Robert A. Johnson
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Sep 21, 2026
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If this video spoke to something inside you and you're ready to explore further, here are a few books that will guide you gently but deeply.
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Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson.
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Short, accessible, and beautifully Jungian.
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A perfect beginner's guide.
Ricky DeriszHOST
Was it Robert Moore? But this idea of the unlived life.
Ricky DeriszHOST
and as that relates i think the biggest source of suffering at times is this sense of limitation on on life which i know i've experienced this say through paranoia where it really limited what i could do and there was a lot of grief around the unlived life and i think maybe it was robert johnson Like he talks about the unlived life also as the unlived, it's like the shadow of what your parents didn't live or your ancestors didn't live.
Ricky DeriszHOST
And there's this idea that that's like everything, right? It's the tonic, it's the catalyst.
Ricky DeriszHOST
Where the suffering is, there's also a catalyst to change.
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The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk.
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Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson.
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The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller.
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Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung.
Bill WHOST
It's to keep you sober.
Bill WHOST
Many of us have found that studying Jung's work and authors like yourself and Edinger has been very helpful for me and Robert Johnson's work, who we just did a thing on he lately.
Bill WHOST
These can help us understand what's going on.
Bill WHOST
And, you know, the Oxford group just down the road from you there over in Coe have been over there a couple of times.
Steven ForrestGUEST
I'm thinking of a man who's deceased now.
Steven ForrestGUEST
He was a rather well-known Jungian writer named Robert A. Johnson.
Steven ForrestGUEST
He wrote He and She and Balancing Heaven and Earth, bestsellers.
Steven ForrestGUEST
He did well.
Steven ForrestGUEST
And he studied directly with Carl Jung.
Steven ForrestGUEST
And by a miracle, he became a good friend of mine.
Steven ForrestGUEST
I live in this tiny little town in the desert about 40 miles north of Mexico, population 3,000, and Robert A. Johnson turned out to be living here too.
Steven ForrestGUEST
It's just karma or cosmic, whatever you want to call it.
Juliet GraysonGUEST
So...
Juliet GraysonGUEST
There's a chap, Robert Johnson, who says spiritual maturity is the ability to hold paradox.
Juliet GraysonGUEST
And I think that that ability to hold the paradox of the me and the we, of my needs and our needs, is a really crucial thing.
Juliet GraysonGUEST
I need to be able to self-soothe.
Phil CousineauGUEST
And sometimes we...
Phil CousineauGUEST
I worked with Robert Johnson, who was a great psychotherapist, whose mentor was Carl Jung.
Phil CousineauGUEST
Now, this is kind of the six degrees of separation business, right? And Robert once told me in a lecture we had at UCLA in Los Angeles, and he said, we all change and we forget to tell each other.
Janine LoweHOST
True.
Kay GardnerGUEST
They're just like, yeah, go over here, go over here.
Kay GardnerGUEST
Robert Johnson, who's one of my favorite writers, talks about the silver threads, like that you're just kind of following these threads that come down.
Kay GardnerGUEST
these little silver threads.
Kay GardnerGUEST
And I think the guy, my hunch about the guys is that they're just sending down those little threads like, okay, now here's the next right thing to do.