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In this episode:
I return to the relationship between Ahab and Starbuck, focusing on a pivotal scene from Chapter 132, 'The Symphony'. I explore the ways our ideas of psychological change often involve a hidden quality of inflation.

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'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 132: The Symphony)
S4 Ep. 9: The Gorgon's Eye
'The Interpretation of Fairy Tales' by Marie-Louise von Franz
Matthew 18:3 (NIV)
'The Psychology of Child Archetype' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, vol. 9i
'The Development of the Personality' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, vol. 17
'Individuation in Fairy Tales' by Marie-Louise von Franz
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
'Tao Te Ching' (Translated by Red Pine)
'The Dhammapada' (Translated by Gil Fronsdal)
'Mysterium Coniunctionis' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, vol. 14
'The King and the Corpse' by Heinrich Zimmer
'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 117: The Whale Watch)

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In this episode:I explore the tension between Captain Ahab and his first mate, Starbuck. Through this dynamic we examine themes of the relationship to nature and the nature of inner work.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 16: The Ship; Chapter 26: Knights and Squires; Chapter 28: Ahab; Chapter 29: Enter Ahab; To Him Stubb; Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck; Chapter 38: Dusk; Chapter 41: Moby-Dick)
S4 Ep. 8: A Collision Course With Life
'After the Catastrophe' by C.G. Jung (CW10)
'Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology' by Marie-Louise von Franz
'The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga' by C.G. Jung
'Man is Not Alone' by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In this episode:I delve into the character of Captain Ahab. Ahab is a tragic figure who draws his whole crew into the orbit of his psychological atmosphere. I go on to look at the tension between the will of the ego and the will of fate and discuss the hard work involved in becoming conscious.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 16: The Ship; Chapter 20: All Astir; Chapter 28: Ahab; Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout)
S4, Ep. 2: Outcasts of the Spirit
1 Kings 16:30 (NIV)
'A Pregnant Allegory,' Review of Moby-Dick by George Ripley (Norton Edition)
'The Tragedy of Macbeth' by William Shakespeare
'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
'Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self' by C.G. Jung (CW9ii)
S4, Ep. 6 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, part 1
'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology' by C.G. Jung (CW7)
'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung (CW12)

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In this episode:I explore the search for meaning, the alienation from nature, and the role of art in healing and connection. The contrasting paths of Ishmael and Ahab are presented and the need to understand the interconnectedness of all existence is discussed.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 1: Loomings; Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend; Chapter 28: Ahab; Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck; Chapter 72: The Monkey-rope; Chapter 135: The Chase - The Third Day)
S4 Ep. 2: Outcasts of the Spirit
S4 Ep. 4: Healing the Splintered Heart
'On the Relation of Analytical Psychology and Poetry' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
'A Dwelling Place For Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
'Psychology and Literature' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
'Psychology and Religion' by C.G. Jung (CW11)
'The Psychology of the Transference' by C.G. Jung (CW16)
'Paracelsus as a Spiritual Phenomenon' by C.G. Jung (CW13)

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In this episode:I explore the creative process, the nature of art, and the psychological depths of the human experience through the lens of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick.'

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 1: Loomings; Chapter 87: The Grand Armada; Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale)
'Melville's Moby-Dick: A Jungian Commentary' by Edward Edinger
'Psychology and Literature' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
'On the Relation of Analytical Psychology and Poetry' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
'Mysterium Coniunctionis' by C.G. Jung (CW14)
'Is Life Worth Living?' by William James
The Gospel of Thomas
'A Dwelling Place For Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology' by C.G. Jung (CW7)
'The Holy Longing,' poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, (R. Bly, Translator)

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In this episode:I explore one of the more challenging aspects of the symbolic life: the call to leave behind the comfort of the known, the safe, and the familiar.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn; Chapter 16: The Ship; Chapter 22: Merry Christmas; Chapter 23: The Lee Shore)
'The Development of the Personality' by C.G. Jung (CW17)
The Bible -- Matthew 8:18 - 27
'New Seeds of Contemplation' by Thomas Merton
'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith

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In this episode:I discuss the psychic split brought on by the experience of the modern world and the need for a connection with the soul and the mythic dimension of life.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn; Chapter 10: A Bosom Friend; Chapter 12: Biographical; Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin)
'The Secret of the Golden Flower' by Richard Wilhelm & C.G. Jung
'Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious' by C.G. Jung (CW9i)
S4, Ep. 2: Outcasts of the Spirit
'A Dwelling Place For Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
'Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life' by Herman Melville
'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung (CW12)
'Man is Not Alone' by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In this episode:I explore the role of suffering and darkness as factors that awaken us to the need for what Jung calls a religious outlook. We look at ways that we can cultivate that outlook in an authentic way.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Man and His Symbols' by C.G. Jung
'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 2: The Carpet-Bag; Chapter 3: The Spouter-Inn; Chapter 7: The Chapel; Chapter 8: The Pulpit)
S3, Ep. 9: The Heart of the Matter: Alchemy and the Prima Materia
'Psychotherapists or the Clergy' by C.G. Jung (CW11)
'Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams' by C.G. Jung (CW18)
'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith
'Melville’s Use of the Bible' by Nathalia Wright
Murray Stein quoted in 'C.G. Jung Face to Face with Christianity' by Jakob Lusensky
'Psychological Types' by C.G. Jung (CW6)

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In this episode:I examine the figure of Ishmael from Moby-Dick as a symbol of the human experience of alienation. I explore the question of how this experience comes about and what we can do to respond to it.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 1: Loomings)
'A Credit to His Country,' review of Moby-Dick (Norton Edition)
'Melville’s Use of the Bible' by Nathalia Wright
'Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower' by C.G. Jung (CW13)
‘On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry’ by C.G. Jung (CW15)
S1, Ep. 10: An Instinct For Meaning
'Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious' by C.G. Jung (CW9i)
Abraham Joshua Heschel, quoted in “Arnold Eisen: The Opposite of Good Is Indifference,” On Being Podcast
“The Frontiers of Knowledge” in C.G. Jung Speaking

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In this episode:I introduce the theme for this fourth season: Jung Aboard the Pequod -- a Jungian appreciation of Moby-Dick. I then explore the need for stories that are expansive enough to meet the call for meaning and purpose.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale & Chapter 55: Monstrous Pictures of Whales)
'Psychology and Literature' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
'Melville’s Moby-Dick: A Jungian Commentary' by Edward Edinger
'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
‘The Reenchantment of the World’ by Morris Berman
‘The Undiscovered Self’ by C.G. Jung (CW10)
'The Rhythm of Being' by Raimon Panikkar
William Blake quoted in 'Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill
'The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche' by C.G. Jung (CW8)
'Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious' by C.G. Jung (CW9i)
'Psychology and Religion' by C.G. Jung (CW11)
'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology' by C.G. Jung (CW7)
'On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
'C.G. Jung Speaking' edited by William McGuire
'A Dwelling Place For Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
'The Development of the Personality' by C.G. Jung (CW17)

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In this episode:The podcast returns after an extended hiatus to begin a new season.

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Sources for quotes and more:

A Man Lost By a River, poem by Michael Blumenthal
S1, Ep. 24: Wandering Off the Path
'A Joseph Campbell Companion' - edited by Diane K. Osbon
'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung (CW12)
‘Selected Letters’ by C.G. Jung
‘Man is Not Alone’ by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In this episode:I conclude this series on the fairytale The Iron Stove with a discussion of just what constitutes the goal of the symbolic life.

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Sources for quotes and more:

The Aims of Psychotherapy in ‘Modern Man in Search of a Soul’ by C.G. Jung
The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales
S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 1
S3, Ep. 15: Resisting Change -- The Iron Stove, pt. 2
S3, Ep. 16: Embodying the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 3
‘Encountering God’ by Diana Eck
‘A Little Course in Dreams’ by Robert Bosnak
'Tao Te Ching' by Lao Tsu, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Frontiers of Knowledge in 'C.G. Jung Speaking' (edited by William McGuire)
'The Fifth Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas Comes of Age' by Stephen J. Patterson

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In this episode:
In this third part of my series on the fairytale The Iron Stove, I explore the importance of bringing together the mind and the body in the work of the symbolic life.

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Sources for quotes and more:

Man and His Environment in ‘C.G. Jung Speaking’ (William McGuire, ed.)
Just as the Winged Energy of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke in ‘Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke’ (trans. by Robert Bly)
The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales
S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 1
S3, Ep. 15: Resisting Change -- The Iron Stove, pt. 2
'Selected Letters' by C.G. Jung
Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae (quoted in Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung)
'Crossing the Unknown Sea' by David Whyte
'Redemption Motifs in Fairytales' by Marie-Louise von Franz
'God in Search of Man' by Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In this episode:I continue to explore the riches of the fairytale The Iron Stove, this time looking at the ways we resist the necessity of change in our lives.

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Sources for quotes and more:

Mysterium Coniunctionis in ‘Collected Works, vol. 14 by C.G. Jung
'Heraclitus' by Philip Wheelwright
The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales
S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit: The Iron Stove, pt. 1
The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious in ‘Collected Works, vol. 7’ by C.G. Jung
'Creation Myths' by Marie-Louise von Franz
Answer to Job in ‘Collected Works, vol. 11’ by C.G. Jung

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In this episode:I begin an exploration of the fairytale 'The Iron Stove' and explore what it means to be called beyond the limitations of the ego to an experience of the spirit.

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Sources for quotes and more:

Spirit and Life in ‘Collected Works, vol. 8’ by C.G. Jung
The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales
'Rites and Symbols of Initiation'byMircea Eliade
'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life'byJason E. Smith
'The Grail Legend' by Emma Jung & Marie-Louise von Franz
Circles in ‘Essays: First Series’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Song of a Man Who Has Come Through, poem by D. H. Lawrence

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In this episode:I look at one of the more difficult experiences of the symbolic life, an experience best known by its religious name: the "dark night of the soul."

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Sources for quotes and more:

'Selected Letters' by C.G. Jung
'Concerning the Inner Life' by Evelyn Underhill
Concerning Rebirth in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i' by C.G. Jung
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
'The Masks of God: Creative Mythology' by Joseph Campbell
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, retold by Joseph Bédier (translated by Hilaire Belloc)
Luke 17:33, NKJV
Tao Te Ching, translated by Man-Ho Kwok, Martin Palmer, and Jay Ramsay
'Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill
The Psychology of the Transference in 'Collected Works, vol. 16' by C.G. Jung
'The Life of Prayer' by Baron Friedrich von Hügel
'Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology' by Marie-Louise von Franz

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In this episode:I explore Jung’s concept of the unconscious — what it is, how it is experienced, and what it suggests about the idea of healing in analysis.

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Sources for quotes and more:

The State of Psychotherapy Today in 'Collected Works, vol. 10 by C.G. Jung
Joseph Ledoux, quoted in 'The Neurobiology of the Gods' by Erik Goodwyn
A Review of the Complex Theory in 'Collected Works, vol. 8' by C.G. Jung
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10' by C.G. Jung
I Am Not I, poem by Juan Ramón Jiménez
'The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga' by C.G. Jung
Psychology and a Philosophy of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 16' by C.G. Jung
The State of Psychotherapy Today in 'Collected Works, vol. 10' by C.G. Jung
'This Is It' by Alan Watts
Transformation Symbolism in the Mass in 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung
The Philosophical Tree in 'Collected Works, vol. 13' by C.G. Jung
'The Integration of the Personality' by C.G. Jung (Trans. by Stanley Dell)

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In this episode:I conclude this series on the symbolism of alchemy by looking at the all-important image of the goal of the alchemical opus: The Philosophers’ Stone.

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Sources for quotes and more:

Psychology and Religion in'Collected Works, vol.11' by C.G. Jung
Alchemical Studies in 'Collected Works, vol. 13 by C.G. Jung
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
Aion in 'Collected Works, vol. 9ii' by C.G. Jung
Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung
'Parzival' by Wolfram von Eschenbacch (translated by Helen Mustard and Charles Passage)
'Romance of the Grail' by Joseph Campbell
'The Ox-Herder and the Good Shepherd: Finding Christ on the Buddha’s Path' by Addison Hodges Hart
'The Gnostic Scriptures' translated by Bentley Layton
S3, Ep. 8: Alchemy: Mirror of the Soul
S3, Ep. 9: The Heart of the Matter: Alchemy and the Prima Materia
S3, Ep. 10: The Stages of the Alchemical Opus

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In this episode:I continue with the third part of a four-part series on alchemy, this time looking at the stages of the alchemical opus and their meaning for the work of the symbolic life.

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Psychology and Alchemy in 'Collected Works, vol. 12' by C.G. Jung
'Alchemy' by Marie-Louise von Franz
Aion in 'Collected Works, vol. 9ii' by C.G. Jung
S3, Ep. 8: Alchemy: Mirror of the Soul
'C.G. Jung Speaking' edited by William McGuire & R.F.C. Hull
The Psychology of the Transference in 'Collected Works, vol. 16' by C.G. Jung

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In this episode:I continue with the second part of a four-part series on alchemy, looking at the symbol and the psychological meaning of what the alchemists called the prima materia.

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Psychology and Alchemy in 'Collected Works, vol. 12' by C.G. Jung
'Anatomy of the Psyche' by Edward Edinger
The Golden Tract in 'The Hermetic Museum' edited by A.E. Waite
Aion in 'Collected Works, vol. 9ii' by C.G. Jung
The Gnome in 'Grimms' Tales for Young and Old' translated by Ralph Manheim
Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung
Who Does the Work: Cultivating an Alchemical Attitude
'New Seeds of Contemplation' by Thomas Merton

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In this episode:I begin a series on the strange world of alchemy — exploring what it is and how it is relevant to the practice of the symbolic life.

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'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
'Alchemical Active Imagination' by Marie-Louise von Franz
'Anatomy of the Psyche' by Edward Edinger
Rosarium Philosophorum, 16th-century alchemical text (English translation)
The Practical Use of Dream-Analysis in 'Collected Works, vol. 16' by C.G. Jung

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In this episode:An audio Christmas card from me to you.

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'The Feast of St. Friend' by Arnold Bennett
'A Joseph Campbell Companion' edited by Diane K. Osbon

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In this episode:I discuss how times of struggle, and even suffering, can open us up to an experience that Jung calls “an affirmation of things as they are.”

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Sources for quotes and more:

'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
'Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography' by Frank McLynn
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
'Revelations of Divine Love' by Julian of Norwich
The Gate, a poem by Marie Howe
Letter by Rainer Maria Rilke, quoted in 'Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus' edited and Translated by Stephen Mitchell
The Soul and Death from 'Collected Works, vol. 8' by C.G. Jung
'Abandonment to Divine Providence' by Jean-Pierre de Caussade

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In this episode:I explore the idea of everyday asceticism, the art of setting limits for ourselves in order to stand more firmly and authentically in our lives.

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Americans Must Say 'No' from 'CG Jung Speaking' edited by William McGuire
S2, Ep. 17: Recovering The Spirit: The Seven Ravens, pt. 2
S3, Ep. 3: Receiving One's True Name
S3, Ep. 4: Imagining Our Proper Life-Task
'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life' by Jason E. Smith
'A Dwelling Place For Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
'The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety' by Alan Watts
The Fisherman and His Wife from 'Grimms' Tales For Young and Old'
'Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill
'Thoughts in Solitude' by Thomas Merton

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In this episode:I discuss the idea of vocation -- what Jung calls “our proper life-task” -- and explore the challenges that come with taking up such a task in our own lives.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Letters, vol. 1' by C.G. Jung
Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung
The Holy Men of India in 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung
'A Life at Work' by Thomas Moore
Psychology and Alchemy in 'Collected Works, vol. 12' by C.G. Jung
'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
'The Way of the Dream' by Marie-Louise von Franz
The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog in 'Favorite Folktales From Around the World' edited by Jane Yolen
The Development of the Personality in 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
Is Analytical Psychology a Religion? in 'C.G. Jung Speaking' edited by William McGuire
The Golden Key, fairy tale by George MacDonald

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In this episode:We explore the symbolism of “one’s true name” and the challenges that we meet in learning how to hear it.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

Symbols of Transformation in 'Collected Works, vol. 5' by C.G. Jung
The New Name in 'Unspoken Sermons, vol. 1' by George MacDonald
Psychological Types in 'Collected Works, vol. 6' by C.G. Jung
'The Way of the Dream' by Marie-Louise von Franz
The Development of the Personality in 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
The Journey, poem by Mary Oliver
'Crossing the Unknown Sea' by David Whyte
'Letters to a Young Poet' by Rainer Maria Rilke
The Symbolic Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 18' by C.G. Jung
Homer's The Odyssey, translated byRobert Fagles
'The Hero With A Thousand Faces' by Joseph Campbell
Names, poem by Rumi in 'The Soul is Here For Its Own Joy' edited by Robert Bly

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In this episode:We discuss one of the dangers inherent in the symbolic life — the ever-present specter of inflation.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Letters, vol. 1' by C.G. Jung
'Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology' by Marie-Louise von Franz
S3, Ep. 1: Invoking the Imagination
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious from 'Collected Works, vol. 7' by C.G. Jung
The Swan Maidens, from 'Europa's Fairy Book' by Joseph Jacobs
'The Gift: Imagination and the Erotic Life of Property' by Lewis Hyde
'Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People' by Evelyn Underhill

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In this episode:We look at the question of how to begin -- that is, what preparations are needed to begin the work 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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

Individual Dream Symbolism in Relation to Alchemy from'Collected Works, vol. 12' by C.G. Jung
'The Gods of the Greeks' by Karl Kerényi
The Swan, poem by Mary Oliver from 'House of Light'
'Biographia Literaria' by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
'Hymn to Delos' by Callimachus
The Aims of Psychotherapy from 'Collected Works, vol. 16' by C.G. Jung

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In this episode:I announce the start of Season 3 of Digital Jung

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

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"Already the ripening barberries" - poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (Translated by Robert Bly)
The Soul and Death by C.G. Jung, from 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'

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In this episode:We explore the work of becoming what one is and the fears we often feel when we begin it.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Children's Dreams: Notes from the Seminar Given in 1936 - 1940' by C.G. Jung
The Houston Films from 'C.G. Jung Speaking' by C.G. Jung
A Talk With Students at the Institute from 'C.G. Jung Speaking' by C.G. Jung
'Proverbs and Songs #29' poem by Antonio Machado
The Joseph Campbell Companion
'Psychoanalytic Case Formulation' by Nancy McWilliams
S2, Ep. 14: Thresholds of Creativity
'The War of Art' by Steven Pressfield
The Development of the Personality from 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
'The Hero With A Thousand Faces' by Joseph Campbell
'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville
'Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life.' by D. Stephenson Bond

Have a great summer! See you in September, 2022!

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In this episode:I present some highlights and excerpts from a recent talk that I gave titled, Living a Symbolic Life.

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'Man Is Not Alone' by Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Revised English Bible (Proverbs, Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesiasticus or Sirach)
'Tao Te Ching' Translated by Red Pine
'A Poetry Handbook' by Mary Oliver
Psychological Types (Definitions) from 'Collected Works, vol. 6' by C.G. Jung
'Essays on a Science of Mythology' by C.G. Jung and Carl Kerényi

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In this episode:The trickster makes an appearance to caution us against the dangers of taking ourselves too seriously.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

Symbols of Transformation from 'Collected Works, vol. 5' by C.G. Jung
'Comedy of Errors' by William Shakespeare
'Character and Anal Erotism' by Sigmund Freud
The Farting Daughter-in-Law, Encyclopedia of Korean Folk Culture
Tricksters: An Overview by Lawrence Sullivan from 'The Encyclopedia of Religion'
'The Rhythm of Being' by Raimon Panikkar
Meatballs (film)

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In this episode:We finish our reading of the tale, The Seven Ravens, and discuss the difficulties that come with the work of recovering our lost wholeness.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

Spirit and Life from 'Collected Works, vol. 8' by C.G. Jung
The Seven Ravens, Grimms' Fairy Tales
The Development of the Personality from 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
Foreword to 'Introduction to Zen Buddhism' from 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung
Mysterium Coniunctionis from 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung
'Man is Not Alone' by Abraham Joshua Heschel
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
'Upstream" by Mary Oliver

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In this episode:We begin to read through the tale The Seven Ravens and to explore the challenges of reconciling the different sides of our nature.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
'Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness' by Evelyn Underhill
The Seven Ravens, Grimms' Fairy Tales
'Practical Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
The Development of the Personality from 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
'Living an Examined Life' by James Hollis
'I Asked For Wonder,' An Anthology of Writings from Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In this episode:We discuss those times in the symbolic life that call on us to bring tolerance, kindness, and patience to ourselves.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

Psychotherapists and the Clergy from 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung
Transformation Symbolism in the Mass from 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung
'Children's Dreams' by C.G. Jung
'From the Life and Work of C.G. Jung' by Aniela Jaffé
'Selected Letters' by C.G. Jung
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
The Hawk (Sakuṇagghi Sutta)

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In this episode:We look at the mythic background of the creative life to discover both its challenges and its rewards.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

Psychology and Literature from 'Collected Works, vol. 15' by C.G. Jung
Episode 13: Why Do We Need a Symbolic Life?
'The Hero With A Thousand Faces' by Joseph Campbell
'The War of Art' by Steven Pressfield
'Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life' by D. Stephenson Bond
'Creation Myths' by Marie-Louise von Franz
'Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking' by Susan Cain
The Development of the Personality from 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
Neighbors, poem by David Wagoner
'Upstream' by Mary Oliver
Analytical Psychology and Poetry from 'Collected Works, vol. 15' by C.G. Jung
'The Heart Aroused' by David Whyte

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In this episode:We take a step back in order to ask the fundamental question: Why do we need a 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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung.
'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
'The Case For God' by Karen Armstrong
The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman from 'The Sacred Pipe' by Joseph Epes Brown (As told by Black Elk)
'I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology' from the writings of Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In this episode:We discuss the interpretation of symbols and the importance of engaging them with our full emotional presence.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

All quotes from 'Man and His Symbols' by C.G. Jung.
Season 2, Episode 11: Growing Beyond Ourselves
The Old Woman in the Woods, Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Season 2, Episode 5: The Nature of Individuation

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In this episode:We continue to consider the importance of letting things unfold in the psyche, particularly in connection with the practice of active imagination.

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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 from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower from 'Collected Works, vol. 13' by C.G. Jung.
Season 2, Episode 10: Letting Ourselves Be
'Inner Work' by Robert Johnson.
Mysterium Coniunctionis from 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung.
'Encounters with the Soul' by Barbara Hannah.
'Jung on Active Imagination,' edited by Joan Chodorow.
'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith.
Season 2, Episode 4: The Fact of Fantasy
The Practice of Psychotherapy from 'Collected Works, vol. 16' by C.G. Jung.
The Old Woman in the Woods, Grimm's Fairy Tales.

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In this episode:We talk about the value of letting things happen and why Jung felt it was essential for the task of individuation.

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'The Integration of the Personality' by C.G. Jung.
'Tao Te Ching,' Translated by Richard Wilhelm.
'Some keep the Sabbath going to Church' by Emily Dickinson.
'The Spiritual Life' by Evelyn Underhill.
'The Wisdom of Insecurity' by Alan Watts.
'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith.
'The Cloud of Unknowing.'
'Lost' by David Wagoner.
'Oceans' by Juan Ramón Jiménez.
'Love in the Void,' a collection of writings by Simone Weil.
'Encounters with the Soul' by Barbara Hannah.
'Visions Seminars' by C.G. Jung
Transformation Symbolism in the Mass from 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung.

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In this episode:We talk about happiness, and discover why Jung believed it was better for us not to pursue it.

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Except where otherwise noted, all quotes from Jung are taken from The Art of Living in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
'Tao Te Ching,' Translated by Red Pine.
'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L’Engle.
'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf.
“The challenge I face is how to actualize the quiet eminence of our being.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, 'I Asked For Wonder.'
Letter to Harriet Hardy from C.G. Jung ("Carl Jung on Happiness")
“...a civilization that has forgotten that man’s life should be sacrificial, that is, offered up to an idea greater than himself.” ~ C.G. Jung, in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
“Again and again I therefore admonish my students both in Europe and in America: ‘Don't aim at success..." ~ Viktor Frankl in 'Man's Search For Meaning.'

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In this episode:We look at how the attitude we take towards our dreams changes our experience of them, and affects our relationship with our inner lives.

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"The psyche is indistinguishable from its manifestations. The psyche is the object of psychology, and — fatally enough — also its subject. There is no getting away from this fact.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
S1 Ep. 20: Taking Dreams Seriously
"I share all your prejudices against dream-interpretation as the quintessence of uncertainty and arbitrariness. .." ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
"It is on the basis of theory, for instance, that I expect dreams to have a meaning. I cannot prove in every case that this is so.... But I have to make such an hypothesis in order to find courage to deal with dreams at all." ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
The Peddler of Swaffham from 'English Fairy and Other Folk Tales.'
“I must content myself wholly with the fact that the result means something to my patient and sets his life in motion again. I may allow myself only one criterion for the result of my labours: does it work?” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
“In many ways the journey seems to be a foolish gamble...” ~ Thomas Merton in 'New Seeds of Contemplation.'
“The right way to wholeness is made up, unfortunately, of fateful detours and wrong turnings.” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 12.'
“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth...” ~ Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 9ii.'
“Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things.... A certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.” ~ William James in 'The Will to Believe.'
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us” ~ from 'The Joseph Campbell Companion.'

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In this episode:We return to the subject of fantasy and consider how we can ensure a healthy connection with this foundational function of the psyche.

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“The psyche creates reality every day. The only expression I can use for this activity is fantasy...." ~ C.G. Jung, from 'Collected Works, vol. 6.'
S2E4: The Fact of Fantasy
“Pure facts are in any case unstatable....” ~ Jürgen Moltmann from 'Jesus Christ for Today's World.'
"Jungian therapy, at least as I practice it, brings about an awareness that fantasy is the dominant force in a life." ~ James Hillman in A Note on Story from 'Loose Ends.'
“An external emergency, such as epidemics or famine, can suddenly ‘charge’ the fantasy of a healer-savior..." ~ Marie-Louis von Franz in 'Projection and Recollection in Jungian Psychology.'
“Our unwillingness to see our own faults and the projection of them is the beginning of most quarrels...” ~ C.G. Jung from Depth Psychology and Self-Knowledge in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.'
“Developing fantasy means perfecting our humanity. In this connection I regard religious ideas as of the utmost importance...” ~ Three Versions of a Press Conference in Vienna from 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
"These basic tales channel fantasy...." ~ James Hillman in A Note on Story from 'Loose Ends.'
The Road to Emmaus (Luke 24: 13 - 27)
“It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it..." ~ James Hillman from 'The Soul's Code.'
“It is high time we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to teach people the art of seeing.” ~ C. G. Jung from 'Collected Works, vol. 12.'
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson in Art from 'Essays: First Series.'

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In this episode:We discuss solitude, and the vital importance it plays in supporting our engagement with life and with the world.

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“I understand your wish very well, but must tell you at once that it does not fit in with my situation...." ~ C.G. Jung, in 'Letters, Vol II.'
“It seems to me that what goes on in the human being when he is by himself is as important as what happens in his interactions with other people…. ~ Anthony Storr in 'Solitude: A Return to the Self.'
'Already the ripening barberries are red' -- poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
“Ultimately, and precisely in the deepest and most important matters, we are unspeakably alone.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke in 'Letters to a Young Poet.'
“We each inhabit our own separate world...” ~ Edward Edinger in 'Ego and Archetype.'
"The development of personality from the germ-state to full consciousness is at once a charisma and a curse..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Development of the Personality, in 'Collected Works, vol. 17.'
'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
'Forest Lake' -- poem by Edith Sӧdergran
“No one yet has made a list of places where the extraordinary may happen and where it may not...." ~ Mary Oliver in 'Upstream.'
“the world from which we draw our wisdom, our lucidities, our power to act, our courage, is in this other world... " ~ Anaïs Nin in 'In Favor of the Sensitive Man: And Other Essays.'
'Is my soul asleep' -- poem by Antonio Machado.

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In this episode:We discuss the experience of nature and its connection to the important work of individuation.

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“At Bollingen I am in the midst of my true life..." ~ C.G. Jung, in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
"Individuation is a process by which a [person] becomes the definite, unique being that he [or she] in fact is." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 7.'
"Individuation is an expression of that biological process ..." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
"Individuation is a natural process. It is what makes a tree turn into a tree...." ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
“Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche...” ~ C.G. Jungin 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
S1 Ep. 1: What is the Symbolic Life?
"My self is not confined to my body..." ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
"Rather than taking us out of ourselves, nature coaxes us deeper inwards..." ~ John O'Donohue in 'Beauty: The Invisible Embrace.'
"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps is because man is disunited with himself." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson in 'Nature.'
“In a standardized milieu, it is easy to lose the sense of one's own personality...” ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
Just Looking at Photos of Nature Could Be Enough to Lower Your Work Stress Levels
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer, poem by Walt Whitman
“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home” ~ Henry David Thoreau, quoted in The Winged Life (ed. by R. Bly).
“Love the world as your own self, then you can truly care for all things.” ~ Tao Te Ching
"We shall not discover the real situation we are in, collectively as well as individually, if our hearts are not pure..." ~ Raimon Panikkar in 'The Rhythm of Being.'

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In this episode:We discuss fantasy and explore the important role that it plays in our psychological life.

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“When you observe the world you see people, you see houses, you see the sky, you see tangible objects..." ~ C.G. Jung, from The Houston Films in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
S2E1: The Struggle of the Creative Life
Taoist parable from the Lieh-Tzu.
“Where Id was, there Ego shall be." ~ Sigmund Freud in 'New introductory lectures on psycho-analysis.'
“From the psychoanalytic point of view it would seem that were reality more adequate, imagination might cease to dream.” ~ Mary Watkinsin 'Invisible Guests.'
“It is true that there are unprofitable, futile, morbid, and unsatisfying fantasies..." ~ Jung from The Aims of Psychotherapy in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
“In sleep, fantasy takes the form of dreams..." ~ Jung from The Practice of Psychotherapy in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
“Wakefulness may be described as a dreamlike state modulated by sensory experience.” ~ Llinas and Pare, quoted in 'The Neurobiology of the Gods' by Erik Goodwyn.
The Dhammapada, translation by Gil Fronsdal
“I try to funnel the fantasies of the unconscious into the conscious mind...” ~ Jung in Three Versions of a Press Conference in Vienna from 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
“As a ship aground is battered by the waves, so we, imprisoned in mortal life, lie open to the mercy of coming events..." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson in Intellect from 'Essays: First Series.'
“We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.” ~ Emerson in Art from 'Essays: First Series.'
S2E2: Encountering the Archetype
On Angels, poem by Czeslaw Milosz
“Developing fantasy means perfecting our humanity.” ~ Three Versions of a Press Conference in Vienna from 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'

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In this episode:We look at the value of the symbol and the transformative function that it holds for our psychological lives.

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“Symbols … are always grounded in the unconscious archetype, but their manifest forms are moulded by the ideas acquired by the conscious mind. ..." ~ C.G. Jung, from Symbols of Transformation in 'Collected Works, vol. 5.'
"[Symptoms are ] an attempt of the self-regulating psychic system to restore the balance, in no way different from the function of dreams – only rather more forceful and drastic.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Tavistock Lectures in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.'
Discussion of "Symbolic Attitude" from Psychological Types in 'Collected Works, vol. 6.'
Shakuntala, adapted from 'The Dance of Shiva and Other Tales from India' by Oroon Ghosh.
“We are amphibious creatures..." ~ Evelyn Underhill in "Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness.'
“With the coming of consciousness, cultural and psychological values began to compete with the purely biological aims of unconscious functioning.” ~ M. Esther Harding in 'Psychic Energy: Its Source and Its Transformation.'
“A symbol is a function of relationship between our human consciousness and that which is symbolized.” from 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
“Strangest of all is the ease with which the vision is lost..." ~ Kathleen Raine, quoted in 'Beauty: The Invisible Embrace' by John O'Donohue.

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In this episode:We look at Jung’s concept of the archetype and the implications it holds for our inner lives.

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“The mere use of words is futile when you do not know what they stand for. This is particularly true in psychology, where we speak of archetypes like the anima and animus, the wise man, the great mother, and so on...." ~ C.G. Jung, from 'Man and His Symbols.'
"[Archetypes] are typical energy configurations which are activated by situations and problems, both outer and inner, by people, emotional conflicts, maturational needs, etc...." ~ Edward Whitmont, from 'The Symbolic Quest.'
The Gold-Giving Snake from 'The Panchatantra.'
Discussion of "Experiential Consciousness" in 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
“[It] confers life and effectuality upon them. Hate and love, fear and reverence, enter the scene of the confrontation and raise it to a drama...." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'

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In this episode:We discuss the challenges that confront us on the path of psychological growth and how we might respond to them.

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“The serious problems in life, however, are never fully solved. If ever they should appear to be so it is a sure sign that something has been lost..." ~ C.G. Jung, from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
S1, Ep. 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing
'Longing For Paradise' by Mario Jacoby
Having Too Little or Too Much Time Is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-Beingin 'Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.'
All of the quotes from Frances Wickes in this episode are taken from her book, 'The Inner World of Choice.'
All of the quotes from Jung in this episode are taken from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
Ferdinand the Faithful from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
Discussion of "Well-being" and "Salvation" in Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig's Marriage Dead or Alive.
'Our Real Work,' poem by Wendell Berry.

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In this episode:I announce the start date for Season 2 of Digital Jung

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Symbols provide "the clues we need in order to carry on our lives in harmony with ourselves. ... Their validity is proved by their intense value for life." ~ C.G. Jung, from The Structure of the Unconscious in 'Collected Works, vol. 7.'

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In this episode:We discuss the importance of art for human life and the central place it holds for living a symbolic life.

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“What if there were a living agency beyond our everyday human world — something even more purposeful than electrons? ..." ~ C.G. Jung, from Psychology and Literature in 'Collected Works, vol. 15.'
'Homo Aestheticus' by Ellen Dissanayake
Discussion of "psychological or personalistic art" and "visionary art" in Jung's Psychology and Literature.
Episode 1: What is the Symbolic Life?
"Everything is banal, everything is 'nothing but'; and that is the reason why people are neurotic.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Symbolic Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.'
“Under these conditions one tends to follow whatever gives off the strongest signal, which is usually filtered through the prism of desire...." ~ Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
"The artist appeals to that part of our being… which is a gift and not an acquisition — and, therefore, more permanently enduring...." ~ Joseph Conrad quoted in 'The Gift' by Lewis Hyde.
“There are very few changes at life's heart. That is why great literature, however ancient, always moves us and is always understood. It has to do with the unchanging heart of life.”~ Evelyn Underhill from The Inside of Life in 'Collected Papers of Evelyn Underhill.'
“Whoever speaks in primordial images speaks with a thousand voices...” ~ C.G. Jung from On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry in 'Collected Works, vol. 15.'
Discussion of "The Vital Circle" in 'The Rhythm of Being' by Raimon Panikkar.
“The meaning of life is to build a life as if it were a work of art.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'I Asked For Wonder.'
“We must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts. Whoever succeeded in draining the whole cup with grace?” ~ C.G. Jung from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
"[We are] perhaps laying an infinitesimal grain in the scales of humanity’s soul...." ~ C.G. Jung from The Psychology of the Transference in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'

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In this episode:We discover how a recognition of the dramatic structure of dreams can help us in our understanding and interpretation of them.

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"Coming now to the form of dreams, we find everything from lightning impressions to endlessly spun out dream-narrative. Nevertheless, there are a great many 'average' dreams in which a definite structure can be perceived, not unlike that of a drama." ~ C.G. Jung, from On the Nature of Dreams in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
Old Sultan from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
Episode 32: Embracing Change, Old Sultan, pt. 1
Episode 33: Embracing Limits, Old Sultan, pt. 2
'The Way of the Dream' by Marie-Louise von Franz

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In this episode:We finish our reading of the tale, Old Sultan, and discuss the importance of limits in the discovery and expression of our true selves.

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"In an era which has concentrated exclusively upon extension of living space and increase of rational knowledge at all costs, it is a supreme challenge to ask man to become conscious of his uniqueness and his limitation. Uniqueness and limitation are synonymous.” ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
Episode 32: Embracing Change, Old Sultan, pt. 1
“The complete expression of everything of which we are capable — the whole psychological zoo living within us, as well as the embryonic beginnings of artist, statesman or saint — means chaos, not character...." ~ Evelyn Underhill in 'The Spiritual Life.'
Old Sultan from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
“Fidelity to the law of one's own being is a trust in this law, a loyal perseverance and confident hope; in short, an attitude such as a religious man should have towards God.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Development of the Personality in 'Collected Works, vol. 17.'
Episode 29: The Art of Reflection
“Becoming conscious means continual renunciation because it is an ever-deepening concentration.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Selected Letters of C.G. Jung, 1909 - 1961.'
'The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals' by Barbara Hannah.
“Distant ends, religious, moral, and artistic interests, may become as relevant to us as our concern for food.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man Is Not Alone.'
“To develop one's personality is indeed an unpopular undertaking, a deviation that is highly uncongenial to the herd.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Development of the Personality in 'Collected Works, vol. 17.'
“The truly free individual is free only to the extent of their own self mastery.” ~ Steven Pressfield in 'The War of Art.'
“All your power, all your resolution is needed if you are to succeed in this adventure: there must be no frittering of energy, no mixture of motives....” ~ Evelyn Underhill in 'Practical Mysticism.'

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In this episode:We begin to read through the tale, Old Sultan and to explore our need to learn to face the inevitable changes of life with creativity and courage.

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“In myths and fairytales, as in dreams, the psyche tells its own story..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.'
Episode 31: Remembering Wisdom
Old Sultan from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1
Episode 15: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 2
Episode 16: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 3
Episode 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing
“The afternoon of life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
“In our technological age man could not conceive of this world as anything but material for his own fulfillment.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man Is Not Alone.'
“A young man who does not fight and conquer has missed the best part of his youth, and an old man who does not know how to listen to the secrets of the brooks, as they tumble down from the peaks to the valleys, makes no sense..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
“The only thing to do is to accept the animal as a divine and secret mystery, a divine secret....” ~ Marie-Louise von Franz quoted in 'The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals' by Barbara Hannah.

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In this episode:We look at the importance of having an adequate connection with the great treasures of human wisdom.

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“It would be a ridiculous and unwarranted assumption on our part if we imagined that we were more energetic or more intelligent than the men of the past..." ~ C.G. Jung from Symbols of Transformation in 'Collected Works, vol. 5.'
“Our primitive ancestors, [homo sapiens], are primitive only with regard to their tools and technology...." ~ Reza Aslan in 'God: A Human History.'
Episode 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing
“All the creative power that modern man pours into science and [technology] the man of antiquity devoted to his myths.” ~ C.G. Jung from Symbols of Transformation in 'Collected Works, vol. 5.'
"Much learning does not teach understanding." and “Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.” ~ Heraclitus (Philip Wheelwright translation).
"We think we are able to be born today and live in no myth, without history. That is a disease, absolutely abnormal." ~ C.G. Jung from The Houston Films in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
"The stars leading or inspiring human life cannot be the falling stars in the sky of a summer night of the latest fashion.” ~ Raimon Panikkar from 'The Rhythm of Being.'
“Our task and our responsibilities are to assimilate the wisdom of bygone traditions and, having made it our own, to allow it to grow." ~ Raimon Panikkar from 'The Rhythm of Being.'
"Dream the myth onwards and give it a modern dress." ~ C.G. Jung from The Psychology of the Child Archetype in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.'
"That was the first event which broke through my isolation. I became aware of an affinity; I could establish ties with something and someone." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
Theogony by Hesiod (Richard Lattimore translation).
“Poetry is to religion what analysis is to science.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man Is Not Alone.'
"Their function was to reveal the deep meaning of existence to the new generations and to help them assume the responsibility of being truly [human] and hence of participating in culture." ~ Mircea Eliade in 'Rites and Symbols of Initiation.'
Duino Elegies #9 by Rainer Maria Rilke.
When Death Comes by Mary Oliver.
Little Gidding by T.S. Eliot.

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In this episode:We look at the limits of a merely rational approach to life and the need to make place in our lives for mystery.

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“In our time, it's the intellect that is making darkness, because we've let it take too big a place...." ~ C.G. Jung from On the Frontiers of Knowledge in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
“A mercenary of our will to power, the mind is trained to assail in order to plunder rather than to commune in order to love.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion.'
Discussion of "instrumentally rational" in The Reenchantment of the World by Morris Berman.
“The experiment presupposes a distorted image of [the human being].” ~ Raimon Panikkar in 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'
“There is no such thing as a baby.” ~ D.W. Winnicott from The Theory of the Parent-Infant Relationship in 'The International Journal of Psychoanalysis.'
“Everything hints at something that transcends it; the detail indicates the whole, the whole, its idea, the idea, its mysterious root...." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion.'
The Cloud of Unknowing from the 'Classics of Western Spirituality' series.
"Understanding is a fearfully binding power, at times a veritable murder of the soul as soon as it flattens out vitally important differences...." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Selected Letters of C.G. Jung, 1909 - 1961.'
“Love can survive only if wisdom has an effective voice.” ~ Gregory Bateson from Style, Grace, and Information in Primitive Art from 'The Anthropology of Art.'

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In this episode:We explore Jung's thoughts about the capacity for reflection and why he sees it as an essential component of our humanity.

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"'Reflection' should be understood not simply as an act of thought, but rather as an attitude. It is a privilege born of human freedom in contradistinction to the compulsion of natural law...." ~ C.G. Jung from A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity (footnote, par. 235)in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
"It cannot be denied that our current age is a distracted one." ~ 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
Episode 27: Working With Your Dreams
Discussion of bios and zoê in The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery by Raimon Panikkar.
Discussion of eventsandexperiencesin Healing Fiction by James Hillman.
“[Human] instincts are not all harmoniously arranged, they are perpetually jostling each other out of the way. The ancients were optimistic enough to see this struggle, not as a chaotic muddle. But as aspiring to some higher order.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Psychology of the Transference in 'Collected Works, vol. 16.' *
"[It is] indeed wonderful to see how human beings, besides their life in the concrete, always live a second life in the abstract...." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer in 'The World as Will and Representation.' *
"The object can only be to make the soul more creative, more effective, more useful to God..." ~ Evelyn Underhill in 'Concerning the Inner Life.'
"[One] must offer a ransom in place of oneself, that is, one must bring forth values which are an equivalent substitute for one's absence in the collective personal sphere." ~ C.G. Jung from Adaptation, Individuation, Collectivity in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.' *
“the profoundest night of non-being...” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
"The destiny of the universe passes in and through us — once the us, of course, has been purified of all that is 'our' private property. We are not isolated beings. [We] bear the burden, the responsibility, but also the joy and the beauty of the universe." ~ Raimon Panikkar in 'The Rhythm of Being.' *

*Some quotes have been adapted to reflect gender neutral language. There has been no change made to the essential meaning of those quotes.

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In this episode:I present some highlights and excerpts from a recording of a recent talk that I gave on my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.

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“Now, we have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul — the daily need of the soul..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Symbolic Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.'
"Do we ever understand what we think? We only understand that kind of thinking which is a mere equation, from which nothing comes out but what we have put in..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
"All teems with symbol; the wise man is the man who in any one thing can read another." ~ Plotinus
"The religious symbol is used against the perils of the soul. The symbol functions as a sort of machine, one could say, by which the libido is transformed...." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathurstra.'
“The individual, who hitherto has been caught in his personal entanglements, is then confronted with a problem which no longer represents solely his personal conflict but gives expression to a conflict that it has been incumbent on man to suffer and solve from time immemorial." ~ Jolande Jacobi in 'Complex/Archetype/Symbol.'
"Among all my patients in the second half of life -- that is to say, over thirty-five -- there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life...." ~ C.G. Jung from Psychotherapists or the Clergy in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
“The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'

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In this episode:I discuss some of Jung's advice for working with dreams, and suggest some questions you can ask when working with your own.

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“One would do well to treat every dream as though it were a totally unknown object. Look at it from all sides, take it in your hand, carry it about with you, let your imagination play round it, and talk about it with other people...." ~ C.G. Jung in The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
Episode 25: Preparing to Work with Your Dreams
Discussion of "knowing through not-knowing" from 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
“So difficult is it to understand a dream that for a long time I have made it a rule, when someone tells me a dream and asks for my opinion, to say first of all to myself: ‘I have no idea what this dream means’. After that I can begin to examine the dream.” ~ C.G. Jung in On the Nature of Dreams in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
"This feeling reflects the frustration of the rational mind, having to admit that it can’t figure things out—and thereby leaving space for nonrational faculties” ~ Robert Bosnak in 'Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming.'
Episode 21: Dreams and the Sacred
“Any approach to the symbolic dimension, hence, remains in the realm of felt intuition and calls for an artistic and spiritual sensitivity from dreamer and interpreter alike...." ~ Edward Whitmont & Sylvia Perera in 'Dreams: A Portal to the Source.'
“Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be permeated by the object..." ~ Simone Weil in 'Waiting For God,'
“Who wants to understand the poem, must go to the land of poetry.” ~ Goethe from 'West-Eastern Divan.'
Dreams ~ a poem by Mary Oliver in 'Dream Work,'

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In this episode:I discuss the importance of play and creativity in the practice of the symbolic life.

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"If play expires in itself without creating anything durable and vital, it is only play, but in the other case it is called creative work...." ~ C.G. Jung in Psychological Types in 'Collected Works, vol. 6.'
Episode 25: Preparing to Work with Your Dreams
“If the wrong person uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.” ~ C.G. Jung in Commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower in 'Collected Works, vol. 13.'
"A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being" ~ Thomas Merton in 'New Seeds of Contemplation.'
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” ~ C.G. Jung in The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.'
Proverbs 8:22 - 31 in The Revised English Bible.
“Whoever finds me finds life.” ~ Proverbs 8:35 in The Revised English Bible.
“Play is the free spirit of exploration, doing and being for its own joy.” ~ Stephen Nachmanovitch in 'Free Play: The Power of Improvisation in Life and the Arts.'
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” ~ C. G. Jung in 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul.'

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In this episode:I respond to a listener’s questions by discussing the importance of examining our intentions and motivations when preparing to work with our dreams.

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"The meaning of the dream, or our interpretation of it, is largely dependent on the intentions of the interpreter..." ~ C.G. Jung in The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
“I should be suspicious of what I want” ~ Rumi from the poem 'Who Makes These Changes.'
“I am convinced that there is in fact no absolutely reliable method of interpretation.” ~ C.G. Jung in The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
“Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage.” ~ Anaïs Nin in 'The Diary of Anaïs Nin.'
Mark 4:21 - 25 in The Bible, New Revised Standard Version.
“No one can truly philosophize outside a tradition, even when rejecting that very tradition.” ~ Raimon Panikkar in 'The Rhythm of Being.'
"Dreams provide the most interesting information for those who take the trouble to understand their symbols. The results, it is true, have little to do with such worldly concerns as buying and selling. But the meaning of life is not exhaustively explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account." ~ C. G. Jung in 'Man and His Symbols.'

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In this episode:We take a deep dive into the experience of depression and explore how a grasp of symbolic material can enrich our understanding of this difficult and all-too-human experience.

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"Hidden in the neurosis is a bit of still undeveloped personality, a precious fragment of the psyche lacking which a person is condemned to resignation, bitterness, and everything else that is hostile to life." ~ C.G. Jung in The State of Psychotherapy Today in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
Episode 23: Approaching the Unconscious
“The individual, who hitherto has been caught in his personal entanglements, is then confronted with a problem which no longer represents solely his personal conflict but gives expression to a conflict that it has been incumbent on man to suffer and solve from time immemorial." ~ Jolande Jacobi in 'Complex/Archetype/Symbol.'
Dante's Divine Comedy, translated by Mark Musa.
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville.
The I Ching, Richard Wilhelm translation.
“This awful, grinding, banal life in which [everything] is ‘nothing but.’” ~ C.G. Jung in The Symbolic Life from 'Collected Works, vol. 18.'
Religion mitigates feelings of depression by providing a sense of meaning, study suggests
“If, however, we are also able to conceive of depression from the framework of the religious function of the psyche..." ~ 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
The Quest for the Holy Grail, translated by Pauline Matarasso.
Lost by David Wagoner
Shoemaker and the Elves, from 'Grimm's Fairy Tales.'
Episode 21: Dreams and the Sacred
A Man Lost By a River by Michael Blumenthal.

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In this episode:We pick up on the previous episode’s exploration of the idea of the numinous and consider its effect on our psychological and spiritual health.

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"You are quite right, the main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous...." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Selected Letters.'
Episode 22: The Idea of the Holy
Episode 13: Living An Authentic Life
“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
“In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy that got rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health." ~ C.G. Jung in The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche from 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
“I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you.” ~ David Whyte in Self-Portrait from 'Fire in the Earth.'
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable -- perhaps everything." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” ~ C.G. Jung in The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.'
Story of the Bronze Serpent from Numbers 21:4-9 (New Revised Standard Edition)
“In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” ~ Victor Frankl in 'Man's Search for Meaning.'
“[Art] transmutes our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evokes in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find a refuge from every peril and to outlive the longest night.” ~ C.G. Jung in On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry from 'Collected Works, vol. 15.'

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In this episode:We discuss the concept of the numinous and how we can begin to attune our awareness to these depths of life experience.

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"In speaking of religion I must make clear from the start what I mean by that term...." ~ C.G. Jung in Psychology and Religion from 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
Episode 10: An Instinct for Meaning
“There is no religion in which it does not live as the real innermost core, and without it no religion would be worthy of the name.” ~ Rudolf Otto in 'The Idea of the Holy.'
"To all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” ~ Bible, New Revised Standard Version -- Matt. 25:29.
"The poet is the priest of the invisible." ~ Wallace Stevens in 'Adagia.'
Poem excerpt from 'Vacillation' by W.B. Yeats.
“Modern man has such hopelessly muddled ideas about anything ‘mystical'..." ~ C.G. Jung in A Psychological Approach to the Doctrine of the Trinity in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
"Some certain significance lurks in all things." ~ Herman Melville in 'Moby-Dick.'
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable -- perhaps everything." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'

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In this episode:We explore the ways that our dreams can sensitize us to the sacred dimensions of the life both within us and around us.

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"Christians often ask why God does not speak to them, as he is believed to have done in former days...." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Man and His Symbols.'
Episode 19: Dreaming and Reality
“All dreams reveal spiritual experiences.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
"Psychologically, I am using the word to mean anything which overwhelms us so completely that our genuine reaction is to prostrate ourselves to the floor, to venerate it, to fear it...." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz in 'The Way of the Dream.'
The Water of Life from 'Grimm's Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
"What is now prov’d was once only imagined." ~ William Blake from 'Auguries of Innocence.'
Discussion of "the way of expediency" and "the way of wonder" in 'Man is Not Alone' by Abraham Joshua Heschel.
"Let us forever remember that the sense for the sacred is as vital to us the light of the sun." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'I Asked for Wonder.'

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In this episode:We confront the dismissive attitudes that many people have about dreams and explore recent research that confirms the meaning and value of dreams.

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“The dream is often occupied with apparently very silly details, thus producing an impression of absurdity..." ~ C.G. Jung in On the Psychology of the Unconscious from 'Collected Works, vol. 7.'
Episode 19: Dreaming and Reality
Francis Crick's "garbage dump theory of dreams" discussed in 'The Committee of Sleep' by Deirdre Barrett.
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Dreams That Warn of Breast Cancer
Robert Bosnak's work on the post-surgical dreams of heart transplant patients discussed in 'The Committee of Sleep.'
“Wakefulness may be described as a dreamlike state modulated by sensory experience.” ~ Llinas and Pare, quoted in 'The Neurobiology of the Gods' by Erik Goodwyn.
“What proof could you give if anyone should ask us now, at the present moment, whether we are asleep and our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are awake and talking to each other in a waking condition?” ~ Socrates in Plato's 'Theaetetus.'
“In waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness.” ~ C.G. Jung in Problems of Modern Psychotherapy from 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'
"Who Says Words With My Mouth?" ~ poem by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks.
“All dreams reveal spiritual experiences.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'

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In this episode:We explore how paying attention to our dreams can help us to expand our experience of the depth and meaningfulness of life.

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Harriet Tubman and Paul McCartney dream stories found in 'The Secret History of Dreaming' by Robert Moss.
Abraham Lincoln dream story as told in 'Recollections of Abraham Lincoln 1847-1865' by Ward Hill Lamon.
"There is a dream dreaming us," from Laurens van der Post from 'Where Will All the Stories Go?' in Parabola Magazine, vol. 7, no. 2.
"When dreaming I'm guided to another world" ~ Creed, from the song 'Higher.'
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allan Poe from the poem 'A Dream Within a Dream.'
"Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
Butterfly Dream from Chuang-Tzu.
“What proof could you give if anyone should ask us now, at the present moment, whether we are asleep and our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are awake and talking to each other in a waking condition?” ~ Socrates in Plato's 'Theaetetus.'
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on." ~ Shakespeare, 'The Tempest.'
"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts are the result of my dreams." ~ D.H. Lawrence in 'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 1.'
“In each of us there is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
"So at the source of the dream there is a creative mystery which we cannot rationally explain. It's the creativity of nature." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz in 'The Way of the Dream.'
“All consciousness separates, but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal self dwelling in the darkness of primordial night.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'

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In this episode:We confront the undeniable influence of the unconscious on our psychological life and what it reveals about the complexity of who we are.

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“Whatever name we may put to the psychic background, the fact remains that our consciousness is influenced by it in the highest degree...." ~ C.G. Jung in 'The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man' in Collected Works, vol. 10.
Study from the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences reviewed at: 'A New Theory Suggests All Conscious Thoughts and Decisions Are Actually Made By Your Unconscious'
'Are We In Control of Our Own Decisions?', Ted Talk by Dan Ariely
Episode 17: The Inner World and the Outer World
“Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature..." ~ C.G. Jung in 'The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man' in Collected Works, vol. 10.
“We feel in contact with our psychic depth and with our own living substance, and then we subjectively feel that life is flowing, that we are alive.” ~ Marie-Louise von Franz, in 'The Way of the Dream.'

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In this episode:We explore Jung’s notion of the reality of the psyche and look at the ways in which our inner world shapes and colors our experiences in the outer world.

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“‘All that is outside, also is inside,’ we could say with Goethe...." ~ C.G. Jung from Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.'
“Nature is what works and moves by itself..." ~ Alan Watts from 'Become What You Are.'
Babies Can Recognize Emotion in Faces in The Telegraph
“It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself.” ~ C.G. Jung from Transformation Symbolism in the Mass in 'Collected Works, Vol. 11.'
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson from Art in 'Essays: First Series.'
'Proverbs and Songs' by Antonio Machado.
'A Ritual to Read to Each Other' by William Stafford.

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In this episode:We complete our read through of the story, The White Snake, and uncover the stages involved in the work of bringing our creative potential to life.

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The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1
Episode 15: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 2
"laying an infinitesimal grain on the scales of humanity's soul...”~ C.G. Jung in 'The Practice of Psychotherapy, CW16.'
'Just as the Winged Energy of Delight' by Rainer Maria Rilke
Episode 2: Noise and the Inner Life
"We should not squander our time with all kinds of things — although they may be important and pleasant — which do not constitute wisdom, do not bring salvation, and do not allow for joy to appear." ~ Raimon Panikkar in 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'
'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith
"Incarnate scraps of hope, courage, determination..." ~ Evelyn Underhill in 'The House of the Soul.'
"Not a victory is gained, not a deed of faithfulness or courage is done, except upon a maybe..." ~ William James in 'Is Life Worth Living?'

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In this episode:We continue to read through the Grimms' fairy tale, The White Snake, and discovering what it can tell us about what it means to take up a right relationship with our own creative depths.

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The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1
Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
“One can scarcely help admiring oneself a little for having seen more deeply into things than others." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology, CW7.'
"A lived human life gains meaning and definition in relation to the specific commitments we make, be they relational, vocational, or spiritual..." ~ Jason Smith in 'Religious but Not Religious.'
“In the final analysis, we count for something only because of the essential we embody, and if we do not embody that, life is wasted.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
'Throw Yourself Like Seed' by Miguel de Unamuno

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In this episode:We begin to read through the Grimms' fairy tale, The White Snake, and to explore what it has to say about the creative challenges of doing our inner work.

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The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
Episode 1: What is the Symbolic Life?
"Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of the collective unconscious psychic processes..." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz in 'The Interpretation of Fairy Tales.'
"[For each of us] there is a reality, a fit place, and congenial duties." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson from 'Spiritual Laws' in Essays: First Series.
"The imagination is... a vehicle of relationship to what lies on the other side of imagination — autonomous psyche..." ~ D. Stephenson Bond in 'Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life.'
"If you are searching, you must not stop until you find. When you find, however, you will become troubled." ~ Gospel of Thomas, translated by Lynn Bauman.
“The life of the unconscious goes on and continually produces problematical situations...There is no change that is unconditionally valid over a long period of time. Life has always to be tackled anew." ~ C.G. Jung, 'The Transcendent Function' in Collected Works, vol. 8.

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In this episode:We reflect on the New Year, letting go of what is past and turning toward what is to come.

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In this episode:We explore what it means to live an authentic life and how it can lead us to a place of resilience and meaning.

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All quotes from Sections 1 - 3 -- "Discover Yourself," "Learn from Traditional Wisdom," and "Do Not Seek Happiness" are taken from an article titled The Art of Living from the book 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
“The urge to become what one is is invincibly strong, and you can always count on it, but that does not mean that things will necessarily turn out positively. If you are not interested in your own fate, the unconscious is.” ~ C.G. Jung from A Talk with Students at the Institute in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
“The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul.” and “Dreams show us the unvarnished, natural truth..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
“I might formulate it as an affirmation of things as they are: an unconditional ‘yes’ to that which is...” and “How important it is to affirm one’s own destiny. In this way we forge an ego that does not break down when incomprehensible things happen..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'

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In this episode:We look at two different kinds of thinking and explore how each influences our experience of ourselves and the world around us.

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"Do we ever understand what we think? We only understand that kind of thinking which is a mere equation, from which nothing comes out but what we have put in..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Stages of Life' in Collected Works, vol. 8
"Directed thinking is the working of the intellect in which one takes a quantity of information and operates on it..." ~ Jason Smith from 'Religious but Not Religious.'
Episode 5: The Living Symbol
"The meaning of life is not exhaustively explained by one's business life, nor is the deep desire of the human heart answered by a bank account." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Man and His Symbols.'
"I know that this is a world of imagination and vision. I see everything I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike." ~ William Blake, quoted in 'Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill.
“To think of me is sweeter than honey, to possess me sweeter than the honeycomb. Whoever feeds on me will hunger for more, whoever drinks from me will thirst for more.” ~ Sirach 24:20-21 (Revised English Bible)

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In this episode:We confront the difficulties of the inner life and consider the hard work of learning to live creative and authentic lives.

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"Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Collected Works, Vol. 13.'
"It's easy to do what is not good, and things that harm oneself..." from 'The Dhammapada' translated by Gil Fronsdal.
"Creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity." ~ Mary Oliver from 'Upstream.'
We either accept the spiritual life with all our heart..."~ Raimon Panikkar from 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'
"Only the most absolute sincerity under heaven can effect any change." from 'Chung Yung,' translated by Ezra Pound.
"The way is ineffable. One cannot, one must not, betray it... One needs faith, courage, and no end of honesty and patience." ~ C.G. Jung from 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
"Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." ~ Matthew 12:30
"If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage." ~ Rumi from 'Say Yes Quickly,' poem translated by Coleman Barks.
"If someone has a creative gift and out of laziness, or some other reason, doesn't use it, the psychic energy turns to sheer poison." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz from 'Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales.'
'The Marriage of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle' ~ adapted from the prose translation by Louis B. Hall in 'The Knightly Tales of Sir Gawain.'
"The mask of the unconscious is not rigid — it reflects the face we turn towards it. Hostility lends it a threatening aspect, friendliness softens its features." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Collected Works,' Vol. 12.

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In this episode:We discuss the psyche’s affinity for religious expression and it’s meaning for the experience of our own psychological depths.

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“I do not, however, hold myself responsible for the fact that man has, everywhere and always, spontaneously developed religious forms of expression..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul.'
"the farthest star and the mud at your feet are a family." ~ Mary Oliver from 'Upstream.'
Episode 3: The Healing Factor
"A thorough knowledge of the spiritual history of man [is] indispensable..." ~ C.G. Jung from Collected Works, vol. 11.
O Servant, where dost thou seek Me?' by Kabir from 'Songs of Kabir' (translated by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill).
"Our creed is, like music, a translation of the unutterable into a form of expression." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from Man Is Not Alone.
"One must never forget, psychology is only a stammering stopgap measure, so that one is able to talk about life at all."~ C.G. Jung from 'On Psychological and Visionary Art.'

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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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"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
"A violent and complex stimulation of the senses...” ~ Alan Watts from 'The Wisdom of Insecurity.'
'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man' by Marshall McLuhan
'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman
'The Distracted Mind' by Adam Gazzaley and Larry Rosen
'The Dhammapada' translated by Gil Fronsdal
"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
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ~ Henry David Thoreau from 'Walden.'

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In this episode:We discuss how we can know and express what Carl Jung calls “the unique and unrepeatable experience” that we are.

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"The whole of yourself is certainly an irrational entity, but this is just precisely yourself..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
Each person “represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.” ~ Hermann Hesse from 'Demian.'
"The mystery of the psyche is that we are haunted not by what we want out of life, but by what life wants out of us." ~ D. Stephenson Bond from 'Living Myth: Personal Meaning as a Way of Life.'
The Three Feathers from 'Grimm's Tales.'
"If one doesn't understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Collected Works, vol. 14.'
"Very often we look God-knows-where for the solution of our problem and do not see that it is right in front of our noses. We are not humble enough to look downward but stick our noses up in the air." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz from 'The Interpretation of Fairy Tales.'
"The quiet eminence of our being." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone.'
"I am not a spare part which can be exchanged. If I do not enact what I am, no one else will." ~ Raimon Panikkar from 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'

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In this episode:We discuss what Carl Jung called “the decisive question”: the need for a relationship with the infinite.

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"The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?" ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections'
"Without a direct link to the transcendent, we're just one member of a series, replaceable by any other individual of the same species; we lose our uniqueness and with that our dignity." ~ Raimon Panikkar from 'The Rhythm of Being'
"An authentic awareness of that which is." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone'
“The surface-glamour of existence,” ~ William James in 'Is Life Worth Living?'
"I do not care whether the consciousness be that of artist or musician" ~ Evelyn Underhill from 'Mysticism'
"It is to vigor rather than to comfort that you are called..." ~ Evelyn Underhill from Practical Mysticism

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In this episode:We look at the symbol of the heart and consider its central place in the practice of the symbolic life.

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"The most beautiful truth..." ~ C.G. Jung from Collected Works vol. 18, par. 1292
Last week's episode: The Living Symbol
The Man Without a Heart fairy tale
"The heart is the organ that produces true knowledge, comprehensive intuition, and gnosis of God..." from Henri Corbin in 'Alone With the Alone'
Story of Solomon asking for an "understanding heart" from 1 Kings 3:5-9
“Blessed are the pure in heart" from Matthew 5:8
“Go you, sweep out the dwelling room of your heart..." ~ Shabistari quoted in 'Essential Sufism.'
"The heart is understood in an intellectual, spiritual, and physical sense..." from Raimon Panikkar in 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” ~ Matthew 12:34
"It’s all I have to bring today—" by Emily Dickinson
Episode 2: Noise and the Inner Life

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In this episode:We explore the elusive nature of symbols and offer some suggestions about ways that we can strengthen our ability to perceive them.

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"A symbol, then, is a living Gestalt, or form..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga.'
Jung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens van der Post
"A word or an image is symbolic, when it implies something more than its obvious and immediate meaning." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Man and His Symbols.'
"When trying to hold an interview with reality face to face..." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone.'
"The way I must enter" by Izumi Shikibu from 'Women in Praise of the Sacred,' edited by Jane Hirshfield.
"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." ~ Emily Dickinson from 'Selected Letters.'

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In this episode:With help from some of the symbols in the story of Parzival, I discuss the surprising importance of vulnerability in the process of psychological growth.

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"Only through our feebleness and incapacity are we linked up with the unconscious..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Tavistock Lectures,' Collected Works, vol. 18.
Jacob and the Angel from Genesis 32:25 - 29, Sefaria.org
The Man Watching by Rainer Maria Rilke (Robert Bly translation)
"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen from 'Anthem.'
"Give your unconscious a chance to analyze yourself..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Jung on Active Imagination,' p. 164.
Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (Helen M. Mustard & Charles E. Passage translation).

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In this episode:In this episode, we look at a factor that Carl Jung felt was a central need for psychological healing. We discuss what it is, the circumstances that constellate this need in our lives, and the attitude necessary to cultivate it.

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"Among all my patients in the second half of life..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Psychotherapists or the Clergy,' Collected Works, vol. 11.
"We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Stages of Life,' Collected Works, vol. 8.
"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable — perhaps everything." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections,' p. 340
Jacob and the Angel from Genesis 32:25 - 29, Sefaria.org
"It is not wisdom until I have received it. It cannot be received by me ... as long as I am not wrestling with, absorbing, and somehow beginning an intimate interchange with it." ~ Raimon Panikkar, A Dwelling Place for Wisdom, pp. 24 - 25
"Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually without even noticing it, leave your way into the answer."~ Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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In this episode:We look at one of the major barriers in the practice of the symbolic life today — the problem of noise. How does this problem change our experience of the inner life? And what, if anything, can we do about it?

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"Noise protects us from painful reflection..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Selected Letters,' p. 163
"In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things work sadly" ~ William James from 'Is Life Worth Living?'
"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.” ~ Psalm 90 from 'Book of Common Prayer'
"The five colors blind the eye..." ~ Lao Tsu from 'Tao Te Ching' (Chapter 12)
“We have our own room, of course, but there is a telephone that can ring us up at any time, and we must always be ready.” ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Symbolic Life' in Collected Works vol. 18
"Aesthetic Arrest" ~ 'The Joseph Campbell Companion'
“The art of living consists in being completely sensitive to each moment..." ~ Alan Watts in 'The Wisdom of Insecurity'

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In this episode we explore two key questions:

What is the symbolic life?
How do we begin to live it?

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"Now we have no symbolic life..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Symbolic Life' in Collected Works, vol. 18 (CW18), par. 627
"Our soul may never have rest in anything which is beneath itself." Julian of Norwich from 'Showings' (Classics of Western Spirituality)
"The standardized, mass-produced, 'normal' human being..." & "the creative meaning and potentialities of adult existence..." ~ C.G. Jung, from 'The Development of Personality' in CW17, par. 284
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." ~ Henry David Thoreau in 'Walden'
"Man cannot stand a meaningless life." ~ C.G. Jung in "The 'Face to Face' Interview" from C.G. Jung Speaking
The White Snake ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales
"There is guidance for each of us..." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson in 'Spiritual Laws' from Essays: First Series

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