J. Gary Sparks, M.Div. | The Call of Destiny | Speaking of Jung

The big announcement I’ve been waiting to make, and the secret I’ve been keeping for months, is that Inner City Books is back and they've just published their first title in five years.
Inner City Books - Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts - was founded by Jungian analyst Daryl Sharp in Toronto, Canada in 1980. Its mandate was - and still is - to promote the understanding and practical application of the work of C.G. Jung. It truly is one-of-a-kind and second to none.
Daryl passed away on Oct. 8, 2019 and Inner City Books now has a new incarnation under Scott Milligen who worked alongside Daryl for many decades. Scott has just published Inner City Books’ first title since taking over, it was written by one of Speaking of Jung’s most beloved guests, J. Gary Sparks. Title 146, The Call of Destiny: An Introduction to Carl Jung’s Major Works, is being released today, March 1st, 2023.
A few weeks ago, I recorded a video interview with Gary about the book and it is Ep. 119 of Speaking of Jung which you are about to see.
The book is now available in softcover and as an ebook directly from Inner City Books. They ship worldwide. Go to innercitybooks... - NEW: It's now available from Amazon! amzn.to/3Thf8sY (Affiliate Link)
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J. Gary Sparks is a Jungian analyst and author in private practice in Indianapolis, Indiana.
He returns to us today to discuss his new book, the first publication from Inner City Books in five years. It is titled, The Call of Destiny: An Introduction to Carl Jung’s Major Works, and it’s being released on March 1, 2023.
Gary Sparks holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Bucknell University, a Master of Divinity and a 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. (who also happens to be the Honorary Patron of Inner City Books) and his training analysts included Jung’s grandson, Dieter Baumann, M.D. and Jung’s close friend and confidante, C.A. Meier, M.D.
He 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 presented online to the Cambridge Jungian Circle and for the new Jung at Heart certificate program for non-clinicians offered by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles.
Gary has joined me on four previous episodes of Speaking of Jung. The first three 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 Carl Jung & Arnold Toynbee: The Social Meaning of Inner Work.
Our most recent talk, Episode 114, centered around one of Mr. Sparks’s specialties, Aurora Consurgens, re-published last year as Volume 7 of the Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz.
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BOOKS (Includes affiliate links):
The Call of Destiny: An Introduction to Carl Jung’s Major Works - amzn.to/3Thf8sY
The Psyche as Sacrament: A Comparative Study of C.G. Jung & Paul Tillich - innercitybooks...
Hags & Heroes: A Feminist Approach to Jungian Psychotherapy with Couples - innercitybooks...
The Cassandra Complex: Living with Disbelief - amzn.to/2XjHoAB
Sacred Chaos: Reflections on God’s Shadow & the Dark Self - innercitybooks...
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