Entering the Symbolic Life

A series of lectures and short workshops on the I Ching as a way to what C.G Jung called the Symbolic Life.

You see, man is in need of a Symbolic Life – badly in need. Only the Symbolic Life can express the need of the soul – the daily need of the soul, mind you! And because people have no such thing, they can never step out of this mill – this awful, grinding, banal life in which they are “nothing but.” We have no symbolic existence in which we are something else, in which we are fulfilling our role as one of the actors in the divine drama of life. That gives peace, when people feel that they are living the Symbolic Life, that they are actors in the divine drama. It expresses the desire of the soul, the actual facts of our unconscious life. For the Symbolic Life is one of the most essential manifestations of the human mind. It is an experience, not an opinion, an experience nothing can take it away from you. And it means more than the whole world, because it makes sense.

C. G. Jung, from The Symbolic Life, CW 18 §608- 696.

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