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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:

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

1. 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 1: Loomings) 
2. 'A Credit to His Country,' review of Moby-Dick (Norton Edition)
3. 'Melville’s Use of the Bible' by Nathalia Wright
4. 'Commentary on the Secret of the Golden Flower' by C.G. Jung (CW13)
5. ‘On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry’ by C.G. Jung (CW15)
6. S1, Ep. 10: An Instinct For Meaning
7. 'Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious' by C.G. Jung (CW9i)
8. Abraham Joshua Heschel, quoted in “Arnold Eisen: The Opposite of Good Is Indifference,” On Being Podcast
9. “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:

1. 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale & Chapter 55: Monstrous Pictures of Whales) 
2. 'Psychology and Literature' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
3. 'Melville’s Moby-Dick: A Jungian Commentary' by Edward Edinger
4. 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
5. ‘The Reenchantment of the World’ by Morris Berman
6. ‘The Undiscovered Self’ by C.G. Jung (CW10)
7. 'The Rhythm of Being' by Raimon Panikkar
8. William Blake quoted in 'Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill
9. 'The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche' by C.G. Jung (CW8)
10. 'Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious' by C.G. Jung (CW9i)
11. 'Psychology and Religion' by C.G. Jung (CW11)
12. 'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology' by C.G. Jung (CW7)
13. 'On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry' by C.G. Jung (CW15)
14. 'C.G. Jung Speaking' edited by William McGuire
15. 'A Dwelling Place For Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
16. '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:

1. A Man Lost By a River, poem by Michael Blumenthal 
2. S1, Ep. 24: Wandering Off the Path
3. 'A Joseph Campbell Companion' - edited by Diane K. Osbon
4. 'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung (CW12)
5. ‘Selected Letters’ by C.G. Jung
6. ‘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:

1. The Aims of Psychotherapy in ‘Modern Man in Search of a Soul’ by C.G. Jung
2. The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales 
3. S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 1
4. S3, Ep. 15: Resisting Change -- The Iron Stove, pt. 2
5. S3, Ep. 16: Embodying the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 3
6. ‘Encountering God’ by Diana Eck
7. ‘A Little Course in Dreams’ by Robert Bosnak
8. 'Tao Te Ching' by Lao Tsu, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
9. Frontiers of Knowledge in 'C.G. Jung Speaking' (edited by William McGuire)
10. '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:

1. Man and His Environment in ‘C.G. Jung Speaking’ (William McGuire, ed.)
2.  Just as the Winged Energy of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke in ‘Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke’ (trans. by Robert Bly)
3. The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales 
4. S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 1
5. S3, Ep. 15: Resisting Change -- The Iron Stove, pt. 2
6. 'Selected Letters' by C.G. Jung
7. Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae (quoted in Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung)
8. 'Crossing the Unknown Sea' by David Whyte
9. 'Redemption Motifs in Fairytales' by Marie-Louise von Franz
10. '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:

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

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

For text and narration of The Iron Stove, visit: https://digitaljung.substack.com/p/the-iron-stove

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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:

1. 'Selected Letters' by C.G. Jung
2. 'Concerning the Inner Life' by Evelyn Underhill 
3. Concerning Rebirth in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i' by C.G. Jung
4. 'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
5.  'The Masks of God: Creative Mythology' by Joseph Campbell
6. The Romance of Tristan and Iseult, retold by Joseph Bédier (translated by Hilaire Belloc)
7. Luke 17:33, NKJV
8.  Tao Te Ching, translated by Man-Ho Kwok, Martin Palmer, and Jay Ramsay
9. 'Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill
10. The Psychology of the Transference in 'Collected Works, vol. 16' by C.G. Jung
11. 'The Life of Prayer' by Baron Friedrich von Hügel
12.  '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:

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

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