Carl Jung: Matter of Heart, and related reflections
On YouTube, it says this is a BBC documentary, but I don’t believe it is.. In any event it’s the documentary on Carl Jung.. This is the sorta thing that gets pulled from YouTube fairly regularly.. though this one’s been up for a while now.. so maybe it’s worth sharing this way.. Just thought I’d put them all together for an easier way of viewing… (that is that it won’t get pulled anytime too soon)
But first, some words about Jung’s Influence on me and my work:
The funny truth of the matter is.. the biggest influence on my work.. from thought, to visual arts.. to my sound art.. It’s really the influence of an inward journey more then it is any artist or thinker or whatever..
When I talk about influences it might be best to regard this as a somewhat unreliable narration.. of the significants of the influence is more that they relate, in at least some sort of symbolic way, to something I’ve found on in my own inward journey.. and what they really provide for me is a way of talking about it.. that can at least be a touch point.. where we can have a common starting point for talking about.
Carl Jung, on the other hand, might be the single biggest influence on me for thinking about that inward journey… well maybe him and Joseph Campbell.. throw in Nietzsche somewhere.. and blah blah blah.. The influence is so big that I often don’t know where Jung starts, and I end, or vice versa..
Oddly enough.. its Jung’s conceptual framework, that underlies my music, underlies how I think about marketing and communications, how I think about business, how I think about aesthetics, how I think about being human, how I think about social media.. So it seems to me important for me to share with you.
On with the Documentary
For some reason this one seems to lag a lil:
So yeah.. it’s kind of a crazy group, ha? I feel the need to give you some back story.. but… well, seems like this entry’s long enough.. and who would have made it through the whole thing!? So, go.. do you’re other things!
June 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Fascinating documentary….and very inspiring!!!
June 17th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
Its one of my favs.. I def want the DVD! Can be hard to find though.. posting this makes me feel like I should post on some of the back story.. and Jung’s biography.. there’s another little documentary thing, produced by the BBC that’s interesting.. that I may post one of these days to.