universe as a container of the