Digital Jung
Digital Jung explores how to live a symbolic life in a technological age through the insights of Jungian psychology. It examines Carl Jung's idea of the symbolic life using depth psychology, mythology, fairy tales, poetry, and religion. The show is organized around three core questions: what the symbolic life is, why we need it, and how to cultivate it. It serves as a companion podcast to the book 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life' by Jungian analyst Jason E. Smith.
Episodes
The Doors of Perception
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I introduce the fifth season of Digital Jung with its special focus on the book Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill. Listen to the preface of Practical Mysticism HereSources for quotes and more:'Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People' by Evelyn Underhill'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' by William Blake'The Aims of Psychother
The Mystic Way
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I discuss the figures of Ahab, Starbuck, and Ishmael as representatives of three possible responses to the encounter with the numinous. I look at the contrast between the Iron Way of Ahab and what I call Ishmael’s Mystic Way, suggesting that Ishmael's way is a path of self-emptying that makes possible a deeper experience of life. Sources for quotes and more:&apos
Symbols of the Mystery
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I look at the image of the whale as a symbol of both Jung's notion of the Self, as well as the numinous experience of the divine mystery: the mysterium tremendum et fascinans. Sources for quotes and more:'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Etymology; Extracts; Chapter 32: Cetology; Chapter 36: The Quarter-Deck; Chapter 41: Moby Dick; Chapter 42: The Whitene
Long Time No See
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I announce the return of the podcast and share a little bit about where I have been and what to expect for the podcast going forward.Sources for quotes and more:Poem #22 from 'A Book for the Hours of Prayer' by Rainer Maria Rilke (Robert Bly translation)S4, Announcement: In Search of a Song'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works, v
Becoming (Merely) Human
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 132: The Symphony) S4 Ep. 9: The Gorgon's Eye'The Interp
The Gorgon's Eye
Send Me a NoteIn 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 Q
A Collision Course With Life
Send Me a NoteIn 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;
Moby-Dick: An American Myth, Part 2
Send Me a NoteIn 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; Chapte
Moby-Dick: An American Myth, Part 1
Send Me a NoteIn 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 Commen
The Call of the Shoreless Sea
Send Me a NoteIn 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' b
Healing the Splintered Heart
Send Me a NoteIn 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 Gol
Tending the Spiritual Imagination
Send Me a NoteIn 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; Chapte
Outcasts of the Spirit
Send Me a NoteIn 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
Unfathomable Depths: Jung Aboard the Pequod
Send Me a NoteIn 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) 'Psyc
In Search of a Song: Season 4 Announcement
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:The podcast returns after an extended hiatus to begin a new season.Connect with me:Instagram(@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Twitter(@DigitalJungPod)Subscribe to the Digital Jung Newsletter (https://digitaljung.substack.com/)For more on living a symbolic life:Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.Sources for
The Goal of the Symbolic Life
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram(@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananaly
Embodying the Spirit
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jun
Resisting Change
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook(facebook.c
The Life of the Spirit
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digita
When the Soul Retreats
Send Me a NoteIn 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."Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Faceb
Healing and the Unconscious
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook(facebook.com/
The Philosophers' Stone: Solid Ground of Wisdom
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook(face
The Stages of the Alchemical Opus
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digit
The Heart of the Matter: Alchemy and the Prima Materia
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jun
Alchemy: Mirror of the Soul
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungian
Bonus Episode: A Christmas Card
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:An audio Christmas card from me to you.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith)Or: Subscribe to the Digital Jung Newsletter (https://di
Learning To Say 'Yes'
Send Me a NoteIn 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.”Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com
Learning To Say 'No'
Send Me a NoteIn 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. Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (faceboo
Imagining Our Proper Life-Task
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Faceb
Receiving One's True Name
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We explore the symbolism of “one’s true name” and the challenges that we meet in learning how to hear it.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jaso
The Temptation of Inflation
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss one of the dangers inherent in the symbolic life — the ever-present specter of inflation.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_S
Invoking the Imagination
Send Me a NoteIn 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?Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or
Season 3 Announcement
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I announce the start of Season 3 of Digital JungFor more on living a symbolic life:Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.Subscribe to the Digital Jung Newsletter (https://digitaljung.substack.com/)Sources for quotes and more:"Already the ripening barberries" - poem by Rainer Maria Ri
To Become What One Is
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We explore the work of becoming what one is and the fears we often feel when we begin it.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith).For m
Living a Symbolic Life (Highlights)
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I present some highlights and excerpts from a recent talk that I gave titled, Living a Symbolic Life. Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E
A Visit From The Trickster
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:The trickster makes an appearance to caution us against the dangers of taking ourselves too seriously.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E
Recovering the Spirit: The Seven Ravens, pt. 2
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/
Losing the Spirit: The Seven Ravens
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungianan
Accepting Ourselves As We Are
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss those times in the symbolic life that call on us to bring tolerance, kindness, and patience to ourselves.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twi
Thresholds of Creativity
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We look at the mythic background of the creative life to discover both its challenges and its rewards.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E
Why Do We Need A Symbolic Life?
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We take a step back in order to ask the fundamental question: Why do we need a symbolic life?Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith).F
Paying Attention to Symbols
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss the interpretation of symbols and the importance of engaging them with our full emotional presence.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (
Growing Beyond Ourselves
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We continue to consider the importance of letting things unfold in the psyche, particularly in connection with the practice of active imagination.Let's make this a conversation:Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebo
Letting Ourselves Be
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We talk about the value of letting things happen and why Jung felt it was essential for the task of individuation.Sources for quotes and more:'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 Un
The Paradox of Happiness
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We talk about happiness, and discover why Jung believed it was better for us not to pursue it. Sources for quotes and more: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 Ow
The "Foolishness" of Dreams
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:"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 &apo
Fantasy and the Art of Seeing
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“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 an
The Practice of Solitude
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss solitude, and the vital importance it plays in supporting our engagement with life and with the world.Sources for quotes and more:“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 himse
The Nature of Individuation
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss the experience of nature and its connection to the important work of individuation.Sources for quotes and more:“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. Jun
The Fact of Fantasy
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss fantasy and explore the important role that it plays in our psychological life.Sources for quotes and more:“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 LifeTaoist parable from the Lieh-Tzu
The Transformative Power of the Symbol
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We look at the value of the symbol and the transformative function that it holds for our psychological lives.Sources for quotes and more:“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.&ap
Encountering the Archetype
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We look at Jung’s concept of the archetype and the implications it holds for our inner lives.Sources for quotes and more:“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 'M
The Struggle of the Creative Life
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss the challenges that confront us on the path of psychological growth and how we might respond to them.Sources for quotes and more:“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.&apo
Season 2 Announcement
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I announce the start date for Season 2 of Digital JungSources for quotes and more: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.'Music:"Dreaming Days"
The Art of Being Human
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss the importance of art for human life and the central place it holds for living a symbolic life.Sources for quotes and more:“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&a
The Dramatic Structure of Dreams
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discover how a recognition of the dramatic structure of dreams can help us in our understanding and interpretation of them. Sources for quotes and more:"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 struct
Embracing Limits: Old Sultan, pt. 2
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:"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 a
Embracing Change: Old Sultan, pt. 1
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“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: R
Remembering Wisdom
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We look at the importance of having an adequate connection with the great treasures of human wisdom.Sources for quotes and more:“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.&apo
Knowing and Not-Knowing
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“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 p
The Art of Reflection
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We explore Jung's thoughts about the capacity for reflection and why he sees it as an essential component of our humanity.Sources for quotes and more:"'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...." ~
Religious but Not Religious (Highlights)
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“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
Working With Your Dreams
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“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 wi
The Wisdom of Play
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:I discuss the importance of play and creativity in the practice of the symbolic life.Sources for quotes and more:"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
Preparing to Work With Your Dreams
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:"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 'C
Wandering Off the Path
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:"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, bitternes
Approaching the Numinous
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:"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.&a
The Idea of the Holy
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We discuss the concept of the numinous and how we can begin to attune our awareness to these depths of life experience.Sources for quotes and more:"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 i
Dreams and the Sacred
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:"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 spiritua
Taking Dreams Seriously
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“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,
Dreaming and Reality
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We explore how paying attention to our dreams can help us to expand our experience of the depth and meaningfulness of life.Sources for quotes and more: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 Hi
The Power of the Unconscious
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“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 Ma
The Inner World and the Outer World
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:“‘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
Serving the Inner Life, pt. 3
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more: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 infi
Serving the Inner Life, pt. 2
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more:The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt. Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1Hero With a Thousa
Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more: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 expressio
Bonus Episode: New Year's Message
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We reflect on the New Year, letting go of what is past and turning toward what is to come.Music:"Dreaming Days" and "Slow Vibing" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0Like this podcast?Please consider leaving a review at one of the following sites:Apple PodcastsSpotifyOr, if you are able, support the show with a donation at Buy Me a Coffee:Su
Living an Authentic Life
Send Me a NoteIn 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.Sources for quotes and more: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 Spea
The Life of Imagination
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We look at two different kinds of thinking and explore how each influences our experience of ourselves and the world around us.Sources for quotes and more:"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&a
The Work of Inner Work
Send Me a NoteIn this episode:We confront the difficulties of the inner life and consider the hard work of learning to live creative and authentic lives.Sources for quotes and more:"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, an
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