Returning to the podcast is Zürich-trained Jungian analyst, author, and lecturer J. Gary Sparks in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Bucknell University, a Master of Divinity and Master of Arts in Pastoral Counseling from the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, and a Diploma in Analytical Psychology (the degree of a Jungian Analyst) from the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich. His thesis advisor was Jung’s closest student and collaborator, Marie-Louise von Franz, Ph.D. and his training analysts included Jung’s grandson, Dieter Baumann, M.D. and Jung’s close friend and confidante, C.A. Meier, M.D.
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. He has particularly enjoyed presenting online to the Cambridge Jungian Circle (where he learned that Jung’s cook became a UK Jungian analyst). Beginning next month, he will be presenting for the new Jung at Heart series, a certificate program for non-clinicians offered by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
Currently, he is in private practice in Indianapolis where he also conducts a variety of study groups. Mr. Sparks has joined me for three previous episodes, each centered around one of his books: Episode 2 on At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity & Jung’s Spiritual Testament, Episode 28 on Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number & Time with Marie-Louise von Franz, and Episode 35 on his most recent book, Carl Jung & Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work. In addition to his three books, he is the editor of Edward Edinger’s, Ego & Self: The Old Testament Prophets, and co-editor with Daryl Sharp of Edinger’s Science of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective. He maintains two websites – jgsparks.net and jungandpauli.net – both filled with information, audio downloads, and PDF documents.
Mr. Sparks returns today to discuss the latest volume of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz, scheduled to be released this Friday by Chiron Publications. ✨Aurora Consurgens: A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy – A Companion Work to C.G. Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis✨ is Volume 7 in the series. You can learn more about von Franz’s Collected Works on Speaking of Jung’s special page in our Blog section.
This video interview was recorded on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. It’s 01:14:02 long and 67.4 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser (click the play button in the bar below) or download it directly to your computer. You can also watch the video edition of this interview on our YouTube channel.
EPISODES WITH J. GARY SPARKS
Episode 2 on At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity & Jung’s Spiritual Testament (recorded in person in Indianapolis)
Episode 28 on Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number & Time with Marie-Louise von Franz
Episode 35 on Carl Jung & Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work (one of Speaking of Jung’s Top 10 episodes!)
These episodes can also be found on our YouTube channel.
BOOKS BY J. GARY SPARKS
At the Heart of Matter: Synchronicity & Jung’s Spiritual Testament Inner City Books, 2007
Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number & Time with Marie- Louise von Franz Inner City Books, 2010
Carl Jung & Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work Inner City Books, 2017
Ego & Self: The Old Testament Prophets (Editor) Inner City Books, 2000
Science of the Soul: A Jungian Perspective by Edward Edinger (Co-editor with Daryl Sharp) Inner City Books, 2002
SHOW NOTES
Study Group Audio 60-hours of audio on Mr. Sparks’ study group on Aurora Consurgens
Aurora Consurgens Bollingen Series, 1966
Aurora Consurgens Inner City Books, 2000
Aurora Consurgens Chiron Publications, 2022
Mysterium Coniunctionis Vol. 14 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Video of Mr. Sparks with Jung & Freud Action Figures by Laura London
Jung: His Life & Work – A Biographical Memoir by Barbara Hannah, Jungian analyst
Copenhagen 2013: 100 Years on Origins, Innovations & Controversies Proceedings of the 19th Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; includes “Jung’s quest for the Aurora consurgens” by Aksel Haaning (also in The Journal of Analytical Psychology, February 2014, Vol. 59 Issue 1, 8-30)
Artis Auriferae Jung’s alchemical texts (Thank you, Robert!)
Skin Disease: A Message from the Soul: A Treatise from a Jungian Perspective of Psychosomatic Dermatology by Dr. Anne Maguire, Jungian analyst
The Red Book by C.G. Jung
Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self Vol. 9ii of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Answer to Job Extract from Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Synchronicity Extract from Vol. 8 of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung
Diffusion of Innovations by Everett M. Rogers
Jung at Heart: A Certificate Program for Non-Clinicians by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz Special page in our Blog section
Mr. Sparks’ websites: jgsparks.net and jungandpauli.net
Quotes on destiny and fate Compiled by J. Gary Sparks
Art of Carol Spicuzza Student of Mr. Sparks’