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In this episode:
We explore the question of how we know things and why it is necessary to direct our attention to what Jung calls the "higher unity" of which our everyday consciousness is just a part.

Listen to Chapters from Practical Mysticism Here

Sources for quotes and more:

1. 'Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People' by Evelyn Underhill
2. 'Aion' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 9ii
3. 'Religious but Not Religious' by Jason E. Smith
4. 'Foreword to Contemporary Psychic Problems' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 18
5. 'Moby-Dick' by Hermann Melville
6. 'C.G. Jung Speaking' edited by William McGuire
7. A Blessing, poem by James Wright
8. 'The Rhythm of Being' by Raimon Panikkar

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In this episode:
I introduce the fifth season of Digital Jung with its special focus on the book Practical Mysticism by Evelyn Underhill.

Listen to the preface of Practical Mysticism Here

Sources for quotes and more:

1. 'Practical Mysticism: A Little Book for Normal People' by Evelyn Underhill
2. 'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' by William Blake
3. 'The Aims of Psychotherapy' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 16
4. 'The Undiscovered Self' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 10
5. 'Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness' by Evelyn Underhill
6. 'Jung’s Psychology and Its Social Meaning' by Ira Progoff
7. 'The Development of the Personality' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 17
8. God’s Grandeur, poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins
9. 'Love and the Soul' by Robert Sardello
10. 'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 12
11. 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar
12. 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung

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In this episode:
I discuss the figures of Ahab, Starbuck, and Ishmael as representatives of three possible responses to the encounter with the numinous. I look at the contrast between the Iron Way of Ahab and what I call Ishmael’s Mystic Way, suggesting that Ishmael's way is a path of self-emptying that makes possible a deeper experience of life.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 1: Loomings; Chapter 16: The Ship; Chapter 35: The Mast-Head; Chapter 37: Sunset; Chapter 41: Moby Dick; Chapter 49: The Hyena; Chapter, 79: The Prairie; Chapter 82: The Honor and Glory of Whaling; Chapter 104: The Fossil Whale; Chapter 110: Queequeg in His Coffin; Chapter 135: The Chase – Third Day; Epilogue)
2. S4, Ep. 6 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, pt. 1
3. S4, Ep. 8: A Collision Course with Life
4. 'Man and His Symbols' by C.G. Jung
5. 'Memories, Dreams, Reflections' by C.G. Jung
6. 'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 7
7. S4, Ep. 9: The Gorgon’s Eye
8. 'Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 9ii
9. ‘Freud, Goethe, Wagner’ by Thomas Mann
10. 'Mysticism: A Study in the Nature and Development of Man's Spiritual Consciousness' by Evelyn Underhill
11. 'The Soul and Death' by C.G. Jung in Collected Works vol. 8
12. 'A Dwelling Place for Wisdom' by Raimon Panikkar

Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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