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.
Digital Jung
Working With Your Dreams
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Jason E. Smith
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Season 1
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Episode 27
In this episode:
I discuss some of Jung's advice for working with dreams, and suggest some questions you can ask when working with your own.
Sources for quotes and more:
- “One would do well to treat every dream as though it were a totally unknown object. Look at it from all sides, take it in your hand, carry it about with you, let your imagination play round it, and talk about it with other people...." ~ C.G. Jung in The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.'
- Episode 25: Preparing to Work with Your Dreams
- Discussion of "knowing through not-knowing" from 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.'
- “So difficult is it to understand a dream that for a long time I have made it a rule, when someone tells me a dream and asks for my opinion, to say first of all to myself: ‘I have no idea what this dream means’. After that I can begin to examine the dream.” ~ C.G. Jung in On the Nature of Dreams in 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
- 'Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming.' by Robert Bosnak
- Episode 21: Dreams and the Sacred
- “Any approach to the symbolic dimension, hence, remains in the realm of felt intuition and calls for an artistic and spiritual sensitivity from dreamer and interpreter alike...." ~ Edward Whitmont & Sylvia Perera in 'Dreams: A Portal to the Source.'
- 'Waiting For God' by Simone Weil
- “Who wants to understand the poem, must go to the land of poetry.” ~ Goethe from 'West-Eastern Divan.'
- Dreams ~ a poem by Mary Oliver in 'Dream Work,'
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:
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