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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
2.  Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1
3. Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
4. “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.'
5.  "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.'
6. “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.'
7. '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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt.
2. Episode 1: What is the Symbolic Life?
3. "Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of the collective unconscious psychic processes..." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz in 'The Interpretation of Fairy Tales.'
4. "[For each of us] there is a reality, a fit place, and congenial duties." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson from 'Spiritual Laws' in Essays: First Series.
5. "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.'
6. "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.
7. “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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. 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.'
2. “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.'
3. “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.'
4. “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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "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
2. "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.'
3. Episode 5: The Living Symbol
4. "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.'
5. "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.
6. “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.


Sources for quotes and more:

1. "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.'
2. "It's easy to do what is not good, and things that harm oneself..." from 'The Dhammapada' translated by Gil Fronsdal.
3. "Creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loyalty of water to the force of gravity." ~ Mary Oliver from 'Upstream.'
4. We either accept the spiritual life with all our heart..."~ Raimon Panikkar from 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'
5. "Only the most absolute sincerity under heaven can effect any change." from 'Chung Yung,' translated by Ezra Pound.
6. "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.'
7. "Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters." ~ Matthew 12:30
8. "If you are here unfaithfully with us, you're causing terrible damage." ~ Rumi from 'Say Yes Quickly,' poem translated by Coleman Barks.
9. "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.'
10. 'The Marriage of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle' ~ adapted from the prose translation by Louis B. Hall in 'The Knightly Tales of Sir Gawain.'
11. "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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. “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.'
2. "the farthest star and the mud at your feet are a family." ~ Mary Oliver from 'Upstream.'
3. Episode 3: The Healing Factor
4. "A thorough knowledge of the spiritual history of man [is] indispensable..." ~ C.G. Jung from Collected Works, vol. 11.
5. O Servant, where dost thou seek Me?' by Kabir from 'Songs of Kabir' (translated by Rabindranath Tagore and Evelyn Underhill).
6. "Our creed is, like music, a translation of the unutterable into a form of expression." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from Man Is Not Alone. 
7. "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.

Sources for quotes and more:

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

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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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "The whole of yourself is certainly an irrational entity, but this is just precisely yourself..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
2. 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.'
3. "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.'
4. The Three Feathers from 'Grimm's Tales.'
5. "If one doesn't understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Collected Works, vol. 14.'
6. "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.'
7. "The quiet eminence of our being." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone.'
8. "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.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?" ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections'
2. "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'
3. "An authentic awareness of that which is." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone'
4. “The surface-glamour of existence,” ~ William James in 'Is Life Worth Living?'
5. "I do not care whether the consciousness be that of artist or musician" ~ Evelyn Underhill from 'Mysticism'
6. "It is to vigor rather than to comfort that you are called..." ~ Evelyn Underhill from Practical Mysticism

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