Global Checkin  #11 Featuring Dr. John Woodcock - "Epic!"
Channel: Carl Jung Depth Psychology Reading Group
Date: 2020-04-19

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This Global Check-In #11 features Dr. John Woodcock of Sydney, Australia, who joined us to honor the memory of Dr. Thomas Arzt, who edited _Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions_ with Dr. Murray Stein. 

Dr. Woodcock’s essay in Volume 1 of the series is entitled “_The Red Book_ and the Posthuman_,” which is a follow on essay to his essay “The Hidden Legacy of _The Red Book_,” which appeared in a book in German edited by Dr. Thomas Arzt entitled _Das Rote Buch_: C.G. Jung’s Reise zum ”Anderen Pol der Welt.”  Dr. Woodcock’s other works and his practice can be found at Good Therapy Australia https://www.goodtherapy.com.au/john_woodcock.

00:05 How John Woodcock came to join our Global Check-In

09:55 - John Woodcock’s spooky dream from the 1990s.

15:00 - Poetry opens the mystery of the Unconscious - at least it did for Dr. Woodcock.

20:05 - Dr. John Woodcock joins the conversation. 

25:15 The fate of all writers.

26:30 - The hidden legacy of _The Red Book_- the hidden style.

28:20 - The style of “Alice in Wonderland”

33:40 - There’s no doubt that Dr. Jung engaged with the characters, but he enters fictional reality in his empirical consciousness.

37:55 - Reference to _The Place of the Lion_ by Charles Williams - What happens when spiritual reality breaks into ordinary reality?

40:00 - Jung is writing down what’s happening to him in _The Red Book_. It’s really happening to him!

46:15 - Skip’s experience of writing _Meiko: Memoirs of a Woman_ under the pen name David Gerritsan.  

52:00 - “A new style of consciousness between language and consciousness.”

54:10 - There are lots of Black Swans in statistics!

54:35 - How the Psyche actually communicates with us.

55:40 - How do we enter a state where the world appears to us differently? “You have to be initiated into that new reality. … where you actually become something different.”

01:05:50 - “The problem with modern times things are more precarious because we have this thing called the waking ego. … In previous times, they did not have that hardened ego.”

01:09:45 - The Book of Revelation. John of Patmo’s vivid vision.  

01:11:20 - Definition - “Hermeneutics” - “The branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, especially of the Bible or literary texts.” 

01:15:15 - “Jung before _The Red Book_ and Jung after _The Red Book_.”

01:15:55 - Reference to Peter Kingsley’s _Catafalque_.

01:17:00 - “We have to be undone fairly violently to loosen up the Ego.”  

01:17:40 - Consequences of the Coronavirus; the psychic virus.  All the metaphors are violent; all military.

01:22:15 - A change of consciousness that leads to the world that appears in a different way.

01:31:25 - “Materialism and rationalism are now dead …. The Coronavirus is paying no attention to them.”

01:32:20 - “What is the new world that wants to come in [with the Coronavirus].”

01:33:40 - “Cautionary tale of the Oglala Sioux”—the prophecy did not happen.  We mistake prophecy for prediction.

01:36:04 - “Why did you mention Black Swans, Skip?”

01:40:45 - What are you suggesting by the approach the world is taking to the Coronavirus?  Our response is to tighten up … ask the Dinosaurs.  “We just don’t believe … that there is anything outside bigger than the Ego.  That’s why it’s going to be rough.”

01:43:50 - “People are getting enraged over toilet paper, for God’s sake.”   

01:44:30 - “The role of the artist is to welcome the coming Guest. …. open up to what it wants to say to us.”

01:45:24 - “How do you navigate chaos?”

01:46:45 - “Some symbol will emerge. … open ourselves to what uncertainty that dreams bring.”

01:52:52 - Are we ready for the paradigm shift that this virus is “The Love Virus.”

01:59:20 - “The Narrow Path” drawing by Artist Tim Holmes.

02:08:15 - Khushboo’s prayer and mantra.

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  

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