10.23.25 | Lecture: Systema Munditotius

Jung’s Red Book, published in 2009 and composed between 1913 -1928, has become the centerpiece to Jungian studies, radiating into everything written before and after. In 1916, Jung summarized his visionary experiences in symbolic form by painting his first and perhaps most important mandala, given in appendix A of the Red Book.  Along with Seven Sermons to the Dead, and written the same year, Jung provided us with two profound symbolic acts, one in words, the Sermons, and one in images, the Systema.

Systema Munditotius (the system of all worlds) is essentially a “cosmograph” of Jung’s inner work during this critical period of his life. By considering this one mandala, we will have unparalleled access to both the Red Book and to much of what is ahead for Jung in the more empirically based writings contained in his future Collected Works. Join us as we enter the mandala, the gateway into and the culmination of what Jung referred to in Memories, Dreams, Reflections, as his “confrontation with the unconscious,” wondrously embodied in his now famous Red Book.

Angelo Spoto, M.A., LMHC is a licensed mental health counselor with a Master’s degree in Analytical Psychology. He is co-founder of the C.G. Jung Library of Tampa Bay and author of Jung’s Typology in Perspective (Chiron Publications).