Jung's Red Book for Our Time

<p><strong>The spiritual malaise regnant in today’s disenchanted world presents a picture of “a polar night of icy darkness,” as Max Weber wrote already a century ago. T</strong>his collective dark night of the soul is driven by climate change-related disasters, rapid technological innovations, and opaque geostra­tegic realign­ments. In the wake of what policy analysts refer to as “Westlessness,” the post­modern age is characterized by incessant distractions, urgent calls to responsibility, and in-humanly short deadlines, which result in a general state of exhaustion and burnout. The hovering sense of living in a time frame that is <em>post-histoire</em> induces states of confusion on a personal level as well as in the realm of politics. Totally missing is a grand nar­rative to guide humanity’s vision.</p><p>Thinkers, scholars, and Jungian analysts are increasingly looking to C.G. Jung’s monu­mental <em>oeuvre</em>, <em>The Red Book</em>, as a source for guidance to re-enchant the world and to find a new and deeper under­standing of the <em>homo religiosus</em>. The essays in this series on <em>Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions</em> circle around this objective and offer countless points of entry into this inspiring work.</p><p>This is the fourth volume of a multi-volume series set up on a global and multicultural level and includes essays from the following distinguished Jungian analysts and scholars:</p> <ul> <li><strong>Murray Stein </strong>and <strong>Thomas Arzt</strong>: Introduction</li> <li><strong>Robert M. Mercurio</strong>: <em>The Red Book</em> and our Contemporary Crises: Active Imagination, Mass Migration and Climate Change</li> <li><strong>Heike Weis Hyder</strong>: The Burning Urgency of Psychodynamic Discoveries in <em>The Red Book</em> for Psychiatry and Psycho­therapy: A Key for Healing-Resonance of Soul, Love and Life</li> <li><strong>Maria Helena R. Mandacarú Guerra</strong>: Jung’s <em>Red Book</em> as a Healing Symbol for Our Time</li> <li><strong>Thomas Moore</strong>: A Book of Magic: Jung’s <em>Red Book</em> and the Tradition of Natural Magic</li> <li><strong>Bruce MacLennan</strong>: <em>Liber Novus sed non Ultimus</em>: Neoplatonic Theurgy for Our Time</li> <li><strong>Gary Clark</strong>: Integrating the Archaic and the Modern: <em>The Red Book</em>, Visual Cognitive Modali­ties and the Neuro­science of Altered States of Consciousness</li> <li><strong>John Merchant</strong>: <em>The Red Book</em> as Jung’s Asclepiadean</li> <li><strong>J</strong><strong>ohn Ryan Haule</strong>: Jung comes back to Himself</li> <li><strong>Henning Weyerstrass</strong>: C.G. Jung and the Creative Unconscious</li> <li><strong>Becca Tarnas</strong>: The Participatory Imagination</li> <li><strong>Dale Kushner</strong>: <em>In Extremis</em>: Jung’s Descent into the Language of the Self </li> <li><strong>Karin Jironet</strong>: On the Divine and Eternal Solitude of the Star: Jung’s <em>Seven Sermons </em>Mirrored to Sufi Mysticism </li> <li><strong> Katie Givens Kime</strong>:  "So Long As We are Not Mystics":  What the Personal Art of William James and C.G. Jung Give Us Now</li> <li> <strong>Christian Gaillard</strong>:  The <em>Red Book </em>in Venice</li> <li><strong>Kiley Q. Laughlin</strong>:  <em>The Red Book</em>:  A Premodern Graphic Novelty</li> <li><strong>Mark Winborn</strong>: Liber Novus and the Metaphorical Psyche:  Revisioning <em>The Red Book</em></li> </ul>