The Black Books

Briefly, I am just learning that C.G. Jung's 7-volume set of the Black Books have recently been published. As of right now, the cost is too prohibitive for me to consider purchasing, but I look forward to reading them at some point in the future. In the meantime, I received an email from the Jung …

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Dream Tribes

Could it be possible that dreams contain a level of knowledge not available to our conscious awareness? Who then, is the dreamer, and what is the dream? How can we enter into the dream's perspective with the demands of our busy, techno-crazed day world where our sense of self as a separate body, by necessity, dominates, taking precedence over the seemingly …

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Dreamland

"Myth is the dream of the people - the dream is the myth of the individual" Herbert Silberer Whether my attraction to liminal states comes from a lifelong interest in dream states, or attention to dreams leads to an interest in liminal, non-ordinary states, or a mix of both, is unclear. Perhaps it's the persuasive …

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The Red Book – Library of Congress Symposium

As a follow-up to yesterday's post about James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani's book, Lament of the Dead, Psychology after Jung’s Red Book, I want to share a video I found on youtube of a symposium featuring several speakers and a panel discussion from 2010 that included Hillman, Shamdasani and other Jungians. It is very insightful for anyone …

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Lament of the Dead

The mystery of life begins in death, for if death did not exist, think of all of the things that we would not struggle with and all of the questions we would not have much reason to ask. Imagine too the security and peace we might know without sickness, murder, pain and suffering that comes …

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