Episode 217 - DEATH: A Jungian Perspective

Published: June 9, 2022, 4 a.m.

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Awareness of death can help us create an intentional life\\u2014one that serves the movement of soul toward wholeness. Jung realized that although we experience death as \\u201ca fearful piece of brutality,\\u201d the unconscious images death as celebration. On a night train, after his mother died, Jung reported that \\u201cduring the entire journey I continually heard dance music, laughter, and jollity, as though a wedding were being celebrated.\\u201d Our limited capacities and the conditions of earthly life preclude certainty about life after death, but Jung\\u2019s recognition of universal mythic patterns led to his theory of archetypes and a psychic reality beyond our grasp. We glimpse it in dreams, visions, precognitions, and synchronicities, and it can inspire connection with the infinite, which Jung considered life\\u2019s decisive question. For Jung, death was \\u201can archetype rich in secret life, which seeks to add itself to our own individual life in order to make it whole.\\u201d

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C.G. Jung.\\xa0Memories, Dreams, Reflections.\\xa0 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004X19L3E/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_BZYJF184D3ZSXT9WR3ZF

C.G. Jung. Collected Works, Vol. 8:\\xa0The Soul & Death. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691097747/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_38HYESF2JQ13FB49H0E9

Von Franz, Marie Louise.\\xa0On Dreams and Death. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812693671/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_ND8DQF0VKRXW8GQ9P9R7

Joseph Campbell with Bill Moyers.\\xa0The Power of Myth.\\xa0 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385418868/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_SB4EJWY02WJ8XGWCRF42

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