Jung - DIALOGUE - Depth Psychology Alliance2024-03-29T10:43:26Zhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/feed/tag/JungTypology Central - A Personality Type Indicator Communityhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/typology-central-a-personality-type-indicator-community2016-10-11T10:23:36.000Z2016-10-11T10:23:36.000ZTypology Centralhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/TypologyCentral<div><p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.typologycentral.com/" target="_blank">http://www.typologycentral.com/</a></span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3" style="font-family: 'comic sans ms', sans-serif;">Typology Central is a discussion forum and was created s a place to learn and share information about personality type. The core objective of the forum is to establish a communal atmosphere helping people to learn more about themselves, personality type and psychology; as well as understanding different points of view and manners of expression. It’s a place to make friends and form meaningful interpersonal relationships. The goal is to support high quality debate/discussion about challenging topics in a mature, civil and open manner. The community is focused on the practical use of personality type – how typology can be applied in real life situations.</span></p></div>New Interview: Jung, Crop Circles and the Re-Emergence of the Archetypal Feminine with Gary Bobroff M.A.https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/new-interview-jung-crop-circles-and-the-re-emergence-of-the-arche2012-02-21T22:25:40.000Z2012-02-21T22:25:40.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><span>Hi everyone,</span></p>
<p><span>I wanted to share my latest interview--a fascinating topic indeed:</span></p>
<p><span>Bonnie Bright M.A. speaks with Gary Bobroff, M.A., (also a Depth Psychology Alliance member!) about<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868848181?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868848181?profile=original" width="300" class="align-right"/></a> his fascinating research into the phenomenon of crop circles and their connection to C.G. Jung and his archetypes. Join us to learn how the Mystery of the crop circles is a potential herald to the re-emergence of the archetypal feminine in the collective.</span></p>
<div><p class="style6">Gary Bobroff has a degree in philosophy and an M.A. in Jungian-oriented Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. He has visited Crop Circles in the UK, Canada and the US. He is writer, therapist and workshop leader.</p>
<p class="style6">For centuries, Crop Circles have been a mysterious visitor arriving at our door. Recently we have scientifically identified that this phenomenon is no hoax, but something authentically unknown. Considering the science, history, and symbolic nature of this modern mystery, Bobroff offers a framework for the reader's own deeper consideration of Crop Circles.</p>
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<p class="style6"><strong>Gary presents live at the San Francisco Bay Depth Psychology Alliance Meetup: Friday, March 23. Public welcome. <a href="http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=l548rqeab&oeidk=a07e5iso675de0e55f8" target="_blank">Details/register</a> <span style="color: #ff0000;">(<strong>REGISTER by March 5</strong> and your name will be entered in a drawing to win a FREE copy of Gary's book!)</span></strong></p>
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</div></div>New Interview: Jung, Osiris and the Secrets of Alchemical Transformation with Dr. Thom Cavallihttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/new-interview-jung-osiris-and-the-secrets-of-alchemical-transform2012-04-22T09:19:11.000Z2012-04-22T09:19:11.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>I invite you to <a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/pages/radio.htm#cavalli0512" target="_blank"><strong>listen to (or watch) a new interview for Depth Insights radio as I talk wih Dr. Thom Cavalli</strong></a><strong>,</strong> May's <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868851285?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="150" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868851285?profile=RESIZE_180x180" width="150" class="align-right"/></a>online book club author, about Alchemy,Jung's interest in the subject, and how the Egyptian myth of Osiris can play a role in the alchemical individuation process.</p>
<p>With his keen understanding of alchemy--and a strong grasp of Jung and Jungian psychology--Thom explains the stages of alchemy, how C.G. Jung viewed it, and how a greater understanding of alchemical processes at work in our lives can be had by turning to the the 5000-year-old myth of the Egyptian god, Osiris.</p>
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<p class="style6"><a href="http://www.cavallibooks.com/" title="Thom Cavalli's web site" target="_blank"><strong>Visit</strong> Thom's web site</a></p></div>Remember Balance: Advice from C.G. Junghttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/remember-balance-advice-from-c-g-jung2017-02-08T22:57:02.000Z2017-02-08T22:57:02.000ZDepth Alliancehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAlliance<div><div><div class="_1mf _1mj"><span>"It would be advisable to counter every negative remark with a positive one, otherwise one gets the impression of a catastrophic tragedy with no grace from above"</span></div>
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</div></div>Excerpt: 'After the Catastrophe' by Carl Jung (1945)https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/excerpt-after-the-catastrophe-by-carl-jung-19452017-02-08T07:09:13.000Z2017-02-08T07:09:13.000ZDepth Alliancehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAlliance<div><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><span style="font-size: 13px;">[Re-posted from </span><a href="http://ahistoryofthepresentananthology.blogspot.com/2013/06/after-catastrophe-by-carl-jung-1945.html" target="_blank" style="font-size: 13px;">Madness and Civilization, Destiny, and History: An Anthology</a><span style="font-size: 13px;">]</span></h3>
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<p>[Hitler] was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. [...] He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody's personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him. <br/><br/>In Hitler, every German should have seen his own shadow, his own worst danger. </p>
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<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9109535875723949716"><br/><div><span>A selection from After the Catastrophe by Carl Jung, 1945. <br/><br/>Note: see the <b>Appendix</b> for some excerpts taken from a talk given by Jung in 1946, and broadcast by the <i>British Broadcasting Corporation</i>, called <i>The Fight with the Shadow</i>. </span><br/><span><br/></span></div>
<div><span>Questions are being asked on all sides about the meaning of the whole tragedy. [...] I am only too well aware that 'German' presents an immense problem, and that the subjective views of a medical psychologists can touch only a few aspects of this gigantic tangle of questions. <br/><br/>Living as we do in the middle of Europe, we Swiss feel comfortably far removed from the foul vapours that arise from the morass of German guilt. But all this changes the moment we set foot, as Europeans, on another continent or come into contact with an Oriental people. What are we to say to an Indian who asks us: 'You are anxious to bring us your Christian culture, are you not? May I ask if Auschwitz and Buchenwald are examples of European civilization?' [...] The world sees Europe as the continent on whose soil the shameful concentration camps grew... .<br/><br/>If the German intends to live on good terms with Europe, he must be conscious that in the eyes of Europeans he is a guilty man. As a German, he has betrayed European civilization and all its values; he has brought shame and disgrace on his European family, so that one must blush to hear oneself called a European... .<br/><br/>If a German is prepared to acknowledge his moral inferiority... before the whole world, without attempting to minimize it or explain it away with flimsy arguments, then he will stand a reasonable chance, after a time, of being taken for a more or less decent man, and will thus be absolved of his collective guilt... . <br/><br/>Long before 1933 there was a smell of burning in the air, and people were passionately interested in discovering the locus of the fire and in tracking down the incendiary. And when denser clouds of smoke were seen to gather over Germany, and the burning of the Reichstag gave the signal, then at last there was no mistake where the incendiary, evil in person, dwelt. <br/>The sight of evil kindles evil in the soul... . Something of the abysmal darkness of the world has broken in on us, poisoning the very air we breathe and befouling the pure water with the stale, nauseating taste of blood... .<br/><br/>When evil breaks at any point into the order of things, our whole circle of psychic protection is disrupted.<br/><br/>The terrible things that have happened in Germany, ... are a blow aimed at all Europeans. (We used to be able to relegate such things to 'Asia!') The fact that one member of the European family could sink to the level of the concentration camp throws a dubious light on all the others. Who are we to imagine that 'it couldn't happen here'? [...] ...a terrible doubt about humanity, and about ourselves gnaws at our heart.<br/>Nevertheless, it should be clear to everyone that such a state of degradation can come about only under certain conditions. The most important of these is the accumulation of Urban, industrialized masses- of people torn from the soil, engaged in one-sided employment, and lacking every healthy instinct, even that of self-preservation. Loss of the instinct of self-preservation can be measured in terms of dependence on the state... . Dependence on the State means that everybody relies on everybody else (=State) instead of on himself. Every man hangs on to the next and enjoys a false feeling of security, for one is still hanging in the air even when hanging in the company of ten thousand other people. The only difference is that one is no longer aware of one's own insecurity. The increasing dependence on the State is anything but a healthy symptom; it means that the whole nation is in a fair way to becoming a herd of sheep, constantly relying on a shepherd to drive them into good pastures. [...] The steady growth of the Welfare State is no doubt a very fine thing from one point of view, but from another it is a doubtful blessing, as it robs people of their individual responsibility and turns them into infants and sheep. [...] ...once a man is cut off from the nourishing roots of instinct, he becomes the shuttle-cock of every wind that blows. He is then no better than a sick animal, demoralized and degenerate, and nothing short of a catastrophe can bring him back to health. <br/>I own that in saying all this I feel rather like the prophet who, according to Josephus, lifted up his voice in lamentation over the city as the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem. It proved not the slightest use to the city, and a stone missile from a Roman ballista put an end to the prophet.<br/><br/>This is a pathological, demoralized, and mentally abnormal condition: one side of us does things which the other (so called decent) side prefers to ignore. This side is in a perpetual state of defence against real and supposed accusations. In reality the chief accuser is not outside, but the judge who dwells in our own hearts. Since this is nature's attempt to bring about a cure, it would be wiser not to persist too long in rubbing the noses of Germans in their own abominations, lest we drown the voice of the accuser in their hearts... . [...] The Germans were never wholly indifferent to the impression they made on the outside world. They resented disapproval and hated even to be criticized. Inferiority feelings make people touchy and lead to compensatory efforts to impress. As a result... 'German efficiency' is demonstrated with such aplomb that it leads to a reign of terror and the shooting of hostages. The German no longer thinks of these things as murder, for he is lost in considerations of his own prestige. <br/>This spectacle recalls the figure of what Nietzsche so aptly calls the 'pale criminal,' who in reality shows all the signs of hysteria. [...] He will stoop to every kind of self-deception if only he can escape the sight of himself. It is true that this happens everywhere, but nowhere does it appear to be such a national characteristic as in Germany. [...] This condition can easily lead to an hysterical dissociation of the personality, which consists essentially... in wanting to jump over one's own shadow, and in looking for everything dark, inferior, and culpable in others. Hence the hysteric always complains of being surrounded by people who are incapable of appreciating him and who are activated only by bad motives; by... a crowd of submen who should be exterminated neck and crop so that the Superman can live on his high level of perfection. The very fact that his thinking and feeling proceed along these lines is clear proof of inferiority in action. Therefore all hysterical people are compelled to torment others, because they are unwilling to hurt themselves by admitting their own inferiority. But since nobody can jump out of his skin and be rid of himself, they stand in their own way everywhere as their own evil spirit- and that is what we call an hysterical neurosis.<br/>All these pathological features- complete lack of insight into one's own character, auto-erotic self-admiration and self-extenuation, denigration and terrorization of one's fellow men..., projection of the shadow, lying, falsification of reality, determination to impress by fair means or foul, bluffing and double-crossing- all these were united in the man who was diagnosed clinically [in 1918 at the psychiatric ward of the Reserve Hospital IV in Pasewalk by a Jewish doctor, Dr. Karl Kroner] as an hysteric [suffering from 'hysterical blindness'], and whom a strange fate chose to be the political, moral, and religious spokesman of Germany for twelve years. Is this pure chance?<br/><br/>Hitler's theatrical, obviously hysterical gestures struck all foreigners (with a few amazing exceptions) as purely ridiculous. When I saw him with my own eyes, he suggested a psychic scarecrow (with a broomstick for an outstretched arm) rather than a human being. It is also difficult to understand how his ranting speeches, delivered in shrill, grating, womanish tones, could have made such an impression. But the German people would never have been taken in and carried away so completely if this figure had not been a reflected image of the collective German hysteria. It is not without serious misgivings that one ventures to pin the label of 'psychopathic inferiority' on to a whole nation, and yet, heaven knows, it is the only explanation which could in any way account for the effect this scarecrow had on the masses. [....] These personal observations led me to conclude at the time (1937) that, when the final catastrophe came, it would be far greater and bloodier than I had previously supposed. For this theatrical hysteric... was not strutting about on a small stage, but was riding the armoured divisions of the Wehrmacht, with all the weight of German heavy industry behind him. <br/><br/>...one is at a loss to imagine how anything quite so monstrous ever came to power. But we must not forget that we are judging from today, from a knowledge of the events which led to the catastrophe. Our judgement would certainly be very different had our information stopped short at 1933 or 1934. At that time, in Germany as well as in Italy, there were not a few things that appeared plausible and seemed to speak in favour of the regime. An undeniable piece of evidence in his respect was the disappearance of the unemployed, who used to tramp the German highroads in their hundreds of thousands [see his essay on Wotan]. And after the stagnation and decay of the post-war years the refreshing wind that blew through the two countries was a tempting sign of hope. <br/><br/>Nobody but a German could ever have devised such a figure [as Goethe's Faust], it is so intrinsically, so infinitely German. In Faust we see the same 'hungering for the infinite' born of inner contradiction..., the same eschatological expectation of the Great Fulfilment. [...] Faust... is split and sets up 'evil' outside himself in the shape of Mephistopheles... . [...] He remains the German idea of a human being, and therefore an image- somewhat overdone and distorted- of the average German. <br/>The essence of hysteria is a systematic dissociation... . [...] As a rule there is amazing ignorance of the shadow; the hysteric is only aware of his good motives... .<br/><br/>Ignorance of one's other side creates great inner insecurity. [...] This sense of insecurity is the source of the hysteric's prestige psychology, of his need to make an impression, to flaunt his merits and insist on them, of his insatiable thirst for recognition, admiration, adulation, and longing to be loved. <br/><br/>To my mind, the history of the last twelve years is the case-chart of an hysteric patient. <br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>The European, or rather the white man in general, is scarcely in a position to judge of his own state of mind. He is too deeply involved. I had always wanted to see Europeans through other eyes, and eventually I was able, on my many journeys, to establish sufficiently close relationships with non-Europeans to see the European through their eyes. The white man is nervous, restless, hurried, unstable, and (in the eyes of non-Europeans ) possessed by the craziest ideas, in spite of his energy and gifts which give him the feeling of being infinitely superior. The crimes he has committed against the coloured races are legion... . Primitives dread the sharply focused stare in the eye of the European, which seems to them like the evil eye. A Pueblo chieftain once confided to me that he thought all Americans (the only white men he knew) were crazy, and the reasons he gave for this view sounded exactly like a description of people who were possessed. Well, perhaps we are. For the first time since of the dawn of history we have succeeded in swallowing the whole of primitive animism into ourselves, and with it the spirit that animated nature. Not only were the gods dragged down from their planetary spheres and transformed into chthonic demons, but, under the influence of scientific enlightenment, even this band of demons, which at the time of Paraclesus still frolicked happily in mountains and woods, in rivers and human dwelling places, was reduced to a miserable remnant and finally vanished altogether. From time immemorial, nature was always filled with spirits. Now, for the first time, we are living in a lifeless nature bereft of gods. [...] The mere act of enlightenment may have destroyed the spirits of nature, but not the psychic factors that correspond to them... - in short, all those qualities which make possession possible. Even though nature is depsychized, the psychic conditions which breed demons are as actively at work as ever. The demons have not really disappeared but have merely taken on another form: they have become unconscious psychic forces. The process of reabsorbtion went hand in hand with an increasing inflation of the ego, which became more and more evident after the sixteenth century. Finally we even began to be aware of the psyche, and, as history shows, the discovery of the unconscious was a particularly painful episode. Just when people were congratulating themselves on having abolished all spooks, it turned out that instead of haunting the attic or old ruins the spooks were flitting about in the heads of apparently normal Europeans. Tyrannical, obsessive, intoxicating ideas and delusions were abroad everywhere.... . <br/><br/>The phenomenon we have witnessed in Germany was nothing less than the first outbreak of epidemic insanity, an irruption of the unconscious into what seemed to be a tolerably well-ordered world. A whole nation, as well as countless millions belonging to other nations, were swept into the blood-drenched madness of a war of extermination. <br/><br/>Just think for a moment what anti-Semitism means for the German: he is trying to use others as a scapegoat for his own greatest fault! This symptom alone should have told him that he had got on to a hopelessly wrong track. <br/>After the last World War the world should have begun to reflect, and above all German, which is the nerve-centre of Europe [not see 'Course of German History' where Germany is described as the mid point of Europe, in every sense]. [...] If, as Burckhardt says, Faust strikes a chord in every German soul, this chord has certainly gone on ringing. We hear it echoing in Nietzsche's Superman... . [W]here has the feminine side, the soul, disappeared to in Nietzsche? Helen has vanished in Hades, and Eurydice will never return. <br/><br/>While Nietzsche was prophetically responding to the schism of the Christian world with the art of thinking, his brother in spirit, Richard Wagner, was doing the same thing with the art of music. Germanic prehistory comes surging up, thunderous and stupefying, to fill the gaping breach in the Church. Wagner salved his conscience with Parsifal... but the Castle of the Grail vanished into an unknown land. [...] Wotan the storm-god had conquered. <br/><br/>Now Germany has suffered the consequences of the pact with the devil,... she has been ravished by the berserkers of her god Wotan, been cheated of her soul for the sake of gold and world-mastery, and defiled by the scum rising from the lowest depths. <br/><br/>But the fate of Germany should not mislead Europeans into nursing the illusion that the whole world's wickedness is localized in Germany. They should realize that the German catastrophe was only one crisis in the general European sickness. Long before the Hitler era, in fact long before the first World War, there were symptoms of the mental change taking place in Europe. The medieval picture of the world was breaking up and the metaphysical authority that ruled it was fast disappearing, only to reappear in man. Did not Nietzsche announce that God was dead and that his heir was the Superman... ? It is an immutable psychological law that when a projection has come to an end it always returns to its origin. So when somebody hits on the singular idea that God is dead, or does not exist at all, the psychic God-image, which is a dynamic part of the psyche's structure, finds its way back into the subject and produces a condition of 'God-Almightiness'... .<br/><br/>'God-Almightiness' does not make man divine, it merely fills him with arrogance and arouses everything evil in him. It produces a diabolic caricature of man, and this inhuman mask is so unendurable, such a torture to wear [recall that David Lynch spoke, in the context of discussing meditation, of 'the suffocating rubber clown suit of negativity' and how much it 'stinks'], that he tortures others. He is split in himself, a prey to inexplicable contradictions. Here we have the picture of the hysterical state of mind, of Nietzsche's 'pale criminal.' Fate has confronted every German with his inner counterpart: Faust is face to face with Mephistopheles and can no longer say, 'So that was the essence of the brute!' He must confess instead: 'That was my other side, my alter ego, my all too palpable shadow which can no longer be denied.'<br/>This is not the fate of Germany alone, but of Europe. <br/><br/><br/><br/><b>Appendix</b><br/><br/>...the tide that rose in the unconscious after the first World War was reflected in individual dreams [of my German patients], in the form of... mythological symbols which expressed primitivity, violence, cruelty: in short, all the powers of darkness. <br/><br/>I was able to... observe how the uprush of dark forces deployed itself in the individual test-tube. I could watch these forces as they broke through the individual's moral and intellectual self-control, and as they flooded his conscious world. <br/><br/><br/>...the uprush of mass instincts was symptomatic of a compensatory move of the unconscious. Such a move was possible because the conscious state of the people had become estranged from the natural laws of human existence. Thanks to industrialisation, large portions of the population were uprooted and were herded together in large centres [cities]. This new form of existence-- with its mass psychology and social dependence on the fluctuation of markets and wages-- produced an individual who was unstable, insecure, and suggestible. He was aware that his life depended on boards of directors and captains of industry, and he supposed, rightly or wrongly, that they were chiefly motivated by financial interests. He knew that, no matter how conscientiously he worked, he could still fall a victim at any moment to economic changes which were utterly beyond his control. And there was nothing else for him to rely on. [...] No wonder, therefore, that it was precisely Germany that fell a prey to mass psychology, though she is by no means the only nation threatened by this dangerous germ. The influence of mass psychology has spread far and wide. <br/>The individual's feeling of weakness, indeed of non-existence, was thus compensated by the eruption of hitherto unknown desires for power. it was the revolt of the powerless, the insatiable greed of the "have-nots." By such devious means the unconscious compels man to become conscious of himself. [...] Thus the avalanche rolled on in Germany and produced its leader, who was elected as a tool to complete the ruin of the nation. But what was his original intention? He dreamed of a "new order." We should be badly mistaken if we assumed that he did not really intend to create an international order of some kind. On the contrary, deep down in his being he was motivated by the forces of order... . Hitler was the exponent of a "new order," and that is the real reason why practically every German fell for him. [...] Like the rest of the world, they did not understand wherein Hitler's significance lay, that he symbolized something in every individual. He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. [...] He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody's personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him. <br/><br/>In Hitler, every German should have seen his own shadow, his own worst danger.</span></div>
</div></div>Star Wars: Modern Myth or Tantalizing Submyth?https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/star-wars-modern-myth-or-tantalizing-submyth2015-12-23T20:08:56.000Z2015-12-23T20:08:56.000ZCraig Chalquist, PhDhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/CraigChalquistPhD<div><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/craig-chalquist-phd/star-wars-modern-myth-or-tantalizing-submyth_b_8865906.html" target="_blank">My latest article at Huffington Post.</a></p>
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<p></p></div>Dreaming with Open Eyes - article on Jung's Active Imaginationhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/dreaming-with-open-eyes-article-on-jung-s-active-imagination2015-01-29T22:57:17.000Z2015-01-29T22:57:17.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Sharing this well-researched paper on Jung's "active imagination titled "Dreaming with Open Eyes." The author's name is not listed with the article per se, but it is found on a blog for Steve Beyer. </p>
<blockquote><p>In December 1913, Jung first experienced what he was later to call <em>active imagination</em>. However, he did not talk about these experiences until twelve years later, when, in May and June 1925, he “spoke for the first time of his inner development” (Jaffé, 1962/1963, p. vii) at two sessions of a series of weekly seminars he was giving in Zurich. The contents of these lectures were not published until 1989 (Jung, 1989); but a partial account of these experiences was given in 1962 by Aniela Jaffé in Jung’s <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Memories, Dreams, Reflections </span>(Jung, C., 1962/1963, pp. 170-199), which she largely wrote. This account is the foundation myth, the charter, for active imagination.</p>
<p>In 1913, according to this account, Jung, profoundly distressed at his break with Freud, began to experiment with different ways to enter into his own imaginings. As James Hillman describes it, “When there was nothing else to hold to, Jung turned to the personified images of interior vision. He entered into an interior drama, took himself into an imaginative fiction and then, perhaps, began his healing — even if it has been called his breakdown” (Hillman, 1983b, p. 54). </p>
<p>In this imaginal world, Jung began to confront and question the figures who appeared to him; and, to Jung’s surprise, those imaginal persons replied to him in turn. “Near the steep slope of a rock,” Jung says, “I caught sight of two figures, an old man with a white beard and a beautiful young girl. I summoned up my courage and approached them as though they were real people, and listened attentively to what they told me” (Jung, 1962/1997, p. 28). And again: “I held conversations with him, and he said things which I had not consciously thought. For I observed clearly that it was he who spoke, not I” (p. 30). One of these imaginal people, a wise pagan whom Jung named Philemon, “seemed to me quite real, as if he were a living personality.” Philemon spoke to Jung as follows: “He said I treated thoughts as if I generated them myself, but in his view thoughts were like animals in the forest, or people in a room, or birds in the air.” It was this imaginal Philemon who taught Jung the reality of the psyche — “that there is something in me which can say things that I do not know and do not intend” (p. 30). (<a href="http://www.singingtotheplants.com/2014/01/dreaming-with-open-eyes/" target="_blank">Click here to read the rest of the paper</a>)...</p>
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<p>Does anyone have experience with Active Imagination they can share?--or minimally, an outcome that was interesting, unexpected, or helpful?....</p></div>Jung on Self and Godhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/jung-on-self-and-god2014-07-08T22:15:01.000Z2014-07-08T22:15:01.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>“Two things have yet to be discovered. The first is the infinite gulf that separates us from one another. The second is the bridge that could connect us” ~CGJung, The Red Book,</p>
<p>Quoted in this <a href="http://sco.lt/69RJVB" target="_blank">post from Jungian Sanford Drob, "Jung on Self and God</a>"</p></div>Carl Jung and the I Chinghttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/carl-jung-and-the-i-ching2014-06-07T22:49:10.000Z2014-06-07T22:49:10.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>In his introduction to the English version of I Ching made by one of his acquaintance, Jung admits having practiced the oracle 30 years before meeting Richard Wilhelm, the German translator </p>
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman"><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://sco.lt/5IynpJ" target="_blank">Read the article here</a></span><br/></font></p>
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<p><font color="#000000" face="Times New Roman,Times,Times NewRoman"><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Also available online is <strong><a href="http://sco.lt/7reZXN" target="_blank">Carl Jung's full foreword</a> </strong>that he wrote for the "Book of Changes," the English version of the I Ching.</span></font></p>
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<p><br/><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852588?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852588?profile=original" width="600" class="align-center"/></a></p></div>Jung on paying attention to the unconscioushttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/jung-on-paying-attention-to-the-unconscious2014-02-06T12:50:23.000Z2014-02-06T12:50:23.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>'If attention is directed to the unconscious, the unconscious will yield up its contents, and these in turn will fructify the conscious like a fountain of living water. For consciousness is just as arid as the unconscious if the two halves of our psychic life are separated."</p>
<p>~C.G. Jung, The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man, CW 10, p. 163</p></div>Depth Discussion: Jung on "Satisfying the Appetites of Unknown Ancestors"https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/depth-discussion-jung-on-satisfying-the-appetites-of-unknown-ance2013-12-07T00:55:49.000Z2013-12-07T00:55:49.000ZDepth Alliancehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAlliance<div><p>What you YOU think? Take a moment and weigh in...</p>
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<p>If you know the source of the quote above, either in Jung's works or in the book by Deloria where it's cited, please post it below!</p>
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<p> </p></div>SO Exciting! - Collected Works of C.G. Jung Available March 1 on Kindle E-Book!https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/so-exciting-collected-works-of-c-g-jung-available-march-1-on-kind2014-01-31T19:24:31.000Z2014-01-31T19:24:31.000ZDepth Alliancehttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAlliance<div><p><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852275?profile=original" width="300" class="align-right"/></p>
<p>If you use Kindle or E-book readers, you may be as thrilled as I am to discover that Jung's Collected Works are being made available for instant download as of March 1, 2014!</p>
<p>You can pre-order them NOW!</p>
<p>If you're interested, here are some convenient links for purchase/download of either the entire collection or individual tomes (Note: prices listed here are as found on Amazon as of 1-31-14):</p>
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<h3 class="newaps"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Dreams-Volumes-Collected-Works-Extracts-ebook/dp/B0073X0I68/ref=sr_1_13?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1391195416&sr=1-13&keywords=collected+works+of+cg+jung">Dreams: (From Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)</a></span></h3>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Synchronicity-Connecting-Principle-Collected-Extracts-ebook/dp/B0073X0GCE/ref=sr_1_20?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1391195566&sr=1-20&keywords=collected+works+of+cg+jung" target="_blank">Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. (From Vol. 8. of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Answer-Job-Collected-Works-Extracts-ebook/dp/B0073X0HA0/ref=sr_1_17?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1391195566&sr=1-17&keywords=collected+works+of+cg+jung" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Answer to Job: (From Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Jung Extracts)</a></p>
<p><span class="font-size-2" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Four-Archetypes-Collected-Works-Extracts-ebook/dp/B0073X0IF4/ref=sr_1_18?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1391195566&sr=1-18&keywords=collected+works+of+cg+jung">Four Archetypes: (From Vol. 9, Part 1 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) (Jung Extracts)</a></span><></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Analytical-Psychology-Notes-Seminar-Collected-ebook/dp/B00EPE06OW/ref=sr_1_29?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1391195566&sr=1-29&keywords=collected+works+of+cg+jung" style="font-size: 1.17em;">Analytical Psychology: Notes of the Seminar given in 1925 by C.G. Jung</a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Guided-Tour-Collected-Works-Jung-ebook/dp/B00BBXJH0E/ref=sr_1_3?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1391195416&sr=1-3&keywords=collected+works+of+cg+jung" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung</a><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> by </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robert-H.-Hopcke/e/B000APPE5Q/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3?qid=1391195416&sr=1-3" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Robert H. Hopcke</a></p>
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<p>Bonnie Bright</p></div>Depth Discussion: Jung on How Nature and Dreams Help Us "Get Clean"https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/depth-discussion-jung-on-how-nature-and-dreams-help-us-get-clean2013-11-26T02:26:02.000Z2013-11-26T02:26:02.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Please share....</p>
<p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852804?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852804?profile=original" width="600" class="align-full"/></a></p></div>Jung on "The Symbolic Life"https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/jung-on-the-symbolic-life2013-12-03T01:27:57.000Z2013-12-03T01:27:57.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Jung on dreams, from "Dream Analysis" in Modern Man in Search of a Soul</p>
<p>"It is only through comparative studies in mythology, folk-lore, religion, and language that we can determine these symbols in a scientific way. The evolutionary stages through which the human psyche has passed are more clearly discernible in the dream than in consciousness. The dream speaks in images and gives expression to instincts that are derived from the most primitive levels of nature. Consciousness all too easily departs from the law of nature, but it can be brought again into harmony with the latter by the assimilation of unconscious contents. By fostering this process, [one comes to] the rediscovery of the law of one's own being" (p. 26).</p>
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<p>You can find this and other excellent quotes and info on <a href="http://www.jung.org/readingcorner.html" target="_blank">"The Symbolic Life" on the Jung.org page</a></p>
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<p>Please share your thoughts...</p></div>Are We Possessed? - Excellent post on the topic of complexes and archetypes by Paul Levyhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/are-we-possessed-excellent-post-on-the-topic-of-complexes-and-arc2014-03-17T23:37:39.000Z2014-03-17T23:37:39.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852873?profile=original" target="_self"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852873?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="300" class="align-left"/></a>Recently came across this post called "Are We Possessed?" by Paul Levy. It's one of the most clear conveyances of this notion of possession I've seen lately and I wanted to share You can <a href="http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/are-we-possessed/" target="_blank"><strong>read it HERE</strong>.</a></p>
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<p>(Image from Dark Lantern Books: </p></div>Join the Depth Discussion on Jung and Art - Week of 8-8-13https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/join-the-depth-discussion-on-jung-and-art-week-of-8-8-132013-08-08T07:53:55.000Z2013-08-08T07:53:55.000ZDepth Alliance Boardhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/DepthAllianceBoard<div><p><span style="font-size: 13px;">What do YOU think?</span></p>
<p><br/> <a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852736?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852736?profile=original" width="573" class="align-center"/></a></p></div>What really happened behind the scenes!https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/what-really-happened-behind-the-scenes2013-07-09T00:51:16.000Z2013-07-09T00:51:16.000ZThom F. Cavalli, Ph.D.https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/ThomFCavalliPhD<div><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852604?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868852604?profile=original" width="492" class="align-full"/></a></p>
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<p>Care to add your associations?</p></div>Father Hunger: Jung's Dreams of His Fatherhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/father-hunger-jung-s-dreams-of-his-father2013-06-16T19:07:40.000Z2013-06-16T19:07:40.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>I found this interesting read in my online travels today and wanted to share in honor of fathers everywhere: <a href="http://www.jungatlanta.com/articles/fall08-father-hunger.pdf" target="_blank">Father Hunger: Jung’s Dreams of His Father</a> - by Susan Olson, posted on the Jung Atlanta web site</p></div>C.G. Jung in the Mainstreamhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/c-g-jung-in-the-mainstream2013-06-13T22:21:16.000Z2013-06-13T22:21:16.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Maybe you've seen it?... This 8-part series on Jung was published in <em>The Guardian</em> in 2011 and appeared around the time of the 50-year anniversary of his death (June 6, 1961). I find the writing very accessible and even discovered a few details I didn't know... </p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/may/30/carl-jung-ego-self">Carl Jung, part 1: Taking inner life seriously</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>30 May 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> Achieving the right balance between what Jung called the ego and self is key to his theory of personality development</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/may/30/carl-jung-ego-self">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/may/30/carl-jung-ego-self</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/06/carl-jung-freud-nazis">Carl Jung, part 2: A troubled relationship with Freud – and the Nazis</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>6 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> On the 50th anniversary of Jung's death it is time to put accusations of him collaborating with the Nazis to rest</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/06/carl-jung-freud-nazis">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/06/carl-jung-freud-nazis</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/13/carl-jung-red-book-unconscious">Carl Jung, part 3: Encountering the unconscious</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>13 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> Jung's Red Book reveals his belief in the painful, personal process of discovering how the unconscious manifests itself in conscious life</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/13/carl-jung-red-book-unconscious">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/13/carl-jung-red-book-unconscious</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/20/jung-archetypes-structuring-principles">Carl Jung, part 4: Do archetypes exist?</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>20 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> Jung's theory of structuring principles remains controversial – but provides a language to talk about shared experience</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/20/jung-archetypes-structuring-principles">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/20/jung-archetypes-structuring-principles</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/27/carl-jung-psychological-types">Carl Jung, part 5: Psychological types</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>27 Jun 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> The Myers-Briggs test is but one offshoot of Jung's attempt to show how radically people's perceptions and instincts can differ</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/27/carl-jung-psychological-types">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jun/27/carl-jung-psychological-types</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/04/carl-jung-synchronicity">Carl Jung, part 6: Synchronicity</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>4 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> With physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Jung explored the link between the disparate realities of matter and mind</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uka/commentisfree/2011/jul/04/carl-jung-synchronicity">http://www.guardian.co.uka/commentisfree/2011/jul/04/carl-jung-synchronicity</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/11/carl-jung-power-acceptance">Carl Jung, part 7: The power of acceptance</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>11 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> Like the AA movement, Jung believed that acceptance and spiritual interconnectedness were crucial to a person's</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/11/carl-jung-power-acceptance">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/11/carl-jung-power-acceptance</a></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/18/how-to-believe-jung-religion">Carl Jung, part 8: Religion and the search for meaning</a></b></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><b>11 Jul 2011: Mark Vernon:</b> Like the AA movement, Jung believed that acceptance and spiritual interconnectedness were crucial to a person's</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva;" class="font-size-2"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/18/how-to-believe-jung-religion">http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2011/jul/18/how-to-believe-jung-religion</a></span></p>
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<p><strong><a href="http://www.assisiinstitute.com/patterns-we-live-by-radio.html" target="_blank">Click HERE for the link to listen...</a></strong></p></div>Fall 2012 Depth Insights scholarly e-zine now up as free interactive web pageshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/fall-2012-depth-insights-scholarly-e-zine-now-up-as-free-interact2012-10-12T19:37:44.000Z2012-10-12T19:37:44.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/e-zine-issue-3-fall-2012/" target="_blank"><img width="202" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868851646?profile=RESIZE_320x320" width="202" class="align-left"/></a></p>
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<p><strong> <a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/Depth-Insights-scholarly-ezine/e-zine-issue-3-fall-2012/" target="_blank">Come comment on your favorite articles and essays</a> on dreams, yoga, being a psychologist, Jung and Neitzsche, and more!<br/></strong></p>
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<p>Enjoy!</p></div>What do YOU think? Did Jung idealize Native Americans?https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/5433794-Topic-705752012-12-01T13:42:31.000Z2012-12-01T13:42:31.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div>"From the Jung Page>Lessons of Jung's Encounter with Native Americans: <a href="http://ning.it/UhfRpz">http://ning.it/UhfRpz</a>
I thought this was an excellent article in which Jung's thoughts about the significance of what he learned from the Indians are discussed and analyzed, with a view toward describing how they contributed to the development of Jung's thought.
However, the article points out that Jung's views were rather simplistic and that he tended to idealize Native Americans. What do YOU think?</div>NEW interview: Out of the Shadows: A Story of CG Jung, Toni Wolff & Emma Jung with Elizabeth Clark-Sternhttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/new-interview-out-of-the-shadows-a-story-of-cg-jung-toni-wolff-em2012-08-14T23:48:27.000Z2012-08-14T23:48:27.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p>Hope you'll check out my <strong><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/pages/radio.htm#clark-stern" target="_blank">new interview for Depth Insights radio with Elizabeth Clark-Stern</a></strong> who reveals the rich archetypal dimensions of this historical triangular relationship between CG Jung and two remarkable women.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/pages/radio.htm#clark-stern" target="_blank">“Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung”</a></strong> is a dialogue about shadow and the complexities of relationships and theory at the dawn of the field of psychology. The book is the featured selection for the <a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/pages/book_club/book_club_sept2012_depthpsych.htmlhttp://www.depthinsights.com/pages/book_club/book_club_sept2012_depthpsych.html" title="Jungian and Depth Psychology Alliance free online book club" target="_blank">Depth Psychology Alliance free online book club in September 2012</a>.<br/> <br/> The year is 1910. Sigmund Freud and his heir-apparent, Carl Jung, are changing the way we think about human nature and the mind. 22-year-old TONI WOLFF enters the heart of this world as Jung's patient. His wife, EMMA JUNG, is 26, a mother of four, aspiring to help her husband create the new science of psychology. Despite their passionate rivalry for Jung's mind and heart, the two women often find themselves allied.<br/> <br/> Their relationship spans 40 years, following the development of the field of psychology, and the moral and professional choices of some of its major players.<br/></p>
<p class="style6"><strong>Elizabeth Clark-Stern</strong> is a psychotherapist in private practice in Seattle,Washington. Before embracing this beloved work, she worked as a professional screenwriter.<br/><br/></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.depthinsights.com/pages/radio.htm#clark-stern" target="_blank">LISTEN NOW</a></strong><br/> Approx 34 mins</p></div>SPECIAL OFFER from Jung Platform--$25% off Sept 6th online seminar, "The Placebo Response"https://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/special-offer-from-jung-platform-25-off-sept-6th-online-seminar-t2012-09-01T01:41:22.000Z2012-09-01T01:41:22.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><strong>SPECIAL OFFER for Depth Psychology Alliance members from Jung Platform</strong>--</p>
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<p>Can't make it live? <a href="http://www.jungplatform.com/live-events" target="_blank">Register now</a> and listen to the archived recording for 90 days!</p></div>Online Tarot Site--Plus an Article on Jung and Tarothttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/online-tarot-site-plus-an-article-on-jung-and-tarot2013-01-26T22:45:02.000Z2013-01-26T22:45:02.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868849332?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2868849332?profile=original" width="211" class="align-right"/></a>Found this great web site and wanted to share: It's for online tarot reading. Just click and you get three cards that show you the opportunity, the challenge, and the resolution. </p>
<p>If you don't have easy access to cards of your own--or you are on your computer a lot, it's easy and free.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.gaiantarot.com/online-tarot-reading/" target="_blank">Try it here.</a>.. </strong></p>
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<p>BTW, here's a great article on Jung and Tarot by Gerald Schueler: <strong><a href="http://www.schuelers.com/chaos/chaos7.htm" target="_blank">"Chaos and the Psychological Symbolism of the Tarot"</a></strong></p>
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<p>Here's an interesting article I just came across on the topic: </p>
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<p>I'm curious to know what others think....</p></div>Jung on Nature, Fear, and God - Videoshttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/forum/topics/jung-on-nature-fear-and-god2011-04-15T21:02:18.000Z2011-04-15T21:02:18.000ZBonnie Brighthttps://depthpsychologyalliance.com/members/BonnieBright<div><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.feelguide.com/2010/11/02/carl-jung-speaks-about-nature-the-importance-of-living-without-fear-and-his-answer-to-the-question-do-you-believe-in-">Here's a link to 3 great videos</a> of CG Jung as he speaks about Nature, The Importance Of Living Without Fear, And His Answer To The Question: “Do You Believe In God?”</p>
<p>Many of you already know his answer to that last question...which is quite compelling, and if you haven't read "The Earth Has a Soul" - Jung's Nature Writings edited by Meredith Sabini, I highly recommmend it. It's one of my favorite books!</p></div>