Digital Jung

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.

Send us a textIn 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:"Only through our feebleness and incapacity are we linked up with the unconscious..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Tavistock Lectures,' Collected Works, vol. 18.Jacob and the Angel from Genesis 32:25 - 29, Sefaria.org The Man Watching by Rainer Maria Rilke (Robert Bly translation)"There's a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." ~ Leonard Cohen from 'Anthem.'"Give your unconscious a chance to analyze yourself..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Jung on Active Imagination,' p. 164.Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach (Helen M. Mustard & Charles E. Passage translation).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.

Send us a textIn 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:"Among all my patients in the second half of life..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Psychotherapists or the Clergy,' Collected Works, vol. 11."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."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. 340Jacob and the Angel from Genesis 32:25 - 29, Sefaria.org "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"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 PoetMusic:"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.

Send us a textIn 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:"Noise protects us from painful reflection..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Selected Letters,' p. 163"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?'"So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts to wisdom.” ~ Psalm 90 from 'Book of Common Prayer'"The five colors blind the eye..." ~ Lao Tsu from 'Tao Te Ching' (Chapter 12)“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 "Aesthetic Arrest" ~ 'The Joseph Campbell Companion'“The art of living consists in being completely sensitive to each moment..." ~ Alan Watts in 'The Wisdom of Insecurity'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.

Send us a textIn this episode we explore two key questions:What is the symbolic life?How do we begin to live it?Sources for quotes and more:"Now we have no symbolic life..." ~ C.G. Jung from 'The Symbolic Life' in Collected Works, vol. 18 (CW18), par. 627"Our soul may never have rest in anything which is beneath itself." Julian of Norwich from 'Showings' (Classics of Western Spirituality)"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 "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." ~ Henry David Thoreau in 'Walden'"Man cannot stand a meaningless life." ~ C.G. Jung in "The 'Face to Face' Interview" from C.G. Jung Speaking The White Snake ~ Grimm's Fairy Tales"There is guidance for each of us..." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson in 'Spiritual Laws' from Essays: First SeriesMusic:"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.