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Inner City Books (Toronto) founded by Daryl Sharp to "promote the understanding and practical application of the work of C.G. Jung."
The only publishing house in the world devoted exclusively to books written by Jungian analysts. www.innercitybooks.net
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The editors, Robin Mindell and Christophe Le Mouël, present a series of seven conversations which explore the resonances and convergences of synchronicity, number, quantum physics, and Jung’s central concepts of depth psychology. Some conversations involve surprising revelations about her analytical work with Wolfgang Pauli. She shares her own reflections about the psyche’s progress toward death and what may come next. As von Franz was becoming increasingly ill with Parkinsonism, there is an urgency to these discussions. She knew her time was limited. This book captures her unyielding commitment to honoring Jung’s legacy and pushing forward the frontiers of depth psychology.
October 8, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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October 1993: Marie-Louise von Franz recounts a dream of “a new job.” She is the new apprentice postman at the Bollingen post office! Her mission is to continue Jung’s work on number, quantum physics, synchronicity and depth psychology. She must deliver this “letter” to a new generation which still may not be ready for the message. Conversations is this letter: a glimpse into the profound thinking and powerful intuition that brought us some of the most important Jungian scholarship ever written.
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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Inner City Books is proud to announce our newest title: a "letter" from Marie-Louise von Franz, of the ideas which consumed her in her later days.

Edited by Christophe Le Mouël and Robin Mindell,

Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz on Synchronicity and Numbers: Insights and Amplifications!
October 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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A photo from the bird app, showing a screen capture of Laura London in conversation with Christophe le Mouël via YouTube video.

This conversation is touching on some of MLVF's deepest explorations of death, number, and synchronicity.

Not to be missed!
September 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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A description of At the Heart of Matter from our website:
Text taken from ICB website to describe AT THE HEART OF MATTER: Synchronicity and Jung’s Spiritual Testament by J. Gary Sparks – Title 119 "This is an extraordinary book. It is important both for its clarification of the phenomenon of synchronicity and for its implications for the survival of Western civilization. The author, schooled in religious studies and science, takes readers gently through a basic understanding of physics, from classical Newtonian to modern quantum, and weds that to C.G. Jung’s long-standing enquiry into the enigmatic relationship between matter and spirit, selfhood and destiny. Here we meet the conjunction in time of three great minds: Swiss psychiatrist Jung; Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli; and the celebrated analyst-scholar Marie-Louise von Franz in their efforts to understand the mysterious interpenetration of time and the timeless. The journey is exciting and illuminating, and certain to mark a watershed in an understanding of the individuation process and the evolving practice of analytical psychology as a holistic approach to healing psychological ills." J. Gary Sparks, B.Sc., M.Div., M.A., is a graduate of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA; the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, CA; and the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich, Switzerland. He is a former Peace Corps Korea Volunteer during the early 1970s and co-editor of Edward F. Edinger’s Science of the Soul (2002) and Ego and Self: The Old Testament Prophets (2000). He is widely known in North America for his lectures and seminars on the significance and application of Jungian psychology. (See www.jgsparks.net.)
September 3, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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They go together well! Because it's based on training lectures MLVF delivered in Zurich, the book contains her "voice" and is accessible, almost conversational.

I hope you'll take a look at Gary Sparks' At the Heart of Matter -- if you haven't already.

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https://innercitybooks.net/bookshop/author/j-gary-sparks/at-the-heart-of-matter/ Cover art for At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity and Jung's Spiritual Testament by J. Gary Sparks. Image of the 1888 "Flammarion Engraving," in which an early philosopher reaches the edge of the earthly realm and sticks his head out to see the celestial universe outside.
September 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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Have you read Number and Time by Marie-Louise von Franz?

It's a tough but exciting sled! Our upcoming book - Conversations on Synchronicity and Numbers: Insights and Amplifications - pushes the limits of language in framing these phenomena.

Gary Sparks makes the esoteric accessible in this book.
Banner reading "At www.innercitybooks.net" at top. Cover art of a book as follows: Block red letters of book title "Valley of Diamonds" Subtitle in normal black text "Adventures in Number and Time with Marie-Louise von Franz" (Number and Time is italicized as it is a book title.) Illustration is a painting of a spiral like the interior of a snail shell, done in earthy tones of brown, orange, gold and green. Underneath in black block letters: "J. Gary Sparks"
September 2, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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It's so easy to order #jungian publications directly from the Inner City Books website -- check for value priced bundles and different formats. Free shipping worldwide!

We also offer a growing list of audiobooks -- you'll find them on Amazon, Audible, Apple or other popular audiobook platforms.
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August 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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SURPRISE!

A love letter from the past to the future -- but you get to read it in the present.

Coming soon!
Watch this space.

And catch the September 4 episode of the Speaking of Jung podcast to hear Laura London interview co-author Christophe le Mouël.
Cover art for upcoming Inner City Books publication of Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz on Synchronicity and Numbers: Insights and Amplifications. Edited by Christophe le Mouël and Robin Mindell
August 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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You are welcome to place orders directly using our website and receive free shipping worldwide!

Search our online bookshop by author, title, or category.

Find editions available as ebooks or audiobooks too.

Browse our Bargain Bundles!

Bookshop: innercitybooks.net/bookshop/

#Jungian
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July 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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Swamplands of the Soul -- classic Hollis.
May 27, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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"An eminently practical approach that on the one hand illuminates Jung’s ideas as they may be experienced through bodywork, and on the other offers a new psychological perspective to practitioners of bodywork."
Cover art from Jung and Yoga; The Psyche-Body Connection. Judith Harris Foreword by Marion Woodman www.innercitybooks.net Black text on white background with a graphic of a black circle and a single radial white line going from centre point to 12 o'clock.
April 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Did you know Marion Woodman wrote the foreword to Judith Harris' book, Jung and Yoga: The Psyche-Body Connection?

I was reminded by this great quote in an Instagram post by the C. G. Jung Society of Atlanta.

Jung had a warning for Westerners pursuing Eastern practices to heighten consciousness.
"Jung repeatedly warned people born in the West to ground their yoga practice in the body if they wished to dare the heights of spiritual insight... In the East, the heavenly world in which the you above was born is firmly rooted in the soil of the matriarchal mother. Western culture is not; its mother (mater) is materialism -- money and possessions that can quickly vanish, the terror of groundlessness, this is one of the Dark Shadows of patriarchy.... the Paradox of Ascension to Spirit demands The Descent into Ground." Marion Woodman, Foreword to Jung and Yoga; the Psyche-Body Connection (by Judith Harris) published by Inner City Books. Image from alchemical text, a woodcut depicting a human figure with two crowned heads, male and female, on one single body in a raised rectangular container.
April 23, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Hey exciting news -- expanding our audiobooks collection once again with Sylvia Brinton Perera's classic, Descent to the Goddess!

Also available:

Swamplands of the Soul

The Eden Project

Under Saturn’s Shadow

Addiction to Perfection

The Call of Destiny

Transformation of the God-Image
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April 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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J. Gary Sparks was loved and will be deeply missed by everyone at Inner City Books.

Our memorial of this remarkable man and Jungian analyst, author, educator, and friend is here:

www.innercitybooks.net
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Screenshot from www.innercitybooks.net home page "In Memoriam J. Gary Sparks. In a comment Gary posted to Daryl Sharp's In Memoriam page on the Inner City Books' blog, he said: "When it is my time to cross over, I hope it is Daryl who meets me on the other side and helps me feel at home." Photo of Gary Sparks. "It is very sad to say the words – Gary Sparks has indeed now crossed over. Gary brought a great warmth of eros into the world, while at the same time making a huge intellectual contribution to the collective and our understanding of Carl Jung’s still-expanding ideas."
March 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Very sad news of a huge loss to the Jungian world.

Condolences to all who knew and loved the very lovable Gary Sparks and to those who engaged with his work on their path of exploration.

"J. Gary Sparks.

Nov 27, 1946 to Mar 20, 2025.

Rest In peace."

More words coming.
Screenshot of @lauralondon post from instagram, white text on black background. "J. Gary Sparks. Nov 27, 1946 to Mar 20, 2025. Rest In peace."
March 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Call of Destiny: An Introduction to Carl Jung's Major Works, by J. Gary Sparks.

Marie-Louise von Franz was Gary's thesis advisor in Zurich.

Many of his books provide elegant explication of her most challenging topics, especially synchronicity.

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White text on black background reads: "These meaningful moments, these synchronicities, these events where there is convergence between our inner state of mind (in this case) or an inner dream image and an event in the outer world, come just when we and the world are in negotiation." Call of Destiny, by J. Gary Sparks. With a graphic of an illuminated gold grid on a black background with a circular indentation meant to illustrate spacetime curvature.
March 28, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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A classic by James Hollis:

Swamplands of the Soul: Finding New Life in Dismal Places.

Check out our Hollis collection at innercitybooks.net/bookshop/pro...

Don't think of draining your swamp. It's pretty fertile soil, nurturing all kinds of unseen life, water and interdependent ecological webs.
Cover art for Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places, by James Hollis. URL www.innercitybooks.net above title. Words "guilt, grief, loss, betrayal, doubt, loneliness, depression, despair, obsessions, addictions, anger, fear, angst and anxiety" appear in a vertical stacked column to the left of a print illustration of black Betta fish stacked nose to tail on blue, yellow and red bands of colour. Under the author's name: "Author of The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife."
March 26, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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We published a great book by an Australian Jungian analyst, Frith Luton. She used her apiary experience to apply Jung to the imagery around these life-giving insects.

It's called Bees, Honey and the Hive: Circumambulating the Centre, A Jungian Exploration of the Symbolism and Psychology
Cover Art for Frith Luton's wonderful book, Bees, Honey and the Hive: Circumambulating the Centre, A Jungian Exploration of the Symbolism and Psychology. A photo of a bee taking pollen from the yellow centre of a flower with white petals against green grass, on a black background. Title in yellow type, subtitle and author name in white type with a yellow horizontal line underneath it. On our website at https://innercitybooks.net/bookshop/product-category/author/frith-luton/
March 20, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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"...the pivot around which the answer to the question of "yes" or "no" revolves -- the social presence that will confirm whether our civilization is going to survive or not -- is the *creative personality*."

Society depends on the agency of creative individuals even if the collective is ailing.
Cover art for Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work, by J. Gary Sparks. Quoting Chapter 3, "Toynbee and the Individual."
March 20, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Gary Sparks sees a bridge between history and psychology in Toynbee.

"Though he made it his business to examine the rise and fall of civilizations, Toynbee held that the decline of civilizations is not inevitable. He contends that any particular collapse depends on individuals."

continued...
Photo of J. Gary Sparks, Jungian analyst and author of Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work. He's many more things than that, actually. You could check out his website at http://jgsparks.net/. It's not visually sophisticated, but there's gold there.
March 20, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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You'll see a link to a video by Russell Brand on our website from several years ago. He felt Edinger's book was important.

Regardless of your opinion of this controversial public figure, he was a person working on himself at that time.

Is he too inflated now? Should we remove the clip?
Opinions?
Screenshot of website copy from Inner City Books: ENCOUNTER WITH THE SELF: William Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job by Edward F. Edinger – Title 22 Penetrating commentary on the Job story as a numinous, archetypal event, and as a paradigm for conflicts of duty that can lead to enhanced consciousness. Full-page reproductions of William Blake’s 22 engravings. See all our books by Edward F. Edinger.
March 19, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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Encounter With the Self: A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustration of The Book of Job, by Edward F. Edinger.

Another good read for the apocalypse.

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Cover art for Edinger's book, Encounter With the Self: A Jungian Commentary on William Blake's Illustration of The Book of Job, by Edward F. Edinger. Black background behind a painting by William Blake which I should know the name of but don't. Four Angels above a figure of God with angels to the right and demons to the left with prayerful human figures looking up from below. Will look up title later.
March 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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"... the outer world is not just an accident... Something external to us in the course of life's happenings is waiting expectantly for exactly what we have to give."

Is there a point to inner work while all hell is breaking loose?

There's never been MORE point.

Keep Gary Sparks in your thoughts.
From Preface to Carl Jung and Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work by J. Gary Sparks, p. 15: "The thread of the woman's imagination that has stayed with me is the conviction that if we find and commit to our inner soul process, we will also find a place in the events of the outer world that is waiting to receive it. Our inner soul, and the form in outer reality which will receive it, are noticeably synchronized. The soul that evolves within us also has its counterpart outside us, as the woman's text illustrates. The outer world is not just an accident. Something external to us in the course of life's happenings is waiting expectantly for exactly what we have to give. There is a specific place for the flower of our soul to take root and flourish in full growth."
March 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Here is a sustaining image from Gary's preface to Jung and Toynbee. It's gotten me through some rough days.

It's an active imagination taken from Gerhard Adler's book The Living Symbol.

A flower protected through a perilous journey to its right spot in the mosaic.

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...the dreamer and her guide have been traversing a mountainous landscape and carrying a flower to which she has remained loyal and devoted. They have gone through all sorts of trouble, endured descents & ascents in inhospitable terrain, suffered deprivation & scarcity, lost hope & then refound it -- all in order to keep the flower healthy and growing strong. The flower represents the life of her inner soul ...." They come to a naturally formed cathedral of rock, where the floor of the altar is paved by a mosaic. There is a gap in the mosaic just the right shape and size for her to fit the flower into it. "She is then told 'Now the service will begin'... Very softly at first, but growing louder, music began. It seemed to be made of a great number of different voices, singing in complex harmonies. Some sounded like human voices... it was ... also as if every pillar of the cathedral, every stone of the mountain, and every star in the sky had a voice." Gerhard Adler, The Living Symbol, p. 354 Ha I missed a typo in the book
March 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM