Long awaited and just released in the fall of 2009…
"There can be few unpublished works that have already exerted such
far-reaching effects upon twentieth-century social and intellectual history as
Jung's Red Book," so writes the translator of Carl Jung's recently published
personal journal. Shown to only a few colleagues during Jung's life, and then
held in a bank vault by the heirs of Jung's archives for 40 years after his
death, the Red Book has remained a mysterious document known to contain
imaginative art illustrations and detailed records of Jung's courageous
explorations into the underworld and dark depths of his own unconscious. By
Jung's own admission, the period of self-examination at mid-life that was
recorded in the Red Book was fertile ground
for all that Jung would write about for the next several decades. Even Jung's
popular autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, is drawn from the Red
Book, yet the document itself has been closely guarded and withheld from the
public.
Knowing that human life would be filled with many trials and
sorrows, the Great Wisdom endowed human beings with an
unusual ability, that is, the capacity to turn their most
sorrowful sorrows into something precious. This adult fairy
tale weaves the story of a mysterious seed placed within
each human being at birth, which if fed grows into a
remarkable tree.
Since ancient time dreams have been considered
a source of guidance from the Divine. Yet, few people
today consider their dreams to have this importance.
Instead, most people, if indeed they remember their
dreams at all, speak of their dreams amusingly, as
if the whole purpose is to provide a brief form of
entertainment that contains bizarre and odd occurrences.
