Jung’s Red Book for Our Time

Do we, like Jung, need to leave the spirit of the time and follow the spirit of the depths, to call out 'my soul, where are you?' through the windows of our now post-modern homes? We live in a digital world of incredible virtual inter-connectedness but at the same time fragmented and divided on many levels, including the psychological. The pace of life is rapid and ever accelerating. The spirit of the time is flux: It twitters. There is no sense of coherence in the whole. The guidance of a transcendent North Star is invisible to the naked eye of consciousness.Our existential crisis is not about the individual alone. It infects the entire human world, like the Covid-19 pandemic. Wars between cultural brothers and sisters, increasingly dire effects of climate change, economic disruptions, hunger, migration-these conditions affect everyone on the planet. Is there a spirit of the depths that can take us through this Inferno, perhaps toward the emergence of a meaningful narrative that can stabilize the global community and provide a collective sense of 'supreme meaning?' This is the search for soul in the 21st Century.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION by Murray SteinCHAPTER 1 Acts of Imagination: The Creation of the (Inner) World by Murray SteinCHAPTER 2 The Future of the Spirit in The Red Book and in Our Time by Romano MàderaCHAPTER 3 The Call to a Collective Red Book of Our Times: Personal Journeys in the Story-Web of Deep Imagination by Stephen AizenstatCHAPTER 4 Voices of Wisdom in Times of Crisis: Responding to the Cries of Nature by Nancy Swift FurlottiCHAPTER 5 Jung as Modern and Postmodern in his 'Red Book': Collective and Personal Crisisby Toshio KawaiCHAPTER 6 Collective Individuation in The Red Book: The Self in the Troubled World by Leslie SteinCHAPTER 7 Ecstasy and Subjection: Re-membering Dionysus and Addiction Treatment by Len CruzCHAPTER 8 Whom Shall I Send? Postmodern Revelation and the New Reality in Jung’s Red Book by Frank N. McMillan, IIICHAPTER 9 The Red Book and our Contemporary Crises: Further Considerations by Robert M. MercurioCHAPTER 10 Seeing and Not Seeing the Symbol: Greta Thunberg, the Indian Demon Devotee, and Jung’s Virgin Sophia by Al Collins and Elaine MolchanovCHAPTER 11 Death and the Dead: Reflections on a Figure of Thought in Jung’s Red Book by Christine MaillardCHAPTER 12 C.G. Jung’s Red Book: The Spirit of the Depths and the Knowledge of the Heart by Heyong ShenCHAPTER 13 Going the Full Circle: Pattern Resonance from Microcosmic Interactions to Macrocosmic Amplifications by Linda CarterCHAPTER 14 The Red Book and Other Searchers for the Soul: The Case of Klages and Jung by Paul BishopCHAPTER 15 Rebirth Symbols in the Basilica of San Miniato al Monte in Florence (XI-XIII c.): Millenarian Anguishes and Eschatological Hopes in a Romanesque Architecture - From Joachim of Fiore to Jung’s Liber Novus by Riccardo BernardiniCHAPTER 16 C.G. Jung and the Evolution of God: Imagination, Revelation, and Jung’s Answer to Jobby Lance OwensCHAPTER 17 Trailblazing, a Red Book Pathway: From Synchronicity to the Oracular Field by Joseph CambrayBIBLIOGRAPHY ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS