Digital Jung
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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 81 episodes
Digital Jung
Latest Episodes
The Call of the Shoreless Sea
In this episode:I explore one of the more challenging aspects of the symbolic life: the call to leave behind the comfort of the known, the safe, and the familiar.Sources for quotes and more:'Moby-Dick' by He...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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31:58
Healing the Splintered Heart
In this episode:I discuss the psychic split brought on by the experience of the modern world and the need for a connection with the soul and the mythic dimension of life.Sources for quotes and more:'Moby-Di...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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33:49
Tending the Spiritual Imagination
In this episode:I explore the role of suffering and darkness as factors that awaken us to the need for what Jung calls a religious outlook. We look at ways that we can cultivate that outlook in an authentic way.Sources for...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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30:09
Outcasts of the Spirit
In this episode:I examine the figure of Ishmael from Moby-Dick as a symbol of the human experience of alienation. I explore the question of how this experience comes about and what we can do to respond to it.Sources for qu...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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30:31
Unfathomable Depths: Jung Aboard the Pequod
In this episode:I introduce the theme for this fourth season: Jung Aboard the Pequod -- a Jungian appreciation of Moby-Dick. I then explore the need for stories that are expansive enough to meet the call for meaning and purpose.<...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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