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


Sources for quotes and more:

1. "The most beautiful truth..." ~ C.G. Jung from Collected Works vol. 18, par. 1292
2. Last week's episode: The Living Symbol
3. The Man Without a Heart fairy tale
4. "The heart is the organ that produces true knowledge, comprehensive intuition, and gnosis of God..." from Henri Corbin in 'Alone With the Alone'
5. Story of Solomon asking for an "understanding heart" from 1 Kings 3:5-9
6. “Blessed are the pure in heart" from Matthew 5:8
7. “Go you, sweep out the dwelling room of your heart..." ~ Shabistari quoted in 'Essential Sufism.'
8. "The heart is understood in an intellectual, spiritual, and physical sense..." from Raimon Panikkar in 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'
9. “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” ~ Matthew 12:34
10. "It’s all I have to bring today—" by Emily Dickinson 
11. 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.


Sources for quotes and more:

1. "A symbol, then, is a living Gestalt, or form..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga.'
2. Jung and the Story of Our Time by Laurens van der Post
3. "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.'
4. "When trying to hold an interview with reality face to face..." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone.'
5. "The way I must enter" by Izumi Shikibu from 'Women in Praise of the Sacred,' edited by Jane Hirshfield.
6. "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.


Sources for quotes and more:

1. "Only through our feebleness and incapacity are we linked up with the unconscious..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Tavistock Lectures,' Collected Works, vol. 18.
2. Jacob and the Angel from Genesis 32:25 - 29, Sefaria.org 
3. The Man Watching by Rainer Maria Rilke (Robert Bly translation)
4. "There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen from 'Anthem.'
5. "Give your unconscious a chance to analyze yourself..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Jung on Active Imagination,' p. 164.
6. 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.


Sources for quotes and more:

1. "Among all my patients in the second half of life..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Psychotherapists or the Clergy,' Collected Works, vol. 11.
2. "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.
3. "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
4. Jacob and the Angel from Genesis 32:25 - 29, Sefaria.org 
5. "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
6. "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?

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "Noise protects us from painful reflection..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Selected Letters,' p. 163
2. "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?'
3. "So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.” ~ Psalm 90 from 'Book of Common Prayer'
4. "The five colors blind the eye..." ~ Lao Tsu from 'Tao Te Ching' (Chapter 12)
5. “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 
6. "Aesthetic Arrest" ~ 'The Joseph Campbell Companion'
7. “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:

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

Sources for quotes and more:

1. "Now we have no symbolic life..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Symbolic Life' in Collected Works, vol. 18 (CW18), par. 627
2. "Our soul may never have rest in anything which is beneath itself." Julian of Norwich from 'Showings' (Classics of Western Spirituality)
3. "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 
4. "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." ~ Henry David Thoreau in 'Walden'
5. "Man cannot stand a meaningless life." ~ C.G. Jung in "The 'Face to Face' Interview" from C.G. Jung Speaking 
6. The White Snake ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales
7. "There is guidance for each of us..." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson in 'Spiritual Laws' from Essays: First Series

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