The Work of Inner Work

In this episode: We confront the difficulties of the inner life and consider the hard work of learning to live creative and authentic lives. Sources for quotes and more: "Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things." ~ C.G. Jung from 'Collected Works, Vol. 13.'"It's easy to do what is not good, and things that harm oneself..." from 'The Dhammapada' translated by Gil Fronsdal."Creative work requires a loyalty as complete as the loy...

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Living a Symbolic Life in a Technological Age. Our digital age presents unique challenges for the practice of the inner life. What can the insights of Jungian Psychology offer for dealing with these challenges? In this series, we explore Carl Jung's idea of "the symbolic life" through the lenses of depth psychology, mythology, fairy tales, poetry, religion, and more. We focus on three core questions: 1. What is the symbolic life? 2. Why do we need a symbolic life? and 3. How can we cultivate and live a symbolic life? This is a companion podcast to the book 'Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life' by Jungian analyst Jason E. Smith.