Murray Stein, Thomas Arzt, Eds.

Jung’s Red Book for our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions Vol. 4

416 pages, ISBN 978-1-63051-862-2, Chiron Publications

Edited by Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt, the essays in the series Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions are geared to the recognition that the posthumous publication of The Red Book: Liber Novus by C. G. Jung in 2009 was a meaningful gift to our contemporary world.

“To give birth to the ancient in a new time is creation,” Jung inscribed in his Red Book. The essays in this volume continue what was begun in Volume 1 of Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions by further contextualizing The Red Book culturally and interpreting it for our time. It is significant that this long sequestered work was published during a period in human history marked by disruption, cultural disintegration, broken boundaries, and acute anxiety. The Red Book offers an antidote for this collective illness and can be seen as a link in the aurea catena, the “golden chain” of spiritual wisdom extending down through the ages from biblical times, ancient Greek philosophy, early Christian and Jewish Gnosis, and alchemy. The Red Book is itself a work of creation that gives birth to the old in a new time.

The recently released Volume 4 joins Volumes 1, 2, and 3 with the following contributors:

• Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt: Introduction
• Robert M. Mercurio: The Red Book and our Contemporary Crises: Active Imagination, Mass Migration and Climate Change
• Heike Weis Hyder: The Burning Urgency of Psychodynamic Discoveries in The Red Book for Psychiatry and Psycho­therapy: A Key for Healing-Resonance of Soul, Love and Life
• Maria Helena R. Mandacarú Guerra: Jung’s Red Book as a Healing Symbol for Our Time
• Thomas Moore: A Book of Magic: Jung’s Red Book and the Tradition of Natural Magic
• Bruce MacLennan: Liber Novus sed non Ultimus: Neoplatonic Theurgy for Our Time
• Gary Clark: Integrating the Archaic and the Modern: The Red Book, Visual Cognitive Modalities and the Neuro­science of Altered States of Consciousness
• John Merchant: The Red Book as Jung’s Asclepiadean
• John Ryan Haule: Jung comes back to Himself
• Henning Weyerstrass: C.G. Jung and the Creative Unconscious
• Becca Tarnas: The Participatory Imagination
• Dale Kushner: In Extremis: Jung’s Descent into the Language of the Self
• Karin Jironet: On the Divine and Eternal Solitude of the Star: Jung’s Seven Sermons Mirrored to Sufi Mysticism
• Katie Givens Kime: “So Long As We Are Not Mystics”: What the Personal Art of William James and C.G. Jung Give Us Now
• Christian Gaillard: The Red Book in Venice
• Kiley Q. Laughlin: The Red Book: A Premodern Graphic Novelty
• Mark Winborn: Liber Novus and the Metaphorical Psyche: Revisioning The Red Book