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| Spiritual Warfare in Daily Life: The Battle of Thoughts | 15 Apr 2026 | 00:53:19 | |
Many of us go about our daily lives unaware that from the moment we wake up until we go to sleep, we are engaged in spiritual warfare. There is a battle being fought for our very souls. This may sound extreme, but if we examine our thoughts, words, and actions, we can see how our values are constantly being undermined. Throughout our day, we gather all sorts of useless and harmful thoughts which we later struggle to get rid of, for they become deeply rooted in us. Thus, we constantly struggle with sinister thoughts, and cannot think clearly. Habit builds character; we become what we repeatedly do. The attention we give to bad thoughts begins to shape our words and deeds; these, in turn, reinforce those same thoughts, forming a vicious cycle that tightens around us like a cobra constricting its prey. It becomes increasingly difficult to break free from its grip. "All spiritual life is based on thoughts. Progress in spiritual life depends on our thoughts… The best enterprise is for someone to establish a factory of good thoughts. Then, even bad thoughts will be transformed into good ones by his mind. For example, when you look upon a person as a soul, as an angel, you can ascend angelically to heaven and your life becomes a festival. But if you look upon a person in a carnal way, you descend into hell" (St. Paisios the Athonite, Spiritual Counsels, Volume III: Spiritual Struggle). We must learn to guard our minds in order to break destructive patterns, and fight back through prayer, discipline, and spiritual discernment. True change does not begin with actions, it begins with your thoughts. 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Spiritual Counsels, Volume III: Spiritual Struggle - St. Paisios the Athonitehttps://amzn.to/4cwY3Xj ▶ Talking Back (Antirrhêtikos): A Monastic Handbook for Combatting Demons - Evagrius of Pontushttps://amzn.to/4smeeeD ▶ Exorcism: The Battle Against Satan and His Demons - Fr. Vincent Lampert 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 The Daily Cycle of Sinful Thoughts 3:18 Awakening from Spiritual Sleep 6:35 The Inner Fortress of the Mind 12:00 How Our Thoughts Shape Our Suffering 18:05 Talking Back: Cutting Off Intrusive Thoughts 22:49 Not Every Thought is Yours 24:26 The Power of the Psalms as Spiritual Weapons 26:00 The Art of Spiritual Discernment 28:37 Sinful Thoughts Harm the Intellect 30:08 Sources of Good and Evil Thoughts 31:09 The Ego-Drama, The Devil, and True Freedom 32:50 The Extraordinary Activity of The Devil 34:45 The Ordinary Activity of The Devil 38:48 Healing Inner Brokenness 44:43 A New Chapter Begins: The Past Is Wiped Clean 50:06 From Inner Brokenness to Union with God 51:08 We Live in Unprecedented Spiritual Times | |||
| The Psychology of Creativity | 16 Jan 2026 | 00:54:59 | |
Creativity involves bringing one’s inner nature into being, a task unique for each individual. It must arise from your innermost self, not from fulfilling the expectations of others. One of the most destructive things, psychologically, is unused creative power. If someone has a creative gift and, for some reason (fear, laziness, or conformity), does not use it, the psychic energy turns inwards and becomes poisonous. That is why we often see neuroses or psychoses as expressions of not-lived possibilities. Creation always comes at a cost, a sacrifice that brings about suffering. Growth requires enduring inner conflict and moral burden. Without confrontation, there is no transformation, and hence no individuation. Creativity takes great courage, because an active battle with the gods is occurring. Genuine creativity is characterised by a heightened consciousness. The artist experiences joy, in contrast to fleeting happiness. Joy is the emotion that goes with heightened consciousness, the mood that accompanies the experience of actualising one’s own potentialities. 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Prometheus Bound - Aeschylus ▶ The Courage to Create - Rollo May ▶ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake ▶ Songs of Experience and Innocence - William Blake ▶ C.W. Vol. 15: The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature - Carl Jung ▶ Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung ▶ The Way of the Dream - Marie-Louise von Franz ▶ Faust - Goethe ▶ Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung ▶ Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung - Carl Jung 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:21 Differentiation and Individuation 5:00 The Divine Gift of Creative Fire 10:36 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 13:12 Los and the Bard 15:08 The Poetic Genius 17:18 The Spirit of the Age 21:50 Two Modes of Artistic Creation 26:26 Obstacles in Creative Work 37:21 The Unlived Life 39:14 Understanding Oneself 45:15 Balancing Inner world and Outer World 48:50 Suffering, God, and Meaning | |||
| The Psychology of The Restless Wanderer | 24 Sep 2025 | 00:52:59 | |
The archetype of the Wanderer appears as a figure of profound loneliness, who drifts through life without a fixed home or direction, restless in the search for purpose and belonging. He has far-sickness, a deep longing for distant places and the hope of eventually finding a place on earth where he truly feels at home. The Wanderer longs for home, yet feels at home nowhere, dwelling in a liminal space between past and present, the familiar and the unknown, echoing what Lovecraft wrote: “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.” If there is one key characteristic of the Wanderer, it is restlessness, which appears as a constant need to chase the next thing, whether it be in the outer world. Once something is achieved, the Wanderer is no longer satisfied, and seeks something else, ad infinitum. This insatiable desire is the cause of much of our suffering. One could say that the Wanderer cannot commit to anything, but he is certainly committed to wandering. After a long period of aimless wandering, one may finally commit to the inner journey, and the archetype of the Seeker becomes constellated, beginning the search for one’s soul. The focus of life shifts from external achievements and aimless wandering to the pursuit of self-realisation and theosis (union with God). 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Awakening the Heroes Within - Carol S. Pearson ▶ Either/Or - Kierkegaard ▶ Divine Comedy - Dante ▶ The Tibetan Book of the Dead ▶ Zombies in Western Culture - John Vervaeke ▶ The Red Book - Jung ▶ Praktikos - Evagrius Ponticus ▶ The Cherubinic Wanderer - Angelus Silesius ▶ C.W. Vol. 6: Niklaus Von Flüe And Saint Perpetua - Marie-Louise von Franz ▶ Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche ▶ The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 3:25 Lack of Belonging 4:50 The Meaning of Wanderer 5:08 Ronin 5:50 Far-Sickness 6:49 Restlessness and Insatiable Desire 10:45 Boredom: Our Worst Enemy 12:23 Digital Wanderer 14:55 The Realm of Hungry Ghosts 16:21 Lukewarm Souls and Limbo 17:41 Inner Yearning, Existential Crisis, Lifelessness 20:42 The Grey Life: Inner Death 21:15 The Archetype of the Zombie 23:00 The Path of Exile and Loneliness 26:08 Buddha: The Awakened One 27:25 The Seeker Archetype: In Search of the Soul 35:58 Acedia: Spiritual Restlessness 37:25 Shadow Seeker 39:41 In Filth It Will Be Found 41:05 The Monster You Fear Becomes the Saviour You Need 41:58 Individualism and Individuation (The Self) 43:25 Balancing Inner and Outer World 48:20 The Ultimate Union of Opposites: Physical and Spiritual | |||
| The Fool Dances with Death | 28 Jul 2025 | 00:50:49 | |
While Death may appear at times terrifying and at other times playful, those he summons almost always tremble with fear. All except one: the Fool. He joins the dance with a smile, laughing at the absurdity of it all. To him, the world is a theatre, and all men and women merely actors, each wearing different social masks to play their roles in society. There is something in the fool that Death appears to admire, something he seeks to imitate. Death, too, likes to play tricks. He does not always come as grim and serious, but often laughing, and dancing, mimicking the fool. Both laugh at human pretensions and the illusion of control over life, bringing down the proud and powerful whenever possible. Death’s unsettling grin mirrors the fool’s vacant smile or raucous laughter. Together, they embody two universal conditions that many prefer to ignore: mortality and folly. As “truth-tellers”, they show the hard truths hiding beneath everyday life. The fool’s joy in life dares to challenge Death’s dominion. Though Death always triumphs, it is never without a fierce struggle to overcome one of his most stubborn victims. For the fool embodies life, not death. He laughs at Death, and Death laughs back, but the fool still dances along the track. The fool dancing with death represents the union of opposites, life and death, wisdom and folly—a characteristic of the Self. When we stop seeing contradiction and start recognising paradox, something within us begins to heal. When the opposites are united, bliss arises. This is the true transcendent experience. “There is a mystical fool in me that proved to be stronger than all my science.” - Carl Jung 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Either/Or - Kierkegaard https://amzn.to/46ltGR6 ▶ The Top Five Regrets of The Dying – Bronnie Ware https://amzn.to/4f0Jpr3 ▶ Twelfth Night – Shakespeare https://amzn.to/46Efq6f ▶ Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Nietzsche https://amzn.to/46m7M06 ▶ The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales https://amzn.to/415wX3j ▶ The Idiot - Dostoevsky https://amzn.to/3IX3Ade ▶ Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to Light – Nichols https://amzn.to/4lHLxqf 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:35 Memento Mori 3:32 The World is a Theatre 5:02 Laughter and Tragedy 9:08 Regrets of the Dying, Unlived Life, Persona 11:41 Archetypal Images of the Fool 12:09 Buffoon 12:56 Court Jester 14:42 Trickster 15:26 Clown 17:33 Joker 18:56 Wise Fool 19:56 Madness, Folly, Wisdom 21:14 Physical Deformity as Divine Gift 21:59 Natural Fool 25:47 Holy Fool 27:36 Self-Transforming Machine Elves 28:40 The Purpose of the Fool 30:41 The Fool Dances with Death 33:35 Union of Opposites and Eternal Now 35:04 Dance of Bliss and Maya 36:45 Lila (Divine Play) 38:21 The Great Cosmic Joke 41:43 The Fool’s Journey 44:13 The Fool as Paradox 45:33 The Transcendent Experience 46:51 The Fool Meets Death 49:33 Conclusion | |||
| The Psychology of Sin | 18 Jun 2025 | 00:50:59 | |
“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” These profound words by St. Paul express the struggle between the desire to do good and the inability to carry it out, due to the power of sin within human nature. The misalignment between our intentions and our actions is part of our daily life. For example, we may know that we love someone deeply, yet find ourselves acting with wrath towards that person. We want to be humble, but fall into pride. We intend to work hard or study, but give in to sloth. This lack of self-control reveals an inner split, an age-old problem that lies at the heart of the human condition. It is more than mere weakness; it is a symptom of sin. But sin is not just the breaking of moral rules. It is a rupture in our very being, a loss of inner harmony. Since this condition is something we all share, it cannot merely be seen as a personal sickness but as a universal aspect of the human condition. 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Poetics - Aristotle https://amzn.to/4037U0i ▶ Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle https://amzn.to/4kFLYRk ▶ ESV Bible https://amzn.to/45gxDWJ ▶ The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighieri https://amzn.to/3SPbF5M ▶ Faust - Goethe https://amzn.to/3HFzYAC ▶ Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3HQqKS2 ▶ Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul - M.L. von Franz https://amzn.to/3FLIYUn ▶ C.W. Vol. 11: Psychology and Religion - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/4dVu8XS ▶ C.W. Vol. 12: Psychology and Alchemy - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3SJrbjz ▶ Studies in Hysteria - Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer https://amzn.to/3HDktcr 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:30 Inner Split and Sin 2:41 Hubris, Hamartia, Akrasia 4:59 St. Paul: Flesh and Spirit 5:48 The Meaning of Sin: To Miss the Mark 7:46 Types of Sin 10:25 The Worst Sins 12:10 The Vicious Cycle of Sin 14:56 The Cry of the Soul for Growth 16:46 Neurosis: State of Disunity 18:00 Projection, Shadow, Sin 22:14 Sin Against Your Own Individuality 23:20 Sins You Deny, Control You 25:58 Catharsis 28:10 The Journey from Brokenness to Wholeness 31:27 Christian Spiritual Journey 32:30 The Psychology of Confession and Secrets 41:37 The Greatest Sin: Unconsciousness | |||
| The Psychology of God's Dark Side | 02 May 2025 | 00:55:09 | |
In 1952, at the age of seventy-six, Carl Jung wrote Answer to Job in a single burst of energy and with strong emotion. He completed it while ill, following a high fever, and upon finishing, he felt well again. The book explores the nature of God, particularly what Jung perceived as God’s dark side, a theme that preoccupied him throughout his life. In it, the theology first explored in the Red Book—the progressive incarnation of God, and the replacement of the one-sided Christian God with one that encompasses evil within it—found its clearest expression. This makes Answer to Job one of Jung’s most controversial works. Jung wrote in a letter that the book, “released an avalanche of prejudice, misunderstanding, and above all, atrocious stupidity.” The fundamental idea in Answer to Job is that the pair of opposites is united in the image of Yahweh. God is not divided but is an antinomy—a totality of inner opposites. This paradox is the essential condition for His omniscience and omnipotence. Love and Fear, though seemingly irreconcilable, coexist at the heart of the divine. The story of Job follows a righteous man whose faith is tested by Satan with God’s permission. Job loses his wealth, children, health, and the support of his friends, who insist he must be guilty. His cries for justice go unheard, so that Satan’s cruel wager can proceed undisturbed. God allows the innocent to suffer. Still, Job is certain that somewhere within God, justice must exist. This paradox leads him to expect, within God, a helper or an “advocate” against God. Jung flips the traditional understanding of Christ’s work of redemption: it is not an atonement for humanity’s sin against God, but a reparation for a wrong done by God to man. “God has a terrible double aspect: a sea of grace is met by a seething lake of fire, and the light of love glows with a fierce dark heat of which it is said, “ardet non lucet”—it burns but gives no light. That is the eternal, as distinct from the temporal, gospel: one can love God but must fear him.” When Jung was once asked how he could live with the knowledge he had recorded in Answer to Job, he replied, “I live in my deepest hell, and from there I cannot fall any further.” 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Answer to Job: (From Vol. 11 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung)https://amzn.to/44PUN5M 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 4:28 Religion as a Psychic Truth 5:31 Job: The Oldest Book of the Bible 8:07 Union of Opposites in God 9:54 Abraxas 10:55 The Divine Drama: Yahweh and Job 15:57 The Creature Surpasses The Creator 16:54 Yahweh and Sophia 18:09 Abel: Foreshadowing the God-Man 18:58 God Becomes Man 21:13 Christ and the Hero’s Myth 22:01 Answer to Job 22:04 Christ as Archetype of the Self 24:31 The Role of Satan 27:14 The Role of the Holy Spirit (Paraclete) 29:01 Conflict of Opposites and Redemption 30:28 Privatio Boni and Summum Bonum 31:06 Enantiodromia 32:00 Visions and Mental Illness 32:32 The Book of Ezekiel 33:55 The Book of Enoch 37:08 The Book of Revelation 46:53 Assumption of Mary 48:04 Union of Opposites and Individuation 53:30 The Challenge Ahead | |||
| The Psychology of Knowing Yourself | 25 Feb 2025 | 00:51:24 | |
Carl Jung published his book Psychological Types in 1921, introducing four functions of consciousness: thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition, and the two attitudes through which these four functions are deployed: introversion and extraversion. Jung’s functions follow a fourfold structure, which is typical of the archetype of the Self. We are dealing with the archetype of the differentiation of consciousness, which helps you to become who you are meant to be. Jung combined function types and attitude types to describe, in turn, eight function-attitudes. These were the psychological types in Jung’s original description. However, very few of us, even among psychologists, can recognise the eight function-attitudes described by Jung. Jungian psychologist John Beebe expands on Jung’s work on types, extending the fourfold model to an eightfold model of personality, as well as associating an archetype with each type. The first four archetypes are: the hero/heroine, the father/mother, the puer aeternus/puella aeterna, and the anima/animus. These are ego-syntonic, as they align harmoniously with the needs and goals of the ego. As for the other four function-attitudes, we enter the realm of the shadow, or the ego-dystonic personality, which includes: the opposing personality, the senex/witch, the trickster and the demonic/daimonic personality. We may see these eight archetypes as different personalities within the vast theatre of the unconscious. They too have a role to play in our lives, seeking to express themselves outwardly. It is by integrating these archetypes of the collective unconscious that we truly become an individual. This process is at the heart of individuation. It is the journey of discovering your essence—who you were meant to be. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. If we do not gain control over the images within us, we run the risk of them gaining control over us. 📖 Personality Types, Astrology, Numbers (eBook) 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ C.W. Vol. 6: Psychological Types – Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3CVSp1V ▶ Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type – John Beebe https://amzn.to/41jUpdJ ▶ Lectures on Jung's Typology – M.L. von Franz and James Hillman https://amzn.to/4i13jCC ▶ Personality Types: Jung's Model of Typology – Daryl Sharp https://amzn.to/3EHwUm1 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 4:55 Consciousness is the Human Being’s Flower 6:14 The Eight Function-Attitudes 7:08 Extraverted Thinking 9:03 Extraverted Feeling 10:36 Extraverted Sensation 12:11 Extraverted Intuition 13:37 Introverted Thinking 16:08 Introverted Feeling 18:37 Introverted Sensation 20:46 Introverted Intuition 22:35 The Most Difficult Types 23:26 A Dinner Party with the Types 25:00 Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type 27:16 The Eight-Function, Eight-Archetype Model 32:12 Hero/Heroine 33:20 Father/Mother 35:06 Puer Aeternus/Puella Aeterna 36:40 Anima/Animus 40:46 Opposing Personality 42:41 Senex/Witch 45:41 Trickster 47:11 Demonic/Daimonic Personality 49:32 Conclusion | |||
| Carl Jung: A Journey into the Depths of the Soul | 31 Dec 2024 | 00:46:49 | |
“My life has been singularly poor in outward happenings. I cannot tell much about them, for it would strike me as hollow and insubstantial. I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life.” - Carl Jung 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon 🛒 Official merch ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Memories, Dreams, Reflectionshttps://amzn.to/4fzRZMb ▶ Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Junghttps://amzn.to/4fyzcR2 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:17 The Earliest Dream: Subterranean God 5:10 The Stone 6:15 Emerging from The Mist 6:38 Personality No. 1 and No. 2 8:31 Student Years 12:31 Psychiatric Activities 13:48 The Woman Who Lived On The Moon 15:43 Psychotherapy 17:29 Confrontation with the Unconscious 25:46 The Work 27:16 The Tower 29:36 Visions 35:18 On Life After Death 38:57 The Meaning of Life and Suffering 43:29 Retrospect 45:27 Fin ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Immature Femininity | 19 Nov 2024 | 00:50:14 | |
In her 1984 book, Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives, psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen delves into seven feminine archetypes within woman’s psyche, based on the goddesses of ancient Greece, whose names and mythologies have endured for more than three thousand years. Myths are not mere fictitious stories or fantasies of the human mind, but perennially recurring patterns that describe fundamental concerns of the human condition. What fulfils one woman may mean little to another, depending on which feminine archetype is constellated (or activated). Knowledge of the feminine archetypes provides women with vital information about their psychological difficulties, allowing them not just to understand themselves, but also their relationship with others. They also explain some of the difficulties and affinities women have with men. Knowledge of the “goddesses” provides useful information for men too. Men who want to understand women better can use feminine archetypes to learn that there are different types of women and what to expect from them. When you recognise the forces influencing you, you move closer to fulfilling the age-old maxim, “know thyself.” If you can learn about your own patterns of being, you can save yourself from some suffering. 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ⭐ Support on Patreon ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:56 Goddesses in Everywoman 4:08 The Seven Feminine Archetypes 5:20 Identification and Integration of Archetypes 6:06 The Virgin Goddesses: Artemis, Athena, Hestia 7:20 Artemis: Goddess of the Hunt and Moon 11:57 The Shadow of Artemis 13:37 Athena: Goddess of Wisdom and Crafts 17:38 The Shadow of Athena 19:43 Hestia: Goddess of the Hearth 23:31 The Shadow of Hestia 24:49 The Vulnerable Goddesses 26:15 Hera: Goddess of Marriage 29:18 The Shadow of Hera 32:11 Demeter: Goddess of Grain 34:41 The Shadow of Demeter 36:49 Persephone: Maiden and Queen of the Underworld 38:14 The Shadow of Persephone 41:55 The Transformative Goddess 43:31 Aphrodite: Goddess of Love and Beauty 45:10 The Shadow of Aphrodite 47:10 Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Immature Masculinity | 11 Oct 2024 | 00:47:59 | |
The crisis in mature masculinity is very much upon us. Men feel anxious, on the verge of feeling impotent, helpless, frustrated, unloved, unappreciated, and often ashamed of being masculine. Something vital is missing in the many lives of men. For students of mythology and Jungian psychology, there is hope. The external deficiencies we face—absent fathers, immature role models, a lack of meaningful rituals, and the scarcity of ritual elders—can be overcome if we look within ourselves, and turn towards the archetypes of the mature masculine within our unconscious. In King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette explore the difference between Boy psychology or the archetypes of immature masculinity and Man psychology or the archetypes of mature masculinity, as well as their shadow sides. “The more beautiful, competent, and creative we become, the more we seem to invite the hostility of our superiors, or even of our peers. What we are really being attacked by is the immaturity in human beings who are terrified of our advances on the road toward masculine or feminine fullness of being.” ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:26 Absence of Rituals 1:55 Patriarchy 3:33 The Crisis in Mature Masculinity 6:00 The Immature Masculine Archetypes 7:07 Accessing The Archetype in its Fullness 7:42 The Divine Child 10:21 The Shadow of The Divine Child 13:00 The Precocious Child 13:53 The Shadow of The Precocious Child 15:40 The Oedipal Child 17:00 The Shadow of The Oedipal Child 18:40 The Hero 21:00 The Shadow Side of The Hero 22:13 The Mature Masculine Archetypes 22:50 The King 25:55 The Shadow of The King 27:24 Accessing The King 28:00 The Warrior 32:00 The Shadow of The Warrior 33:33 Accessing the Warrior 33:58 The Magician 35:58 The Shadow of The Magician 37:10 Accessing The Magician 38:12 The Lover 40:25 The Shadow of The Lover 42:50 Accessing the Lover 43:37 Techniques 46:08 Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Labyrinth: A Journey Through Inner Chaos | 06 Sep 2024 | 00:40:59 | |
Confusion, wandering, isolation, darkness, disorientation—all evoke the labyrinth, a complex network of paths in which it is difficult to find one’s way out. Or do they? The labyrinth’s original meaning has been entirely distorted, which is only to be expected from such a perplexing symbol. Today, the labyrinth is found everywhere: in architecture, art, books, movies, and games. The labyrinth is an archetype, a primordial image that dates back to the Bronze Age (around 2500 to 2000 BC), making it one of the oldest symbols. The archetypal image of the labyrinth fundamentally expresses the path of life, full of dark corners and unexpected turns. If we overcome them, we are transformed and enlightened – if not, we become disoriented and find life meaningless. The labyrinth is an archetype, a primordial image that dates back to the Bronze Age (around 2500 to 2000 BC), making it one of the oldest symbols. It encompasses various images: the path of life, the Earth Mother, birth, dance, warding off evil, initiation, liminality, the descent into the underworld, symbolic death and rebirth, the journey to the Self, the alchemical Great Work and the pilgrim’s spiritual journey. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Through the labyrinth: designs and meanings over 5,000 years - Hermann Kern https://amzn.to/4e5WAW1 ▶ Labyrinth of the World and Paradise of the Heart - John Amos Comenius https://amzn.to/4dWV0WV ▶ Labyrinths: Selected Stories & Other Writings - Jorge Luis Borges https://amzn.to/3Z2LCvW ▶ Pilgrim’s Progress - John Bunyan https://amzn.to/3yZl9VK ▶ The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso - Dante Alighieri https://amzn.to/3zkiHZQ 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 1:55 The Labyrinth as The Path of Life 3:26 The Classical or Archetypal Labyrinth 4:19 Labyrinth of Egypt 5:03 The Labyrinth and The Maze 9:18 Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom 11:24 Time is a Labyrinth 12:25 The Labyrinth and The Minotaur 17:25 The Origins of The Mythical Labyrinth 19:52 Archetypal Symbolism of The Labyrinth 24:42 The Labyrinth: Descent into Hell 28:03 The Labyrinth and Alchemy 30:56 The Journey to The Centre (The Self) 32:34 From Earth to Heaven to Earth 34:16 The Medieval Labyrinth: Spiritual Journey 35:15 The Labyrinth as The Pilgrim’s Journey 39:25 Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Animals | 07 Aug 2024 | 00:59:59 | |
Animals have been an integral part of human existence since our earliest origins. They are deeply ingrained within us and play a crucial role in the unconscious. In various religions, animals are revered as gods. Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung frequently remarked that animals embodied the divine aspect of the human psyche. He wrote a bold statement for a thinker of his era, "Even domestic animals, to whom we erroneously deny a conscience, have complexes and moral reactions.” We belong to the animal kingdom, and knowing this is part of the individuation process, the journey towards wholeness. Yet, we seem to have forgotten our roots. The animal is a symbol of the Self. It embodies the complete wisdom of nature yet does not possess the light of human consciousness. Animals are deeply connected to a “secret” order within nature itself and the absolute knowledge of the unconscious, living according to their own inner laws beyond human notions of good and evil. Animals live exactly as they were meant to live, and grasp a sense of wholeness instinctively, rather than intellectually. They are the ones who can lead us to this source of natural life. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:45) Animals: The Divine Side of The Human Psyche (7:42) Animals in the Unconscious (8:46) Our Animal Instincts and Symbolic Animals (12:08) The Helpful Animal Motif (15:36) The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals (18:05) The Psychology of The Cat (25:50) The Psychology of The Dog (33:53) The Psychology of The Horse (37:35) The Psychology of The Bull and Cow (40:30) The Psychology of The Lion (45:43) The Psychology of The Serpent (58:05) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Archetypal Symbolism in Animals – Barbara Hannah https://amzn.to/3AaM1lW ▶ Grimm’s Fairy Tales https://amzn.to/3WwtBDk ▶ The Interpretation of Fairy Tales – Marie-Louise von Franz https://amzn.to/3yxI8qt ▶ Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales – Marie-Louise von Franz https://amzn.to/3Wm2ta4 ▶ The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption – Marie-Louise von Franz https://amzn.to/3ya7Z80 ▶ Animal Presences: Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, Vol. 9 https://amzn.to/3Wwgylq ▶ Aesop’s Tales https://amzn.to/4fqrhGO ▶ Medieval Book of Beasts https://amzn.to/4foDzPT 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Carl Jung on UFOs: Symbols of Collective Fear and Hope | 05 Jul 2024 | 00:50:35 | |
Strange sightings have been reported in the sky throughout history. After the Second World War, however, the appearance of UFOs became prominent in culture. Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung studied the UFO phenomenon for more than a decade until his death in 1961. He wrote a book entitled Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, where he saw UFOs as a living myth for modern man, stating that we have the golden opportunity of seeing how a legend is formed, and how in a difficult and dark time for humanity a miraculous tale grows up of an attempted intervention by superior or “heavenly” beings. Jung’s field of interest is the human reaction to the phenomena, an effort to understand the complex working of our interior life, as this is revealed through the UFO phenomenon. UFOs are visionary rumours whose basis is an emotional tension having its cause in a situation of collective distress or danger, or in a vital psychic need – shedding light on the psychic compensation of the collective fear weighing on our hearts. UFOs have become a saviour myth, as we have projected on them a hope, an expectation. They express the symbol of totality represented by the mandala, the archetype of the Self, whose chief role is in uniting apparently irreconcilable opposites and is therefore best suited to compensate the split-mindedness of our age, bringing order and regulation to chaotic states. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction(3:32) UFOs as Visionary Rumours and Collective Visions(5:56) UFOs as Collective Distress and Mass Hysteria (7:30) UFOs as Saviour Myth (10:02) UFOs as Living Myth(12:29) Folklore and UFOs(16:30) Collective Dream(17:17) Messengers of Deception(19:19) Religion and UFOs(20:05) Ontological Shock and The Absurd(21:00) Psychic Aspects of UFOs(28:45) Unus Mundus: Psyche and Matter(30:55) Crop Circles and Archetypal Feminine(35:36) The Physical Existence of UFOs(37:15) The Case of Orfeo(44:53) UFOs and The Age of Aquarius(49:10) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading▶ Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies - Carl Junghttps://amzn.to/3RRw8GL▶ Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers - Jacques Valléehttps://amzn.to/3W3el1X▶ Crop Circles, Jung, and the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine - Gary S. Bobroffhttps://amzn.to/3RQUYH3▶ Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults - Jacques Valléehttps://amzn.to/3VNU0fH▶ American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology - Diana Pasulkahttps://amzn.to/4cHVNtI▶ Wonders in the Skies: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times - Jacques Valléehttps://amzn.to/4cJjS30🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Paranormal - Carl Jung | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:48:34 | |
Since early childhood, Carl Jung experienced paranormal phenomena, that is, phenomena that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding. They were virtually commonplace in Jung’s family. Jung’s personal experiences with the paranormal would set him on a quest to find an explanation of these events with his theory of analytical psychology, as well as sparking his interest in parapsychology, the study of psychic or paranormal phenomena, especially regarding extrasensory perception or ESP (precognition, clairvoyance, telepathy, intuition, etc). Jung attended séances which formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation published in 1902, entitled On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena. Jung admits that his period of the séances with his medium cousin contained the origin of all his ideas. He had discovered some objective facts about the human psyche. From then on, Jung got his first glimpse of the fact that there was another world (the unconscious) which had a life of its own quite apart from the life of consciousness. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (0:53) The Paranormal in Jung’s Family (4:43) Séances and Occult Phenomena (12:22) Confrontation with The Unconscious and Synchronicity (16:09) Visions and Altered States (21:22) The Seven Sermons of the Dead (23:30) Jung's First Mandala: Systema Munditotius (24:36) The Voice of the Dead (26:58) Jung’s Paranormal and Parapsychological Experiences (37:26) Rationalism and Superstition (39:13) The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits (41:56) On The Reality of Spirits (46:26) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3waQbIJ ▶ Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung: by Aniela Jaffé from conversations with Jung https://amzn.to/4bFphZ5 ▶ Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3V2vaIG ▶ The Zofingia Lectures - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/4bGr5kp ▶ The Red Book - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3V6HB6a ▶ Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal - Roderick Main (Editor) https://amzn.to/4e59ZP0 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| How Dreams Can Anticipate Death and Point to the Afterlife | 02 May 2024 | 00:55:14 | |
Death is one of the greatest mysteries of human existence, the inevitable fate that unites us all. Whenever man is confronted with something mysterious and unknown such as the origin of the world, death, the afterlife, etc., the unconscious produces symbolic representations. In her groundbreaking book, On Dreams and Death, Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz writes about death dreams, that is, dreams of people who subsequently died. Therefore, they are of a precognitive nature, as they can anticipate the death of someone. In death dreams, the end of physical life is represented in a symbolic way, but almost always accompanied by manifestations that allude to the continuation of the person’s life. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:24) Death Is Not The End (4:50) Near-Death-Experiences (NDEs) (8:10) NDEs: Ego and Self (10:34) Death Dreams (14:14) Death Dreams in Second Half of Life (15:05) Death Dreams at a Young Age (15:45) Dreams About Someone Else’s Death (16:30) Birth is Death, Death is Birth (18:25) Metapsychic Dreams (22:10) Death Dreams: Vegetation (28:32) Death Dreams: Fire and The Philosophers’ Stone (33:56) Death Dreams: The Fruit (38:52) Death Dreams: Death as a Cure (40:15) Death Dreams: Dark Tunnel (41:55) Death Dreams: Spirit of Discouragement (44:00) Death Dreams: The Sinister Other (46:48) Death Dreams: The Threshold (48:25) Death Dreams: Light (50:28) Beyond Space and Time (51:45) The Final Decision (52:36) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Villain | 26 Mar 2024 | 00:47:19 | |
The villain is the most captivating and intriguing of all archetypes. The hero would not exist without his darker counterpart, which reflects aspects of ourselves that we do not dare to acknowledge or confront, but which are present within all of us. The villain is often a mirror of the dark aspects of humanity, embodying qualities that are evil, harmful, greedy, selfish, and destructive. In recent times, villains can even become sympathetic, and possess redeeming qualities, making some of them oddly likeable despite their malicious intent and immoral actions, thus challenging our traditional notions of good and evil. This type of villain has never existed to the degree it exists in the 21st century, symbolising a major change in the collective unconscious—which speaks to a psychological experience that is common to us all. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (1:46) The Meaning of Villain (2:40) The Oldest Form of The Villain (3:18) The Villain Archetype in Literature (11:00) The Superhero (12:26) Sympathy for the Villain (13:17) The Antihero (14:56) The Modern Villain (16:03) The Joker and Hyper-Sanity (19:55) Villains and The Dark Side (21:40) The Villain’s Journey (23:00) The Villain and The Hero (28:22) Villain: Mirror of The Dark Aspects of Humanity (32:56) The Villain Redemption Arc (33:18) The Dark Triad (36:20) The Tyrant (38:26) The Resentful One (40:19) The Traitor (41:30) The Sadist (41:58) The Criminal Mastermind (43:25) The Mad Scientist (43:54) The Jester or Trickster (44:20) The Terrible or Devouring Mother (44:50) The Femme Fatale (45:50) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Magician | 18 Feb 2024 | 00:44:43 | |
The Magician is the most mysterious and fascinating of all archetypes. He is a person who has gained access to esoteric or occult (hidden) knowledge, bringing the spiritual to the material. Thus, he is an initiate of secret and hidden knowledge of all kinds. As the Emerald Tablet teaches us, “As above, so below, and as below, so above, to accomplish the marvels of the One work.” The Magician is often the mentor or guide to his people, and even to the king. Psychologically, the Magician is the archetype of transformation, transforming old realities into new ones. He is the archetype of self-realisation par excellence. The Magician aids us in our lifelong task of attaining a higher level of consciousness, and of recognising that higher power which is greater than ourselves. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:22) Merlin (5:10) Hermes Trismegistus (6:17) Magic: The Shadow of Religion (7:32) Sympathetic Magic (8:30) Magic in Ancient Times (10:53) Grimoires and King Solomon (12:10) Necronomicon (13:00) The Archetype of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice (15:10) Renaissance Magic (18:13) Low Magic and High Magic (18:34) White Magic and Black Magic (20:11) Archetypal Images of the Magician (23:45) The Archetype of the Miracle (25:12) Magician: The Archetype of Transformation (29:29) Mana Personality (30:20) The Shadow Magician (31:50) The Magician and The Trickster (33:36) The Magician in Tarot (35:30) The Magician in Jung’s Red Book (37:18) The Integration of the Magician Archetype Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Numbers | 12 Jan 2024 | 00:53:35 | |
Numbers do not merely have a quantitative nature, but also a qualitative one (for Pythagoras they were divine). Numbers have life, they are not just symbols on paper. Several philosophers, alchemists and mystics throughout history have associated religious or mystical ideas to numbers. In ancient times, people associated mystical meaning to words and names based on their numerical value, which became the basis for 20th century numerology that seeks to understand personality through numbers. Carl Jung describes number as the most primitive archetype (the archetype of order), which provides a vital link between matter and psyche (united by the unus mundus). Psychologically, the most primitive numbers are 1 to 4, which form the basis for all the rest of the numbers, and as such it is not surprising that they are the most recurring ones in the psyche. These remarkably symbolise the human creation myth and the purpose of life. To paraphrase Pythagoras, “Number rules the universe.” ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (1:10) Isopsephy, Gematria, Numerology (2:58) Number as the Archetype of Order (5:00) The Role of Numbers in Dreams (5:35) Numbers as the Archetype of Wholeness (Self) (6:20) Numbers as Autonomous Entities (7:18) Numbers, Psychoid, Unus Mundus (9:32) Numbers and Synchronicity (11:17) Numbers: Link between Psyche and Matter (13:50) The Psychology of the Number 1 (17:08) The Psychology of the Number 2 (25:00) The Psychology of the Number 3 (35:06) The Psychology of the Number 4 (46:46) Esoteric Meaning of Numbers (5-10) (51:55) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Astrology | 29 Nov 2023 | 00:44:59 | |
The Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung studied astrology for over 40 years, and was primarily interested in the way astrology could help to explore the psyche. For Jung, astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity. The notion of seeing mythic narratives through patterns in the heavens is one of the earliest attempts to link the outer world with the inner world. The well-known Hermetic dictum, “As above, so below,” is key to astrology. It is the idea that man (the microcosm), is influenced by the universe (the macrocosm). That is to say, truths about the nature of the cosmos may be inferred from truths about human nature, and vice versa. At the exact moment of birth, each person receives the typical qualities of the libido or energy which is characteristic of him or her. Time, or the moment understood as a peculiar form of energy, seems to coincide with our psychological condition. For Jung, this leads to a peculiar hypothesis, that our personality does not have to do with the position of the stars, but rather with the qualitative effect of time, also called synchronicity, based on the ancient Stoic concept of cosmic sympathy. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (3:54) The Zodiac: Wheel of Life (5:06) The Basics of Astrology (9:37) Microcosm and Macrocosm (10:44) Astrology becomes Astronomy (11:48) Astrology and Carl Jung (17:12) Astrology as Ancient Psychology (20:02) Astrological Age and Precession of the Equinoxes (23:12) Qualitative Time (27:02) Astrology and Synchronicity (28:23) Sympatheia: Cosmic Sympathy (29:00) Psychoid and Unus Mundus, Pleroma, Anima Mundi (30:00) Planets as Archons (Gnosticism) (30:50) Spirit of the Depths and Spirit of the Times (32:28) Jung’s Thoughts on Astrology Before Death (33:15) Fate and Free Will (36:13) Individuation and Daimon (Soul-Image) (38:20) Exoteric and Esoteric Astrology (39:25) Aquarius: The Coming New Aeon (43:31) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Angels | 25 Oct 2023 | 00:43:59 | |
Angels have fascinated human consciousness since the beginning of time. The word angel derives from the Greek angelos, which is the default translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mal’ākh (literally “messenger”). The angel is a messenger between God and mankind. Whether we talk about angels, daimons, djinns, fairies, or any other of such beings, they all hold something in common, despite their difference in appearance, namely, they are all archetypal images of the same fundamental pattern, the archetype of the ethereal being. These spirits coexist with us; they just exist at another level of reality. As the archetypal image of the call, the angel initiates individuation, the journey towards wholeness of personality (the Self), as well theosis (union with God). Therefore, angels can help us both psychologically and spiritually. The integration of the angel archetype allows us to examine the nature of our essence or soul, the uniqueness that asks to be lived in each of us, and that unfolds itself during our lifetime. Thus, angels carry our true vocation, which is a calling, towards the meaning of our life. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:22) Angels in Zoroastrianism (3:33) Ba-soul, Genius, Daimon (6:25) The Transmigration of Souls and Reincarnation (8:10) Djinns, Fairies, Elementals (9:10) The Archetype of The Ethereal Being (9:50) Subtle bodies (10:18) The Role of Angels in the Creation of Evil (12:42) The Purpose and Motivation of Angels (14:35) The Anthropos (Primeval Man) (15:24) The Celestial Hierarchy: First Choir (17:20) The Celestial Hierarchy: Second Choir (17:53) The Celestial Hierarchy: Third Choir (20:40) Swedenborg and Blake (22:12) The Psychology of Angels (27:23) The Angel of Death (27:55) The Angel’s Call (30:16) Angels: Individuation and Theosis (32:58) Angels and The Numinous (34:13) The Invocation of Angels (36:08) Angels and Dreams (37:05) Jacob’s Ladder and Soul Geography (38:38) Wrestling with The Angel (40:40) The Integration of The Angel Archetype (42:16) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Wise Old Man | 25 Sep 2023 | 00:41:19 | |
The Wise Old Man or Sage is an archetype that is recognised by almost everyone, be it in stories, games, movies, or everyday life. In myth he is often shown as one living in isolation, meditating and living a simple life deep in a forest, in the mountains, or in other uninhabited places. The Wise Old Man is a lover of wisdom, and uses his experience to guide others. He is portrayed as a mysterious person or a wizard, in contact with nature and the numinous and unseen forces that permeate our existence. The Wise Old man appears as a teacher of wisdom such as King Solomon from the Bible. In Hermeticism, he is Hermes Trismegistus, the fount of all wisdom and the teacher of the mystery of all ages. In China, the sage is Lao Tzu ("old man" or "old master"), the founder of Taoism, while in India there are the sadhus and yogis. In Arthurian Legend he is Merlin, in Nietzsche he appears as the prophet Zarathustra, and in Carl Jung as Philemon. In modern popular fiction we have Yoda, Gandalf and Dumbledore, among others. In the individuation process (the lifelong journey towards psychic wholeness), the archetype of the Wise Old Man is late to emerge, and is therefore seen as an indication of the Self (the total personality). ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (1:35) The Symbolism of the Desert (3:30) The Hermit and The Wandering Ascetic (5:00) The Wise Old Man Archetype (12:32) Senex and Puer Aeternus (14:47) The Dark Side of The Wise Old Man (18:34) The Wise Old Man and The Hero (19:44) The Dangers of Identifying as The Sage (21:00) The Hermit in Tarot (24:35) The Hermit and The Madman Archetype (27:18) Facing Death in Old Age (28:08) The Forgotten Art of Solitude (32:48) The Sage’s Journey: The Search for Truth (35:20) The Eternal Inner Centre (37:24) The Book of Ecclesiastes: Meaninglessness (38:47) The Truth Shall Set You Free (39:50) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Quest for the Holy Grail (The Self) | 23 Aug 2023 | 00:38:59 | |
The Quest for the Holy Grail has fascinated the Western consciousness for a long time. It epitomises the true spirit of Western man and is, in many ways, the myth of Western civilisation. It is a perennial and timeless pattern that expresses fundamental concerns of the human condition. The Holy Grail is a mysterious object guarded by a king in a hidden castle. It has been described as a cup, dish, or a magical stone that can provide healing powers, immortality, eternal youth, and unlimited nourishment. It represents the fulfilment of the highest spiritual potentialities in human consciousness, which endows the world with a symbolic and spiritual meaning. The quest for the Holy Grail is always more or less the same, it is the hero’s journey, at the end of which one obtains the “treasure hard to attain.” It is the search for that which makes life most meaningful. Psychologically, the Holy Grail—like the philosophers' stone—is a symbol of the Self, the psychic totality and ultimate wholeness of the human being. The soul which represents the life principle, is that wondrous vessel which is the goal of the quest, whose final secret can never be revealed, but must ever remain hidden because its essence is a mystery. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ The Grail Legend - Emma Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz https://amzn.to/3KL9Oei ▶ Perceval, or the Story of the Grail - Chrétien de Troyes https://amzn.to/3YFvm1V ▶ Parzival - Wolfram von Eschenbach https://amzn.to/3KJgOIK ▶ Merlin and the Grail. Trilogy: Joseph of Arimathea, Merlin, Perceval - Robert de Boron https://amzn.to/3QI22FS ▶ Le Morte d'Arthur - Thomas Malory https://amzn.to/3qICHRB ▶ Thou Art That - Joseph Campbell https://amzn.to/3P4QWcM ▶ Vita Merlini - Geoffrey of Monmouth https://amzn.to/449f5TT 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:44) Perceval and the Grail (9:35) The Continuations of the Grail Legend (10:35) The Grail and The Philosophers’ Stone (13:46) From Grail to Holy Grail (23:17) Holy Grail: The Spirit of Western Man (24:41) The Treasure Hard to Attain (26:10) The Eternally Alone (27:52) The Holy Grail as the Self (29:19) Balancing Light and Dark (33:12) Merlin: The Wise Old Man Archetype (36:53) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Fairy Tales | 23 Jul 2023 | 00:47:59 | |
Fairy tales fascinate us and give us a sense of warmth and home-coming that comes from the mythical realm of the imagination, a necessary complement to our everyday life. We are fundamentally story-telling creatures, and there is much we can learn by reflecting on the fairy tales heard in childhood. They seem almost magical because they connect us with emotions deeply buried within that cannot find expression in outer life, because as we grow up, the world of imagination is shunned by our peers, considered as unproductive and good for nothing. Fairy tales can provide us with a sense that we are not alone in our life struggles. Humans have faced these struggles in one form or another since the beginning of time, and fairy tales represent this fundamental concern of the human condition. Psychologically, fairy tales reflect our inner landscape, and the characters can represent aspects of our own personalities. Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz writes: "Fairy tales are the purest and simplest expression of collective unconscious psychic processes. Therefore, their value for the scientific investigation of the unconscious exceeds that of all other material. They represent archetypes in their simplest, barest, and most concise form." ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (3:43) What are Fairy Tales? (8:15) The Origin of Fairy Tales (11:39) Faërie, Fairies and Eucatastrophe (13:00) Fairy Tales and Collective Unconscious (18:19) The Interpretation of Fairy Tales (21:31) Rituals and Archetypal Stories (22:15) The Most Ancient Form of Tale (23:16) Individuation in Fairy Tales (25:14) The Three Feathers (28:42) Interpretation: The Three Feathers (30:39) Rumpelstiltskin (34:05) The Frog King or Iron Henry (37:15) Beauty and The Beast (40:15) Hansel and Gretel (43:06) Sleeping Beauty or Briar Rose (46:42) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of the Devil | 24 Jun 2023 | 00:44:59 | |
The Devil goes by many names: Satan, Lucifer, The Great Beast, Beelzebub, The Prince of Darkness. He is the adversary, the accuser, the tempter, the deceiver, and the one who divides from God. The Devil is incredibly wicked and evil, but also intelligent and witty – he is the father of all tricksters – that is what makes him so dangerous. The English word “devil” derives from the Greek diábolos (“the one who divides”). Diabolic is the term in contemporary English. The Greek verb dia-bollein literally means to tear apart. These divisions occur in almost every facet of our lives: race, sex, religion, politics, and economics. The demonic is an inversion of order. Temptation is the ordinary activity of the devil. It is a real thing for us in each and every day. It begins with deception, buying into the lies of the devil, who promises good, only to deliver evil. The goal of this is to create division or inner conflict in ourselves. In despair, we numb ourselves with pleasure or diversion, which can lead to addiction. Hell is that state of mind which has abandoned itself so completely to a given sin that it cannot act independently of that sin. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (1:18) Daimon (2:06) Pan: The God of Panic and Pandemonium (3:24) Scapegoating, Projection, God-Complex (5:38) The Devil: The One Who Divides (7:06) The Characteristics of the Diabolic (9:05) Deals with the Devil (13:30) Archetypes, Ego-Inflation, and Delusion (14:35) The Fall from Paradise (Felix Culpa) (16:52) The Devil and Christ as Lucifer (Morning Star) (20:09) Satan (The Adversary) and Job (23:52) The Ultimate Tragic Story (24:29) The Harrowing of Hell (25:16) Satanism: Evil Disguised as Good (27:02) The Psychological Activities of The Demonic (31:08) Carl Jung on the Devil (Shadow) (33:23) The Devil in The Major Arcana (34:13) The One-Sided Western Image of God (36:50) Summum Bonum: The Highest Good (37:22) Privatio Boni: The Absence of Good (37:56) Deus Absconditus: The Hidden Dark Side of God (39:00) The Apocalypse (Revelation) and Enantiodromia (43:00) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Fool | 25 May 2023 | 00:39:49 | |
The fool is one of the most relatable, intriguing and recurring figures in the world. There have been fools who have caused surprise and laughter since time immemorial. We worship folly by seeing it in people and in the world and by willingly displaying it in ourselves. It is one of the timeless archetypes, which we all inherit at birth. Many of us suffer from the absence of the fool in our lives. Frenetic and upright, we take ourselves too seriously. As William Shakespeare said, “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” Forgetting that playfulness is a basic human need, we wonder why we so easily become bored and exhausted, losing all capacity for spontaneity, authenticity, and passion. The antidote to this would be to give the fool archetype some space in our lives. “The soul demands your folly; not your wisdom.” - Carl Jung ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:00) In Praise of Folly (3:45) The Wise Fool (5:15) The Fool as Truth-Teller (6:24) Fool, Clown and Trickster (10:24) The Medieval Court Jester (13:54) The Shakespearean Fool (14:38) Parsifal: The Quest for The Holy Grail (17:47) Don Quixote (20:02) Dostoevsky’s The Idiot (22:17) The Fool as Hero (22:54) Ivan The Fool (24:50) The Fool’s Journey (Tarot) (27:57) The Number Zero in The Fool (29:32) Symbolic Transformations of The Fool in Tarot (31:42) The Fool: Precursor to Transformation (34:44) The Dark Side of The Fool (36:04) The Fool and the Child Archetype (36:45) The Fool: The Inferior Function (38:08) The Holy Fool Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Nightmares | 27 Apr 2023 | 00:40:29 | |
Nightmares. We all have them. But what exactly do they mean? Why do we have bad dreams? Is there any psychological meaning behind them? Nightmares are the source of much of the horror we see in stories, myths, movies and games. They are an encounter with the dark side of the unconscious, which often includes facing some of the most painful aspects of who we are. And one does not know what that part of oneself is, until one confronts it. Nightmares are the most substantial and vitally important dreams, and are of therapeutic value. They wake us up with a cry, as if all our repressed content forms a bubble which expands until it bursts one night, and we experience a nightmare. They are the shock therapy nature uses on us when we are too unaware of some psychological danger, and shock us out of deep unconscious sleepiness about some dangerous situation. As if the unconscious says, “Look here, this problem is urgent!” The psyche tells us to “wake up” and face what we have neglected. The majority of nightmares represent opportunities for personal healing through much-needed emotional release. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(3:00) Dream-Motifs in Nightmares(3:37) Lilith: The First Nightmare(5:07) The Origin & Folklore of Nightmares(9:09) Non-REM Sleep (Night Terrors)(10:36) REM Sleep (Nightmares)(11:43) Nightmare in Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment(15:40) Fever Dreams and Franz Kafka(17:36) Post-Traumatic Nightmares and Recurring Nightmares(19:00) Precognitive Nightmares(20:36) Carl Jung and The Meaning of Dreams(26:07) The Shadow and Nightmares(28:32) The Devouring Mother Archetype(30:39) Active Imagination(33:08) Lucid Dreaming(36:14) Nightmares and Artists(37:40) Nightmare Artists: Beksiński and Giger Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Shaman (Inner Journey) | 30 Mar 2023 | 00:35:04 | |
Shamanism is one of the oldest, if not the oldest system of healing known in the world. It forms the prototype from which many other forms of healing are derived, such as modern psychotherapy. The shamanic journey is an expression of the human condition, and despite the cultural differences around the world, the deeper structure appears to remain constant. A common thread seems to connect all shamans across the planet. An awakening to other orders of reality, the experience of ecstasy, and an opening up of visionary realms form the essence of the shamanic mission. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction(4:12) The Shamanic Call(7:52) Becoming a Shaman(9:20) Symbols of the Self: Animal Spirits(11:28) The Three Worlds: Shamanic Cosmos(12:15) The Gold in the Shadow(13:54) The Underworld: Death(15:56) The World Tree(18:24) The Sky Realm: Awakening(20:31) The Return to the People(22:02) The Shaman’s Shadow(23:10) Beware of Unearned Wisdom(24:52) Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy(28:10) Carl Jung and Shamanism(31:02) Psychologist: Healer of the Soul Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Personality Types (Know Yourself) | 01 Mar 2023 | 00:29:59 | |
We all have a particular personality type, and at the same time, we are all unique. To partake in the journey of discovering who we truly are, it is necessary for us to know our true and authentic personality. The quest to know ourselves allows us to better understand the complexity and intricacies of the human condition, improve our relationship with ourselves, with others, and with the world. Carl Jung’s model of typology is not a system of character analysis, nor is it a way of labelling oneself or others. Much as one might use a compass to determine where one is in the physical world, Jung’s typology is a tool for psychological orientation. The main aspects are the attitude types: extraversion and introversion, and the psychological functions: feeling, thinking, sensation and intuition. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (0:27) Introversion and Extraversion (5:48) Example of Introvert with Extravert (7:50) The Four Psychological Functions (8:36) Libido (9:16) Thinking and Feeling (10:47) Feeling, Emotion, Affect (11:50) Sensation and Intuition (14:42) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) (16:45) Dominant Function (18:00) Differentiation and Distorted Types (20:05) Auxiliary Functions (21:48) Inferior Function (27:10) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Hermeticism: The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus | 07 Feb 2023 | 00:53:14 | |
The legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes Thrice Great) is the inspiration for the spiritual teachings known as Hermeticism. He is a syncretism (joining) of the Greek deity Hermes, the winged messenger of the Gods, and his Egyptian counterpart, the Ibis-headed moon god Thoth. The Way of Hermes involved altered states of consciousness in which practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth to attain the salvational knowledge known as gnosis. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (3:43) Renaissance of Hermeticism (9:33) Technical and Religio-philosophical Hermetica (11:38) Where to start? (15:53) Gnosis (18:36) Hermeticism and Gnosticism (21:40) Eusebeia (22:50) The Hermetic Universe: Ogdoad, Ennead, the One (25:20) The Three Worlds: God, Cosmos, Man (28:03) The Three Faculties: Logos, Gnosis, Nous (29:08) Corpus Hermeticum: Introduction (30:48) The Vision of Poimandres (Nous) (37:05) Corpus Hermeticum: Hermes and Tat (43:05) The Discourse on the Ogdoad and Ennead (46:22) Writing as Healing or Poison (Pharmakon) (48:24) The Illusion of Death (50:30) Man as a Divine Being Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom | A Guide to Life | 14 Jan 2023 | 00:59:59 | |
Philosophy is a mode of life, an act of living, and a way of being. Modern philosophy has forgotten this tradition, and philosophical discourse has all but overtaken philosophy as a way of life. Philosophy is not just an intellectual discipline, which can get abstract and divorced from the real world, but is most importantly a way of life that teaches us how to best live our lives. Philosophy is a mode of existing in the world, which has to be practiced at each instant, and the goal of which is to transform the whole of the individual’s life. Real wisdom does not merely cause us to know: it makes us “be” in a different way. Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(2:18) Philosophy as a Way of Life(7:12) Socrates(8:53) Master of Dialogue: Know Thyself(13:30) Plato (15:58) Idealism: Platonic Forms(17:15) Parable of the Cave(19:33) Plato’s Cave in The Matrix(20:16) Plato’s Tripartite Theory of the Soul(22:36) Philosophy as an Exercise of Death(24:56) Aristotle(27:06) Hellenistic Schools(28:25) Cynicism(31:45) Pyrrhonism(34:46) Stoicism(39:45) Premeditatio Malorum(41:03) Memento Mori(42:24) Voluntary Discomfort(43:54) Epicureanism(50:12) Similarities Epicureanism & Stoicism(50:57) Neoplatonism(57:45) View from Above: Cosmic Consciousness Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Wounded Healer | 17 Dec 2022 | 00:31:44 | |
The wounded healer refers to the capacity to be at home in the darkness of suffering and there to find germs of light and recovery. It is the archetype at the bottom of all genuine healing procedures. As long as we feel victimised, bitter and resentful towards our wound, and seek to escape from suffering it, we remain inescapably bound to it. This is neurotic suffering, as opposed to the authentic suffering of the wounded healer which is purified. The wound can destroy you, or it can wake you up. As Carl Jung wrote, "The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals." ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: The Wounded Healer(1:39) Chiron: The Wounded Healer(4:03) Asclepius: The Greek God of Healing(6:13) Asclepieia: Healing Temples(11:12) The Importance of Death(15:06) The Wound as Initiation: Hero’s Journey (17:30) The Sacred and The Profane(19:59) The Wound as Initiation: Shamanism (21:49) Compensatory function(22:51) Repetition Compulsion(23:32) Pharmakon: Poison and Cure(24:26) Therapist as Wounded Healer(29:49) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Journey to Hell - The Path to Self-Knowledge | 24 Nov 2022 | 00:36:29 | |
Hell is understood as the archetype of ultimate suffering. It is no imaginary place, but rather a state of consciousness that we all experience at some point in our lives. Hell is an unavoidable journey in life. In ancient mysteries or rituals of passages, the hero must descend into a dark place in order to give birth to a new consciousness and gain access to a new stage of life. It is the most profound psychological death and rebirth of the self. We will be exploring the journey into hell as the path to self-knowledge, self-transformation, and ultimately, self-transcendence. Only in the region of danger can one find the treasure hard to attain. As Carl Jung stated, “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.” ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: Concept of Hell(2:33) Hell is Other People(3:56) The Therapist and The Journey into Hell(5:15) Paradise Lost(6:12) Divine Comedy: Introduction(10:21) Divine Comedy: Hell(14:05) Faculty of Knowing and Faculty of Choosing(16:05) Divine Comedy: Purgatory(18:30) Divine Comedy: Heaven(19:58) Salvation as Individuation (21:15) Marriage of Heaven and Hell (25:32) The Red Book: Descent into Hell(35:08) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Why Modern Society Feels So Empty, Lonely, and Anxious | 07 Nov 2022 | 00:32:49 | |
Loneliness, emptiness, and anxiety – these are the main complaints American existential psychologist Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In 1953, May published Man’s Search for Himself, in which he explores these problems – that are perhaps more relevant than ever in our modern age. When society can no longer give us a clear picture of our values and standards, of what we are and what we ought to be, we are then thrown back on the search for ourselves. This is one of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety. To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself. To venture in the highest sense is precisely to become conscious of oneself. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(0:47) Emptiness(4:46) Loneliness(8:17) Anxiety(13:22) Rediscovering Selfhood(24:08) Freedom (28:12) Courage(29:19) Death ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Man-Child (Puer Aeternus) | 08 Oct 2022 | 00:38:29 | |
The term puer aeternus is Latin for eternal boy. Carl Jung used the term in the exploration of the psychology of eternal youth and creative child within every person. It is an archetype, and like all archetypes, has both a positive and a negative side. It can bring the energy, beauty and creativity of childhood into adult life, or thwart self-realisation and doom us to both unrealistic adolescent fantasies and experiencing life as a prison. The puer is the man-child who refuses to grow up, take responsibility, and face life’s challenges, he expects other people, typically his parents, to solve all his problems. He tries to go as high as possible away from reality, ending up like Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow up, who lives in Neverland, a place where people cease to age and are eternally young. The puer aeternus is also known as the Peter Pan syndrome. This has become an increasingly common problem in our modern age. Those who find themselves unable to commit to work, to form satisfactory relationships, to commit to the discipline of education, to carry the weight of responsibility, or who feel that their life has become meaningless, will find the integration of the archetype of eternal youth invaluable in their life. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(2:36) Adult Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood(15:08) Senex and Puer(16:55) The Role of Play in Jung’s Life(19:24) The Puer Aeternus and The Little Prince(26:16) Integration of Puer Aeternus ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of The Trickster | 16 Sep 2022 | 00:31:24 | |
There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilisation and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind. Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers. He is an agent of change, and is amoral, not immoral. Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes and who is always duped himself. Psychologically, the trickster is an archetype, part of the collective unconscious. Trickster is everywhere, he is an eternal state of mind. The integration of the trickster archetype allows us to go from being ruled by our own self-centred ego to a new way of living, in which one has integrity and relatedness. It allows us to become aware of our true emotions, behaviours, and thoughts, that our unconscious persona is hiding, and without which there is no individuation at all. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(0:45) What is The Trickster?(2:35) Primitive Form of The Trickster(3:48) Trickster and Laughter(5:50) Trickster as Agent of Change(7:35) Trickster as Creator and Destroyer(9:40) Trickster as Amoral(10:50) Trickster Figures(17:32) The Psychology of The Trickster(22:10) Trickster and Shadow(24:04) Trickster and Ego Inflation(26:15) The Trickster in Alchemy(29:08) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Dark World of Franz Kafka | 26 Aug 2022 | 00:27:34 | |
Franz Kafka's dark world deals with existentialist themes such as alienation, anxiety, disorientation and the absurd. His work is so original that the term Kafkaesque was coined to describe the nightmarish and bizarre atmosphere of his work. Throughout his works we see the strange dream-like mixture of perplexity and embarrassment play out, and the notion of a grand organisation with its incomprehensible bureaucratic system that hovers invisibly over each helpless individual, taking complete control over one's life. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(1:10) The Life of Kafka(9:20) The Metamorphosis (1915)(13:59) The Trial (1925)(23:07) The Castle (1926)24:29) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Inner Gold - Alchemy and Psychology | 30 Jul 2022 | 00:52:44 | |
Alchemy occupies a unique place in the collective psyche of humankind. Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Jung discovered alchemy and devoted the remaining 30 years of his life to studying it, which he practically dug up from the dunghill of the past, for it was considered pseudoscience, a forgotten relic of history and despised field of investigation which he had suddenly revived. Alchemy allows one to achieve wholeness of personality, of aligning one’s ego to the Self through a reconnection with the unconscious. For Jung, the task of alchemy was and has always been psychological. The end product is not material in nature, but rather spiritual. Alchemy is the art of expanding consciousness, of self-realisation. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(6:33) The Self: Achieving Wholeness(13:45) The Origins and History of Alchemy(20:20) The Basics Concepts of Alchemy(28:54) Alchemy as Psychological Projection(32:07) The Importance of Symbols(35:50) The Operations of Alchemy(42:52) Stages of Alchemy: Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo(50:03) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Psychology of Projection | 12 Jun 2022 | 00:31:49 | |
Projection is a psychological fact that can be observed everywhere in the everyday life of human beings. It is an unconscious mechanism where one ascribes one’s own motivations, thoughts, feelings, and desires that are unacceptable to oneself, while attributing them to others. It is a misalignment of the inner and outer world, because what one is inwardly, one will see outwardly. To really know who we are, we must concern ourselves with correcting such misjudgements. Many people will cling to them with every fibre of their being, because if one accepts correction, one may fall into a depression. When we find certain unacceptable feelings, thoughts or behaviours in ourselves that we refuse to acknowledge, and see someone with that specific trait, we will feel resentment, hatred and anger towards them. Projection occurs not because of what other people say to you, but rather because of what you yourself think about those people. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(2:15) Example of Projection(6:37) Freud: Mother Complex and Transference(8:06) Carl Jung on Projection(9:33) Jung: Shadow Projection(12:52) Jung: Anima and Animus Projection(16:18) Projection and Projectile(19:11) Active and passive projection(20:54) Introjection(21:42) Mystical participation(25:36) Psychological Projection as Inner Gold ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Synchronicity: Meaningful Patterns in Life | 23 May 2022 | 00:28:27 | |
Synchronicity is a term coined by Carl Jung which describes a meaningful patterns or meaningful coincidences of outer and inner events that cannot be causally linked. It occurs with an inwardly perceived event (dream, vision, premonition, thought or mood) is seen to have a correspondence in external reality: the inner image has "come true", bringing meaning to your life. When Jung was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious, he kept on coming across “coincidences” that were connected so meaningfully, that they broke all statistical probabilities. The culmination of his investigations is covered in his work: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(4:50) Origins of Synchronicity(8:38) What is Synchronicity?(10:09) Atom and Archetype: Matter and Psyche(11:43) Rhine: Extrasensory Perception Experiments(13:00) Archetypes, Collective Unconscious, Psychoid(15:54) Examples of Synchronicity(26:16) Synchronicity at Jung’s death ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious | 09 May 2022 | 00:30:44 | |
Active imagination is a technique developed by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung. He considered it the most powerful tool to access the unconscious and for achieving wholeness of personality. Jung discovered this method between the years of 1913 and 1916, a period of disorientation and intense inner turmoil which he called his confrontation with the unconscious. He searched for a method to heal himself from within, through the power of the imagination. Active imagination is a dialogue with different parts of yourself that live in the unconscious. In some way it is similar to dreaming, except that you are fully awake and conscious during the experience. If we honestly want to find our own wholeness, to live our individual fate as fully as possible; if we truly want to abolish illusion on principle and find the truth of our own being, however little we like to be the way we are, then there is nothing that can help us so much in our endeavour as active imagination. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(2:02) Confrontation with the Unconscious & The Red Book(4:46) Alchemy and Jung(5:39) Approaching Active Imagination(6:56) Precaution Before Starting Active Imagination(7:46) Inner Work: Active Imagination(9:21) Distinguishing Active Imagination from Passive Fantasy(9:51) Active Imagination Example: Talking with the Inner Artist(11:51) When You Think You’re Making Up Something(13:01) Active Imagination as Mythic Journey(14:10) The Four-Step Approach to Active Imagination(16:25) Step 1. Active Imagination: The Invitation(20:50) Step 2. Active Imagination: The Dialogue(25:00) Step 3. Active Imagination: The Values(27:25) Step 4. Active Imagination: The Rituals ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche | 25 Apr 2022 | 00:26:29 | |
In his book Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche, American author and Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson states that to honour and accept one’s own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime. In this podcast, we briefly clear up some misconceptions regarding the concept of shadow. It is not our enemy, but our friend. It contains pure gold waiting to be integrated into our personality. It is not the light element alone that does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is the most profound religious experience we can have in life. The religious task is to restore the wholeness of personality. Religion means to put things back together again, to connect whatever is fractured. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction(3:12) Misconceptions of the Shadow(5:20) How the Shadow Originates(8:35) Balancing Culture and Shadow(12:39) The Shadow in Projection(15:04) The Gold in the Shadow(16:38) The Shadow in Middle Age(16:59) The Ceremonial World(17:46) Paradox as Religious Experience(21:54) The Shadow as Entree to Paradox(23:02) The Mandorla ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| William Blake: The "Madman" Who Saw Another World | 11 Apr 2022 | 00:38:09 | |
William Blake was an English poet and visionary artist whose unique work gives us a glimpse into an entirely different world. His art was ignored and neglected, and few people took his work seriously. He was generally seen as a madman. His vivid imagination, visions and mystical experiences lead him to a spiritual task that was the exploration of his inner self. For Blake, the essence of human existence is imagination. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) The Life of William Blake (13:16) The Lyrical Poems of William Blake (15:48) Prophetic Books & Mythology (21:35) 1. The Ancient of Days (1794) (22:38) 2. Albion Rose (1794 – 1796) (23:37) 3. Isaac Newton (1795 – 1805) (24:23) 4. Nebuchadnezzar (1795 – 1805) (25:39) 5. The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795) (26:31) 6. Satan Exulting over Eve (1795) (27:00) 7. The Good and Evil Angels (1795 – 1805) (28:13) 8. The Angel of Revelation (1803 – 1805) (28:36) 9. Los Enters the Door of Death (1804-1820) (29:35) 10. The Great Red Dragon Paintings (1805 – 1810) (31:20) 11. The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (1819 – 1820) (31:44) 12. The Ghost of a Flea (1819 – 1820) (32:58) 13. Elisha In The Chamber On The Wall (1820) (33:30) 14. The Spectre over Los (1821) (34:38) 15. The Inscription over the Gate (1824 - 1827) (36:18) 16. Behemoth and Leviathan (1825) (36:41) How Blake's Art Can Help Us ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| The Dark Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer | 25 Mar 2022 | 00:31:49 | |
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German Philosopher born in 1788 known for his dark pessimistic philosophical reflections. For Schopenhauer, the underlying force of reality is the Will (also called will to live or will to life), which is the essence of existence. It is an unconscious and blind desire that restlessly strives for more activity. The will is the tornado that swirls inside of us and throws us from one place to the other, it is the source of our insatiable appetite that results in strife and misery. Schopenhauer’s writing is far from the sterile and academic German of the time, his work is straight-forward, colloquial, concrete, full of metaphors and anecdotes. His philosophy sent him on a quest for tranquility and peace of mind. He offers as alternatives the denial of the will, the wisdom of life through philosophy, aesthetics and ethics. ☕ Donate a coffee ⭐ Support on Patreon 📨 Subscribe to newsletter ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: Arthur Schopenhauer(7:47) The World as Will and Representation(15:07) The Will to Reproduce(16:36) The World as Evil(22:52) The Denial of the Will(25:11) Philosophy: The Wisdom of Life(27:32) Aesthetics(30:45) Ethics ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain | |||
| How Facing Nothingness Can Transform Your Life | 11 Mar 2022 | 00:20:59 | |
Nothingness is generally considered to be analogous with death and extinction which every healthy living instinct wants to avoid. Many find the notion of nothingness unfathomable. Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani, however, was convinced that the way out of nihilism, that which renders meaningless the meaning of life, could only be reached by gazing into the abyss itself. Nishitani understands human existence as consisting in three fields: consciousness, nihility and emptiness. Nihility is as part of the fabric of reality as Being is, it is relative nothingness, and emptiness is absolute nothingness, where the “absolute negation” as the negation of negation becomes the “great affirmation”. In the openness of śūnyatā realised by nihility overcoming itself, one completely oversteps the confines of self-consciousness and comes to be free of egocentrism, anthropocentrism and even theocentrism, thus allowing ultimate reality to manifest itself in all its fullness. We will be focusing on two important works of Nishitani: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism and Religion and Nothingness. ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction: Keiji Nishitani (4:24) The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism (8:12) Religion and Nothingness (14:36) Consciousness, Nihility, Emptiness (19:13) Cosmic Individual | |||
| The 3 Hidden Anxieties That Control Your Life | 24 Feb 2022 | 00:20:39 | |
While lecturing on anxiety, Christian existentialist philosopher Paul Tillich noticed that there was an enormous response in the post-war era, especially in the younger people, and he sought to give an answer to the growing anxiety which had developed. The aftereffects of the two World Wars had left the world in a state of disorientation, estrangement, anxiety and meaninglessness. Tillich tells us that there are three types of anxiety: anxiety of death which is tied to the unpredictability of fate (ontic anxiety) anxiety of guilt and condemnation which is linked to the failure to live up to our ideal (moral anxiety), and anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness, when what one had found most meaningful in life is transformed into indifference or aversion (spiritual anxiety). ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction: Paul Tillich (3:17) Method of Correlation (4:02) The Courage to Be: Introduction (5:49) The Courage to Be: Anxiety (11:30) The Courage to Be: Participation and Individualisation (13:12) The Ground of Being (14:20) Symbols (16:17) The Ultimate Concern | |||
| The Dark Philosophy of Cosmicism - H.P. Lovecraft | 11 Feb 2022 | 00:30:14 | |
Lovecraft's dark philosophy is known as Cosmicism, which focuses on the insignificance of humanity and its doings at the cosmos-at-large, in contrast to the anthropocentric philosophies in which many find intellectual reassurance. This form of non-anthropocentrism is crucial to the philosophy of Cosmicism. The question of the meaning of life was better left unanswered. Cosmicism is a type of extreme existentialism, as it brings up the uncertainty about the role of humanity in the uncaring universe, an existential crisis on a large scale. Lovecraft embraces the truth of reality. Things are important to us on the human scale, but we simply don’t matter in the cosmos. He described us as "the miserable denizens of a wretched little flyspeck on the back door of a microscopic universe.” ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: Fear of the Unknown(1:35) A Biography of H.P. Lovecraft(7:20) Introdction: Cosmicism(12:00) The Cthulhu Mythos: Introduction(14:03) The Cthulhu Mythos: The Elder Things(15:10) The Cthulhu Mythos: The Great Old Ones and The Deep Ones(18:05) The Cthulhu Mythos: The Outer Gods(21:26) Fourth Dimensional Horrors(24:48) Forbidden Knowledge (25:50) The Dreamlands(26:37) Otherness: Anti-Human Becoming | |||
| The Dream Artist Nobody Knows About | 29 Jan 2022 | 00:29:14 | |
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser. His unknown dream paintings were met with blank incomprehension, and were not well-received by the art community of the time, but, viewed today, his vivid paintings bear striking testament to the disruptive and transformative reality of individuation, the purpose of Jungian psychology, which is to seek wholeness of personality by bringing the unconscious contents into reality. After a midlife crisis, Birkhäuser dedicated himself exclusively to bringing these unconscious images into reality. Just how hard this struggle with himself must have been is suggested by the fact that it took the artist twelve years to make the great break and paint a picture entirely according to his own imagination, with no model from the real world. The fantasy pictures reflect not only the artist’s own personal psychological situation, but also the spirit of the age, revealing what is taking place in the depths of the collective unconscious in all of the people of our time. Because of this, they are not easy to decipher: they are simply there, and wish to be experienced. ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: Peter Birkhäuser(6:06) 1. The World’s Wound (1953)(7:10) 2. The Cat (1949-1955)(8:05) 3. Depression (1954-1955)(8:39) 4. Depression #2 (Date unknown)(9:16) 5. Duel (Date unknown)(9:51) 6. Coming Up (1954-1955)(10:24) 7. The Inward Gaze (1954-1955)(11:18) 8. The Fourth Dimension (1956-1957)(12:30) 9. Imprisoned Power (1958)(13:31) 10. Fire Gives Birth (1959-1960)(13:59) 11. The Outcast (1960)(14:36) 12. Puer (1960)(15:36) 13. The Magic Fish (1961)(16:14) 14. A Birth (1961)(16:51) 15. Alarm (Date unknown)(17:07) 16. The Hidden Power (1964)(17:40) 17. Moira (1965)(18:25) 18. Untitled “The Four-Eyed Anima” (Date Unknown)(18:55) 19. At The Door (1965)(19:41) 20. With Child (1966)(19:58) 21. Anima with Crown of Light (1966)(20:28) 22. The Observer (1966)(20:54) 23. Bear at the Tree of Light (1968)(21:28) 24. Dark Brother (Date unknown)(21:51) 25. Spiritus Animalis II (1968)(22:18) 26. Window on Eternity (1970)(23:04) 27. Sun of the Night (1970)(24:04) 28. The Woman with the Cup (1971)(24:48) 29. 24 of March 1971 (1971)(25:17) 30. Constellation (1971)(25:30) 31. Lighting the Torch (1974)(25:53) 32. Having Speech (1975)(26:15) 33. In The Night of 13 October 1942 (1975)(27:30) 34. Spiritus Naturae (1976)(27:54) 35. Lynx (1976) | |||
| Anima and Animus - Eternal Partners from the Unconscious | 21 Jan 2022 | 00:22:29 | |
The anima and animus are two contrasexual archetypes crucial for individuation and to progress towards the Self in Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, they are the archetype of life and archetype of meaning, respectively. The anima is the personification of all female psychological tendencies in man, while the animus is the personification of all male psychological tendencies in woman. They form part of the collective unconscious, as archetypes or collectively inherited patterns of behaviour, which are autonomous, making them particularly difficult to integrate into one’s personality. The integration of the shadow, or the realisation of the personal unconscious, marks the first stage in Jungian psychology. Without it, a recognition of anima and animus is impossible. Shadow integration is the ‘apprentice-piece’, while the anima or animus is the ‘master-piece’. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: Carl Jung’s Model of the Psyche(2:11) Introduction: Anima and Animus(4:49) The Anima: The Woman Within(13:05) The Animus: The Man Within(17:43) Anima and Animus: Path towards Individuation | |||
| The Nightmare of Total Equality - A Warning to The World | 14 Jan 2022 | 00:13:29 | |
In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the nightmare of total equality, a society in which equality is finally achieved, but at the cost of freedom and individuality. One’s utopia is another’s dystopia. We’ll be exploring the increasing promotion of equality to the point of it being absurd as a consequence of the “unheard cry for meaning” that plagues modern society. The modern age is characterised by a sense of disorientation of not knowing what to do with one’s life. Nietzsche’s foresaw nihilism as an inevitable consequence of the Death of God, where God is replaced with public opinion, the entertainment culture, and the State. Without objective values, we fall into relativism, making us fall prey to authoritarianism and conformism, as displayed by George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984. Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction: The Nightmare of Total Equality (1:40) Disorientation and Nihilism (4:10) Living a Meaningful Life (4:43) The Problem of Relativism (5:23) Totalitarianism and Conformism (7:45) Preachers of Equality (11:20) Pathos of Distance: The Overman and The Last Man (12:25) Orwell’s Warning: 1984 | |||
| The Philosophy of Existential Despair | 03 Jan 2022 | 00:13:14 | |
The Russian existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov is known for his “philosophy of despair” or “philosophy of tragedy”. For Shestov, the sources of philosophy were the human tragedy, the horrors and sufferings of human life and the sense of hopelessness. Tragedies take place in the depth of the human soul, where no eye can reach out to see. Consequently, He saw the beginning of philosophy starting not with knowledge, not with wonder, but with despair. Despair is what he considers a “penultimate knowledge”, that is, a preliminary step that we must acknowledge, in order to progress towards something higher, the “ultimate knowledge”. Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (0:52) Philosophy of Despair (3:32) Conflict between Faith and Reason (6:14) Penultimate Knowledge: Despair and Awakening (11:03) Ultimate Knowledge: Freedom and God | |||