From an amazon review, regarding the numbering: These books are numbered 1-7, corresponding to the notebooks numbered 2-7. The first of Jung's numbered notebooks were from childhood and not part of this experimentation phase of his life so not included. And so while successfully maintaining the numbering scheme of original notebooks, the first book in this present book set containing acknowledgements, new writings by Sonu Shamdasani (an editorial note, a new essay on Jung's notebooks "Toward a Visionary Science", also revisiting, incorporating some contents from the Introduction of The Red Book), an essay "Translating Jung's Runes", and additional sections: abbreviations, appendix, and a useful index that spans all 7 books.

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the helpful post! 🙏

@clintgolub1751

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for adding context here. Cracking into _Liber_ _Novus_ ending up being a far more difficult task than I initially thought, along the same lines as Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov, Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, or a James Joyce novel like Finnegan’s Wake. Honestly, without far more brilliant scholar’s addendum works (and a lifetime of research they sacrificed for the rest of us haha) to help me decipher these classics, they are extremely obtuse to understand without repeated re-readings upon re-readings.

I think your channel is a catalyst for my already out of control spending habits on books.

@darshanr2369

3 жыл бұрын

Yes. This skill of his maybe the only aspect of his practice that could be described as “black magick” 😂

@SolomonsWorks

3 жыл бұрын

It's quite the rabbit hole...

@JOI2CoCo963

3 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@domkane30

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah this channel should come with a health warning! I think I agree with FF on this one though; I'll go with the red book before this

@SolomonsWorks

3 жыл бұрын

@@domkane30 Shameless plug but don’t look at mine haha.

A way to get the books out of a case like that is to have a ribbon around the centre of the middle one. By pulling both ends of the ribbon, the book can be extracted leaving the others accessible.

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Great idea 🙏

This has quickly become my favorite channel.

I've said it before and I'll say it again...Forever Jung! I'm very envious of this book set! Cool review, as usual....

Been waiting for this box to be released for so long. I'm definitely buying it. Many thanks for your review.

You could put a simple length of smooth black ribbon around each book. Each ribbon would go around the widths of both the front & back cover with just a short amount of both ends of the ribbon sticking out past the spine just enough to grab with your fingers allowing you to easily slide each book out.

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

I like this! Thanks for the great idea!

@millennialbuddhism2619

3 жыл бұрын

Great Idea

I stumbled upon your channel perhaps just over a week ago and I truly appreciate everything your presenting. I've gained some new perspectives on so many topics within the esoteric and occult subject matter. my own library had become a source of many topics but has had me bewildered as to what I'd like to add, aside from those special books that fall from a book shop shelf and you're like, ok... apparently this is meant to be read. haha. your book reviews have been likened to my finding a treasure map of amazing works and it's so nice to have someone's impression to give me an indication of whether it is worth investing my shelving space, time, and money on books I may never read simply because I haven't a good idea of what they are really containing. I'd rather have shelves fill of books I am eagerly anticipate in reading. thank you, again.

Thank you for this!!! I have a copy of the Red Book (actually 2, a smaller reader’s version too), so getting a sense of what is included in the black book set is very helpful. 🙏🏻💓

"Reading about someone else's interactions with their mind does funny things to your own mind" - Exactly what I'm encountering while grappling with The Red Book. It's interesting to watch my own animating force respond, become aroused, by the writings of Jung. He had his own symbols, his own words of passage and initiation, yet my depths recognise a likeness behind any illustrative word or symbol. I also love the simplicity of his approach - the removal of intention or assumption, and the allowance he gave his "soul" to arrive naturally. I also love the scorn his soul displays toward the idea intent (good, bad, or indifferent) - reminding us that we are not the ones who intend a thing - rather, we have this inside out entirely - the soul intends for us. This brings to mind Crowley, the courting of one's self - and the surrender to true will, the journey into the underworld, the dissolution of our paper-thin projections of ego floating atop the immensity of the black ocean of self.

@ofirh3007

2 жыл бұрын

Beautifully said

@MsGnor

10 ай бұрын

@mintsaucemilitia love your glorious comment, and your name!!!!!! 🥰💚

@mintsaucemilitia

10 ай бұрын

Cheers! @@MsGnor

I’ve been dying to get my hands on these, one day I’ll have all them. Great review.

When you grabbed the lint roller i lost it! 😂 i have a few other books with that style of black material and use the same method hahaha

I would wholeheartedly recommend picking up the 2 volumes of Liz Greene's work on Jung and astrology. Inserted quite discreetly throughout the Red Book are astrological glyphs and symbols. The Black Books are a wonderful elaboration of the Red Book content. It clearly demonstrates that Active Imagination is a form of theurgy.

@soposh5673

2 жыл бұрын

Jung definitely was not a proponent of theurgy and all related philosophies like anthroposophy and theosophy. He was very explicit in saying he was a materialist and that spirituality was "baseless and stupid"

@mrn95

2 жыл бұрын

@@soposh5673 and he was no materialist either. Invent a new word if that pleases you.

I didn't know it was from Carl Jung! I understand better than before now your enthusiasm at the live stream. Thank you for making a video about it!

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Aha! Yes! Hard to contain my excitement :D

I loved the book maintenance report at the end. Those darn cloth bindings attract more dust than a feather duster.

That was an extremely interesting review - I adore when you give time to talk about the quality of the books you are reviewing. Miss that part from the Barnes and Noble reviews. But I am so very tactile by nature, sounds of pages, types of paper and so on just immediately gets my very focused on the narrator as well as the material.

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, thanks, @Cheshire Cat! Yes, I kind of miss this too, and I do love it when I get a book that awakens the senses as well as the mind!

A great set. My hope is that one day someone will do something similar for Solomon's writings. Lesser, greater keys, testament, etc.

I have been listening to Jung's old audiotapes today, such synchronicity, Jung would surely approve :)

What an addictively beautiful video!

I've just finished the red book. I may have to get this collection next.

I looove your videos! ❤❤❤

Hello I was wondering if in the future you would consider doing a video on the best sites to buy esoteric books from and which ones you most personally like, as always great content looking forward to more.

*Sigmund Freud dislikes this* (And one other numpty).

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha! This made me laugh 😂

@SaidarSaraaah

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks and me!

@armytc86

3 жыл бұрын

Sig smudge. Making shit up...

@araelena8003

2 жыл бұрын

:))))....good one!

Aaaargh! Hahahaha. Sorry I can either cry or laugh at how many books are coming my way at the moment! Thanks for showing these now instead of after you read them all!

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Hehe! I both sympathise and am very excited for you, and also totally relate! 😅

Got mine too 👍🏼 so far I am enjoining the fist book a lot! I may help i you previously read the red book.

What are you using for lightning? Noticed the umbrella lamp there.

I've been eyeing this.

Can i make a suggestion? Can you book review "the sorcerers screed" next? I would very much enjoy that video! 😁

Its been a few years now, are you going to do a full review soon?

Hey you guys wanna email my family and drop a MAJOP hint in what I want for christmas lol!! P.S. F. Fish What book do you reccomend the most for the upper-medium to advanced practitioner in ceremonial magik.... It's getting harder and harder to no waste money o n trash these days.... I've read most of the cicero-duquette stuff.. any recommendations?

I love the book box set up, very pretty

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! It looks great!

Hi Denis, another excellent review, what is your view on which should be read first, the Red or the Black? Thanks

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

If you're intending to read both, then maybe the black books, as the red book is an embellished edited version of this raw material.

They look beautiful..how are you finding them thus far?

So what exactly are these books about?

How about using a black ribbon to pull em out? Not sure if it was already suggested. Personally id prefer a golden ribon And im willing to bet that little gap was meant for storing a set of minni homemade dolls in a box of sorts (tin being most practicable) if i recall correct Jung had a set of mini dolls he made (a parson and wedding court) which he kept in the rafters of an attic or was it a shed? Anyhow...childhood begining of man and his symbols. Quite frankly anything Jung is fascinating! Congrats on your investments!

Hi i found your channel recently it is great and you have earned a subscriber! Can you help me with some books on breaking a bad curse or spell because everything i try in my life is a failure and staff just keeps breaking! Thanks

Thank you for showing this! It helped me save lots of money. I feel it is not of use to me when not being able to understand German. My hope is, that there will (later) be a release with just the translation, similar to the Red Book "The Reader´s Edition".

@timurfattahov2759

3 жыл бұрын

there are translations in the back

A real book lover if I ever saw one!😁

Do the books have a translation into English as well as a transceiption?

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

Superb!!💗

wow, i'm going to have to get some more money from somewhere to get this, lol.

Nice books but is it everything translated from the real Jung calligraphy photos? Because it doesn’t looks like it 😔

Nice. A little off topic but what do you think of "Facsimile Finder- Illuminated Manuscripts"? Do you own any? They have a nice channel on KZread.

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

I have heard of them, but haven investigated very deep. Thanks for the reminder!

@TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf

3 жыл бұрын

Their stuff are EXPENSIVE 😳But amazing repros.

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

@@TwoMiceOnMyBookshelf wow... Yep. Out of my price range by quite a long way! 😅

This is so satisfying

100% of the Cons, very difficult to remove books from the box and is a dust magnet as soon you take them out, dust will be on it!jaja But they are beautiful and amazing collection worth buying. Expensive but worth it!

I’m assuming since they’re ‘facsimile’ scans from the Philemon archives, they’re in Swiss German? I was hoping for English translations _alongside_ the original retained German. I’ll probably still pick these up regardless but I mainly want to dig into these and spend time within them.

@FoolishFishBooks

Жыл бұрын

The translations are in the back of each book.

@clintgolub1751

Жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks wonderful! Thank you!

Which book would you recommend as a starting point of all Jung’s immense collection?

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

I'm probably not the right person to ask... I started with Psychology and Alchemy.

@DazebyHaze

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks Thank you!

@yackum88

3 жыл бұрын

Man and his symbols is a good starter.

wow 😍

Are you doing a review on the box set of John Dee? Looking forward to that! I have had this box set in my cart as well haha I had something hit me and tell me to buy a second copy of 3 books of occult philosophy since it is only 41$ on Amazon and has been. I ended up not buying it and the NEXT DAY which was yesterday, the price went up to 65$ the actual price! They already took down Golden Dawn which will now cost you 200$ or so on Ebay and Agrippas books will be next I KNEW IT! Something is going on with these books. We won't be able to buy books soon... So upsetting... Someone does not want us to get this information so easily now.... Anyone surprised?... Am I the only originally conspiracy theorist who got into the Occult research instead of damning it like all other conspiracy theorists and Truthers?

Hello fools I fish I want to know if we could talk in private because I’m a young writer and poet. I need your help finding divine books for reference in my books

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

I'm so sorry, with the growing number of subscribers to my channel I'm bombarded with requests for private chats. I answer the interesting questions I see here in the comments section and actually spend a big chunk of my day chatting to members in Discord. To answer your question, you can do worse than the sacred books of the big world religions, but also look into Swedenborg, Aldous Huxley, Meister Eckhart, Theresa Avila, John of the Cross, Rumi, Attar, Paramahansa Yogananda, Huston Smith, Seyyed Hossein Nassr, Lao Tzu. Good luck!

This is amazing, how fascinating to get a glimpse, or in this case a deep dive into Mr Jung's mind, soul and spirit. I wonder if he tapped into spirit. Great video, thank you so much. My Golden Dawn book arrived today! You were the inspiration behind me ordering a copy as your review was fantastic. Thanks.

@TallAndThin123

3 жыл бұрын

Is it the golden dawn by Israel regardie? I thought it was out of print I looked on Amazon , where did you get yours?

@36paperairplanes

3 жыл бұрын

@@TallAndThin123 It looks like it very recently went out of print, it was available just a couple weeks ago.

@vauvu2566

3 жыл бұрын

There was like less than 10 copies a few weeks ago, I got one before they ran out too.

@36paperairplanes

3 жыл бұрын

@@vauvu2566 I didn’t actually buy it, definitely regretting that now. It’s not even on the GD website.

@vauvu2566

3 жыл бұрын

@@36paperairplanes It might be they are making a new version. Who knows.

Adding a bit of cardboard inside the back of the slipcase made things much simpler 🙃

Very nice.

Don't forget to share part 2 if this. 2 years .. 9/12 months 🌵🌾🌿

All i want , i found in this channel 🤙😊😊

is that hand writings in english ? he wrote his personal diaries in english?!

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

German, hence the translations in the back.

So do you practise occultism / ritual or what ever you may call it?

@oliviarackley1503

3 жыл бұрын

yes he does see some of his other videos

@margarets4610

3 жыл бұрын

He does. You can check his other posts

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

In certain forms, yes. I'm sure you do too, maybe without even realising it.

Is it a perfect black cube?

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

No 😅

@armytc86

3 жыл бұрын

@@FoolishFishBooks I'm glad you got that? Much love.

Lux et veritas

I want your library

I have purchased 7 black books. And the big red book with he's pictures my girl friend was not pleased

@nevermore7373

2 жыл бұрын

Neither was your bank account either, huh?

Wow jealous that must have set you back a pretty penny :)

Well.. it’s been a couple of years. Read them yet? 😂😂❤❤

I dunno this exist!!! I only know The Red Book.

High maintenance books, eh?

lol found yourself a nice little stash spot did you?

@FoolishFishBooks

3 жыл бұрын

Justice for JUNG. LAY OFF HIS ORIGINAL WRITINGS!!!

Oh dang, that's a fat set.

Hi everyone! I invite you to an Immersion Weekend on C. G. JUNG (19-20 March 2022): The online program From rubedo to nigredo: Re-Reading Liber Novus in the ‘Light' of the Black Books proposes to analyze the scope of the mytho-poetic layers in Jung’s early work with the aim of approaching the theory and practice of Analytical Psychology beyond the constraints of its original context and its world-configuration. Through an analysis of Jung’s visionary writings, thematic and practical aspects of the psyche’s interaction with the living forces of the archetypal field will be not only discussed but also conceptually reshaped to better understand the meaning of « transformation », also in Jung’s later work, as well as the resonance of Jung’s psychology of individuation with non-Western forms of therapy and healing. This exercise in re-visioning Jung’s early vision redresses the alchemical process as it has been conceived so far, going back to the prima materia to extract new elements. docdro.id/r1XK5Si