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 Text
- 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
Murray Stein, Ph.D., studied as an undergraduate at Yale University (B.A. in English) and attended graduate school at Yale Divinity School (M.Div.) and the University of Chicago (Ph.D. in Religion and Psychological Studies). He trained as a Jungian psychoanalyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich. From 1976 to 2003 he was a training analyst at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago, of which he was a founding member and President from 1980 to 1985. In 1989, he joined the Executive Committee of IAAP as Honorary Secretary for Dr. Tomas Kirsch as President (1989-1995) and served as President of the IAAP from 2001 to 2004. He was president of ISAP Zurich 2008-2012 and is currently a training and supervising analyst there. He resides in Goldiwil (Tun), Switzerland. His special interests are psychotherapy and spirituality, methods of Jungian psychoanalytic treatment, and the individuation process. Major publications: In Midlife, Jung's Map of the Soul, Minding the Self, Soul: Retrieval and Tr e a t m e n t, Transformation: Emergence of the Self, and Outside, Inside and All Around. Web page: www.murraystein.com; contact email: murraywstein@gmail.com.
Thomas Arzt, Ph.D., was educated in Physics and Mathematics at Giessen University (Germany). Research Assistant at Princeton University (USA) with the special focus on atomic, nuclear and plasma physics. 1988 Training and Certification in Initiatic Therapy at the "Schule für Initiatische Therapie" of Karlfried Graf Dürckheim and Maria Hippus-Gräfin Dürckheim in Todtmoos-Rütte (Black Forest, Germany). 2016 Training Program Continuing Education in Analytical Psychology at ISAP Zurich. Since 1999, President and Managing Director of Strategic Advisors for Transformation GmbH, an international consulting company for simulation technology, complexity management, and "Strategic Foresight under Deep Uncertainty" in Freiburg, Germany. He resides in Lenzkirch (Black Forest, Germany). Major publications: Various publications on Naturphilosophie in the context of Wolfgang Pauli und C.G. Jung: Unus Mundus: Kosmos und Sympathie (ed., 1992), Philosophia Naturalis (ed., 1996), Wolfgang Pauli und der Geist der Materie (ed., 2002). Editor of the German series Studienreihe zur Analytischen Psychologie. Web page: www.thomasarzt.de; contact email: thomasdrarzt @gmail.com.
