John Ryan Haule, Ph.D. is a Zürich trained Jungian in private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.

On his way to an early-morning organic chemistry class one day in the early 1960’s, he had a brief life-transforming religious experience. Having been raised Catholic, he interpreted the event in Christian terms and, after graduation, entered a religious order. There he encountered Jung’s writings and became convinced that there was nothing distinctively Christian about his experience. It was simply human and archetypal.

After five years he left the order and went on to earn a doctorate in religious studies from Temple University. His dissertation was on Jung and Martin Heidegger, titled “Imagination & Myth: A Heideggerian Interpretation of C.G. Jung.” He then taught in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Northeastern University for three years before heading to Switzerland where he underwent analytic training at the original C.G. Jung Institute in Zürich.

Dr. Haule is past president of the New England Society of Jungian Analysts and of the C.G. Jung Institute Boston, and is a former member of the executive committee of the International Association for Analytical Psychology. Currently, he is a guest lecturer at the C.G. Jung Institute in Küsnacht where his most recent lecture, “Portraits of Depression,” was presented during their 2021 Winter Block.

He is the author of The Love Cure: Therapy Erotic & Sexual; Perils of the Soul: Ancient Wisdom & the New Age; The Ecstasies of St. Francis: The Way of Lady Poverty; Divine Madness: Archetypes of Romantic Love; Jung in the 21st Century, Vol. 1: Evolution & Archetype, and Vol. 2: Synchronicity & Science; and Tantra & Erotic Trance, Vol. 1: Outer Work, and Vol. 2: Inner Work. His essay, “Jung Comes Back to Himself,” reflections on the connections between The Red Book and Gnosticism, was published in Vol. 4 of Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions. (Links below.)

In this episode, the first in a series, we will be focusing on Dr. Haule’s book, The Ecstasies of St. Francis, exploring narcissism from a creative and transformative aspect.

This interview was recorded on Monday, March 8, 2021. It’s 54:20 long and 46.9 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music.

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SHOW NOTES

Being & Time by Martin Heidegger

C.G. Jung: Letters, Volume 1 1906-1950

C.G. Jung: Letters, Volume 2 1951-1961

St. Francis of Assisi, Writings & Early Biographies: English Omnibus of the Sources for the Life of St. Francis Edited by Marion A. Habig {two-volume set}

Olivier Messiaen’s Opera, Saint Francois d’Assise by Vincent Perez Benitez {paperback}

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Red Book: Liber Novus by C.G. Jung

Front cover of The Ecstasies of St. Francis: Allegory of Poverty by Master of the Vaulting Cells, detail of a vault decoration, lower church, Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi, Assisi, Italy