"Transformation of the God-Image in Jung's Red Book:  Foundations for a New Psychology of Religion"
Channel: Carl Jung Depth Psychology Reading Group
Date: 2019-07-14

56:20--OUTTAKES

References: _Jung's Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions, Eds. Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt, Chiron Publications, Essay by Dr. Ingrid Riedel, "Transformation of the God-Image in Jung's Red Book:  Foundations for a New Psychology of Religion"  This is the edited reading with outtakes.

Thumbnail Credit - Izdubar, from P. 36 of _The Red Book_, by C.G. Jung

You are encouraged to watch the remarkable 3.25 minute documentary by Digital Fusion on the making of the 2009 Folio Edition of Dr. Jung's Red Book: https://youtu.be/nIBQFSwX1UY  

01:00--"The new religion and its proclamation."

01:35--"And who would understand it?"

03:50--_Symbols of Transformation_, Volume 5 of _The Collected Works of C.G. Jung_, was first published in English as _Psychology of the Unconscious_ (1912).  It's name in English was changed 40 years later with the publication of a vastly revised version.  

04:05--"...the psychology of religion, would increasingly become Jung's main interest in the course of his work on _The Red Book_.  

05:28--"At the time of working on his _Red Book_, Jung was deeply influenced by Nietzsche's _Zarathustra_ and the announcement of 'the death of God.'"

06:03--"...the Soul becomes the realm for a new birth of God, just as Meither Eckhart had envisioned...."

07:32--"...the text from Jung's Active Imagination from January 8, 1914." "Active Imagination" defined: "Active imagination is a cognitive methodology that uses the imagination as an organ of understanding. Disciplines of active imagination are found within various philosophical, religious and spiritual traditions. It is perhaps best known in the West today through C. G. Jung's emphasis on the therapeutic value of this activity." (Source: Wikipedia)

12:53--"Are there then two sorts of truths?"

13:30--"Have you no gods anymore?"

14:17--"And yet again I feel it quite clearly that my life would have broken in half had I failed to heal my God."

21:32--"Incantations: Songs for a New God"

31:27--"It has always been an important issue in the history of religious thought how the relationship between God and man can be comprehended."

31:57--"...this means an essential unity of man with the divine."

33:46--"The inner Christ"

34:48--"The Divine wants to live with me.... You can certainly leave Christianity, but it does not leave you."

35:35--"If I truly imitate Christ, I do not imitate anyone, I emulate on one, but go my own way...."

37:32--"You did not live your animal."

38:20--"Professor: You see, my dear, nowadays the imitation of Christ leads to the madhouse."

46:05--"In his later works, Jung would relate the God-Image to the psychological concept of the Self, a concept that was not yet available to him during the time of his _Red Book_ experiences."

46:20--"A New Psychology of Religion"

51:22--"Summoned or not, God is present."

56:20--OUTTAKES

01:04:55--DLC Comment: "In my untutored opinion, Dr. Jung found the living God, where He lives, and how He goes about doing the work of the Godhead."

NOTE: Skip Conover is NOT a mental health professional, but has been studying the work of Dr. C.G. Jung since 1987.  If you feel seriously depressed, or have other mental health issues, please contact a licensed mental health professional in your area.  

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