Returning to the podcast is Zürich-trained Jungian analyst, author, and lecturer J. Gary Sparks.He earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Bucknell University in Lewisberg, Pennsylvania, a Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in pastoral counseling from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology from the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich where his thesis advisor was Jung’s closest student and collaborator, Marie-Louise von Franz, and his training analysts included Jung’s grandson, Dieter Baumann, and Jung’s close friend and confidante, C.A. Meier.Mr. Sparks has been a lecturer and seminar presenter at the C.G. Jung Foundation of Ontario, Canada, and a teacher for the analyst training program at the Research & Training Centre for Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung & Marie-Louise von Franz in Zürich. In January of this year, he presented Jung & Pauli: The Living Spirit in Matter to The Cambridge Jungian Circle and has made that video available here. He is now teaching An Introduction to Jung’s Red Book online every Tuesday in June through The Jung Center Houston.Currently, he is in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he also conducts a variety of study groups. He is the author of At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity & Jung’s Spiritual Testament, and Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number & Time with Marie- Louise von Franz. He is the editor of Jungian analyst Dr. Edward F. Edinger’s book, Ego & Self: The Old Testament Prophets from Isaiah to Malachi, and co-editor with Daryl Sharp of Edinger’s Science of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective. His new book, Carl Jung & Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work, was published late last year by Inner City Books and is the subject of our talk today.This interview was recorded on Friday, June 15, 2018. It’s 01:22:29 and 75 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. This episode is also available on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, or wherever you get your shows.



MENTIONED DURING THE INTERVIEWSpeaking of Jung: Episode #2 J. Gary Sparks on synchronicitySpeaking of Jung: Episode #28 J. Gary Sparks on number and timeJ. Gary Sparks Brings Jung & Freud to Life Video of Gary taken by Laura in Sept. 2015Carl Jung Action FigureSigmund Freud Action FigureHow Daryl Sharp Saved J. Gary Sparks Video of Mr. Sparks taken by Laura in Sept. 2015Inner City Books Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts {Daryl Sharp’s publishing house}Mr. Sparks’s website Presentations, study guides, quotes, and moreAion: Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self by C.G. JungThe Archetypal Significance of Gilgamesh: A Modern Ancient Hero by Rivkah Schärf Kugler, Jungian analystA Study of History, Vol. 1: Abridgement of Volumes I-VI by Arnold ToynbeeA Study of History, Vol. 2: Abridgement of Volumes VII-X by Arnold ToynbeeA Study of History, The Complete 12-Volume Set by Arnold ToynbeeArnold J. Toynbee: A Life by William H. McNeillCarl Jung & Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work Inner City Books page {eBook available}Healing Trauma Summit by Sounds True, includes The War Within: Rediscovering Ourselves in the Wake of Trauma by Zainab SalbiZainab Salbi Her websiteSpeaking of Jung, Episode #9 with Murray Stein, Ph.D., Jungian analystRemembering Jung: A Conversation About C.G. Jung and His Work with Joseph Henderson, M.D., Part IRemembering Jung: A Conversation About C.G. Jung and His Work with Joseph Henderson, M.D., Part IIRemembering Jung: A Conversation About C.G. Jung and His Work with Joseph Henderson, M.D., Part IIIAn Introduction to Jung’s Red Book Webinar presented by Mr. Sparks through The Jung Center HoustonThe Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. JungThe Red Book: A Reader’s Edition English text only {no artwork}The Black Books 1913-1932 Forthcoming from the Philemon FoundationThe Way of Man: According to the Teachings of Hasidism by Martin B