Jung at Heart

Clearing Life’s Unfinished Business to Enter the Sage Stage

De: Martin Gjerløff

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

What if midlife wasn’t a crisis — but a rite of passage?

For too long, we’ve been taught to fear aging: to fight wrinkles, chase youth, and deny the deeper call of the second half of life. Yet Carl Jung believed that later life holds a sacred purpose: the chance to integrate the Shadow, embrace the Self, and grow into the fullness of who we were always meant to be.

Jung at Heart is a brief, light, and inspiring book about turning midlife into personal transformation. Drawing on Jungian psychology, timeless myths, and stories from Shakespeare, Tolstoy, and Dickens, it shows why the real danger is not aging, but the unlived life.

Inside you’ll discover:

• Why midlife is not an ending, but a rite of passage into individuation.

• How Jung’s map of the psyche (Persona, Shadow, Anima/Animus, Self) unfolds in the second half of life.

• Lessons from stories like Peter Pan, King Lear, Rip Van Winkle, and The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

• The five stages of the Mythic Midlife Model: Status Quo, Longing, Integration, Freedom, and Energy.

• Why the Sage Stage is the “extra gear” of maturity — where meaning, love, and legacy give vitality even in the face of mortality.

Written with warmth and clarity, Jung at Heart is an uplifting guide to staying alive inside, growing into wisdom, and becoming not just whole for yourself, but a source of life for others.

This book touches upon:

Carl Jung and Jungian psychology · midlife crisis and individuation · self-discovery in the second half of life · Shadow work and archetypes · meaning, purpose, and spiritual maturity · timeless stories from King Lear to The Death of Ivan Ilyich · insights from Viktor Frankl and the Sage archetype · the crossroads of myth, psychology, and personal growth.