Images of Nigredo I
Right at the beginning you meet the dragon, the chthonic spirit, the devil or, as the alchemists called it, the blackness, the nigredo, and this encounter produces suffering… Carl Jung Emblem 6 Book of Lambspring Source of Quotation: C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, ed. W. Mcguire and R.F.C. Hull, Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J….
Stephan Hoeller, Ph.D. on The Red Book
This is a video of Stephan Hoeller talking to the C.G. Jung Club of Orange County, California in 2009, when he was 78. The sound and the picture are a bit off, but listening to it works just as well. (In this age of Power Point, lectures are rather old fashioned and missing visual information.)…
..”they were both into Jung…”
The Red Book was part of the plot of Law and Order on June 9, 2010: Excerpt from the plot line of Children of the Lost Blood: A Goth-looking college student, Sarah Price, is found dead in her bed after a night of partying with a guy. Later, with Detectives Zach Nichols (Jeff Goldblum) and…
Book: The Roots of Coincidence
The 1983 album Synchronicity was inspired by Arthur Koestler’s The Roots of Coincidence , which has substantial material about Jung’s idea of synchronicity.Koestler (1905-1983) wrote numerous essays, novels, and autobiographies. In this later years, he developed Parkinsons disease; he and his wife eventually deliberately overdosed on barbituates and alcohol. The passage below is part of…
Book: Man and His Symbols
When John Freeman of the BBC was filming “Face to Face” with Carl Jung and became aware of how invaluable his work was, he asked Jung if he asked Jung if he had ever considered writing a book that expressed his ideas in a way the public might readily understand. Jung essentially replied that he…
Book: Memories, Dreams and Reflections
Many folks interested in Jung think that this is the best of the books about him; when I read it in my twenties — knowing nothing about Jung — I found it a bit strange and hard to follow. I don’t think it is necessarily the best book to start reading about Jung (which is…
Red Book: To image or not to image
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…
The Red Book Dialogues: Andrew Harvey and Analyst Nathan Schwartz-Salant
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…