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The Red Book | 
| Author: C. G. Jung
Creators: Sonu Shamdasani, Mark Kyburz, John Peck
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 15.7 x 12 x 1.7
ISBN: 0393065677
Dewey Decimal Number: 150.1954
EAN: 9780393065671
ASIN: 0393065677
Publication Date: October 19, 2009
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 more than just a coffee table book September 5, 2010
Paula Cardias (Centerport, New York United States)
A very profound and beautiful journal- one that will provide a lifetime of perusal and contemplation.
Amazing Book! August 18, 2010
L. GArber
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are looking to find your own path and are ready to discard all of the religious and spiritual teachings, then this book will start you on that path. Jung adamantly states that this book was his path and his way, NOT YOURS!! Therefore, you should not follow it, but find your own way. The purpose of life is self realization and no one can teach how to achieve it. It's a bit complex and I don't recommend for first time Jung readers. Look into his work for a while and maybe read Memories.. first before delving into this book.
The Red Book July 11, 2010
Norma Timmons (Lenexa, KS United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is one of the most interesting books I've ever owned. I highly recommend it.
A long lost tale June 5, 2010
Knut Moen
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is the last published work from C.G. Jung, published as late as 2004. The book is divided in two parts, the first is the original script and drawings, the second is an english translation. The first part is a unique piece of art, it reminds me of an ancient bible, thou the motives are quite different, its very beatiful and even if you cant read German its a lot of eyecandy. The second part is most accessible for those of us who cant read German at this level. Many people regard this product as the most important and the work that binds all the rest of Jungs works together. I cant say yes or no to that. What is important for me is that this book contains thoughts that have been more or less unknown until its release. For me as a Jungian this is an essential work and a must have. And beware, this is a huge book in many ways, its large and heavy, also inside....
RED BOOK: Jung's dialogue with Elijah and Salome June 3, 2010
William J. Meegan (Syracuse, New York United States)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
In C.G. Jung's RED BOOK he narrates an account with Salome of the New Testament and Elijah of the Old Testament. When I read and then listen to Stephen Hoeller's tapes on the Red Book I was struck by this encounter.
Instantly Jung goes off on a tirade against Salome for her part in the beheading of John the Baptist but in nowhere in the telling of this active imagination session is there an indication that Jung recognized Elijah as John the Baptist. This was quite curious seeing that he was a preacher's son and would have known the content of the New Testament more than most that read it. For Jesus Christ, himself, in speaking of John the Baptist, mentioned that this was Elijah returned.
Stephen Hoeller mentions in his tapes commenting on the Red Book that every temple in Greece is dedicated to Elijah the prophet, who represents the Sun. This is most curious for some thirty years ago I had recognized that the story in the New Testament concerning Salome represents the Moon and that its different sages represent the `Dance of Salome' and the `Man in the Moon' represents the `Head of John the Baptist' on a silver platter. The Sun represents King Herod and the Earth represents his brother's wife: Salome's mother. What is also remarkable about the dream is that Elijah calls Salome his daughter as she was the stepdaughter of King Herod. Both these figures represented mythologically the Sun and Jung's active imagination more or less coincided with the New Testament account: except for not coconsciously recognizing that Elijah was John the Baptist.
Furthermore, Hoeller mentions in his tapes that Salome was doing what had to be done similar to how Judas Iscariot did what he did because he was doing what had to be done. Yet, neither Jung nor Hoeller mentions what the reasons were that these individuals did what they did.
Christ mentions that John was the greatest of all prophets born of woman as Elijah was also known because he was transfigured into heaven body and soul. John as was Elijah was a prophet of the Old Testament, whereas, Jesus Christ was the prophet of the New Testament. John had to die in order to make room for the new.
Here I recognize a basic paradigm from my esoteric studies of the Old Testament, yet, C.G. Jung knew nothing of the esoteric science, which explains this paradigm. The most curious aspects of Jung's telling of his encounter with Elijah and Salome was the fact that this dialogue of Jung (conscious mind) with the unconscious mind (Elijah and Salome) was literally a clash with his interpretation or `imagined reality' of biblical events as opposed to stark reality. Meaning that `stark reality' represents eternal laws, which is apparently the playground of the conscious mind. Jung's half of the dialogue was quite contentious.
This record of Jung's encounter with the unconscious mind (the incident with Elijah: Sun and Salome: Moon) was most instructive. For what Jung was inadvertently recording was the basic law that govern life: man's existence in the material world. Man (individually and collectively) experiences life on earth surrounded by a stellar universe: set into motion by eternal laws. There is no way that man individually or collectively is going to upset or change those laws no matter what he erroneously thinks about them or what his thought processes are. It is obvious that man must attune his consciousness to the eternal laws and not vice versa.
Another point that Jung's dialogue points out, which he was totally ignorant and unconscious of was that no matter what man's conscious thoughts or will was concerning the outer reality he was going to physically obey eternal laws . Meaning, as an example, in building his cities man literally follows the divine pattern whether he knows it or not similar to a spider building a web or a bee building a hive.
Yet, when considering Jung's dialogue with the unconscious (Elijah and Salome), the New Testament account of John the Baptist's beheading and its surrounding narrative storyline and Stephen Hoeller's commentary we can extract further data from all of this material.
John the Baptist's complaint against King Herod (Sun) was that he was having a relationship with his brother's wife , which he obviously by law had no right to have. In other words the unconscious mind should not dominate the conscious mind to the point of its having no life in the world.
The death of John the Baptist was only half of the equation concerning the `transcendent function' coming into play as outlined in the New Testament narrative. The second half of the equation was the death of Christ on the cross. For John's baptism educated the people of Jerusalem to the government's violations of the eternal laws: hence the dance of Salome. But John the Baptist's death is similar to the Sun setting in the west, which makes room for a new day dawning with the evening arriving and Christ being found and arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane. John going from the east to the west to his funeral left Christ going from south to north to die on this cross of north, east, south and west. At the death of Christ the temple was rent in twain and the Jews were sent into the Diaspora and Christianity (like the phoenix) was born from the ashes of Judea. Yet, when it is realized that Christ died so that Christianity can come to birth the true meaning of Christianity come to mind. If Christ lived the world could not survive. Christ came to give humanity an exemplar. Something to strive for not necessarily obtained without first having earned it. If Christ had stayed who would actually earn the kingdom of heaven. Man would merely bask in the light of Christ and seek no more than what was being doled out to him.
However, each new coming of the Christ (transcendent function) is the second coming. It is a new beginning as in BERESHITH: the first word of Genesis translated `in the beginning'. In Catholic terminology the Transcendent Function would be called the EUCHARIST. Any Catholic knows that the Eucharist should be taken daily as every Jungian knows the Transcendent Function is a lifelong tool to experience life more abundantly, which is why Christ came to give life more abundantly.
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