From Zosismos of Panopolis (Wikipeda) One of Zosimos’ texts is about a sequence of dreams related to Alchemy, and presents the proto-science as a much more religious experience. In his dream he first comes to an altar and meets Ion (the Sabians consider him the founder of their religion), who calls himself “the priest of…
Soul Stones From A Thousand Voices: It takes a Thousand Voices to Tell a Story Reverend Anthony David Jung 6, 2010 When Jung was ten, and feeling particularly alienated from his school-mates, and therefore at odds with himself, he found himself doing something with the “yellow, varnished pencil case of the kind commonly…
from The Red Book W.W. Norton 2009 In the online talk by Jungian analyst Robert Bosnak, he said he deliberately chose not to talk about the images. Sonu Shamdasani the translator of the text, took a similar tack and essentially didn’t even look at the images for the first four years. Are these guys…
On June 5, I participated with twenty-five other people in an online talk by Robert Bosnak about The Red Book. Bosnak is an elder Jungian analyst, one of the best. He is knowledgeable, articulate, insightful. (In my personal experience with him in another online group, I also found him quite intuitive, genuine and humble.) One…
WYNC Culture Author: Laura Mayer Stefan Sagmeister, award-winning artist and graphic designer, joined Jungian analyst-in-training Patricia Llosa for The Red Book Dialogues at The Rubin Museum. The dialogue got tongues wagging, literally, when Sagmeister and Llosa began by poking their tongues out at each other, imitating Sagmeister’s famous AIGA Fresh Dialogue poster. The tongue wagging…
WNYC Culture Author: Miranda Shafer Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Ann Belford Ulanov recently discussed Jung’s unconscious mind for the Red Book Dialogues series at the Rubin Museum of Art. As the author of Race Matters, West is known as one of America’s most provocative public intellectuals, but, the good doctor was left speechless by…
It’s a great irony of Mike Chico’s life: A building super who spent the majority of his life helping others create a secure living space, ran away from his own home to come to New York City. At 56 years old, Chico is one of the many unique individuals interviewed as part of the Rubin…
Andrew Harvey, scholar and author of many books on spirituality, joined Jungian analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant on the Rubin Museum stage this past month as a part of The Red Book Dialogues series. During the dialogue, inspired by the Red Book image shown here, Harvey commented on an inborn hatred of our physical selves, saying that…
New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik and Jungian analyst Margaret Klenck discussed Jung’s unconscious mind for the Red Book Dialogues at the Rubin Museum of Art. Gopnik was given an image to contemplate, of a barque bearing the Egyptian symbol for the Sun, accompanied by a benign sea monster. It prompted him to muse about the…