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Imagining Our Proper Life-Task
Digital Jung
11/17/22 • 29 min
In this episode:
I discuss the idea of vocation -- what Jung calls “our proper life-task” -- and explore the challenges that come with taking up such a task in our own lives.
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Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith).
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.
Sources for quotes and more:
- 'Letters, vol. 1' by C.G. Jung
- Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung
- The Holy Men of India in 'Collected Works, vol. 11' by C.G. Jung
- 'A Life at Work' by Thomas Moore
- Psychology and Alchemy in 'Collected Works, vol. 12' by C.G. Jung
- 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
- 'The Way of the Dream' by Marie-Louise von Franz
- The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog in 'Favorite Folktales From Around the World' edited by Jane Yolen
- The Development of the Personality in 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
- Is Analytical Psychology a Religion? in 'C.G. Jung Speaking' edited by William McGuire
- The Golden Key, fairy tale by George MacDonald
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
The Art of Reflection
Digital Jung
05/06/21 • 25 min
In this episode:
We explore Jung's thoughts about the capacity for reflection and why he sees it as an essential component of our humanity.
Sources for quotes and more:
- "'Reflection' should be understood not simply as an act of thought, but rather as an attitude. It is a privilege born of human freedom in contradistinction to the compulsion of natural law...." ~ C.G. Jung from A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity (footnote, par. 235) in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
- "It cannot be denied that our current age is a distracted one." ~ 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
- Episode 27: Working With Your Dreams
- Discussion of bios and zoê in The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery by Raimon Panikkar.
- Discussion of events and experiences in Healing Fiction by James Hillman.
- The Psychology of the Transference by C.G. Jung, 'Collected Works, vol. 16.' *
- "[It is] indeed wonderful to see how human beings, besides their life in the concrete, always live a second life in the abstract...." ~ Arthur Schopenhauer in 'The World as Will and Representation.' *
- 'Concerning the Inner Life.' by Evelyn Underhill
- Adaptation, Individuation, Collectivity by C.G. Jung in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.' *
- 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.' by C.G. Jung
- 'The Rhythm of Being.' by Raimon Panikkar*
*Some quotes have been adapted to reflect gender neutral language. There has been no change made to the essential meaning of those quotes.
Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
The Inner World and the Outer World
Digital Jung
01/28/21 • 19 min
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 4.0
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
Living an Authentic Life
Digital Jung
12/24/20 • 23 min
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:
- 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.'
- “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.'
- “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.'
- “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.'
Music:
"Dreaming Days" and "Slow Vibing" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
The Work of Inner Work
Digital Jung
12/10/20 • 23 min
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 4.0
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
Being What We Are
Digital Jung
11/19/20 • 25 min
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 4.0
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
A Listening Heart
Digital Jung
11/05/20 • 21 min
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. 1292
- Last week's episode: The Living Symbol
- The 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 Life
Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
Losing the Spirit: The Seven Ravens
Digital Jung
04/28/22 • 28 min
In this episode:
We begin to read through the tale The Seven Ravens and to explore the challenges of reconciling the different sides of our nature.
Let's make this a conversation:
Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith).
For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.
Sources for quotes and more:
- 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
- 'Mysticism: The Preeminent Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness' by Evelyn Underhill
- The Seven Ravens, Grimms' Fairy Tales
- 'Practical Mysticism' by Evelyn Underhill
- 'Ego and Archetype' by Edward Edinger
- The Development of the Personality from 'Collected Works, vol. 17' by C.G. Jung
- 'Living an Examined Life' by James Hollis
- 'I Asked For Wonder,' An Anthology of Writings from Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Connect with me:
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Twitter(@DigitalJungPod)
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
Taking Dreams Seriously
Digital Jung
02/18/21 • 19 min
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 Shakespeare
- Dreams That Warn of Breast Cancer
- Robert 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 4.0
Like this podcast?
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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
The Paradox of Happiness
Digital Jung
01/06/22 • 25 min
In this episode:
We talk about happiness, and discover why Jung believed it was better for us not to pursue it.
Let's make this a conversation:
Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith).
For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.
Sources for quotes and more:
- Except where otherwise noted, all quotes from Jung are taken from The Art of Living in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
- 'Tao Te Ching,' Translated by Red Pine.
- 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L’Engle.
- 'A Room of One's Own' by Virginia Woolf.
- “The challenge I face is how to actualize the quiet eminence of our being.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel, 'I Asked For Wonder.'
- Letter to Harriet Hardy from C.G. Jung ("Carl Jung on Happiness")
- “...a civilization that has forgotten that man’s life should be sacrificial, that is, offered up to an idea greater than himself.” ~ C.G. Jung, in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.'
- “Again and again I therefore admonish my students both in Europe and in America: ‘Don't aim at success..." ~ Viktor Frankl in 'Man's Search For Meaning.'
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Music:
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Connect with me:
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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.
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How many episodes does Digital Jung have?
Digital Jung currently has 77 episodes available.
What topics does Digital Jung cover?
The podcast is about Mythology, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Mental Health, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Religion and Jungian.
What is the most popular episode on Digital Jung?
The episode title 'The Fact of Fantasy' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on Digital Jung?
The average episode length on Digital Jung is 26 minutes.
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Episodes of Digital Jung are typically released every 8 days, 11 hours.
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The first episode of Digital Jung was released on Sep 29, 2020.
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