Jason E. Smith

@digitaljung.bsky.social

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Jungian Analyst. Host of the Digital Jung podcast. Author of Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life. lnk.bio/digitaljung

A hand against a stormy background. The thumb and middle figure are almost touching and there is a spark between them. Above a quote from Marie-Loulse von Franz: "Every understood dream is like a slight electric shock into higher consciousness."
A quote from Marie-Louise von Franz from 'Individuation in Fairy Tales': “In the symbol of the child is implied the element of youthfulness. A whole future is ahead, there is a new start in life, something which has still the plenitude of a beginning situation with all its rich inexhaustible possibilities. The child ... expresses absolute spontaneity and genuineness of the personality, which accounts for the proverb that children and fools speak the truth. They are still simply themselves, completely genuine”
A quote from Carl Jung: 'The experience of the Self is always a defeat for the ego.'
A sign reading No Kings at Stage Fort Park
A large circle of people on a beach carrying American flags.
A portrait of the novelist Herman Melville.
Poem by Rilke: a god can do it. But will you tell me how a man can enter through the lyre’s strings? Our mind is split. And at the shadowed crossing of heart-roads, there is no temple for Apollo. Song, as you have taught it, is not desire, not wooing any grace that can be achieved; song is reality. Simple, for a god. But when can we be real? When does he pour the earth, the stars, into us? Young man, it is not your loving, even if your mouth was forced wide open by your own voice– learn to forget that passionate music. It will end. True singing is a different breath, about nothing. A gust inside the god. A wind.