Digital Jung

In this episode:We reflect on the New Year, letting go of what is past and turning toward what is to come.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.

Explore the essence of living authentically through the lens of Jungian psychology. Discover the power of self-discovery and how nurturing your inner self can lead to genuine happiness. Dive into the significance of dreams as tools for resilience and understanding your true self. Embrace the journey of forging a strong identity, balancing defeats and victories to build character. The conversation emphasizes the importance of affirming your destiny and the unvarnished truths dreams reveal about your soul.

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

Delve into the fascinating link between the human psyche and religious expression, revealing spirituality as an essential aspect of life. Discover how personal beliefs intertwine with collective religious symbols, enhancing self-awareness and connecting to universal themes. Explore the innate human drive for meaning and the role of psychology, religion, and philosophy in deciphering the mysteries of existence. The conversation emphasizes the importance of cultivating a profound connection with life’s purpose.

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:"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"A violent and complex stimulation of the senses...” ~ Alan Watts from 'The Wisdom of Insecurity.''Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man' by Marshall McLuhan'Amusing Ourselves to Death' by Neil Postman'The Distracted Mind' by Adam Gazzaley and Larry Rosen'The Dhammapada' translated by Gil Fronsdal"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“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.” ~ Henry David Thoreau from 'Walden.'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 discuss how we can know and express what Carl Jung calls “the unique and unrepeatable experience” that we are.Sources for quotes and more:"The whole of yourself is certainly an irrational entity, but this is just precisely yourself..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'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.'"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.'The Three Feathers from 'Grimm's Tales.'"If one doesn't understand a person one tends to regard him as a fool." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Collected Works, vol. 14.'"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.'"The quiet eminence of our being." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone.'"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.'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 discuss what Carl Jung called “the decisive question”: the need for a relationship with the infinite.Sources for quotes and more:"The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not?" ~ C.G. Jung from 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections'"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'"An authentic awareness of that which is." ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel from 'Man is Not Alone'“The surface-glamour of existence,” ~ William James in 'Is Life Worth Living?'"I do not care whether the consciousness be that of artist or musician" ~ Evelyn Underhill from 'Mysticism'"It is to vigor rather than to comfort that you are called..." ~ Evelyn Underhill from Practical MysticismMusic:"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 look at the symbol of the heart and consider its central place in the practice of the symbolic life.Sources for quotes and more:"The most beautiful truth..." ~ C.G. Jung from Collected Works vol. 18, par. 1292Last week's episode: The Living SymbolThe Man Without a Heart fairy tale"The heart is the organ that produces true knowledge, comprehensive intuition, and gnosis of God..." from Henri Corbin in 'Alone With the Alone'Story of Solomon asking for an "understanding heart" from 1 Kings 3:5-9“Blessed are the pure in heart" from Matthew 5:8“Go you, sweep out the dwelling room of your heart..." ~ Shabistari quoted in 'Essential Sufism.'"The heart is understood in an intellectual, spiritual, and physical sense..." from Raimon Panikkar in 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom.'“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” ~ Matthew 12:34"It’s all I have to bring today—" by Emily Dickinson Episode 2: Noise and the Inner LifeMusic:"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.

Dive into the fascinating world of symbols and their profound impact on human experience. Discover how these living Gestalts shape our perceptions and enrich our lives. Explore Jung's insights on the deeper meanings behind words and images, and learn about the emotional resonance symbols hold. The discussion offers practical tips to enhance our sensitivity to symbols, allowing us to connect with the deeper layers of existence.