In this episode:
We pick up on the previous episode’s exploration of the idea of the numinous and consider its effect on our psychological and spiritual health.
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For more on living a symbolic life:
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Sources for quotes and more:
- "You are quite right, the main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous...." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Selected Letters.'
- Episode 22: The Idea of the Holy
- Episode 13: Living An Authentic Life
- “Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word ‘happy’ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.” ~ C.G. Jung in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.'
- “In the last resort it is highly improbable that there could ever be a therapy that got rid of all difficulties. Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health." ~ C.G. Jung in The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche from 'Collected Works, vol. 8.'
- “I want to know if you are prepared to live in the world with its harsh need to change you.” ~ David Whyte in Self-Portrait from 'Fire in the Earth.'
- "Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable -- perhaps everything." ~ C.G. Jung in 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'
- “In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.” ~ C.G. Jung in The Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious in 'Collected Works, vol. 9i.'
- Story of the Bronze Serpent from Numbers 21:4-9 (New Revised Standard Edition)
- “In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.” ~ Victor Frankl in 'Man's Search for Meaning.'
- “[Art] transmutes our personal destiny into the destiny of mankind, and evokes in us all those beneficent forces that ever and anon have enabled humanity to find a refuge fro
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For more on living a symbolic life:
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