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The Earth Has a Soul: C.G. Jung on Nature, Technology & Modern Life Paperback – May 28, 2002

by Carl G. Jung (Author), Meredith Sabini (Editor), Joseph Henderson M.D. (Foreword)
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Discover a new side to Carl Jung in this beautiful collection of his writings, speeches, seminars, and letters on nature and our connection to the natural world.

Join Jung as he rediscovers the original unity of nature, and the spirits inside matter come to life once again. These selections, not just from his published writings, but also from speeches, obscure seminars, interview, and letters, show a less familiar side of the famous Swiss psychiatrist, whose deep concern over the loss of our emotional and mythic relationship with Nature is expressed in moving, poetic terms. Included are excerpts from Memories, Dreams, Reflections among Jung’s other works.

While never losing sight of the rational, cultured mind, Jung speaks for the natural mind, source of the evolutionary experience and accumulated wisdom of our species. Through his own example, Jung shows how healing our own living connection with Nature contributes to the whole.
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Jung’s Own Relationship with Nature
• Consciousness Slipped from Its Natural Foundation
• Nature Was Once Fully Spirit and Matter
• The Primitive Knows How to Converse with the Soul
• We Have Conquered Nature is Merely a Slogan
• Our Civilizing Potential Has Led Us Down the Wrong Path
• We Know Nothing of Man
• Nature Must Not Win but Cannot Lose
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"In the excellent choices of Jung's writings presented here, he shows us what we have lost and how we might find it again."—Joseph L. Henderson, M.D.

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Editor Meredith Sabini, M.A., Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist, teacher, and author. She is Director of Depth Psychology Programs, a continuing education providership in Berkeley, California, which specializes in dream seminars and self-care retreats for healing arts professionals.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ North Atlantic Books; 1st edition (May 28, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 248 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1556433794
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1556433795
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.04 x 0.64 x 8.99 inches
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Carl Gustav Jung

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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, an influential thinker and the founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology). Jung's radical approach to psychology has been influential in the field of depth psychology and in counter-cultural movements across the globe. Jung is considered as the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and to explore it in depth. His many major works include "Analytic Psychology: Its Theory and Practice," "Man and His Symbols," "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," "The Collected Works of Carl G. Jung," and "The Red Book."

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Stacey
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly Recommend
Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2016
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There is alot of negative things written about C.G. Jung. I was ecstatic to get this book and read more about his connection with the natural world. The book is so awesome I couldn't put it down! This is a must read book for anyone who has an interest in nature and our human connection to the natural world. This is now one of my favorite books in my long list of books in my reading library.

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B. Carter
5.0 out of 5 stars Well done.
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2018
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There is a wealth of writing by and about Carl Jung, but this excellent book focuses on his ideas about nature, along with biographical notes and correspondence that reveal how deeply this subject entered his life. Not a long book, but a nice affirmation for anyone who has felt the same connections.
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Kenneth M. Kehoe
5.0 out of 5 stars +++ Getting to Know The Real Jung +++
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2014
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This book reveals the real and very human Jung. In it one can see that his not is at all a coldly scientific mind.
He speaks about many things---but one of those things that especially struck me is: "The greatest abstraction of all is the idea of God." --- "Abstract thought is always ruthless. It is the most dangerous one to think, AND it is the most marvelous."
I have gained much in the reading of this interesting book: it has become a part of me.
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Richard Reese (author of Understanding Sustainability)
4.0 out of 5 stars Dreaming our way back home
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2012
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Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was born in Kesswil, Switzerland, a wee lakeside hamlet that had changed little since the Middle Ages. His rustic upbringing gave him the gift of intimate contact with the natural world, a profound source of meaning for him: "Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous." Like his mother, Jung had the ability to access his archaic mind. He had an old soul that was intimately connected with all living creatures, and to the world of dreams. This gave him the unusual ability to observe people and events with extreme clarity, as they truly were.

From the sweet pinnacle of a tranquil, wholesome childhood, the rest of his life was a stunning downhill plunge, as the civilized world fell into ever-growing chaos and catastrophe -- rapid industrialization, urbanization, population explosion, two world wars, mustard gas, atomic bombs, holocaust, the rise and fall of Hitler and Stalin. It was an excellent time to become a famous psychiatrist, because this new reality was a steaming cauldron of intense insanity.

Jung provided the world with a new model for understanding the mind. For almost the entire human journey, we had obeyed the laws of nature, like all other animals did. But with the emergence of domestication and civilization, we began violating the laws of life, snatching away some of nature's power -- power that did not belong to us. This cosmic offense created a break that shifted us onto a path of suffering. The gods are now punishing us for our immature and disrespectful impulses.

Jung left behind a huge body of writings, most of which are of little interest to general readers. Meredith Sabini heroically combed through the mountain of words, extracted passages about our relationship with nature, and published them as The Earth Has a Soul. It stitched together snippets from many sources, from different phases of his life, so it's not as flowing and focused as a discourse written from scratch, but it's an important collection of provocative ideas.

In recent decades, thinkers have tried to explain why the roots of the Earth Crisis emerged several thousand years ago. Most have diagnosed the root of today's problems as rapid, out-of-control cultural evolution -- our skills at learning, communication, and tool making evolved far more quickly than our genes did, and this pushed us dangerously out of balance.

Jung would agree with this theory, but his perception of the problem was far more complex. For almost our entire journey, humankind was guided by instinct, a form of intelligence that was magnificently refined by millions of years of continuous improvement. Like other animals, we lacked self-awareness, or consciousness. Like other animals, we could think and strategize, but we remained unconscious, and perfectly functional.

Jung thought that consciousness became apparent in civilized cultures maybe 4,000 years ago, and it has been increasing ever since. The expansion of consciousness went into warp drive when the era of modern scientific thinking arrived, and we plunged into an industrial way of life.

In remote, isolated locations, there are still a few "primitive" cultures which remain largely unconscious, guided by their normal instinctive intelligence. They do not engage in abstract thinking. They do not destroy their ecosystem. They continue to obey nature's laws. But they are being driven into extinction by you-know-who.

Our conscious mind was new, infantile, incomplete, unstable, and easily injured. Jung saw it as a tiny boat floating in a vast ocean of unconscious knowledge. Like a fish out of water, we were separated from our ancient oceanic home, an unpleasant traumatic shock. In the good old days, we lived in an enchanted world where everything was sacred. But science and technology have dragged us away into a miserable manmade world where nothing is holy, and everyone is restless, anxious, and neurotic.

Consciousness was an extremely powerful two-edged sword, equal parts blessing and curse: "Unfortunately, there is in this world no good thing that does not have to be paid for by an evil at least equally great. People still do not know that the greatest step forward is balanced by an equally great step back."

On the shore of Lake Zurich, Jung built a summer retreat out of rugged cut stones, a sacred refuge for solitude and contemplation. He cooked on a wood fire, raised food in his garden, and drew water from a well. There was no phone or electricity, because the technology of modernity was certain to frighten away the souls of his ancestors.

Primitive people were "hellishly afraid of anything new" because they feared "unknown powers and indefinite dangers." This was just as true for modern folks, even if we pretended otherwise. "Nevertheless, we have plunged down a cataract of progress which sweeps us on into the future with even wilder violence the farther it takes us from our roots." In 1912 he wrote that America "does not understand that it is facing its most tragic moment: a moment in which it must make a choice to master its machines or to be devoured by them."

Jung had an intense dislike for modernity. A city dweller was reduced to a tiny, insignificant ant. Humankind was moving toward insectification. Overpopulation was destroying everything. Growing crowds multiplied the stupidity level, whilst sharply decreasing our intelligence and morality. Crowds were incubators for psychic epidemics, which were far more destructive than natural disasters. Excited mobs often created explosions of madness that nothing could stop. "The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads."

In his psychiatric work, Jung helped patients heal by encouraging them to seek guidance from their dreams. Our unconscious has all the answers we need, but we usually avoid looking there, because we are afraid of it. We overload our lives with distractions to discourage reflection, and to hide from our darkness. We live at a rapid pace, and never leave a moment for looking inward.

Tragically, Jung never came to know a real live hunter-gatherer. He never spent a year or three with the Pygmies or Bushmen, people who lived in the traditional human manner, and lived quite well. If he had, his thinking would certainly have taken quite a different path -- and very likely a far more powerful one.

He did take several brief expeditions to New Mexico, Africa, and India, to spend a little time with people who were neither Christian nor European. Contact with these miserable "primitive" people gave him feelings of superiority, because they seemed to be neurotic, "tormented by superstitions, fears, and compulsions." But they also scared him. He once left Africa because of a powerful dream. He worried that he was in danger of "going black under the skin." Did he come frighteningly close to breaking free from his civilized cage?

For Jung, returning to simple, primitive, sustainable living was not a possible solution. "The wheel of time cannot be turned back. Things can, however, be destroyed and renewed. This is extremely dangerous, but the signs of our time are dangerous too. If there was ever a truly apocalyptic era, it is ours." He believed that salvation could be found by training the conscious mind to receive guidance from the unconscious realm, the world of dreams.

His recommendations for healing included: getting closer to nature, living in small communities (not cities), working less, engaging in reflection in quiet solitude, reconnecting with our past, avoiding distractions (newspapers, television, radio, gramophones), paying serious attention to our dreams, and simplifying our lifestyles.

In 1961, the year he died, Jung wrote: "Civilization is a most expensive process and its acquisitions have been paid for by enormous losses, the extent of which we have largely forgotten or have never appreciated." In his final days in 1961, Jung had visions of massive catastrophes striking in 50 years.

Richard Adrian Reese
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davey daverino
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic book.
Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2016
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This is probably my favorite sample compendium of Jung's work. I hear from many that he can be a hard man to understand; however, this book is a very easy read, yet still quite thought provoking. Until I read this book I never understood just how much of an environmental thinker that Jung truly was.
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Nicholas French
5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful sampler of C.G.Jung's works.
Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016
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For me this is one of the best collections of Jung's writings. The editor, Meredith Sabini did a fine job of selecting samples of Jung's work that support an appreciation of his brilliance in the process of opening our eyes to new appreciation of the world that is our home.
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Craig Chalquist, PhD, author of TERRAPSYCHOLOGY and DEEP CALIFORNIA
5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing collection
Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2005
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I wished for years to see what Jung wrote about the natural world and our relationship with it in one volume that would spare me the hassle of going through the Index to the entire Collected Works. This is that book. Check out the Table of Contents (click on the book logo above to see it) to get an idea of how clearly organized this book is. I use it in graduate courses for Jung and ecopsych students. Highly recommended.
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Ry
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent selection of Jung's thoughts and reflections on Nature
Reviewed in the United States on August 28, 2017
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Excellent selection of Jung's thoughts and reflections on Nature. I took this with me on a vacation in the countryside and couldn't imagine a better book to help get me in tune with my surroundings.
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cprmj
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful
Reviewed in Canada on October 12, 2019
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Very insightful to the spiritually minded who feel connected with the earth.
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Ulises Gutierrez
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy inspirador
Reviewed in Spain on September 5, 2019
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Muy buen libro, a veces un poco difícil de entender porque no estamos acostumbrados a un lenguaje tan locuaz, pero sin duda un conjunto de cartas, documentos y pensamientos de Jung imprescindibles.
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LucyB
5.0 out of 5 stars everything I love about Jung
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 14, 2018
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I love this book, it brings me joy. Jung's insights and observations are full of truth and beauty. I also love how this has been put together, it flows so well. And whereas some works of Jung can be a bit heavy-going & academic, this is a very pleasant & relaxing read. I feel a real connection to him as a human being here, because he's so open and clear in his sentiments and thoughts about the real world. I've read a few books recently about our connection to the natural world and this is by far the best.
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Denise Maguire
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Read
Reviewed in Australia on July 8, 2023
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A great place to start if you’re new to Carl Jung. Very accessible and a wonderful read
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Sunshine
5.0 out of 5 stars Enriching!
Reviewed in France on April 18, 2017
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What a wonderful summary of Jung's ideas, all put together in a structured and understandable way. It would have been lovely to have had Jung as my grandfather - we would have talked for many hours about life. Thank you for this book, Meredith Sabini!
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