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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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. “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.'
2. "[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.'
3. The Gold-Giving Snake from 'The Panchatantra.'
4. Discussion of "Experiential Consciousness" in 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
5. “[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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. “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.'
2. S1, Ep. 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing
3. 'Longing For Paradise' by Mario Jacoby
4. Having Too Little or Too Much Time Is Linked to Lower Subjective Well-Being in 'Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.'
5. All of the quotes from Frances Wickes in this episode are taken from her book, 'The Inner World of Choice.'
6. All of the quotes from Jung in this episode are taken from The Stages of Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
7. Ferdinand the Faithful from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
8. Discussion of "Well-being" and "Salvation" in Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig's Marriage Dead or Alive.
9. '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

Sources for quotes and more:

1. 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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. “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.'
2. 'Homo Aestheticus' by Ellen Dissanayake
3. Discussion of "psychological or personalistic art" and "visionary art" in Jung's Psychology and Literature.
4. Episode 1: What is the Symbolic Life?
5. "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.'
6. “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.
7. "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.
8. “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.' 
9. “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.'
10. Discussion of "The Vital Circle" in 'The Rhythm of Being' by Raimon Panikkar.
11. “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.'
12. “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.'
13. "[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. 

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "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.'
2. Old Sultan from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
3.  Episode 32: Embracing Change, Old Sultan, pt. 1
4.  Episode 33: Embracing Limits, Old Sultan, pt. 2
5. '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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "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.'
2. Episode 32: Embracing Change, Old Sultan, pt. 1
3. “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.'
4. Old Sultan from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
5. “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.'
6. Episode 29: The Art of Reflection
7. “Becoming conscious means continual renunciation because it is an ever-deepening concentration.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'Selected Letters of C.G. Jung, 1909 - 1961.'
8. 'The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals' by Barbara Hannah.
9. “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.'
10. “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.'
11. “The truly free individual is free only to the extent of their own self mastery.” ~ Steven Pressfield in 'The War of Art.'
12. “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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. “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.'
2. Episode 31: Remembering Wisdom
3. Old Sultan from 'Grimms' Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
4. Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1
5. Episode 15: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 2
6. Episode 16: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 3
7. Episode 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing
8. “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.'
9. “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.'
10. “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.'
11. “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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. “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.'
2. “Our primitive ancestors, [homo sapiens], are primitive only with regard to their tools and technology...." ~ Reza Aslan in 'God: A Human History.'
3. Episode 30: Knowing and Not-Knowing
4. “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.'
5. "Much learning does not teach understanding." and “Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.” ~ Heraclitus (Philip Wheelwright translation). 
6. "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.'
7. "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.' 
8. “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.' 
9. "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.' 
10. "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.'
11. Theogony  by Hesiod (Richard Lattimore translation).
12. “Poetry is to religion what analysis is to science.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'Man Is Not Alone.'
13. "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.'
14. Duino Elegies #9 by Rainer Maria Rilke.
15. When Death Comes by Mary Oliver.
16. 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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. “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.'
2. “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.'
3. Discussion of "instrumentally rational" in The Reenchantment of the World by Morris Berman.
4. “The experiment presupposes a distorted image of [the human being].” ~ Raimon Panikkar in 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'
5. “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.' 
6. “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.'
7. The Cloud of Unknowing from the 'Classics of Western Spirituality' series.
8. "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.'
9. “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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "'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.'
2. "It cannot be denied that our current age is a distracted one." ~ 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
3. Episode 27: Working With Your Dreams
4. Discussion of bios and zoê in The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery by Raimon Panikkar.
5. Discussion of events and experiences in Healing Fiction by James Hillman.
6. The Psychology of the Transference by C.G. Jung, 'Collected Works, vol. 16.' *
7. "[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.' *
8. 'Concerning the Inner Life.' by Evelyn Underhill
9. Adaptation, Individuation, Collectivity by C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.' *
10. 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.' by C.G. Jung
11. 'The Rhythm of Being.'  by Raimon Panikkar*

*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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