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Carl Jung’s Red Book, finally published only in 2009, is a highly ambiguous text describing a succession of extraordinary visions, together with Jung’s interpretation of them. Robert M. Ellis’s new book Red Book, Middle Way: How Jung Parallels the Buddha’s Method for Human Integration (published by Equinox, Oct 2020) offers a new interpretation of Jung’s Red Book, in terms of the Middle Way as a universal principle and embodied ethic, paralleled both in the Buddha’s teachings and elsewhere.
Jung explicitly discusses the Middle Way in the Red Book (although this has been largely ignored by scholars so far) as well as offering lots of material that can be understood in its terms. This book interprets the Red Book in relation to the archetypes met in its visions – the hero, the feminine, the Shadow, God and Christ, and follows Jung’s process of integrating these different internal figures. To do this Jung needs to find the Middle Way between absolutes at every point, in a way similar to the Buddha.
The video embedded below, recorded from Robert’s talk at the recent festival of the Middle Way, can give you some further advance flavour of the ideas in the book.
For more information about the book, and to purchase it when it becomes available, please see the publisher’s web page.
The book launch
In this virtual book launch on Zoom, Robert M. Ellis will give a talk about Red Book, Middle Way and respond to questions from the audience. There should also be an opportunity for participants to purchase the book at a discount.
Time and date: Sunday 18th October, 7.30-9pm UK time
Free event
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