The Red Book

The Atlas Obscura Podcast

SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura

Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2024

⏱️ 16 minutes

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In the early 1900s, influential psychologist Carl Jung spent more than a decade documenting the strange images that popped up in his unconscious mind and documenting them all in a beautiful illustrated manuscript. After his death, his family thought the book was too bizarre to be made public and locked it away in a Swiss bank vault for decades.

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0:00.0	Okay, it's like 930 at night, and I'm not usually in the kitchen at this time, so my cat thinks he's getting an extra dinner, that's why he's
0:12.0	purring. But what I'm actually
0:16.5	in here to do is make tea. I'm making Mugwort tea because Dylan says it's going to give me weird dreams. So here we go. Okay, it's been a few minutes. It's been steeping. It's time to try.
0:40.0	Oh, it's okay. It's a little grassy.
0:44.0	It tastes a little grassy.
0:46.0	Okay, I guess I'm drinking this and then see you tomorrow. Hey Dylan.
0:56.0	Hey Amanda, how you doing?
0:58.0	Did you, uh, I have to ask.
1:00.0	We both went on our little...
1:02.0	Our journey's. Yeah, do you have any dreams? Yeah, I did. We both went on our little journeys. Our dream.
1:03.0	Yeah, do you have any dreams?
1:04.2	Yeah, I did.
1:05.0	And my dream was kind of like weird and disjointed,
1:08.0	like a bunch of odd images,
1:09.2	but there is one that seems relevant. The one that comes to mind is I was like wandering around
1:15.7	some new place with my sisters and my sister bought or like acquired this model ship
1:22.1	called the Voyager and she's like showing me this model ship called the Voyager and she's like showing me this model
1:24.8	ship in a bottle called the Voyager and I was like oh that's a little on the nose
1:28.5	yeah it's like my dream had a ship in it too my my what I remember of my dream also had a ship and I didn't have like a crazy big dream but I did I dream that I had to climb up this giant chain to get on also a ship
1:42.2	Ooh I mean this this may be to get on also a ship.
1:42.6	Ooh.
1:43.6	I mean this may be the encapsulation of us,
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