Send us a text In this episode: The trickster makes an appearance to caution us against the dangers of taking ourselves too seriously. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Li...
May 26, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Send us a text In this episode: We finish our reading of the tale, The Seven Ravens, and discuss the difficulties that come with the work of recovering our lost wholeness. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my ...
May 12, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Send us a text In this episode: We begin to read through the tale The Seven Ravens and to explore the challenges of reconciling the different sides of our nature. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Rel...
Apr 28, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Send us a text In this episode: We discuss those times in the symbolic life that call on us to bring tolerance, kindness, and patience to ourselves. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not...
Apr 07, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Send us a text In this episode: We look at the mythic background of the creative life to discover both its challenges and its rewards. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Li...
Mar 24, 2022•28 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Send us a text In this episode: We take a step back in order to ask the fundamental question: Why do we need a symbolic life? Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Sy...
Mar 10, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 13
Send us a text In this episode: We discuss the interpretation of symbols and the importance of engaging them with our full emotional presence. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Relig...
Feb 17, 2022•29 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Send us a text In this episode: We continue to consider the importance of letting things unfold in the psyche, particularly in connection with the practice of active imagination. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check ...
Feb 03, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 11
Send us a text In this episode: We talk about the value of letting things happen and why Jung felt it was essential for the task of individuation. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not R...
Jan 20, 2022•30 min•Season 2Ep. 10
Send us a text In this episode: We talk about happiness, and discover why Jung believed it was better for us not to pursue it. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a S...
Jan 06, 2022•26 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Send us a text In this episode: We look at how the attitude we take towards our dreams changes our experience of them, and affects our relationship with our inner lives. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Instagram (@digital.jung), Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst), or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my bo...
Dec 23, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 8
Send us a text In this episode: We return to the subject of fantasy and consider how we can ensure a healthy connection with this foundational function of the psyche. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious...
Dec 09, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 7
Send us a text In this episode: We discuss solitude, and the vital importance it plays in supporting our engagement with life and with the world. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic L...
Nov 25, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 6
Send us a text In this episode: We discuss the experience of nature and its connection to the important work of individuation. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life , available fro...
Nov 11, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 5
Send us a text In this episode: We discuss fantasy and explore the important role that it plays in our psychological life. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life , available from Ch...
Oct 28, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 4
Send us a text In this episode: We look at the value of the symbol and the transformative function that it holds for our psychological lives. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life ...
Oct 14, 2021•27 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Send us a text In this episode: We look at Jung’s concept of the archetype and the implications it holds for our inner lives. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life , available from...
Sep 30, 2021•28 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Send us a text In this episode: We discuss the challenges that confront us on the path of psychological growth and how we might respond to them. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Li...
Sep 16, 2021•29 min•Season 2Ep. 1
Send us a text In this episode: I announce the start date for Season 2 of Digital Jung For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life , available from Chiron Publications. Sources for quotes and more: Symbols provide "the clues we need in order to carry on our lives in harmony with ourselves. ... Their validity is proved by their intense value for life." ~ C.G. Jung, from The Structure of the Unconscious in 'Collected Works, vol....
Sep 11, 2021•3 min0
Send us a text In this episode: We discuss the importance of art for human life and the central place it holds for living a symbolic life. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life , a...
Jun 17, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 35
Send us a text In this episode: We discover how a recognition of the dramatic structure of dreams can help us in our understanding and interpretation of them. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living...
Jun 10, 2021•26 min•Season 1Ep. 34
Send us a text In this episode: We finish our reading of the tale, Old Sultan, and discuss the importance of limits in the discovery and expression of our true selves. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religiou...
Jun 03, 2021•28 min•Season 1Ep. 33
Send us a text In this episode: We begin to read through the tale, Old Sultan and to explore our need to learn to face the inevitable changes of life with creativity and courage. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but N...
May 27, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 32
Send us a text In this episode: We look at the importance of having an adequate connection with the great treasures of human wisdom. Let's make this a conversation: Do you have a comment or question about this episode, or about something you would like me to address in a future episode? Please contact me on Facebook (facebook.com/jungiananalyst) or Twitter (@Jason_E_Smith). For more on living a symbolic life: Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life , availab...
May 20, 2021•31 min•Season 1Ep. 31
Send us a text In this episode: We look at the limits of a merely rational approach to life and the need to make place in our lives for mystery. Sources for quotes and more: “In our time, it's the intellect that is making darkness, because we've let it take too big a place...." ~ C.G. Jung from On the Frontiers of Knowledge in 'C.G. Jung Speaking.' “A mercenary of our will to power, the mind is trained to assail in order to plunder rather than to commune in order to love.” ~ Abraham Joshua Hesch...
May 13, 2021•29 min•Season 1Ep. 30
Send us a text In this episode: We explore Jung's thoughts about the capacity for reflection and why he sees it as an essential component of our humanity. Sources for quotes and more: "'Reflection' should be understood not simply as an act of thought, but rather as an attitude. It is a privilege born of human freedom in contradistinction to the compulsion of natural law...." ~ C.G. Jung from A Psychological Approach to the Dogma of the Trinity (footnote, par. 235) in 'Collected Works, vol. 11.' ...
May 06, 2021•25 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Send us a text In this episode: I present some highlights and excerpts from a recording of a recent talk that I gave on my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life. Sources for quotes and more: “Now, we have no symbolic life, and we are all badly in need of the symbolic life. Only the symbolic life can express the need of the soul — the daily need of the soul..." ~ C.G. Jung from The Symbolic Life in 'Collected Works, vol. 18.' "Do we ever understand what we think? We only under...
Apr 15, 2021•27 min•Season 1Ep. 28
Send us a text 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...
Apr 08, 2021•23 min•Season 1Ep. 27
Send us a text In this episode: I discuss the importance of play and creativity in the practice of the symbolic life. Sources for quotes and more: "If play expires in itself without creating anything durable and vital, it is only play, but in the other case it is called creative work...." ~ C.G. Jung in Psychological Types in 'Collected Works, vol. 6.' Episode 25: Preparing to Work with Your Dreams “If the wrong person uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way.” ~ C.G. Jung in ...
Apr 01, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 26
Send us a text In this episode: I respond to a listener’s questions by discussing the importance of examining our intentions and motivations when preparing to work with our dreams. Sources for quotes and more: "The meaning of the dream, or our interpretation of it, is largely dependent on the intentions of the interpreter..." ~ C.G. Jung in The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man in 'Collected Works, vol. 10.' “I should be suspicious of what I want” ~ Rumi from the poem 'Who Makes These Changes...
Mar 25, 2021•24 min•Season 1Ep. 25
