Digital Jung

The podcast dives into the concept of the numinous, exploring its profound impact on our psychological and spiritual well-being. It examines how personal suffering can be transformed into meaningful experiences through reflection. Biblical stories illustrate the journey from sorrow to growth, emphasizing the importance of confronting pain. The discussion highlights the powerful role of archetypes in understanding personal struggles, ultimately showcasing how facing difficulties can lead to profound transformation and deeper existence.

In 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 is no religion in which it does not live as the real innermost core, and without it no religion would be worthy of the name.” ~ Rudolf Otto in 'The Idea of the Holy.'"To all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” ~ Bible, New Revised Standard Version -- Matt. 25:29."The poet is the priest of the invisible." ~ Wallace Stevens in 'Adagia.' Poem excerpt from 'Vacillation' by W.B. Yeats.“Modern man has such hopelessly muddled ideas about anything ‘mystical'..." ~ C.G. Jung in A Psychological Approach to the Doctrine of the Trinity in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.' "Some certain significance lurks in all things." ~ Herman Melville in 'Moby-Dick.'"Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness.  Meaning makes a great many things endurable -- perhaps everything." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'Music:"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" 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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

In 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 spiritual experiences.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'"Psychologically, I am using the word to mean anything which overwhelms us so completely that our genuine reaction is to prostrate ourselves to the floor, to venerate it, to fear it...." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz in 'The Way of the Dream.'The Water of Life from 'Grimm's Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt."What is now prov’d was once only imagined." ~ William Blake from 'Auguries of Innocence.' Discussion of "the way of expediency" and "the way of wonder" in 'Man is Not Alone' by Abraham Joshua Heschel. "Let us forever remember that the sense for the sacred is as vital to us the light of the sun." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel in 'I Asked for Wonder.'Music:"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" 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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

In 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, vol. 7.' Episode 19: Dreaming and Reality Francis Crick's "garbage dump theory of dreams" discussed in 'The Committee of Sleep' by Deirdre Barrett.Romeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareDreams That Warn of Breast CancerRobert Bosnak's work on the post-surgical dreams of heart transplant patients discussed in 'The Committee of Sleep.'“Wakefulness may be described as a dreamlike state modulated by sensory experience.” ~ Llinas and Pare, quoted in 'The Neurobiology of the Gods' by Erik Goodwyn. “What proof could you give if anyone should ask us now, at the present moment, whether we are asleep and our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are awake and talking to each other in a waking condition?” ~ Socrates in Plato's 'Theaetetus.'“In waking life, too, we continue to dream beneath the threshold of consciousness.” ~ C.G. Jung in Problems of Modern Psychotherapy from 'Collected Works, vol. 16.'"Who Says Words With My Mouth?" ~ poem by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks.“All dreams reveal spiritual experiences.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'Music:"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" 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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

In 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 Hill Lamon. "There is a dream dreaming us," from Laurens van der Post from 'Where Will All the Stories Go?' in Parabola Magazine, vol. 7, no. 2."When dreaming I'm guided to another world" ~ Creed, from the song 'Higher.'"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." ~ Edgar Allan Poe from the poem 'A Dream Within a Dream.'"Aha, so he is the one who is meditating me. He has a dream, and I am it." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'Butterfly Dream from Chuang-Tzu.“What proof could you give if anyone should ask us now, at the present moment, whether we are asleep and our thoughts are a dream, or whether we are awake and talking to each other in a waking condition?” ~ Socrates in Plato's 'Theaetetus.''The Tempest' by William Shakespeare'The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, vol. 1.'The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man  by C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 10' 'The Way of the Dream' by Marie-Louise von Franz “All consciousness separates, but in dreams we put on the likeness of that more universal, truer, more eternal self dwelling in the darkness of primordial night.” ~ C.G. Jung from The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'Music:"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" 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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

In 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 Man' in Collected Works, vol. 10.Study from the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences reviewed at: 'A New Theory Suggests All Conscious Thoughts and Decisions Are Actually Made By Your Unconscious'  'Are We In Control of Our Own Decisions?', Ted Talk by Dan ArielyEpisode 17: The Inner World and the Outer World“Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature..." ~ C.G. Jung in 'The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man' in Collected Works, vol. 10.“We feel in contact with our psychic depth and with our own living substance, and then we subjectively feel that life is flowing, that we are alive.” ~ Marie-Louise von Franz, in 'The Way of the Dream.'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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

In 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 what works and moves by itself..." ~ Alan Watts from 'Become What You Are.'Babies Can Recognize Emotion in Faces in The Telegraph“It is not I who create myself, rather I happen to myself.” ~ C.G. Jung from Transformation Symbolism in the Mass in 'Collected Works, Vol. 11.'“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson from Art in 'Essays: First Series.''Proverbs and Songs' by Antonio Machado.'A Ritual to Read to Each Other' by William Stafford.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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

In 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 infinitesimal grain on the scales of humanity's soul...” ~ C.G. Jung in 'The Practice of Psychotherapy, CW16.''Just as the Winged Energy of Delight' by Rainer Maria RilkeEpisode 2: Noise and the Inner Life"We should not squander our time with all kinds of things — although they may be important and pleasant — which do not constitute wisdom, do not bring salvation, and do not allow for joy to appear." ~ Raimon Panikkar in 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.' 'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith"Incarnate scraps of hope, courage, determination..." ~ Evelyn Underhill in 'The House of the Soul.' "Not a victory is gained, not a deed of faithfulness or courage is done, except upon a maybe..." ~ William James in 'Is Life Worth Living?'Music:"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" 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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

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:The White Snake from 'Grimms' Household Tales,' translated by Margaret Hunt. Episode 14: Serving the Inner Life, pt. 1Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell“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.' "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.'“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.''Throw Yourself Like Seed' by Miguel de UnamunoMusic:"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" 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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.

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: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 expression of the collective unconscious psychic processes..." ~ Marie-Louise von Franz in 'The Interpretation of Fairy Tales.'"[For each of us] there is a reality, a fit place, and congenial duties." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson from 'Spiritual Laws' in Essays: First Series."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.'"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.“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.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:Support the showConnect with me:Instagram (@digital.jung)Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) Bluesky (@digitaljung.bsky.social)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.