Jason E. Smith
@digitaljung.bsky.social
Jungian Analyst. Host of the Digital Jung podcast. Author of Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.
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Jason E. Smith
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Becoming (Merely) Human
Digital Jung Season 4, Episode 10
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The latest episode of Digital Jung is now out.
One more time around with Ahab and Starbuck, exploring subjects like the archetype of the child, the longing for human connection, and the difficulty of real change.
One more time around with Ahab and Starbuck, exploring subjects like the archetype of the child, the longing for human connection, and the difficulty of real change.
True psychological or spiritual transformation means a kind of dying to self, a self-emptying of our “godlikeness” -- that state of inflation that characterizes our ordinary, untransformed consciousness.
A clip from the latest episode of the podcast: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
A clip from the latest episode of the podcast: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
August 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
True psychological or spiritual transformation means a kind of dying to self, a self-emptying of our “godlikeness” -- that state of inflation that characterizes our ordinary, untransformed consciousness.
A clip from the latest episode of the podcast: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
A clip from the latest episode of the podcast: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
Marie-Louise von Franz on the Symbol of the Child.
I used part of this quote from her wonderful book 'Individuation in Fairy Tales' in the most recent episode of Digital Jung: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
I used part of this quote from her wonderful book 'Individuation in Fairy Tales' in the most recent episode of Digital Jung: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
August 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Marie-Louise von Franz on the Symbol of the Child.
I used part of this quote from her wonderful book 'Individuation in Fairy Tales' in the most recent episode of Digital Jung: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
I used part of this quote from her wonderful book 'Individuation in Fairy Tales' in the most recent episode of Digital Jung: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
“The true aspiration is not that self and all that is contained in it may last, but that all the self stands for may last.”
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
August 2, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“The true aspiration is not that self and all that is contained in it may last, but that all the self stands for may last.”
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Another clip from the latest episode of the podcast. This time on the theme of freedom: when we free ourselves from the grip of a complex, we free others, too.
Check out the episode here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
Check out the episode here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
August 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Another clip from the latest episode of the podcast. This time on the theme of freedom: when we free ourselves from the grip of a complex, we free others, too.
Check out the episode here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
Check out the episode here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
"Change, then, is less about what we do, than what we stop doing. It’s less about what we gain, than what we let go. As Jung once wrote: 'The experience of the Self is always a defeat for the ego.'”
~from Digital Jung, S4, Ep. 10: Becoming (Merely) Human
digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
~from Digital Jung, S4, Ep. 10: Becoming (Merely) Human
digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
August 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Change, then, is less about what we do, than what we stop doing. It’s less about what we gain, than what we let go. As Jung once wrote: 'The experience of the Self is always a defeat for the ego.'”
~from Digital Jung, S4, Ep. 10: Becoming (Merely) Human
digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
~from Digital Jung, S4, Ep. 10: Becoming (Merely) Human
digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
An excerpt from the latest episode of Digital Jung. On the symbol of The Child.
Check out the latest post here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
Check out the latest post here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
August 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
An excerpt from the latest episode of Digital Jung. On the symbol of The Child.
Check out the latest post here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
Check out the latest post here: digitaljung.substack.com/p/becoming-m...
The latest episode of Digital Jung is now out.
One more time around with Ahab and Starbuck, exploring subjects like the archetype of the child, the longing for human connection, and the difficulty of real change.
One more time around with Ahab and Starbuck, exploring subjects like the archetype of the child, the longing for human connection, and the difficulty of real change.
Becoming (Merely) Human
Digital Jung Season 4, Episode 10
digitaljung.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The latest episode of Digital Jung is now out.
One more time around with Ahab and Starbuck, exploring subjects like the archetype of the child, the longing for human connection, and the difficulty of real change.
One more time around with Ahab and Starbuck, exploring subjects like the archetype of the child, the longing for human connection, and the difficulty of real change.
No Kings protest in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
June 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
No Kings protest in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
“The spirit of Joy and the spirit of Hurry cannot live in the same house. But Joy, not Hurry, is an earnest of the Presence of God; an attribute of the creative life.” ~ Evelyn Underhill, The House of the Soul
May 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
“The spirit of Joy and the spirit of Hurry cannot live in the same house. But Joy, not Hurry, is an earnest of the Presence of God; an attribute of the creative life.” ~ Evelyn Underhill, The House of the Soul
“Humankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel.
May 16, 2025 at 2:47 PM
“Humankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living. What we lack is not a will to believe but a will to wonder.” ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel.
“Be the one through whom you wish to influence others. Mere talk has always been counted hollow… The fact of being convinced and not the thing we are convinced of—that is what has always, and at all times, worked.” ~ C.G. Jung
May 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“Be the one through whom you wish to influence others. Mere talk has always been counted hollow… The fact of being convinced and not the thing we are convinced of—that is what has always, and at all times, worked.” ~ C.G. Jung
Indeed. Abraham Joshua Heschel insists on staying maladjusted: “When I see an act of evil, I’m not accommodated. I don’t accommodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere… We must learn how to be surprised. Not to adjust ourselves. I am the most maladjusted person in society.”
“Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel.”
- Dostoevsky
- Dostoevsky
May 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Indeed. Abraham Joshua Heschel insists on staying maladjusted: “When I see an act of evil, I’m not accommodated. I don’t accommodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere… We must learn how to be surprised. Not to adjust ourselves. I am the most maladjusted person in society.”
Profiles in Cowardice.
🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.”
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
May 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Profiles in Cowardice.
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if it takes a whole lifetime, don't say that it's a waste of time. I am preoccupied by this mystery because I want to be a human being.~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴
May 11, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Man is a mystery. It must be unraveled, and if it takes a whole lifetime, don't say that it's a waste of time. I am preoccupied by this mystery because I want to be a human being.~Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘓𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴
The latest episode of the Digital Jung podcast is out.
A Collision Course With Life
Digital Jung Season 4, Episode 8
digitaljung.substack.com
May 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
The latest episode of the Digital Jung podcast is out.
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
This is the secret of dreams--that we do not dream, but rather we are dreamt. We are the object of the dream, not its maker. The dream is dreamed to us. We are the objects. We simply find ourselves put into a situation.~CG Jung, 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴
May 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
This is the secret of dreams--that we do not dream, but rather we are dreamt. We are the object of the dream, not its maker. The dream is dreamed to us. We are the objects. We simply find ourselves put into a situation.~CG Jung, 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯’𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis, 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵
May 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
When Jung once said that “a neurosis is an offended god,” he meant, metaphorically, that the neglect of a deep, instinctual energy ultimately revenges itself in our somatic discords, compulsions, addictions, or projections onto others.~James Hollis, 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
April 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?”
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
"Those who do not read at age 70 will have lived only one life: their own. The reader will have lived 5000 years: there was when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired the infinite ... because reading is a immortality backwards."
Umberto Eco
Pic. Godard's La Chinoise
Umberto Eco
Pic. Godard's La Chinoise
April 27, 2025 at 3:59 PM
"Those who do not read at age 70 will have lived only one life: their own. The reader will have lived 5000 years: there was when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired the infinite ... because reading is a immortality backwards."
Umberto Eco
Pic. Godard's La Chinoise
Umberto Eco
Pic. Godard's La Chinoise
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
I very much agree with Carl Jung, who said that transformation at the deeper levels happens in the presence of images much more than through concepts.~Richard Rohr, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯
April 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I very much agree with Carl Jung, who said that transformation at the deeper levels happens in the presence of images much more than through concepts.~Richard Rohr, 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯
The latest episode of Digital Jung is now out.
S4, Ep. 7 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, part 2
S4, Ep. 7 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, part 2
The Split in the Soul
S4, Ep. 7 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, part 2
digitaljung.substack.com
April 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The latest episode of Digital Jung is now out.
S4, Ep. 7 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, part 2
S4, Ep. 7 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, part 2
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” ~E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
April 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.” ~E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful
“Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dares not check thee!
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dares not check thee!
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III
April 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
“Bleed, bleed, poor country!
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dares not check thee!
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III
Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure,
For goodness dares not check thee!
Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act IV, Scene III
Reposted by Jason E. Smith
Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.
April 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Let's wake up. He's REALLY unpopular for this early in a term or really ever. President's this unpopular are already losing. Power becomes harder to assert when your power is fading.