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The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep104. The Archetypes. Part 1. Archetypes at Work. An interview with Richard OlivierJoin Alan Mulhern as he interviews Richard Olivier, founder of Olivier Mythodrama and co-author with Laurence Hillman of Archetypes at Work (2019). Exploring how archetypes—rooted in mythology and Shakespearean drama—can revolutionize leadership, organizational culture, and personal growth. Key highlights include: The Power of Shakespearean Drama: Uncover how mythological and archetypal elements in Shakespeare’s plays illuminate leadership dynamics and human potential. Peak Performance and Inner Essence: Learn how embracing archetypes allows acting in to unlock authentic leadership. The Ten Archetypes Framework: Discover a transformative tool for understanding and developing leadership capacities and individual transformation. Identify your d...
2025-01-0150 minDigital Marketing Therapy
Digital Marketing TherapyWhat Type of Leader Are You? with Alan LazarosIn this episode, we're diving deep into the world of leadership and personal growth with the one and only Alan Lazaros. As the CEO and CFO of Next Level University, Alan has an incredible story to share about how he turned his own personal tragedies and challenges into a mission to help others reach their full potential. From losing his father at a young age to a near-fatal car accident that sparked a major life shift, Alan's journey is both inspiring and insightful. There are so many different types of leaders. Understanding who you are and how...
2024-12-1740 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep37. Últimas visiones y pensamiento de Carl Jung. Spanish Language.Este es el episodio final de nuestra serie de podcasts sobre la vida y obra de Carl Jung. Este ha sido un proyecto conjunto entre el Instituto Venezolano de Psicología Analítica (representado por María Leonor de Planchart y Beatrice Rojas) y el Quest (representado por Alan Mulhern). Terminamos, como deberíamos. con las propias visiones y pensamientos de Jung al final de su vida, tal como se cuentan en los capítulos finales de Recuerdos, Sueños, Pensamientos. Estos incluyen: su experiencia cercana a la muerte; su posterior convicción de que la vida...
2023-08-3130 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep88. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 2. Climate change - one of the most powerful influences in human history.Life has always been dependent on and deeply interlinked with climate. The earth passes through great cycles of glacial and warming conditions with enormous consequences for the promotion or restriction and even extinction of life. Hominins, our ancestors, adapted to changing habitats and climatic environments. The genus Homo, of which Homo sapiens is but one species among others, had an even greater capacity to adapt. Nevertheless many of our hominid ancestors succumbed to extreme climate change. Homo sapiens with its higher level brain power, symbolic thought and language, wider social and trading networks, more complex tools and weaponry was...
2023-08-1532 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep87. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 1. The rise in Green House Gas emissions and the impact on global warmingThis is the start of a mini-series on the ecological catastrophe of the anthropocene. In the first episode the emphasis is on climate but subsequent ones will explore other components of this crisis, for example the great destruction of  bio-diversity, otherwise known as the sixth extinction event. The current ecological emergency is undeniable. But current policies to deal with it are inadequate. Can the attack upon nature be characterised as evil since it is a prime example of the destruction of life and the good? Can something of the magnitude of Business Civilization,  th...
2023-07-1525 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep36. El símbolo de Cristo - interpretación de Jung“La descristianización de nuestro mundo, el desarrollo luciferino de la ciencia y la tecnología, y la espantosa destrucción material y moral que dejó la Segunda Guerra Mundial han sido comparados más de una vez con los acontecimientos escatológicos narrados en el Nuevo Testamento. Cristo es este mito viviente de nuestra cultura. Es nuestro héroe cultural que encarna el mito del hombre primordial divino ...La imagen de Cristo es el arquetipo del Self”. Sin embargo, el símbolo del Cristo celestial carece de totalidad en el sentido psicológico moderno, ya que no incluye al...
2023-07-0130 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep86. The Light of Higher ConsciousnessHuman nature is the integrated but at the same time conflicting combination of six parts of our development: animal inheritance, emotional structure, conscious ego intelligence, the unconscious, higher consciousness, and what Jungians call the Self. These have evolved over millions of years and many of them are a unity of conflicting parts. Despite their conflict there is also a transformational intelligence, the Self, within the psyche of mankind, which is capable of creating harmony within itself, diminishing repression and malevolence. At the same time as the emergence of death awareness the higher self is  simultaneously triggered into e...
2023-06-1526 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep35. Jung y El Libro Tibetano de Los MuertosEl Libro Tibetano De Los Muertos describe las experiencias de la conciencia en el intervalo entre la muerte y el renacimiento y se divide en tres bardos: El Chikhai Bardo - "el momento de la muerte" que tiene la experiencia de la "luz clara de la realidad". El Chonyid Bardo - "la experiencia de la realidad" que presenta la experiencia de las ilusiones cósmicas. El Sidpa Bardo o "bardo del renacimiento", que es el resultado del karma y tiene imágenes típicamente de hombres y mujeres copulando que conducen al renacimiento. ...
2023-06-0122 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep85. Origins of Evil. Part 2Since mankind began to think morally the question of the origin of evil was a continual problem. We examine  some examples. We begin with the Ancient Egyptians and the Judaic tradition. Special focus is on the myth of Osiris and Seth on the one hand and Cain and Abel on the other.  The contribution of envy and malevolence to conflict and evil is noted.  
2023-05-1526 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep34 Elementos básicos de la enseñanza budista y la metafísica tibetana. Spanish Language SeriesEstamos encantados de continuar con los podcasts del Quest. Antes de continuar con la experiencia de Jung con la metafísica tibetana será útil cubrir algunos elementos básicos de la enseñanza budista, ya que el budismo es el fundamento de la espiritualidad tibetana. “Si podemos reconocer las apariencias del bardo dharmata como la energía de sabiduría de nuestra propia mente, no hay diferencia entre el perceptor y lo percibido, y esta es una experiencia de no dualidad. Entrar completamente en esa experiencia es alcanzar la liberación que surge en ese momento en el estado p...
2023-05-0130 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep84. Origins of Evil. Part 1This is the first in a  miniseries on the origins of evil.  Creative and destructive forces exist as universal principles and underpin life on earth as well as the consciousness of humanity. The essence of evil in the psyche is the destruction of the good. This is  the "satanic", which is malevolently opposed to the life-giving and creative. A distinction is made to the "luciferian" which is a movement to consciousness and therefore while liberating is also the root of our alienation. Much of what we think of as bad, negative, egoistic  in humans originates in our animal ancestry and...
2023-04-1530 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep83. Tibetan Buddhism. Light in the Darkness.The famous painting of the Tibetan wheel of life is in the grip of the Lord of Death. At its centre are two concentric circles: the outer shows the ascending and descending paths with souls in the death and rebirth cycle; the inner shows three animals, a pig, a snake, and a rooster which symbolise forces within human nature that perpetuate this cycle and are responsible for the suffering in life.   The pig represents ignorance, avidya, which is a basic misrepresentation of reality. The snake represents aggression which in the human species reaches a malignancy u...
2023-03-1429 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep33. Jung y El Libro Tibetano de la Gran Liberación. Spanish Language SeriesEste episodio continúa una miniserie sobre las observaciones de Jung sobre textos orientales y explora sus comentarios sobre El Libro tibetano de la Gran Liberación, desconocido para Occidente hasta su primera publicación en 1954. El próximo episodio examinará sus comentarios sobre el Libro tibetano de los muertos. Al igual que otros de sus comentarios, como los del I Ching y El Secreto de la Flor de Oro, aquí Jung pretende construir un puente desde el budismo tibetano a su escuela de Psicología Analítica. Por ejemplo escribe: “… el inconsciente es la mente matriz...
2023-02-2828 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep82. Jung and the Tibetan Book of the Great LiberationThis episode continues a miniseries on Jung’s observations on oriental texts exploring his comments on The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation unknown to the West until its first publication in 1954. The next episode will examine his comments on the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Like other of his commentaries, such as those of the I Ching and the Secret of the Golden Flower, Jung is here aiming at a building a bridge from an unfamiliar Eastern religion, in this case Tibetan Buddhism, to a Western psychology, namely his school of Analytical Psychology. For ex...
2023-02-1428 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep81. The Turning of the YearNo matter what the crises of the collective the individual has the opportunity of realising the inner light that lies in us all. This episode explores the Taoist text The Secret of the Golden Flower which describes in an extraordinary manner how to access this light through the meditation process. The episode ends with a beautiful song The Turning of the Year by Mark Dunn of The Bringers of Change whose music albums can be found on Spotify etc. and as CDs at www.fallingarecords.com The free meditation programme following the Secret of the...
2022-12-2826 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep80. Answer to Job. Part 8. Appraisal.In this last episode of this miniseries I give Jung’s main argument and its pros and cons. My feelings about the difficulties of the work are as follows: Firstly, relevance. How much can it offer the modern world? Secondly, isolationism -  its removal from the other analytic disciplines. Thirdly, certain inconsistencies which may confuse the reader. Fourthly, contradiction - whether the archetype of the Self is the totality or a specific archetype. Fifthly, the inherent difficulty of the text. Some of its strengths are as...
2022-12-0334 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep32. Respuesta a Job Parte 9. Relevancia al mundo moderno. Spanish language seriesEste es el episodio final de la miniserie sobre la Respuesta  a Job de Carl Jung. Aqui presento un resumen de su argumento  y doy dos ejemplos de la relevancia para el mundo moderno. En primer lugar, su temor de un apocalipsis moderno. Sin embargo, el vio la posibilidad de un proceso de individuación al traer esto a la conciencia. En segundo lugar, la relación de este texto con la práctica actual del análisis junguiano.
2022-12-0132 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep79. Answer to Job. Part 7. Questions and Responses.The penultimate episode in this miniseries on Jung's Answer to Job asks the following questions of this text: Q. Why is there no "real" history, sociology, or political science in the Answer to Job and indeed in Jung’s work in general? Q. Are there other interpretations of the Answer to Job. Q. How unusual is Jung’s interpretation? Q. Does Jung speak of God in different ways? Q. Does the theory of evolution change all bible studies including the Answer to Job? Q. How can God be th...
2022-11-1229 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep31. Respuesta a Job. Parte 8. Valoración crítica. Spanish language seriesEste es el penúltimo episodio de esta miniserie. Examinamos las dificultades y fortalezas del Respuesta a Job. Las dificultades incluyen: Su relevancia; su alejamiento de las demás disciplinas analíticas; ciertas inconsistencias que pueden confundir al lector; una contradicción - si el arquetipo del Self es la totalidad o un arquetipo específico; la dificultad inherente del texto. Algunas de sus fortalezas incluyen: Su pasión y tremenda convicción personal; una profundidad adicional debido a la cantidad de tradiciones esotéricas a las que está vinculada; Jung habla con...
2022-10-3128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep78 Answer to Job. Part 6. God wants to create humanity ... but not quiteA resume is given of the episodes so far. Responses to the following questions are given: Q. Is God separate from us? Q. How can God be a personality as he mostly appears to be in the bible? Q. If the dualism of good and evil is contained in God then what is the point of the individuation process in human beings? Q. How can God be the archetype of the Self? Q. Jung speaks of the God in different ways in Answer to Job. Is he inconsistent?
2022-10-2227 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep77. Jung’s Answer to Job. Part 5. The Contemporary Apocalypse.In this episode we arrive at the last part of the Answer to Job, chapters 15-20. Three of Jung’s arguments stand out. 1. The actual dangers of an apocalypse in our own time. 2. The importance of a uniting symbol such as that of a child-hero or the Virgin Mary that is an attempt to heal the opposites and their terrible danger to humanity. 3. Reflections on the nature of God.
2022-10-0123 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep30. Respuesta a Job Parte 7. ¿Hay una explicación en la historia judaica y cristiana para la literatura apocalíptica? Spanish language series.En este episodio queremos responder a las siguientes preguntas ¿Por qué no hay historia 'real', sociología o ciencia política en el libro? ¿Qué explicación histórica podría ofrecerse para la literatura apocalíptica? ¿Por qué la interpretación de Jung es atípica? Como la teoría de la evolución cambia todos los estudios bíblicos, incluido la Respuesta a Job. ¿Cómo puede Dios ser la totalidad y al mismo tiempo ser un componente específico del inconsciente? Además, en el episodio de hoy co...
2022-10-0129 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep76. Answer to Job. Part 4. The Dark Side of the CreatorThis episode covers chapters 11-14 of Answer to Job. Jung argues that the emergence of Christianity was an attempt to create a totally good God subsequent to the injury done to Job (i.e. mankind) by Yahweh. He focuses on the weakest part of the Christian argument, that which most reveals the dark side of god which cannot be repressed despite the best efforts of Christianity. This is the subject of the Book of Revelation otherwise known as the Apocalypse of John.
2022-09-1023 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep29. Jung y la Respuesta a Job. Parte 6. ¿Un Verdadero Apocalipsis? Spanish language seriesJung presenta el último libro de la biblia donde los cristianos presentan a su Dios con todas sus contradicciones. Detalla los eventos del Apocalipsis enfatizando el lado oscuro de Dios. Pero lo que perseguía a Jung era la posibilidad de un apocalipsis real. Jung pasó del Libro de Job al Apocalipsis y ahora avanza rápidamente a su propia época. Insinúa que la humanidad está pasando por un proceso de individuación colectiva. “Respuestas” a los siguientes puntos siguen. ¿Está Dios separado de nosotros? ¿Cómo puede Dios ser una personalidad como parece serl...
2022-09-0130 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep75. Jung’s Answer to Job. Part 3. The Drama between Mankind and God.Answer to Job has 20 chapters that formed a complex unity in Jung’s mind. This episode will summarize the first 10 of these. Themes include: Jung is indignant at the injustice done to Job. The unconscious creator needs conscious humanity so as to develop but, at the same time it opposes this. The incarnation of God into man through Christ is a world-shaking transformation or objectification of God. God needs to become a man. The incarnation is not to make reparation for mankind’s sins but to make up for Yahweh’s damage to Job (i.e. humanity). Yahweh...
2022-08-2026 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep28. Jung y la Respuesta a Job. Parte 5. Dios quiere entrar la humanidad. Spanish language series.Jung había vivido las guerras del siglo XX y fue testigo del inmenso impacto de Hitler en las civilizaciónes alemana y europea. Se dio cuenta muy claramente, que con la realidad de la bomba nuclear, la humanidad ahora tenía los medios para la autodestrucción. Para él este era un escenario apocalíptico,  el lado oscuro de Dios expresado a través de la psique humana. En última instancia, Dios no es un ser separado, sino que es la realidad misma y, por lo tanto, también es la humanidad.
2022-08-0127 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep74. Jung’s Answer to Job. Part 2. Jung’s Different Voices.Jung felt that God called on him personally to realise and experience God’s own dark side. And this was the only way that he could experience relief and grace – God’s blessing. The inspiration for writing the book was as if  he was composing the work of a Bach or Handel. There are a number of different voices that Jung adopts. He switches between them in a spontaneous intuitive manner in the flow of the text. These include: # The emotional Jung. # The therapist’s voice. # The theological perspective. # The mystical voice. # The esoteric vo...
2022-07-3020 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep76. Answer to Job
2022-07-1023 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep73. Exploration of Jung’s Answer to Job. Part 1. The Background.This is the start of miniseries within the Spiritual Crisis of our Time in which I examine Jung’s Answer to Job, one of his most enigmatic and fascinating books, written in 1952 and which was clearly of enormous personal importance to him. This episode: # explores Jung’s own psychology, especially in his childhood, as a background to this work. # presents Jung’s account of his religious and theological struggles in his adolescence. # gives a brief account of the story of Job as presented in the bible. # presents the question that J...
2022-07-0927 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep27. Jung y la Respuesta a Job. Parte 4. El lado oscuro de Dios. Spanish language series.Dios quiere entrar en la humanidad pero este es un proceso contradictorio porque trae consigo su lado oscuro a pesar de todos los esfuerzos de la humanidad por limpiar su imagen y convertirlo en el dios de la justicia y el amor. Jung da más evidencia de un dios iracundo y destructivo de las visiones apocalípticas de Ezequiel, Daniel y Enoc del Antiguo Testamento, y el Libro de Revelaciones, el ultimo del Nuevo Testamento. Las contradicciones de Yahweh son responsables no solo de la creación del mundo sino del destino de la hum...
2022-07-0128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep72. Banishment from Eden and Emergence of Consciousness. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 15This episode explores the Book of Genesis, in particular the story of Adam and Eve: their existence in the Garden, the temptation to eat the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and their banishment. It is interpreted as the movement into consciousness which inevitably is also into an awareness of death. A Gnostic and Jungian interpretation of this foundational myth of Western civilization is given. Human consciousness has indeed taken the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge. However, if it is to reach the Tree of Life (the second tree in Eden that is forbidden), the human race in...
2022-06-1830 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep26. Jung y la Respuesta a Job. Parte 3. El drama entre Dios y la humanidad. Spanish language seriesEn el ultimo episodio presentamos la experiencia de Jung en su juventud con el inconsciente, que más tarde lo predispuso a identificarse tan profundamente con Job. Experimentó el “otro lado de la psique”, el lado oscuro de Dios. Esto fue como un trauma infligido por Dios pero también fue la fuente de su gracia. En este episodio cubrimos los primeros 10 capítulos de Respuesta a Job que incluye: Primero: La naturaleza contradictoria de la personalidad de Yahvé. Segundo: El tema de que Dios necesita el hombre. Tercero: Lo que le falta...
2022-06-0130 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep71. The Fall from the Garden of Eden. Spiritual Crisis of our Time Part 14This episode examines the Book of Genesis, the great Judaic creation myth which has been also been fundamental to Christianity. In particular the famous account of the fall and banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden is presented. The Tree of Knowledge and the eating of apple is the movement into consciousness; the banishment from the garden is the expulsion from the primal unity (nature, pre-consciousness, pre-civilization, the unconscious). The Serpent, as Lucifer, is the bringer of the light - the meaning of this name in Latin. This is in accord with Gnostic and Jungian interpretations...
2022-05-2830 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep70. The Transition from the Great Mother to the Patriarchy. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 13.Having looked at the benevolent and terrible aspects of the Great Mother, and located this duality in the history of our consciousness, I now wish to explore the transition from the Great Mother to the Patriarchy, understood symbolically and mythologically. Three to six thousand years ago patriarchal religions replaced Great Mother worship. The masculine became opposed to nature, the realm of the feminine, mythologically portrayed in the dragon fight. This is a fundamental shift in human consciousness and prerequisite to the advancement of patriarchal civilization.  
2022-05-0733 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep25. Jung y la Respuesta a Job. Parte 2. Las diferentes voces de Jung. Spanish language seriesEn opinión de Jung, Yahvé, a pesar de toda su superioridad, no es consciente de los opuestos en sí mismo, pero Job sí lo es. Yahvé está obligado a cambiar y desarrollarse como resultado de su confrontación con Job. Así, Dios o el inconsciente necesitan de la conciencia para realizarse. Esto le da a la conciencia humana una inmensa importancia en el gran esquema de las cosas. En Respuesta a Job, Jung adopta voces diferentes. Éstas incluyen: El Jung emocional; La voz del terapeuta - ¡Jung psicoanaliza a Yahvé!; La perspectiva teológica - especulaciones altamente metafísicas y teoló...
2022-05-0126 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep69. The Terrible Great Mother. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 12Nature, besides being benevolent, is also death-threatening and can appear malevolent. Survival demands aggression. Destructiveness and selfishness are vital parts of our animal and therefore human psyche. Our savagery is infamous. Thus, we have the opposites of nature, the good and the terrible, within ourselves. These opposites in our experience of nature, the two faces of the Great Mother, the good and the terrible, are paralleled very closely by the psychoanalytic school of Melanie Klein which postulates that all human infants begin life in a paranoid schizoid state in which the good and bad breast alternate as fundamental structuring...
2022-04-1629 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep24. Jung y la Respuesta a Job. Parte 1. El trasfondo. Spanish language series.En este episodio vamos a: # Explorar la propia psicología de Jung, especialmente en su infancia, como trasfondo del texto Respuesta a Job. # Presentar el relato de Jung sobre sus luchas religiosas e incluso teológicas en su juventud. # Dar un breve relato de la historia de Job como se presenta en la biblia. # Presentar la pregunta planteada por esta historia bíblica que Jung sintió que tenía que responder.
2022-04-0127 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep68. Immersion in Nature and the Great Mother. Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 11.This episode presents the early stage of the human psyche as it is immersed in nature and the realm of the Great Mother. The themes of fertility and power, applicable to all life forms, saturate the history of humanity, most evidently in this period stretching roughly from 40,000 years ago up to birth of modern civilizations.
2022-03-2724 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep67. Human Nature: the HIgher Self. Part B. Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 10This episode explores the emergence of the Higher Self within the evolution of the hominid species. For example, evidence of care of the sick and dying in the our hominid ancestors over half a million years ago; burial of the dead with symbolic objects over 100 thousand years ago; cave paintings, sculpted earth goddesses and the like from 30 thousand years ago. It is hypothesised that the higher self and even love emerged as a transcendent response to the intense awareness of death, especially in Homo Sapiens.
2022-03-0226 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep23 Jung y Alquimia Parte 3. El proceso de transformación. Spanish Language PodcastSeis procesos involucrados en la Gran Obra Alquímica - descrito por Anne Baring. Ellos son: Primero. El rescate del espíritu perdido escondido en la naturaleza y en nosotros mismos. Segundo. El proceso de transformación que implica este rescate. Tercero. La muerte de la vieja conciencia simbolizada por el Viejo Rey y la Reina. Cuarto. La formación de la nueva conciencia simbolizada por el Joven Rey y la Reina. Quinto. La formación del Hermafrodita – la unión de los dos elementos transformados Sexto. La integ...
2022-03-0132 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep66. What is Human Nature? Part A. The Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 9The first four components of our evolved human nature are outlined. These are: Animal inheritance which is not just our aggressive and sexual impulses (the id) but the inherited reservoir of evolved genetic intelligence. Emotional structure: as life evolved instincts evolved into emotion. As the primate brain expanded a far greater and more differentiated emotional structure developed. Ego consciousness  combines rational intelligence plus a distinct personality. It is a master coordinator to allow the brain to focus and plan and is the integration of multiple brain functions so that a version of ‘reality’, both...
2022-02-0928 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep22. Jung y Alquimia Parte 2. Alquimia, Alma, Individuación. Spanish language.Dos poderosas corrientes de alquimia provinieron del antiguo Egipto y Babilonia por un lado y de Persa y la España islámica por el otro. Estos se unieron en el florecimiento de la alquimia en la Europa de la Edad Media. Después de la iluminación científica, la alquimia prácticamente desapareció. Carl Jung jugó un papel importante en el re descubrimiento de la alquimia. Fue llamado a este trabajo por su propio mundo de sueños, y pasó muchas décadas de investigación explorándolo hasta que descifró su significado psicológico y espiritual. Incluso descubr...
2022-02-0125 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep65. The Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 8. The Cosmos is a Mighty WombWhile the precursors of our consciousness lie in our animal and hominid evolutionary past its origins are in the intelligence of life itself and beyond that in the intelligence of the cosmos. This viewpoint requires a paradigm shift away from a dead and mechanistic universe in which the emergence of life and consciousness are accidents. The alternative vision is that the cosmos is intelligence or spirit itself and has an ordering principle or logos. Matter is no longer primary but coexistent with spirit. Intelligence precedes Homo sapiens, primates and indeed all life forms. It is woven into the cosmos...
2022-01-1830 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep21. Jung y Alquimia Part 1. El Transfondo. Spanish Language podcast.¨Las experiencias de los alquimistas eran mis experiencias y su mundo era mi mundo. Este fue, por supuesto, un descubrimiento trascendental: me había topado con la contraparte histórica de mi psicología del inconsciente. La posibilidad de una comparación con la alquimia, y la cadena intelectual ininterrumpida de regreso al gnosticismo, dieron sustancia a mi psicología. Cuando examiné detenidamente estos textos antiguos, todo encajó: las imágenes de la fantasía, el material empírico que había reunido en mi práctica y las conclusiones que había sacado. Ahora comencé a comprender qué significaban est...
2022-01-0128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep64. The Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 7. Creation Myths and Science.The astronomer’s lens, peering out to the creation of our universe, is human consciousness, like a mirror to its deep centre, forever examining its origins, birth, and even the pre-conditions of its existence. But ultimate knowledge forever vanishes beyond our scope. In the moment of dating the universe we realise there must be others preceding it; that the cosmos must be infinite and eternal as Giordano Bruno intuited in the 16th century; that there have been endless cycles of creation and dissolution. The intelligence of mankind gazes at the universe only to realise that we are an...
2021-12-2823 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep63. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 6. The Elephant in the Room.The three most significant events in the history of life on earth are discussed: the emergence of life, consciousness, and self-consciousness. Science has no explanation of how these came into being. This appears to be an enormous problem which no amount of evasion can explain away. The crisis of the Self is at the centre of the crisis of modern times.
2021-12-1526 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep20. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 4. La situación en China.Este episodio examina al menos 15 puntos muy similares entre el taoísmo y la psicología junguiana, por ejemplo: Para los taoístas la "acción por non-acción" es para el psicólogo profundo occidental la liberación interna del dominio cognitivo; la importancia de lo femenino en ambas tradiciones; la “circulación de la luz” le recordó a Jung el camino circular hacia el centro, el camino hacia el ser superior; el movimiento circular tiene también el significado de la auto-incubación; las referencias al lado más oscuro en terminología junguiana está cerca de la concep...
2021-12-0132 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep62. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 5. The Influence of Taoism in the West and its Fate in ChinaWe begin by examining the impact of Taoism, especially with respect to the influence of the Taoist book the Secret of the Golden Flower upon Carl Jung and his school of Analytical Psychology. We continue by considering modern China with a focus on Taoism which is one of its indigenous religions. What happens in this country is of immense importance not only for its size (over 1/6th of the world population) but also because of its growing importance. 
2021-11-1729 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep19. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 3. El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Spanish Language PodcastEl texto de El Secreto de la Flor de Oro dice que “solo a través de la contemplación y la tranquilidad surge la verdadera intuición: por eso el método de retroceso es necesario … al concentrar los pensamientos a través de la circulación de la luz, se puede volar; al concentrar los deseos, uno cae … el cuerpo como la madera seca, el corazón como las cenizas enfriadas". El texto refiere al proceso de circulatio y distillatio, como alquimia, uniendo los opuestos, creando la coniunctio, la unión de los opuestos, el niño divino, l...
2021-10-3128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep61. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 4. The Emergence of Science and the Challenge to Religion.We examine in chronological order: 1. The difficulties with the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages; 2. The Renaissance and its spiritual and imaginative possibilities; 3. Protestantism, religious wars, vast colonial conquest; 4. The rise of the Scientific Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Capitalism has demanded considerable freedoms in order to function including freedom from Church and excessive State intervention. A brief overview of the history of Astronomy is given, followed by the emergence of the life sciences - all based on a materialist-reductionist world view. God is, at first, the...
2021-10-2331 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep60. The Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 3. Separation of Church and StateThe decline of religion and magical ways of thinking is often attributed to the  scientific enlightenment but the battle between Church and State was fought for many centuries in the Middle Ages prior to the scientific enlightenment, in which the role of the Church was diminished and that of the State was augmented. This dramatic history, sometimes bloody and treacherous, was played out in many countries but it was well documented in England. The roles of the Renaissance, Protestantism and Humanism are also discussed. But as the scientific and industrial revolutions gained force the very idea of t...
2021-10-0226 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep18. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 2. El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Spanish Language PodcastLa intención de El Secreto de la Flor de Oro es describir la experiencia central de la meditación: El método al que se aspira es el mantenimiento del “centro entre las condiciones y la circulación de la luz que reside en la frente, entre los ojos”. Es un movimiento de retroceso, es decir, un retorno al Ser alejado de las externalizaciones que son las ataduras del mundo. Sólo en la quietud absoluta, la conciencia celestial se abrirá espontáneamente y la inteligencia espiritual alcanzará el Origen. Este método es simple pero "...
2021-10-0132 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep59 The Spiritual Crises of our Times. Part 2. Command economies; Laissez Faire capitalism; their impact on spirituality and religionThis episode examines the two major economic paradigms of Laissez Faire capitalism on the one hand and the command economy on the other typified by the early communist experiments in Russia and China. It will point to the dangers of extreme Laissez Faire capitalism and also to the central reasons why a communist command cannot work. It will also explore the decline of religion and spirituality under both these systems.
2021-09-1132 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep17. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 1. El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Spanish Language PodcastParte 1 comienza con el trasfondo, la metafísica, la visión de la condición humana en El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Exploramos cómo entró este texto en Occidente. Cuales fueran las influencias que El Secreto de la Flor de Oro tuvo. "La Flor de Oro, es la Luz, y la Luz del Cielo es el Tao. Allí se encuentra la vesícula germinal donde esencia y vida son todavía una unidad. El nacimiento del proceso alquímico tiene lugar, cuando lo oscuro da nacimiento a la Luz”.   Carl Jung   
2021-09-0128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep58. Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 1. Collective and individual dimensions of this crisisFirst in a series on the contemporary spiritual crisis, this episode outlines the collective and individual dimensions of this crisis. It explains the metaphysical  position and personal experiences underlying this series. It ends with a poem from The Sower and the Seed entitled The Goal of Humankind.
2021-08-2128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep16 Gnosticismo: una fuerza viviente en nuestro tiempo. Parte E. Spanish Language PodcastLa experiencia gnóstica que tan profundamente influyó a Carl Jung está disponible en las profundidades de la psique para toda la humanidad. Este ultimo episodio de Gnosticismo es en parte sobre mi experiencia personal. Me vienen a la mente las palabras de William Blake en su libro El matrimonio del cielo y el infierno que dice lo siguiente: “Si las puertas de la percepción fueran depuradas, todo aparecería a los hombres como realmente es: infinito. Pues el hombre se ha encerrado en sí mismo hasta ver todas las cosas a través de las estrechas...
2021-08-0110h 50The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep57. Contemporary views on the economic, financial, pandemic, and climatic crisesFive articles and reports from very traditional and respected sources are examined. They all point to the extreme seriousness of the economic, financial, pandemic, and climatic crises that are upon us. These articles  are: Ruchir Sharma, “The two big reasons to doubt the global boom”. FT. 19th July 2021 Tuomas Malinen: “Inflation is here to stay, and it should worry everyone”. GNS blog: 15 July 2021 Martin Wolf “Why further financial crises are inevitable”. FT. March 19. 2019 Martin Wolf “The G20 has failed to meet its challenges”. FT. 13 July 2021 The Office of Budget Responsibility fo...
2021-07-2225 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep15. La Psicología Analítica y su deuda a Gnosticismo. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte D. Spanish Language PodcastJung explico como muchos conceptos de gnósticos prefiguraron la Psicología Analítica. Por ejemplo, que tenían un concepto como el inconsciente, que se puede acceder lo a través del arte, que tenían símbolos de integración, y muchos mas. La confrontación creativa de Jung con el inconsciente entre 1913-1917 combinó el ritual de descenso y renacimiento de las religiones de misterio con la búsqueda de un conocimiento superior de los gnósticos. Si bien esto puede no ser parte de la psicoterapia normal, es parte del núcleo místico de la Psi...
2021-07-0127 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep56. Technology as system of creation and destruction. The Crisis of our Times. Part 29. Technology and Consciousness. Part F.The double-edged nature of technology is presented as well as its intense dialectic with human nature.  In conclusion to this mini-series on technology a mythological image comes to mind of the Nataraja, the dancing Shiva of Hindu mythology, who in an iconic statue is poised in a Yoga position with one hand holding the drum bringing creation into existence and the other the fire that destroys it. Shiva is standing on the mighty dwarf, the ego, which as well as having reason as it compass is ruled by the passions – fear, greed, sexuality, power and so on. Could this be...
2021-06-3030 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep55. The Transhumanist Agenda. The Crisis of our Times. Part 28. Technology and Consciousness. Part E.Precursors of Transhumanism in mythologies and religions, especially Christianity, are outlined.  The dangers of technology and its impact on a profoundly altered human nature are given in numerous novels, sci-fi films, books, and articles. The dangers of humans being replaced altogether (the singularity) are mentioned. The Transhumanist agenda is explained. "What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world. T...
2021-06-0533 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep14. La gran relevancia del gnosticismo en la psicología junguiana. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte C. Spanish Language Podcast.Jung se identificó con los gnósticos por varias razones. En primer lugar, tenían un intenso sentido espiritual de alienación; en segundo lugar, ofrecían una crítica radical del judaísmo y del cristianismo oficial; y tercero, encontraron una ruta hacia el dios desconocido, su redención que, para Jung, se convertiría en el arquetipo del Self. Por todas estas razones, el gnosticismo y la psicología junguiana también son de gran relevancia para el mundo moderno que carece de guía espiritual en la crisis de nuestro tiempo.
2021-06-0128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep54. Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Jung‘s view of technology. The Crisis of our Times. Part 27. Technology and Consciousness. Part D.Firstly this episode explores the broad phases in social and cultural epochs emphasizing the critical determining role of technology and economic structures. Those most mentioned by social theorists are: Traditional, Modern, Post-modern to which is added the Post-human - the period we are now potentially entering. Secondly it examines various viewpoints of Carl Jung expressed in Memories, Dreams, Reflections: A. His anti-technology views. B. His belief that one should live close to one's ancestors and past generations - that their unresolved questions needed answering in the present. C. His conviction that...
2021-05-1529 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep13. Los Siete Semones a los Muertos. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte B. Spanish Language PodcastEn este episodio vamos a enfatizar el impacto personal del gnosticismo sobre Jung. Lo haremos a través de su escrito llamado: los Siete Sermones a los Muertos. Es este un texto sumamente personal y esotérico. Nuestro argumento es el siguiente: Jung experimentó una iniciación en su confrontación con el inconsciente; fue el espíritu gnóstico y la voz gnóstica lo que lo poseyó en su descenso durante los años 1913-1917. Los gnósticos vivían una tradición mística muy poderosa y tenían diversas ideas metafísicas y mitológi...
2021-05-0132 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep53. The thoughts of two major thinkers - McLuhan and Mcgilchrist. The Crisis of our Times. Part 26. Technology and Consciousness. Part C.This episode outlines the thoughts of two major thinker on the subject of Technology and Consciousness. Firstly, Marshall McLuhan, a prophet of technology of the 1960s. who argues that technologies profoundly change our consciousness. Secondly, Iain Mcgilchrist, the author of The Master and his Emissary. An account of the different hemispheres of the brain is given and their impact on the changing nature of consciousness during the development of civilizations. Especial emphasis is placed in this episode on the connection between technology and the left hemisphere and the impact of this one-sided development.
2021-04-2928 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep 52. The role of evolution and historical change. The Crisis of our Times. Part 25. Technology and Consciousness. Part B.This episode considers our emergence as a species and the deep entanglement with technology from the beginning especially its interaction with the changing genetic structure and therefore with developing consciousness of the homo genus or lineage. Technologies also alter human identity by deeply influencing the psychology of distinct periods of the history of civilizations.
2021-04-1129 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep12. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte A. Spanish Language Podcast.Jung dijo que el origen de todo su trabajo radica en los años en que persiguió las imágenes internas, cuando el inconsciente lo inundó y amenazó con quebrarlo. Lo que descubrió en su descenso al inconsciente fueron los gnósticos. Este espíritu fue el que habló a través de él. El siguiente grupo de episodios explorará cómo los gnosticos son componentes de la fundacion de la escuela de psicología de Jung.
2021-04-0134 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep51.Deep history and our entwinement with technology. The Crisis of our Times. Part 24. Technology and Consciousness. Part A.Of the ten horsemen of the apocalypse,  the pandemic, the financial and economic crises have been described. The technological crisis is now examined, in particular the relationship between technology and our consciousness, a matter of enormous importance to our own age. This will take more than one episode. This episode  will have a nDeep history and our entwinement with technologyumber of items for exploration: Technology is and has always been deeply entwined with our consciousness and our human nature. They are systemically intertwined, mutually influencing, catalytically interconnected. Hominids that existed long before our sp...
2021-03-2627 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep50. The Financial Crisis part B. The Crisis of our Times. Part 23.Financial collapses have been at the heart of all major economic crises of capitalism and examples from the 1890s and 1990s are given, observing that they are growing in intensity and frequency. Examples from early presidents of the United States, Jefferson and Jackson, are given,  both of whom spoke loudly against banking interests believing that they were inimical to democracy. It is argued that financial crises have been severe since the deregulation of the banking system in the 1980s and 1990s. Since the Great Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 things have gone from bad to worse. The present s...
2021-03-0828 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep11. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte F. Spanish Language Podcast.En este episodio se describen los siguientes puntos de la psicología junguiana: La relación entre el terapeuta y el paciente. La importancia relativa no absoluta de la transferencia. Imaginación activa: la relación directa y creativa con figuras del inconsciente. Terminología esotérica junguiana y tradiciones de sabiduría: Opus, Telos, Nigredo, Hierosgamos, Coniunctio oppositorum, Enantiodrama, Entelechy. Una interpretación psicológica de amplio espectro de la mitología. La importancia de la sincronicidad. Arquetipos, ritos de paso, rituales, técnicas ancestrales.
2021-03-0128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep49. The Financial Crisis part A. The Crisis of our Times. Part 22.Firstly. some key terminology is explained, such as Financialization, Quantitative Easing, Moral Hazard, Price discovery, Gosbankification, Zombies, Gales of Creative Destruction, The Danger of Debt. Secondly, a coherent narrative is given that is comprehensible to non-specialists concerning the recent history and likely future development of this financial crisis. It will also be of interest to those who have had a training in economics and finance since much of this does not prepare for this financial crisis at all. Finally, this episode explores the emerging role of Central Bank Digital Currencies which will be key to...
2021-02-1827 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep10. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte E. Spanish Language Podcast.En este episodio continuamos explorando la contribución de Jung a la psicoterapia. Esto incluye: la crisis de la mediana edad; su clasificación de tipos psicológicos; dos metodologías, la analítica y la sintética; el tratamiento constructivo del inconsciente, el rol central de sentido y propósito; como contactar e elaborar los contenidos inconscientes; la activación de la función trascendente; la interacción entre el ego y el Self; el inconsciente no como un almacén de material reprimido sino un sistema interno que guía y transmite mensajes por medio de símbolos.
2021-02-0131 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep48. The long pause. The Crisis of our Times. Part 21.The Economic Crisis, the next horseman of the apocalypse,  is updated and explained. We are currently in a  pause as the underlying malaise is disguised by money creations and bail outs. But this only postpones and augments the crisis to come. # The post 2007/8 Global Financial Crash led to a new stage of capitalism in which massive government intervention in the financial system became the new paradigm # This was accomplished through cheap and abundant money, propping up of the financial system at all costs # Moral hazard has increased enormously # Zombified companies have sa...
2021-01-2832 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep47. Decline of Civilization and the Pandemic. The Crisis of our Times. Part 20.The pause button has been pressed on the economic and financial crisis with the rocketing debts of many nations which by trading current stabilty against future danger will lead to a mighty financial collapse. Civilization decline in the West is explored in the Romantic poetry of the 19th century. The causes of the current pandemic are presented as the consequences of a  fundamental disconnection and unprecedented attack upon nature.
2021-01-0128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep9. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte D. Spanish Language Podcast.Este episodio explora aún más la contribución de Jung a la psicoterapia. Esto incluye la Función Trascendente, el enfoque sintético que tipifica la terapia junguiana, y la interpretación junguiana de los sueños. Este episodio termina con un ejemplo de cómo trabajar con el reino arquetípico de una manera junguiana.
2021-01-0127 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep46. Overview of Series. The Crisis of our Times. Part 19.An overview of The Crisis of our Times  series is provided; the ingredients of civilizational collapse are presented; future podcasts are indicated; the complexities of multidimesional crises are mentioned; a parable is given but the answer is not provided.
2020-12-1223 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep8. Carl Jung: El viaje interior de Jung: la Lucha por el Self. Parte C. Spanish Language PodcastEl concepto de Jung del Self no solo fue una de las grandes contribuciones a la Psicología Profunda, sino que surgió de su propio retiro y desintegración durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y su notable viaje para encontrar su propia mitología. Este episodio contará la historia de este descenso y renacimiento.
2020-12-0128 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep45. Spiritual Transformation, Taoist Philosophy and a PoemIn today’s episode I have decided to do something rather different. I have chosen a mythic individual at the start of Chinese history, the Yellow Emperor, and have constructed a poem using the story of  his retreat to the Mountains of the West in search of enlightenment at the feet of the sage Guangchengzi. This is one of the earliest stories we have of the search for spiritual illumination and its impact not just on an individual but on the collective which was in deep discord. I believe such a story, myth, or archetype is right for our tim...
2020-11-2722 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep44. Part 18. Consciousness, Capitalism, and Death Potential. The Crisis of our Times.This episode explores Death Potential which is not a psychological trait but a mythological and metaphysical category. Moreover, it is archetypal and universal and therefore is not unique to capitalism but exists within our consciousness across its whole history. The immense technological powers of capitalism constellate this Death Potential in the most intense form yet experienced by our species. This distinguishes it from Freud’s notion of the death instinct. I do not believe such an instinct exists in the human psyche but I do believe that mankind has a tremendous fear of death which is repressed, becomes intolerable an...
2020-11-1436 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep7. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte B. Spanish Language PodcastEn el último podcast esbocé una visión clásica de Jung del proceso de individuación. Cubrí la Persona y la Sombra. En este episodio describo las siguientes dos etapas: el encuentro con el Anima o Animus, y también con los arquetipos.  
2020-11-0134 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep43. The Crisis of our Times. Part 17. Consciousness, Capitalism and Modernity. Part BAn extensive list is explored  of the changes in consciousness brought about by the development of capitalism. This includes: The removal from nature. A material view of the world.  The increasingly rational and economic viewpoint. The abandonment of the religious outlook.  More individualism, less individuation.  An economic view of societal relationships.  A legalistic view of relationships.  Rational and bureaucratic systems of control.  Specialisation but fragmentation of knowledge.  Dominance of money relationships.  Greater education.  Wealth creation and enjoyment.  A vast increase in consumerism.  The impact of property ownership.  Technological reliance.  Greater freedom.  A change in the nature of the repressive apparatus wit...
2020-10-3033 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep42. The Crisis of our Times. Part 16. Consciousness, Capitalism and Modernity. Part AThe changes in consciousness engendered by capitalism are outlined. But there is also a light of new vision in the modern age that seems as nothing as compared with the vast forces of global economic development, finance, industrialization, and information technology. These forces that have produced the contemporary alienated, rationalised, increasingly digitalised human being are currently reshaping humanity so that it is even further removed from nature  and seem overwhelming. Yet history shows us that vast changes in consciousness begin like a small light, a vision glimpsed by few, but increasingly felt by many. There is an e...
2020-10-1733 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep41. The Crisis of our Times. Part 15. The Creative Destructive Nature of CapitalismThe productive forces of the capitalism are immense and without precedent. The continually reshape the relationship between world powers, countries, regions, cities, classes, and individuals.  It also has inherent, inbuilt  tendencies towards crises and even collapse. As well as its transformative power these weaknesess are enumerated briefly in this episode. Yet for all its creativity this power is also demonic and life-destroying. From Eden cast in fallen state, To world of death condemned, Both Eve and Adam tears did shed, This paradise must end. Banished into endless toil, ...
2020-10-0328 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep6. Carl Jung: Sus contribuciones a la psicoterapia, parte A. Spanish Language Podcast:En este podcast comenzamos a explorar las contribuciones de Jung a la psicoterapia. Examinaremos su visión de la estructura de la psique, su función intencional, sus mecanismos compensatorios y de autoequilibrio, el concepto de complejo, el proceso de individuación a partir de la persona y la sombra. En los siguientes podcasts continuaremos con la exploración de su trabajo. La psicología junguiana continúa creciendo durante el siglo XXI, ya que no solo ofrece un rico conjunto de herramientas para examinar la psique, sino también la conciencia y los métodos para promover...
2020-10-0131 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep40. The Crisis of our Times. Part 14. The European Union: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Part CThe EU engaged in a exaggerated expansion of its membership. It now creates vast debts in an attempt to bail out States, banks, and even economies. It seems a titanic enterprise. Umm, titanic? The very word strikes an ominous chord in trauma memory. Back in 1912 it was asked how the Titanic, the largest passenger ship of its day, could be sunk by an iceberg. Monetary policy, with its exploding debts and money creations, could well be the iceberg that sinks the European Union. The general problems of the EU, both external and internal are covered.   The monetary po...
2020-09-1933 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep39. The Crisis of our Times. Part 13. The European Union: Between a Rock and a Hard Place. Part BThe core problem of the European Union lies in its economic arrangements that, should they not be modified, will probably break apart the union as we currently know it. As well as the deep differences between EU member states there is a lack of economic flexibility that arises from adopting a common currency. The rigid maintenance of the Euro with the absence of flexible exchange rates plus the escalating debts of the union will undermine its coherence, lead to the downfall of the Euro, and provoke a severe banking crisis which will go global and endanger the...
2020-09-0530 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep5. Carl Jung: Recuerdos, Sueños, Pensamientos. Su Torre y Viajes. Spanish Language PodcastConcentramos en los capítulos 8 y 9 de Recuerdos, Sueños, Pensamientos que cuentan primero, la historia de la construcción de su Torre. El escribe: Nos precipitamos impetuosamente hacia la novedad, impulsados por una creciente sensación de insuficiencia, insatisfacción e inquietud. Ya no vivimos de lo que tenemos, sino de promesas, ya no a la luz del día presente, sino en la oscuridad del futuro, que, esperamos, finalmente traerá el adecuado amanecer. Nos negamos a reconocer que todo lo mejor se compra al precio de algo peor; que, por ejemplo, la esperanza de una mayor l...
2020-08-2934 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep38. The Crisis of our Times. Part 12. The European Union: Between a Rock and Hard Place. Part AThe conflicts and contradictions of the European Union are explained, in particular the manner in which its monetary policy breaks the treaties of the Union. Populists and nationalist reactions in the "north" are explained in this context. The episode ends with a poem by W.B.Yeats The Second Coming: Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of...
2020-08-2227 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep37. The Crisis of our Times. Part 11. Capitalism and the SoulWhy do I juxtapose economic and financial theory, policy and practice on the one hand, and spiritual matters on the other. The answer is that it is only in theory and specialisms that such things are separated. In practice the human psyche consists of many parts, but it is a fundamental drive within us to unify them, to make ourselves whole instead of being conflicting parts. At first glance economic and monetary policy along with poetry and mysticism seem strange bedfellows. But I am suggesting more than this – that the evolving emergencies have at least ten dimensions – and...
2020-08-0832 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep4. Carl Jung: Recuerdos, Sueños, Pensamientos. Spanish Language PodcastRecuerdos, Sueños, Pensamientos, el más accesible y popular de los escritos de Jung, sirve de introducción inspiradora al turbulento mundo interior que subyace al exterior burgués de un visionario extraordinario. Aquí, en esta breve charla, seleccioné aquellos detalles que ilustran mi tesis principal: a saber, que Jung luchó intensamente con sus propias tendencias desintegradoras y tuvo que encontrar una solución creativa para ellas, para él y para el colectivo. “Los años en que perseguía mis imágenes internas fueron los más importantes de mi vida: en ellos se decidió todo...
2020-08-0136 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep36. The Crisis of our Times. Part 10. World Crisis and the Search for SoulI am a psychotherapist with an interest not only in the individual psyche but also that of the collective. The malaise of civilization has become increasingly my focus in these podcasts; the evolving multidimensional crises of the 21st century is my backdrop; the ten horseman (or crises) of the apocalypse are the drivers of my argument. These are the economic, political, climatic, military, technological, spiritual, clash of ideas, pandemic, financial, and social. I have suggested a road map of the evolving crises: 1. Approaching storm; 2. Storm hits; 3. Policy response; 4 Economic and financial chaos;  5. Great Global Depression; 6 Civil disturbance, po...
2020-07-2329 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep35. The Crisis of our Times. Part 9. Capitalism and Changing ConsciousnessFor the next group of episodes, there will be a mini-series providing an overview of the driver of our global civilization – the capitalist system. What distinguishes this presentation from the many other authors on this topic  is its focus on the changes in consciousness that capitalism has brought about - the changes to the evolving human being that has been and is being created by this process. By way of contrast, each episode will also continue the poems and commentaries of the Quest that illustrate an archetypal template of the spiritual and psychological journey of healing and spi...
2020-07-1127 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep3. Las Crises de Nuestro Tiempo. La Pandemia en America Latina. Spanish Language PodcastLa tesis central de esta serie es que el mundo en el siglo XXI enfrenta una crisis multidimensional: política, económica, financiera, militar, climática, tecnológica, espiritual, de salud, social, ideológica. Los llamo los 10 jinetes del apocalipsis por razones que serán con cada episodio más claras. Estos solo pueden entenderse de manera sistémica, es decir, como un sistema de interacción. Por lo tanto, no se puede hablar sobre la situación de pandemia de salud sin referirse a la crisis económica y financiera. Mi intención es explorar todas estas dimensiones y mostrarlas...
2020-07-0636 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep 34. The Crisis of our Times. Part 8. The Wake-up CallMy wake-up call in March 2020 was that this unfolding series of crises, long in the making, had already passed its tipping point. The house of cards was already falling. What has happened since then is that most major economies have covered up and disguised the economic and financial crisis by creating vast debt and money creation and pretending this is fine, pretending they are in charge. But they are merely postponing the crisis while it becomes larger. Accordingly, I have said clearly that a Great Global Depression has already begun and that the financial crisis is unfolding...
2020-06-2732 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep 33. The Crisis of our Times. Part 7. The Ten Horseman of the ApocalypseTen interacting crises are described; long term economic problems of American society outlined; apocalypse means the revealing, the unveiling in ancient Greek. Thus, in these times, as the crises intensify, the fissures of societies and civilisations (race, religion, class, gender) come to the surface and reveal themselves as open wounds. Spiritual growth is required. Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world …. The best lack all conviction, while the worst...
2020-06-1332 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep2. Las Crisis de Nuestro Tiempo. El Acercamiento de la Tormenta. Spanish Language PodcastEste podcast propone un modelo simplificado, una suerte de mapa de ruta por la evolución de la crisis económica y financiera mundial. Las etapas de esta crisis son los siguientes: 1 El acercamiento de la tormenta 2 La tormenta llega 3 La respuesta política 4 Depresión económica y caos financiero 5 Gran depresión global 6 Disturbios civiles. Radicalismo político. Peligros de guerra 7 Un mundo radicalmente cambiado Actualmente en mayo de 2020 estamos en la etapa 3. Es decir, la respuesta política Hoy...
2020-06-0129 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep 32. The Crisis of our Times. Part 6. Civilizational Eclipse, Human Extinction, and Hope?We live in an age of apocalyptical possibilities. We now truly have the means to bring this about. Humans have always had to face their own darkness and even evil - the life-destructive Satanic force within them. The world's mythologies are testimony to this. This episode, after reflecting on aspects of the current evolving crises, turns to a myth from Ancient Egypt that of Isis and Osiris, which is at the beginning of civilization, whereas we fear we may be at the end. Here we see clearly the battle between the creative and destructive forces, good and evil, told i...
2020-05-3028 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep 31. The Crises of our Times. Part 5. The Economic and Spiritual CrisisThese podcasts explore the evolving crises of the 21st century. The Virus pandemic, extremely serious though it is, has revealed the fracture lines of the world economy. We have a series of crises, and if we wish to understand more of the world we have created we have to understand them in their interacting totality – i.e. as a system. As the podcast series progresses we will examine these dimensions, which we also call the horseman of the Apocalypse. Apocalypse comes from the Greek word meaning to reveal. It is also, in the bible, associated with the id...
2020-05-1627 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS3 Ep1. Las Crisis de Nuestro Tiempo. El Momento de la Verdad. Spanish Language PodcastEl siglo XXI está siendo testigo de la emergencia de numerosas crisis que vienen operando de manera sistémica e interconectada conduciendo a la humanidad a un momento crítico y muy decisivo.  El tema de hoy es, El Momento De La Verdad, que abordaremos en forma breve, en cuatro niveles: colectivo, individual, moral y espiritual. Estamos entrando en la primera Gran Depresión Global. De hecho, muchas economías ya están experimentando un colapso importante a una escala nunca antes vista. Este es nuestro momento de la verdad. Esto es lo que la evolución de la vida...
2020-05-0230 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep 30. The Crisis of our Times. Part 4. Homo DemonicusThe fault lines of the world economy are explained and these are the fractures that are opening in the Great Global Depression we are now entering. These existed before the Corona Virus which is the detonator of the inflated global economic and financial structure. The virus is serious enough but the origins of the multiple crises that are upon us were not caused by Covid 19. A virus feeds and grows upon the weakness of the host. This episode explores the demonic in our species. I don’t believe that the human race is principally or only demonic rat...
2020-05-0233 minThe Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian PsychotherapyS2 Ep 29. The Crisis of our Times. Part 3. De Profundis (Out of the Depths)The world's leaders, both in the political and economic spheres, have failed in any preparation for this curent health crisis which is morphing into a Great Global Depression which will utterly change our political and social landscape. Previous declarations of the Quest Series concerning the multiple crises that are to unfold in the 21st century - the horeseman of the apocalyse and the like - might have been thought of as hyperbole. I think that view may now well be changing. This present crisis is of the greatest seriousness but transformation is just possible. The human race...
2020-04-1824 min