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Carl Jung on Life and Death “The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.”

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We are reminded by ancient counsel that we should be aware of getting what we want. Depth psychology echoes this: we could be getting simply what the complex wants, what the unconscious history wants, what the unlived life wants.”~ James Hollis, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵

📌 Our new project! *Jolande Jacobi* was one of Jung’s most prominent women followers, who played a prominent role in disseminating his work. She was a prime mover behind the founding of the Jung Institute in Zurich. Her correspondence with Jung, spanning decades, is one of his major correspondences.

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Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz on Synchronicity and Numbers - Title 148 Intriguing revelations from Marie-Louise von Franz's final words on synchronicity and numbers  A special delivery from Jung's postman: Our newest …

Our exciting newest title now "live" in ebook format!

Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz on Synchronicity and Numbers; insights and Amplifications is now available in digital form.

A glimpse into the process & personality of this pre-eminent Jungian.

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Life Is Like Blue Jelly: Margaret Mead Discovers the Meaning of Existence in a Dream Revelations from the dreamsome laboratory of the unconscious.

Life Is Like Blue Jelly – Margaret Mead discovers the meaning of life in a dream www.themarginalian.org/2014/02/25/m...

Water and fire are the great opposites... if you get to the middle of the bridge that unites the opposites, you cannot cross it if you don't know your own opposite. That is why you cannot be changed in analysis if you don't know your shadow, if you don't know that all your ideals have a very seamy underside. Without that awareness, you can't cross into a new life. There's no transition without a confrontation of the opposites.|Marie Louise von Franz, Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales

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You could also check out Episode 149 of The Speaking of Jung podcast, which features co-editor Christophe Le Mouël interviewed by Laura London.

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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 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.

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!

Our big announcement is TOMORROW!

If you watched Speaking of Jung Episode 149, you already know about it. It's not *really* a secret.

Still, it's one of the most exciting books we've produced in decades, imho.

A voice I wasn't expecting to hear, saying new things.

Are we ready yet??

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The worst thing we can do to others is burden them with our unconscious material and yet we cannot avoid doing so.~James Hollis, 𝘔𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘮𝘴

Watch this space!
In the next week, we will be announcing something exciting.

Personally, it's the most excited I've been about an Inner City Books project in 20+ years.

There have already been hints -- Episode 149 of Speaking of Jung podcast let the cat out of the bag -- but the whole story is 🔥

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

Not to be missed!

YouTube video by jungianLaura Christophe Le Mouël, Ph.D. | Conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz | Speaking of Jung #149

Episode 149 of Speaking of Jung podcast just dropped!
A MUST WATCH.

Laura London interviews co-editor Christophe le Mouël about these amazing conversations with Marie-Louise von Franz in her last days. Still grappling with the archetypal significance of numbers.

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Gary Sparks worked with Marie-Louise von Franz (who wrote Divination and Synchronicity and so many other great books) during his training as a Jungian analyst.

He explains her most complicated ideas in clear and accessible language.

I hope you enjoy your reading adventures in Synchronicity!

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.)

A description of At the Heart of Matter from our website:

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.

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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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"

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.

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September 4th, interview with Christophe le Mouël will be uploaded on Speaking of Jung podcast!

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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

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

Coming soon!
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And catch the September 4 episode of the Speaking of Jung podcast to hear Laura London interview co-author Christophe le Mouël.

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Swamplands of the Soul -- classic Hollis.

We learn knowledge; we cannot learn wisdom. Wisdom arises through the assimilation of suffering. Suffering assimilated enlarges the personality, brings amplitude to the soul.

— James Hollis, Swamplands of the Soul

Many people do not get to themselves because of their admiration for some other person, perhaps of the same sex; they always strive to be like that person and thereby lose the possibility of becoming themselves. As a snake stares at a rabbit, they stare at someone else, or at a collective idea; that is something outside, it is not what they are, it does not belong to them and such things have not to be integrated. The dreams will tell you to get away from that, leave it alone, it is not yours and is none of your business. Individuation therefore also means separation, differentiation, the recognition of what is yours and what is not. The rest has to be left alone. Libido and energy should not be wasted on things which do not belong. By Jungian, Marie-Louise von Franz from her book, 'Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism and the Psychology'.

On how collective attitudes, or identification with other people, can hamper the development of the individual.

An addiction is anything we do to avoid hearing the messages that body and soul are trying to send us.~Marion Woodman

Marie -Louise von Franz was a genius. Read her books.