Marked By Fir‪e‬

Marked by Fire: Stories of the Jungian Way is a soulful collection of essays by a formidable list of Jungian Authors.


Section One: Might of the Earth

Patricia Damery - The Soul is a Riddlemaker: Three Lessons

Jerome Bernstein - My Second Tallit

Claire Douglas - Bear Creek Farm 1976-1982: Finding Jung-Finding Myself


Section Two: When Fate Becomes Destiny

Gilda Frantz - The Greyhound Path to Individuation

Jacqueline Gerson - Finding Meaning: An Unexpected Encounter


Section Three: Winter Road

Jean Kirsch - The I Ching and I: Reflections on a Jungian Individuation

Chie Lee - Old Roots, New Soil


Section Four: Dark Night of the Body

Karlyn M. Ward - Voices

Henry Abramovitch - Into the Marginal Zone

Sharon Heath - The Church of Her Body


Section Five: Writing the Fire

Dennis Patrick Slattery - The Soul’s Claim: Choose It or Lose It

Robert D. Romanyshyn - I Only Ever Wanted to be a Bus Driver: An Unfinished Life

Naomi Ruth Lowinsky - Drunk with Fire: How the Red Book Transformed My Jung


When Soul appeared to C.G. Jung and demanded he change his life, he opened himself to the powerful forces of the unconscious. He recorded his inner journey, his conversations with figures that appeared to him in vision and in dream in The Red Book. Although it would be years before The Red Book was published, much of what we now know as Jungian psychology began in those pages, when Jung allowed the irrational to assault him. That was a century ago.


How do those of us who dedicate ourselves to Jung’s psychology as analysts, teachers, writers respond to Soul’s demands in our own lives?  If we believe, with Jung, in “the reality of the psyche,” how does that shape us? The articles in Marked By Fire portray direct experiences of the unconscious; they tell life stories about the fiery process of becoming ourselves.