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June 16, 2023 25 mins

In this episode:
I
n this third part of my series on the fairytale The Iron Stove, I explore the importance of bringing together the mind and the body in the work of the symbolic life.

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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life, available from Chiron Publications.

Sources for quotes and more:

  1. Man and His Environment in ‘C.G. Jung Speaking’ (William McGuire, ed.)
  2.  Just as the Winged Energy of Delight by Rainer Maria Rilke in ‘Selected Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke’ (trans. by Robert Bly)
  3. The Iron Stove, Grimm's Fairy Tales 
  4. S3, Ep. 14: The Life of the Spirit -- The Iron Stove, pt. 1
  5. S3, Ep. 15: Resisting Change -- The Iron Stove, pt. 2
  6. 'Selected Letters' by C.G. Jung
  7. Michael Maier, Symbola aureae mensae (quoted in Mysterium Coniunctionis in 'Collected Works, vol. 14' by C.G. Jung)
  8. 'Crossing the Unknown Sea' by David Whyte
  9. 'Redemption Motifs in Fairytales' by Marie-Louise von Franz
  10. 'God in Search of Man' by Abraham Joshua Heschel


For text and narration of The Iron Stove, visit: https://digitaljung.substack.com/p/the-iron-stove

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For more on living a symbolic life:
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