In my opinion, one of the biggest dangers of the Jungian Way is the tendency for “followers” of Jung to do just that — to read Jung, to take his theories as almost gospel, to read Jung rather than to do one’s own active imagination and drawing. I would suggest that time would be better…
This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say “Liber Novus,” which is Latin for “New Book.” Its pages are…
I should advise you to put it all down as beautifully as you can — in some beautifully bound book. It will seem as if you were making the visions banal — but then you need to do that — then you are freed from the power of them. . . . . Then…
Harper’s Weekly October 19, 2009 What the text presents is a series of fantasies in which dramatic dialogues occur. Jung enters into discussion with the figures that emerge, and then attempts to draw lessons from their exchange. He viewed these characters as different aspects of his personality. The text describes his attempt to recognise and…
National Public Radio November 11, 2009 Karen Michel of NPR’s does an excellent review of the origins of the Red Book. Includes audio segments of Jung speaking. The first words of the Red Book: The way of what is to become. The last word: moglichkeit (possibility) Well worth listening to, a flavor of understanding that…
From the website Digitalfusion News: The next morning, the Red Book arrived via black sedan among much security. Although the dimensions were well known, it seemed larger and heavier than expected. As it was unwrapped for the first time a hush and reverence filled the room becoming of the historic work. As the Red Book…
Psychology Today Guest Blogger: Dave Levitan November 16, 2090 I call up Dr. Stephen Martin, a Jungian analyst and co-founder and President of the Philemon Foundation.. “You’re not going to buy the book and say ‘oh now I understand everything,’” Martin says. “If you want to have an intelligent discussion about the depth of the…
From The Asheville Jung Center Len Cruz, M.D. May 15, 2010 Dream: Jung and his father are in a mosque. They find themselves kneeling and beginning to bow. Evidently, Jung’s father bows fully allowing his head to make contact with the floor. However, Jung stops within a millimeter of the floor. He will not permit…
New York Times Edward Rothstein December 11, 2009 Jung’s Inner Universe, Writ Large Mr. Shamdasani argues that “the overall theme of the book is how Jung regains his soul and overcomes the contemporary malaise of spiritual alienation.” And as he points out, Jung undertook his strange project after a series of apocalyptic visions in 1913…