Murray Stein

Thomas Arzt

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. This is the fourth volume.

Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions Volume 4

Jung's Red Book for Our Time

The essays in this volume 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. The Red Book promises to become an epochal opus for the 21st century in that it offers us guidance for finding soul under postmodern conditions.

Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions

Jung`s Red Book For Our Time

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. The Red Book can be considered as a contribution to the "Golden Chain" (aurea catena) of the world's imaginative literature reaching back to the ancient Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh. As Jung describes this tradition in a letter to Max Rychner, "Faust is the most recent pillar in that bridge of the spirit which spans the morass of world history, beginning with the Gilgamesh epic, the I Ching, the Upanishads, the Tao-te-Ching, the fragments of Heraclitus, and continuing in the Gospel of St. John, the letters of St. Paul, in Meister Eckhart and in Dante." The Red Book extends the "Golden Chain" into our era. Each of the 18 essays in this third volume of the series, Jung's Red Book for Our Time, is unique, and all of them converge on the central theme of the relevance of The Red Book for people today in search of soul under postmodern conditions. This is the third 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:

Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions Volume 3

Jung's Red Book For Our Time

Murray Stein 

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. This 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 post-histoire 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 in the midst of a world crisis. Thinkers, scholars, and Jungian analysts are increasingly looking to C.G. Jung’s monu­mental oeuvre, The Red Book, as a source for guidance to re-enchant the world and to find a new and deeper under­standing of the homo religiosus. The essays in this series on Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions circle around this objective and offer countless points of entry into this inspiring work.

Jung’s Red Book for Our Time

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. This is the second volume of a three-volume series set up on a global und multicultural level and includes essays from the following distinguished Jungian analysts and scholars: - Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt Introduction - John Beebe The Way Cultural Attitudes are Developed in Jung's Red Book - An "Interview" - Kate Burns Soul's Desire to become New: Jung's Journey, Our Initiation - QiRe Ching Aging with The Red Book - Al Collins Dreaming The Red Book Onward: What Do the Dead Seek Today? - Lionel Corbett The Red Book as a Religious d104 - John Dourley Jung, the Nothing and the All - Randy Fertel Trickster, His Apocalyptic Brother, and a World's Unmaking: An Archetypal Reading of Donald Trump - Noa Schwartz Feuerstein India in The Red Book Overtones and Undertones - Grazina Gudaite Integrating Horizontal and Vertical Dimensions of Experience under Postmodern Conditions - Lev Khegai The Red Book of C.G. Jung and Russian Thought - Günter Langwieler A Lesson in Peacemaking: The Mystery of Self-Sacrifice in The Red Book - Keiron Le Grice The Metamorphosis of the Gods: Archetypal Astrology and the Transforma­tion of the God-Image in The Red Book - Ann Chia-Yi Li The Receptive and the Creative: Jung's Red Book for Our Time in Light of Daoist Alchemy - Romano Màdera The Quest for Meaning after God's Death in an Era of Chaos - Joerg Rasche On Salome and the Emancipation of Woman in The Red Book - J. Gary Sparks Abraxas: Then and Now - David Tacey The Return of the Sacred in an Age of Terror - Ann Belford Ulanov Blundering into the Work of Redemption

Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions Volume 2

Soghaft und unmittelbar zieht Arzts Roman uns hinein in den Strudel des Tags, an dem über den "Anschluss" Österreichs entschieden wurde. April 1938: Der Student Karl Bleimfeldner kehrt in seinen Heimatort zurück, um gegen den "Anschluss" an Hitlerdeutschland zu stimmen – als einziger im Dorf. Die riskante Tat bleibt nicht ohne Folgen im politisch aufgehetzten Landstrich. Gerüchte werden laut. Die Familie verstummt. Und eine Handvoll Übermütiger bricht auf, um den Verräter im Wald zu stellen. Wie durch ein Brennglas nimmt Thomas Arzt in "Die Gegenstimme" die 24 Stunden des 10. April in den Blick, an dem sich die nationalsozialistische Machtübernahme in Österreich vollzog, und schildert vielstimmig und eindringlich die Geschichte seines eigenen Großonkels – als fieberhaft rastlose Erzählung über Mitläufertum, Feigheit, Ausweglosigkeit, Fanatismus und Widerstand.

Die Gegenstimme

Paris, Nizza, St. Petersburg, London, Brüssel, Berlin. Wann immer in den letzten Jahren der Terror in Europa wütete, war Armin Stummer vor Ort, eine Konstante. Erklären kann er sich das nicht. Auch nicht, als er in einer Silvesternacht von Ermittler Göttinger gestellt wird, der besessen davon ist, die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Anschlägen und der rätselhaften Reiseroute des Armin Stummer zu verstehen. Dieser scheint ganz harmlos: Als Monteur für Lichtinstallationen fährt er an der Seite des Künstlers André Tartini durch die Lande. Tartinis mystische Shows begeistern die Menschen, hier können sie all die Ängste, die ihren Alltag bestimmen, loslassen, Tartini sammelt sie, nimmt sie in sich auf und lässt daraus prächtige Paradiese der Angst sprießen, die aus dem Untergrund an die Oberfläche und weiter gen Himmel wachsen. Bis wieder etwas passiert ... Thomas Arzt geht den grundlegenden Strukturen der Angst nach, die Gesellschaft und Individuen zu zerstören droht. Sie wird zu einer fantastischen Wucht der Natur, die sogar Stahl zu sprengen vermag, und damit letztlich selbst zur Gefahr. Wo die Angst sich bündelt, schlägt der Hass zu.

Thomas Arzt

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