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Digital Jung

By: Jason E. Smith
  • Summary

  • Living a Symbolic Life in a Technological Age. Our digital age presents unique challenges for the practice of the inner life. What can the insights of Jungian Psychology offer for dealing with these challenges? In this series, we explore Carl Jung's idea of "the symbolic life" through the lenses of depth psychology, mythology, fairy tales, poetry, religion, and more. We focus on three core questions: 1. What is the symbolic life? 2. Why do we need a symbolic life? and 3. How can we cultivate and live a symbolic life? This is a companion podcast to the book 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life' by Jungian analyst Jason E. Smith.
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Episodes
  • The Goal of the Symbolic Life
    Jun 30 2023

    In this episode:
    I conclude this series on the fairytale The Iron Stove with a discussion of just what constitutes the goal of the symbolic life.

    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)

    Or: 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, available from Chiron Publications.

    Sources for quotes and more:

    1. The Aims of Psychotherapy in ‘Modern Man in Search of a Soul’ by C.G. Jung
    2. The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales 
    3. S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 1
    4. S3, Ep. 15: Resisting Change -- The Iron Stove, pt. 2
    5. S3, Ep. 16: Embodying the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 3
    6. ‘Encountering God’ by Diana Eck
    7. ‘A Little Course in Dreams’ by Robert Bosnak
    8. 'Tao Te Ching' by Lao Tsu, translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
    9. Frontiers of Knowledge in 'C.G. Jung Speaking' (edited by William McGuire)
    10. 'The Fifth Gospel: The Gospel of Thomas Comes of Age' by Stephen J. Patterson


    For text and narration of The Iron Stove, visit: https://digitaljung.substack.com/p/the-iron-stove

    Like this podcast?
    Please consider leaving a review at one of the following sites:
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    Or, if you are able, support the show with a donation at Buy Me a Coffee (link below)

    Music:
    "Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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    37 mins
  • Embodying the Spirit
    Jun 16 2023

    In this episode:
    I
    n this third part of my series on the fairytale The Iron Stove, I explore the importance of bringing together the mind and the body in the work of the symbolic life.

    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)

    Or: 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, available from Chiron Publications.

    Sources for quotes and more:

    1. Man and His Environment in ‘C.G. Jung Speaking’ (William McGuire, ed.)
    2.  Just as the Winged Energy of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke in ‘Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke’ (trans. by Robert Bly)
    3. The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales 
    4. S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 1
    5. S3, Ep. 15: Resisting Change -- The Iron Stove, pt. 2
    6. 'Selected Letters' by C.G. Jung
    7. Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae (quoted in Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung)
    8. 'Crossing the Unknown Sea' by David Whyte
    9. 'Redemption Motifs in Fairytales' by Marie-Louise von Franz
    10. 'God in Search of Man' by Abraham Joshua Heschel


    For text and narration of The Iron Stove, visit: https://digitaljung.substack.com/p/the-iron-stove

    Like this podcast?
    Please consider leaving a review at one of the following sites:
    Apple Podcasts
    Spotify
    Podchaser

    Or, if you are able, support the show with a donation at Buy Me a Coffee (link below)

    Music:
    "Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

    Support the show
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    26 mins
  • Resisting Change
    Jun 8 2023

    In this episode:
    I continue to explore the riches of the fairytale The Iron Stove, this time looking at the ways we resist the necessity of change in our lives.

    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)

    Or: 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, available from Chiron Publications.

    Sources for quotes and more:

    1. Mysterium Coniunctionis in ‘Collected Works, vol. 14 by C.G. Jung
    2. 'Heraclitus' by Philip Wheelwright
    3. The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales 
    4. S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit: The Iron Stove, pt. 1
    5.  The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious in ‘Collected Works, vol. 7’ by C.G. Jung
    6. 'Creation Myths' by Marie-Louise von Franz
    7.  Answer to Job in ‘Collected Works, vol. 11’ by C.G. Jung


    For text and narration of The Iron Stove, visit: https://digitaljung.substack.com/p/the-iron-stove

    Like this podcast?
    Please consider leaving a review at one of the following sites:
    Apple Podcasts
    Spotify
    Podchaser

    Or, if you are able, support the show with a donation at Buy Me a Coffee (link below)

    Music:
    "Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0


    Support the show
    Show More Show Less
    33 mins

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