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Jason E. Smith
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Jungian Analyst. Host of the Digital Jung podcast. Author of Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.

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A hand against a stormy background. The thumb and middle figure are almost touching and there is a spark between them. Above a quote from Marie-Loulse von Franz: "Every understood dream is like a slight electric shock into higher consciousness."
August 6, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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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...
August 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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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...
A quote from Marie-Louise von Franz from 'Individuation in Fairy Tales': “In the symbol of the child is implied the element of youthfulness. A whole future is ahead, there is a new start in life, something which has still the plenitude of a beginning situation with all its rich inexhaustible possibilities. The child ... expresses absolute spontaneity and genuineness of the personality, which accounts for the proverb that children and fools speak the truth. They are still simply themselves, completely genuine”
August 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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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...
August 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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"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
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A quote from Carl Jung: 'The experience of the Self is always a defeat for the ego.'
August 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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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...
August 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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No Kings protest in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
A sign reading No Kings at Stage Fort Park A parade of protesters carrying signs and marching. A parade of protesters carrying signs and marching. A gathering of protesters around a sign saying “No Kings!”
June 15, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Some scenes from the Hands Off protest at Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, MA earlier today.
A large circle of people on a beach carrying American flags. A large circle of people on a beach carrying American flags. Rep. Seth Moulton speaking to protesters on Good Harbor Beach in Gloucester, MA.
April 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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An excerpt from the latest episode of Digital Jung.

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April 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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“Some certain significance lurks in all things, else all things are little worth, and the round world itself but an empty cipher, except to sell by the cartload, as they do hills about Boston, to fill up some morass in the Milky Way.”

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
A portrait of the novelist Herman Melville.
April 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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Maybe Rilke can help.
Poem by Rilke: a god can do it. But will you tell me how a man can enter through the lyre’s strings? Our mind is split. And at the shadowed crossing of heart-roads, there is no temple for Apollo. Song, as you have taught it, is not desire, not wooing any grace that can be achieved; song is reality. Simple, for a god. But when can we be real? When does he pour the earth, the stars, into us? Young man, it is not your loving, even if your mouth was forced wide open by your own voice– learn to forget that passionate music. It will end. True singing is a different breath, about nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind.
November 23, 2024 at 10:49 AM