In this episode:We look at our complicated relationship with technology and the challenge it poses in our experience of the symbolic life.

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For more on living a symbolic life:Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available now from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "All time-saving devices, amongst which we must count easier means of communication and other conveniences, do not, paradoxically enough, save time..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Return to the Simple Life' in Collected Works, vol. 18
2. "A violent and complex stimulation of the senses...” ~ Alan Watts from 'The Wisdom of Insecurity.'
3. 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man' by Marshall McLuhan
4. 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman
5. 'The Distracted Mind' by Adam Gazzaley and Larry Rosen
6. 'The Dhammapada' translated by Gil Fronsdal
7. "Reflection is... an act whereby we stop, call something to mind, form a picture, and take up a relation to and come to terms with what we have seen." ~ C.G. Jung from Collected Works, vol. 11
8. “As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ~ Henry David Thoreau from 'Walden.'

Music:
"Dreaming Days" and "Slow Vibing" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0