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The Sharegiving Secret: How to Survive Family CaregivingCarrying the Tiger: Tony Stewart on Living with Cancer, Grief, and GraceWhat happens when a single phone call changes everything? Author Tony Stewart joins The Sharegiving Secret to reflect on caregiving, anticipatory grief, and the unexpected moments of love and clarity that emerge in the face of terminal illness. Drawing from his memoir Carrying the Tiger, Tony shares how writing, community, and radical honesty helped him navigate cancer, loss, and life after caregiving.Tony Stewart has made award-winning films for colleges and universities (“A Union of People,” “Skidmore: Concurrence of Ideas”), written software that received rave reviews in The New York Times and the New York Daily News (“Tony Stewart’s...
2025-12-1740 min
WHAT I'VE LEARNTWhat I've Learnt - Kat StewartKat StewartActor Kat Stewart has built a reputation as one of Australia’s most outstanding actors. Renowned for her exceptional performances across a diverse range of unforgettable characters on both stage and screen, Kat has played leading roles on productions including Five Bedrooms Offspring and Underbelly One Night, Black Snow (series 2), Mr and Mrs Murder, Tangle (Series 1-3), Newstopia (Series 1-3), Supernova (Series 1-2)and the original Underbelly. Her many guest credits include Get Krack’n, Orange is the New Brown, No Activity, True S...
2025-05-1834 min
Moments with MarianneDream Wise with Lisa Marchiano LCSW, Deborah Stewart LCSW, & Joseph Lee LCSWCan your dreams help shape a better future? Tune in for an inspiring discussion with Lisa Marchiano LCSW NCPsyA, Deborah Stewart LCSW & Joseph Lee LCSW on their new #book Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams.Moments with Marianne airs in the Southern California area on KMET1490AM & 98.1 FM, an ABC Talk News Radio affiliate! Lisa Marchiano LCSW NCPsyA is a certified Jungian analyst, licensed clinical social worker, and a co-host of the podcast "This Jungian Life." She holds a BA from Brown University, a master's in international affairs from Columbia U...
2024-12-3053 min
I FREAKING KNEW ITStewart KraintzStewart Kraintz FREAKING FOLLOWED A STRING OF KNOWINGS that led him to the woman of his dreams!Stewart Kraintz is an ICF-Trained Coach, podcast host and family man based in Columbus, OH. Stewart's work focuses on helping people reach their goals and building the lives of their dreams, while helping them untangle the ways in which they sabotage themselves along the way. His approach blends his expertise in understanding people with igniting a desire to win BIG in life that was honed in the sports industry. In his free time, Stew is an avid runner and can...
2024-12-1728 min
Good Neighbor Podcast: Milton & MoreExpert Episode: Navigating Powers of Attorney and Advanced Directives for College Students with Deborah Stewart of the Stewart Law PracticeEver wondered how you can support your college-bound child with critical decisions when they legally become adults? Join us on the Good Neighbor Podcast as we welcome Deborah Stewart from the Stewart Law Practice to shed light on the indispensable topic of powers of attorney and advanced directives for college students. You'll learn how these essential legal documents empower parents to manage banking accounts, student financial aid, and even access crucial medical information during emergencies. Deborah shares real-life examples and professional insights, emphasizing the importance of proactive discussions with young adults about these matters. Legal preparation for c...
2024-08-1022 min
Your Inside Track to SuccessWhat Is Your Intuition Telling You? with Deborah Atella | Ep 75 Your Inside Track to SuccessYour intuition is there to point you in the right direction, but you must be willing to listen to it! Deborah Atella, coach, author, speaker and reiki master, rejoins the podcast for an in-depth look on how our intuitions can be our greatest tools in decision making and creating what it is that we ACTUALLY want with our lives. Deborah shares her personal story of how trusting her intuition allowed her to catch her recent lung cancer before her doctors did, and how it saved her life.In this episode you will learn: Why your...
2024-07-3150 min
Good Neighbor Podcast: Milton & MoreEP #122: The Stewart Law Practice with Deborah Stewart, Esq.Have you ever thought estate planning was only for the rich or elderly? You're not alone – but as our guest Deborah Stewart reveals, anyone with assets (even as small as a $50 bank account) should consider estate planning to ensure their wishes are met. Deborah, from Stewart Law Practice, offers a wealth of knowledge amassed from her experiences as a caregiver and her background in banking and financial services, allowing her to bring a unique perspective to the world of estate planning, probate, and elder law.In our conversation, we shatter common misconceptions surrounding wills and trusts, demonstrating th...
2023-12-1112 min
Creative Rituals1.1 The Joy of Painting Outside with Deborah LastWelcome to the Creative Rituals podcast! For our first episode, I’m joined by artist and plein air painter Deborah Last. In 2022, Deborah undertook the ambitious project ‘Painting the Year’ - 365 paintings, one from each day of the year, all created outside. In this episode Deborah talks about the challenges and joys she found within this project, and how it has shaped her as an artist. We take a deep dive into studio life and the daily habits she has in place to strengthen her artistic practice. Find Deborah’s work here Find Georgie h...
2023-09-111h 09
Your Inside Track to SuccessEp 18: Build Confidence in Your Career and Beyond w/Deborah AtellaCultivating self-confidence begins with self-acknowledgement, which is something we are often not encouraged to do as we create the careers and lives of our dreams. On this episode, host Stewart Kraintz is joined by Deborah Atella for a conversation on how to create massive self-confidence - and results - in the workplace and beyond using her I.N.C.H. Method.Deborah Atella is a certified coach, reiki master, and author of the international best seller, Is This Job My Jam? She is also the host of the Atella Like It Is podcast. Connect...
2023-06-2852 min
Do It For The Gram: An Enneagram PodcastLove Warriors and Healing Humanity with Dr. Deborah Threadgill Egerton (Type One)Dr. Deborah Threadgill Egerton is an internationally respected psychotherapist, IEA Accredited Professional with Distinction, IEA Accredited Enneagram teacher, author, and IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity, and anti-racism) consultant, coach, and spiritual teacher who works with individuals and organizations to help them release false historical narratives and to open their minds and hearts to a more compassionate and connected approach to life. Dr. Egerton talks about her book, “Know Justice Know Peace: A Transformative Journey of Social Justice, Anti-Racism, and Healing through the Power of the Enneagram.” She also discusses why she refers to people of color as love warriors rather than...
2022-11-1153 min
The Modern Manager202: Managing the Boundaries of Personal and Professional with Deborah Grayson RiegelFor many people, the pandemic blurred the lines between personal and professional spaces. While this had many benefits such as bringing people closer together, it also created ambiguity that is challenging for managers to navigate. How can managers best create and maintain boundaries while supporting their team members’ whole selves?
Today’s guest is Deborah Grayson Riegel. Deborah is a keynote speaker, executive coach, and consultant who has taught leadership communication for Wharton Business School, Duke Corporate Education, Columbia Business School’s Women in Leadership Program, and the Beijing International MBA Program at Peking University. She is the co...
2022-05-0333 min
Inside WhiskyInside Glenfarclas with Deborah StewartIt is probably going to be very hard (impossible?!) to find another place on earth with a higher distillery-density than the Scottish Speyside - and apart from some of the best Scotch whiskies being produced there, the possibility to visit so many different distilleries within such a small space makes the region a magnet for whisky tourism. One distillery that can't be missed during a visit in the Speyside is Glenfarclas Distillery. Owned by the Grant family and thus being one of the few left family-owned whisky distilleries in Scotland, Glenfarclas has a very special charm to it. W...
2022-04-1752 min
This Jungian Life PodcastSelf-Reflection: What Was I Thinking?Jung says, “There is another instinct, different from the drive to activity and so far as we know specifically human, which might be called the reflective instinct.” Self-reflection is correlated with consciousness and is arguably humankind’s unique and essential competency: a meta-cognitive capacity that is aware of its own awareness.If this is lacking, we may share the fate of Narcissus, who fell in love with his image, mirrored in silvery water--but every time he sought an embrace, his loved one retreated. Because he was unable to reflect on his reflection, Narcissus wasted away from psychic starva...
2021-09-2357 minThis Jungian Life PodcastINFLUENCE: Connection or Contagion?We have always been subject to the influence of others—it’s how we learn language, become socialized, cooperate and collaborate. It’s also how we exclude, denigrate, and assault others. Today, we are subject to unprecedented social influences. Multiplicities of media shape our ideas, identities, beliefs, and values--and foster connections and communities around the world. If tulip mania took hold in 17th century Holland—perhaps the original speculative bubble--today we have non-fungible tokens and cryptocurrencies. “Heretics” are now exiled via “cancel culture.” Cultural contagions and psychic epidemics are not new—they just come dressed in the flashy new garb of social med...
2021-09-161h 01
This Jungian Life PodcastSHADOWLAND: Prostitution - the story of KayThis is Shadowland, a new podcast experience from This Jungian Life that explores the lives of people who work and take refuge in the hidden places of our culture. Lisa, Deb, and Joseph collaborate with songwriter Wells Hanley, creator of I Wrote This Song For You podcast, to bring insight, compassion, and understanding to the darker side of human experience.Nietzsche wrote, “I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”In that spirit, we meet Kay...
2021-09-091h 36
This Jungian Life PodcastSHADOWLAND: a new podcast experience – September 9 on TJLOn September 9th, This Jungian Life will launch a new podcast experience - SHADOWLAND. In this series, we meet soulfully with people who live and work in the hidden places of our culture.Walk with us and discover the voice of psyche on unexpected paths.LOOK & GROWJoin THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOLDo you have a topic you want us to cover?WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.Lisa’s leading a retreat in ITALY!We've got totally NEW MERCH!If you’ve been struggling in the dark trying to find t...
2021-09-0200 minThis Jungian Life PodcastThe Archetype of WARRecent events in Afghanistan have again put war at the forefront of collective consciousness. War’s destruction belongs to the mythic realm. Mars, the Roman god of war, was a primordial force whose altars were placed outside city gates. Although acknowledged, he was not accepted. His paramour, Venus, is warfare’s seductress, offering spectacle, pageantry, and glory.Like all the gods of Mt. Olympus, Mars and Venus live in us as opposing forces of aggression and eros. We are charged with holding the tension of these impassioned opposites and making them conscious, lest we project shadow onto desi...
2021-09-021h 19This Jungian Life PodcastThe Music of Metaphor: Healing in Therapy & LifeGuest Mark Winborn is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst who teaches in the U.S. and internationally. Author of three books and numerous articles, Mark is an active member of the IRSJA and the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich/Kusnacht. Psychotherapy is talk therapy—but what kind of talk are we talking about? The most fundamental medium of our knowing is language, and metaphor imbues language with music.To understand and engage another’s internal world requires language which speaks in harmony with the unconscious. Metaphor speaks beyond ego and traverses the realms between past and...
2021-08-261h 26This Jungian Life PodcastSplitting: Understanding What Divides UsWe seem hard-wired to split the world into polarities: right/wrong, either/or, victory/defeat, Democrat/Republican. Infants and toddlers have not yet achieved the developmental capacity for complexity; they are believed to split their feelings toward caretakers into “good” and “bad,” depending on whether their needs are being met in the moment.Although it distorts reality, splitting reduces anxiety by locating the problem “out there,” allowing us to reject what we find aversive and affirm our own virtue, self-worth, and blamelessness. The capacity for ambivalence—the ability to hold opposite feelings—requires more differentiated cognitive skills and emotional ra...
2021-08-191h 03This Jungian Life PodcastThe Wounded HealerThere are three major models of healing: medical, shamanic, and psychoanalytic. In the first, the doctor does it to you; in the second, the intermediary does it for you; and in the third, Jung’s dialectical process, we work together to discover “the curative powers in the patient’s own nature.” Just as every wounded patient has inner health, every healer has an inner wound. If consciously known and borne, the analyst’s wound serves the healing process.In Greek myth, Chiron symbolizes the wounded healer, a term Jung originated. A wise and noble centaur, Chiron suffered a painful...
2021-08-1254 minThis Jungian Life PodcastTarot, Divination & the Symbolic LifeGuest T. Susan Chang is a writer, podcaster, and teacher of tarot, the most commonly recognized modern form of divination. The archetypal symbols in the tarot’s 78 card deck offer gateways to meaning and mystery. Jung says symbols act as transformers—life energy is converted from a lower to higher form by the amplification that consciousness provides. Tarot divination is intended to break from the mundane and court the numinous. It asks that we set logic aside, surrender doubt, and step unafraid into the space between realms. As with dreams, whatever arises will tell us something we don’t know a...
2021-08-051h 27This Jungian Life PodcastTime & Truth About Its UseGuest Oliver Burkeman states in his new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, that “outrageous brevity is life’s defining problem.” At age 80, you’ll have had a paltry 4,000 weeks. Such brevity is breathtaking, so we create defenses against the reality of finitude. We distract ourselves with the belief that fulfillment lies in the future, that plans and goals prove purpose, and that we can achieve almost any number of things by being more efficient/motivated/healthy—or just overall exceptional. Paradoxically, embracing life’s limitations can open us to what Jung called “a new attitude”—an inner pivot from t...
2021-07-291h 30This Jungian Life PodcastThe Cosmic Meaning of ConsciousnessIn Answer to Job, Jung states, “Whoever knows God has an effect on him.” If, as Jung claims, individual human consciousness affects God, what we are matters monumentally. When we serve our neuroses, the gulf between ego and Self widens. Pursuing individuation not only sets our personality in right order, it permits our personal experiences to enrich the collective unconscious – who we are is added to God. When Jung visited the Navajo, they told him they helped the sun, their father, cross the sky each day, a spiritual observance that sustained the world. Jung said, “I had envied the fullness...
2021-07-221h 11This Jungian Life PodcastArchetypesAlthough the concept of archetypes has philosophical ancestors, Jung’s theory was developed over time and rested on a foundation that was scientific and empirical. Research and experiment enabled Jung to establish the autonomous activity of the unconscious.He was then able to posit archetypes as a predisposition to form representations of universal human experiences and mythological motifs, such as marriage, the hero’s journey, and death/rebirth. For Jung, archetypes are innate psychic organs that “have a positive, favourable (sic), bright side that points upwards [and] one that points downwards…” Archetypes manifest spontaneously. In the collective, they are t...
2021-07-151h 09This Jungian Life PodcastPaying Attention: What Are You Spending It On?We plainly pay attention, using the finite currency of time and energy issued in the 24-hour increments that add up to a life - well spent? We have choices and constraints about how we allocate our attention, and today’s world competes fiercely for it in unprecedented ways. No wonder, for power is the ability to command or hijack attention, even if it warps reality with untruths.Jung particularly valued the attentional dimension of “dreaming, or fantasy-thinking” experienced in reverie, dreams, and creativity. And like mothers, lovers, and psychotherapists, we can give others the unconditional attention that brings...
2021-07-081h 01This Jungian Life PodcastLetting Go: When Is It Time?In the first half of life, we strive to develop ego strength and achieve our dreams. To want, will, and work is worthwhile and adaptive--until a life dream, relationship, or identity fades or fails. Should we hang in and hang on - or let go? When does perseverance become pointless, or hope turn rancid in refusal to accept disappointment, defeat, or depression?In letting go, we relinquish our hard-won, heroic “I” and yield to an encounter with the unconscious. Jung says that although “I was afraid of losing command of myself…I let myself drop.” He came to realize...
2021-07-011h 16This Jungian Life PodcastThreshold: Moving Between the RealmsIn medieval times, the threshold was a plank that kept barnyard “threshings” outside the house. In the sciences a threshold is the limit of magnitude or intensity that must be exceeded for a definitive change to occur. In human development life stage thresholds are marked and recognized through ritual. In psychoanalytic work the symbol is the threshold—a visible but not literal representation that calls consciousness to apprehend a larger, unseen reality. Science fiction, mythology’s modern descendant, has richly storied this process as transition into a new world. The ambiguity and disorientation of this liminal situation requires...
2021-06-241h 01This Jungian Life PodcastThe Unspoken Wounding of MenJung’s earliest dream, at age three or four, preoccupied him all his life, “in an underground chamber, a giant phallus stood erect on a golden throne.” Majestic and luminous, it struck him with terror that intensified as his mother’s voice cried out in warning. Phallos, the central archetype of a man's psyche, was once worshipped as sacred. Its urgent, dynamic, and fertilizing power was split off with the rise of ascetic monotheism and banished to the unconscious. Misplaced and maligned, it surfaces as resentful passivity, fear of passion, confusion of values, and reluctance to take action. Phallos is neith...
2021-06-171h 21This Jungian Life PodcastExtroversionAlthough Jung’s theory of typology is the foundation of various personality assessments, it is important to appreciate its profundity as Jung’s theory of consciousness. The four functions of consciousness - sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling--are governed by two attitudes, extraversion, and introversion. Jung defines extraversion as “an attitude type characterized by concentration of interest on the external object.”Since the movement of psychic energy is outward, extroverts find gratification in social and collegial interactions. Extraverts, therefore, need to distinguish individual goals from relational expectations and cultural norms lest they sacrifice inner reality to outer influences. A vital...
2021-06-101h 10This Jungian Life PodcastThe Power of NOToddlers have ready access to no as they discover the power of me—the start of a lifelong process of differentiating self from all that is other. When are personal needs, desires, and selfhood the priority? When does caring about others, the need to belong, and toeing the line take precedence?Fear of social rejection, workplace retaliation, or family conflict can erode our healthy no, leading to resentment, an uncertain sense of self, and inability to answer the call to life. We also need to be able to say no to our own bad habits, rigidities, and av...
2021-06-031h 07This Jungian Life PodcastRisk & Reality: When Fear Traps UsWe can’t help knowing that something bad could happen if we do X…or Y…or maybe Z. Like Odysseus steering his ship between sea monsters Scylla and Charybdis, we must navigate between risk avoidance and recklessness. One keeps us out of life; the other jeopardizes wellbeing. In pre-modern times life in the external world was fraught with danger and risk; in the modern world, the consequences of risk are more often internal.Possible disappointment, shame or failure may feel intolerable, but not constitute actual disaster. Assessing risk requires willingness to engage inner conflict--and discern, then answer...
2021-05-271h 14This Jungian Life PodcastAssessing Your Values: Meaning & MotivationThere is value in examining your values, the powerful emotional and cognitive attitudes that underlie large and small life choices. Although values are initially acquired through family and institutions, an essential task of adulthood is consciously embracing traditional or individual values.Values are the wellspring of libido: they motivate action toward goals. Unless preferred values are in alignment with the underlying flow of energy, unconscious agendas may prevail. Our actions reveal our values, and dreams depict conflicts between conscious and unconsciously held values. The work of Shalom Schwartz, available in an online values assessment (see below), can...
2021-05-201h 02This Jungian Life PodcastINTROVERSIONThe terms introversion and extraversion, now cultural staples, originated with Jung and describe the overall direction of life energy. The widely used Myers-Briggs Typology Indicator (MBTI), now available online, is drawn directly from Jung’s theory of personality types. Although extraverts direct their energy outward, introverts direct their energy inward. External-world relationships and events tend to pale in comparison to ideas, internal images and reflective processes.The German poet Rainer Maria Rilke expressed this idea pithily: “I am in love with you and it’s none of your business.” Introverts are not shy, reclusive, fearful, detached or avoidant...
2021-05-131h 26This Jungian Life PodcastTending the Ego-Self Axis: Reconnecting with SourceErich Neumann publicly proposed the concept of the ego-Self (or Self-ego) axis and began to sketch its implications in his 1952 Eranos lecture, "The Psyche and the Transformation of the Reality Planes. Edward Edinger popularized the concept writing, "It portrays the developmental relationship between the ego and the Self, Jung’s term for “the totality of the conscious and unconscious psyche [that] transcends our visions…” As infants, we embody an original wholeness, or Self-hood, out of which ego (a sense of “I”) gradually emerges. The connection to the Self may be damaged if the ego believes itself the sole source o...
2021-05-061h 04This Jungian Life PodcastWhen Words Lose Their MeaningIn 1543, Andreas Vesalius dissected a corpse, thereby inaugurating a scientific attitude toward the human body. This new attitude taught us to stand aside from our identification and connection with the body and see it as a lifeless subject of inquiry. Such an approach brought obvious vital advances in science and medicine, but it also came at a cost. In the 20th century, philosophers such as Foucault and Derrida did for language what Vesalius had done for the human body. Their careful dissection of language laid bare formerly hidden assumptions and revealed the ways that language shapes our thinking.
2021-04-291h 37This Jungian Life PodcastThe Dark Side of MotheringOur colleague Puddi Kullberg, author of The Bad Mother, joins us to acknowledge motherhood’s shadow. A link to her paper is below. Our culture idealizes motherhood, but mothers everywhere have experienced themselves as bad in varying ways and to various degrees.Jung suggests that even truly harmful mothers can expiate their actions by becoming conscious of what they have done. If we can face even grievous mistakes, we can deepen into our ordinary, sometimes dark humanity. Confrontation with our negative mothering leads to experiencing emotions that were previously unrecognized or denied. We can mitigate isolation by ge...
2021-04-221h 12This Jungian Life PodcastThe Alchemy of WritingThe wellspring of consciousness has long been located in word. Once words were etched on clay or inked on papyrus, a new way of knowing was born. Writing ordered and expanded language, captured ideas, bloomed imagination, and preserved human experience. Writing is an encounter like no other with oneself and inner others, light and dark. Whether we meet the page in a personal journal or as professional necessity, we discover that ego alone does not do this job. Some days words leap like dolphins; other days find us becalmed on a flat sea. To create through writing i...
2021-04-151h 13This Jungian Life PodcastThe Phoenix: Life’s Transformative FiresThe splendid-feathered phoenix lives for hundreds of years builds its own funeral pyre, sets it on fire, and rises from the ashes after three days. The phoenix represents long life, conscious acquiescence to death, and assured regeneration. The fiery alchemical process of calcinatio leaves behind a white ash equivalent to salt, that which cannot be burned: life, soul, and Eros.The phoenix is usually depicted ascending in its joyful solar plumage of red, orange, and gold, indicating that when one is purged of instinctual drives, affective intensity, and egotistical desires, fire is experienced as divine illumination. The...
2021-04-081h 07This Jungian Life PodcastArchetype of the FoolThe fool in various guises has appeared since ancient times. The court jester seduces through comedy, song, and story. The dummling son of fairy tales wins the treasure with well-meaning ineptitude. Shakespeare featured fools in many of his plays, the Tarot deck begins (or ends) with the fool, and comedians have built careers on playing the fool. The fool punctures the posturings of others’ personas and egos, bests his “betters,” and transgresses social boundaries and conventional morality. The fool flaunts and taunts us with shadow, making truths about cultural norms and human complexity both pointed and palatable. We might well c...
2021-04-011h 00This Jungian Life PodcastBonus Episode - MILKMAID REVELATIONS: JUNG’S EROTIC STAMP COLLECTIONSwiss Jungian scholar Jager Schmallzenburger has recently released news of the discovery of Jung’s erotic stamp collection. Found tucked into the wall behind a bookcase, the box of stamps features uniquely rendered images of milkmaids from countries around the world. The milkmaid, symbolic of the archetypal feminine in the flower of fulsome youth, has long been prominent in the mythopoetic imagination of man. No one had previously realized that Jung, in addition to his many other interests, was also a passionate philatelist, and his dedication to the image of the milkmaid puts a decidedly Jungian stamp on this un...
2021-04-0129 minThis Jungian Life PodcastExile & Alienationnot chosen but is imposed and unwanted: a relational break-up, job lay-off, or deportation. Exile can affect the human spirit so powerfully that the ancient Romans used it as an alternative to execution. Alienation describes an internal state of deadness and despair--an uncanny valley that feels featureless, gray, and unending.It can manifest as depression, anxiety, addiction, and desperation—which can lead to violence against self or others. A return to feeling heals, movingly rendered in Va, Pensiero in Verdi’s opera Nabucco: the exiled Hebrew slaves sing of their loss, love, and longing for home. Tears tran...
2021-03-251h 10This Jungian Life PodcastA Comedian Walks into a Jungian Podcast…Elliott Morgan, comedian and PhD candidate in depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, joins us to explore humor and psyche. Elliott grew up a fundamentalist Christian in central Florida, and has gone from practicing holy laughter to creating HOLY SH*T, his comedy special on Amazon (also featuring Jung’s debut on the comedic stage).Elliott’s college major, zoology, prepared him to play Goofy at Disney World and Big Bird on Hollywood Blvd. A recovering Nice Person, Elliott draws on life experiences, relentlessly engages shadow, and uses laughter to turn suffering into soul making. Hitting rock bott...
2021-03-181h 25This Jungian Life PodcastBelonging: The Search for HomeHorses herd, birds flock, whales pod, and people tribe. The need to belong is as intrinsic to human nature as the need for food, touch, clothing and shelter. We belong to families, communities, ideas and ideals, yet must also separate from them in service to our own individuation.As we grow, we belong to teams and clubs, and find new homes in school and at work. Is the price of belonging rigid conformity and sameness, or is uniqueness valued and difference supported? We later express attitude and attachment to home in the houses we inhabit: photos and...
2021-03-1155 minThis Jungian Life PodcastChronic Anger: Trapped in ResentmentLike fire in a wood-burning stove, resentment burns long and hot: bitterness, frustration, and hostility. The fires of resentment are lit when we feel needy and vulnerable and feel wronged and rejected. This old human story is told in the biblical tale of brothers Cain and Abel.When Cain’s offering is judged inferior, Cain takes it out on Abel. He acts--and acts out—defensively to insulate himself from shame and culpability by killing Abel. Cain’s subsequent mark symbolizes the psychic price of resentment. Creating a new human story means facing, feeling and healing from the fruitl...
2021-03-0456 min
TRENDSETTERSAllyson Stewart-Allen Considers World Views of Brand USA and Discusses Brand InternationalizationAllyson Stewart-Allen Considers World ViewsAllyson Stewart-Allen has been considering how the US will be viewed by the rest of the world as an attractive trade and investment destination—even as the country’s domestic agenda takes center stage for a new administration. She also anticipates a US-EU Free Trade Agreement to take priority over a US-UK trade deal. The size of the European Union would be a commercial prize for US companies post-Brexit as a trading bloc with nearly 450 million consumers compared to the UK’s 66 million.
2021-02-2527 minThis Jungian Life PodcastNavigating Young Adulthood: Risks & RewardsThe twenties are a period of emerging adulthood, a time to engage in the maturational tasks of finding one’s place in the wider world and forming intimate relationships. This stage of life calls for the ego strength necessary to make initial choices about work, intimacy, money, lifestyle and values. The protections and constraints of family, education, and culture are no longer unquestioned.It is time to engage life on one’s own authority: take appropriate risks, tolerate anxiety, weather disappointments—and reap the rewards of growing self-confidence and life competencies, lest isolation and stasis ensue. Embark bravel...
2021-02-251h 04This Jungian Life PodcastTruth Telling: Revelations & RealitiesSubjective truths yield multiple realities—political and religious truths famously differ. Objective truths rely on independent realities—two plus two must ever be four, not five. Jung’s four functions of consciousness help us reconcile inner and outer realities. Sensation causes physiological reactions to untruths in ourselves and in others; our bodies are wired for congruence.We can also notice and name feelings, beliefs and desires: are we inflamed and defensive, or calm and considered? Our thinking function insists on impartial reason, and intuition lets us know when something is “off.” Conscious functions of sensation, feeling, thinking and intuit...
2021-02-1856 minThis Jungian Life PodcastFacing Your Feelings: Avoidance or Encounter?While we welcome “good” feelings, we often try to banish “bad” ones like sadness, fear, vulnerability and shame. We may deny them by trying to “think positive.” We may attribute them to political wrongs or even the barking dog next door. If emotions have nowhere else to go, they become symptoms, complexes, and even physical illnesses. Avoiding negative emotions simply causes them to go underground and express themselves in disguise.Jung says, “Our emotions happen to us; affect occurs at the point at which our adaptation is weakest and at the same time exposes the reason for its weakness.”...
2021-02-111h 04This Jungian Life PodcastSelf-Loathing: What’s Gnawing on Your Bones?The judgmental inner voice has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding taskmaster, or abusive bully. It also seeps in through the collective, with criteria for beauty, status, and wealth that are unrealistic and artificial. At its worst, this punitive, shaming complex incites self-destructive behavior, and has long been imaged by witches, warlocks, ogres and fiends.Most of us would never treat anyone as badly as we sometimes treat ourselves. This internalized dynamic seesaws between extremes of idealized expectations and punitive backlash that pretends to be ‘for our own good.’ Like Sisy...
2021-02-041h 03This Jungian Life PodcastMYTH AS MEDICINE: An Interview with Kwame Scruggs, PhDKwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire through African-based initiatory rites. He asked himself “What is it I really want to do? Not what could I do. What did I want to do?”His passion for myth and drumming led him to graduate studies and creating programs in which story is the catalyst for inspired manhood and realization of potential. Story, fellowship and rhythm create an alchemical mixture that facilitates connection with self and others and the deep archetypal wellsprings of mature masc...
2021-01-2858 minThis Jungian Life PodcastThe Archetype of the Good KingThe king is figured prominently in myth, religion, and fairy tale. This compelling archetypal image has roots in our earliest human beginnings, when the king embodied his tribe’s earthly vitality and supra-human connection to spirit. Today, the king symbolizes universal psychic functions; each of us has an internal ruler. Like Solomon, the king presides over standards of ordering and lawgiving that undergird processes of discernment and decision.As warrior, the king protects and defends the kingdom of selfhood he has built; he has access to aggression and takes responsibility for the consequences of his actions. The ma...
2021-01-211h 17This Jungian Life PodcastEpisode 146 - INFLATION: The Challenge of Archetypal PossessionInflation applies to balloons, economics--and psychology. Jung defined it as being seized by archetypal energy resulting in “a puffed up attitude, loss of free will, delusion, and enthusiasm for good and evil alike.” Inflation is more than a “swelled head” because the influx of unconscious contents leads to identification with god-like powers. In Greek myth Phaeton became inflated when the sun god, Helios, acknowledged him as his son. Phaeton then asked to drive his father’s chariot, pulling the sun across the sky. He could not control the powerful horses, scorched the earth, and was killed. Arrogating god-like p...
2021-01-141h 13This Jungian Life PodcastWillpower: Choice, Energy & the Power to AchieveThe ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape the rule of instinct. Jung says, “the realm of will cannot coerce instinct nor has it power over spirit,” so ego shall not dictate to psyche but find alignment with instinct and spirit, values and volition, before springing into pursuit of a goal.We must first choose to attend to ourselves, consider the size, worth, and cost of the goal—and then practice parenting ourselves through the journey to achieving it. The nurturing inner parent...
2021-01-071h 19This Jungian Life PodcastFierce Female Initiations: Claiming Authority & Selfhood Through TrialsMythological Paths to Personal PotentialMyths and fairy tales depict women’s initiation into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) into the underworld; Snow White choked on a poisoned apple and lay in stasis; Aphrodite punished forsaken Psyche with arduous tasks. As all were blossoming into the fullness of their beauty and fertility, all were also in thrall to innocence complexes that blinded them to realities of envy, aggression, and power, imaged as rapist, step-mother, and mother-in-law.Women’s initiation into adulthood and authority involves encountering shadow, finding inner fire, taking action, and wielding powe...
2020-12-311h 07This Jungian Life PodcastScrooge on the Couch: How the Numinous TransformsSomething's going on in Scrooge's soul...and it's tired of waiting for an invitation.Charles Dickens’ novella, A Christmas Carol, vividly portrays the journey to healing and transcendence. It was written in a fever, released on December 19, 1843, and sold out before Christmas. Ebenezer Scrooge’s visitations by the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come are vivid depictions of the path from trauma to transformation. As in psychotherapy, Scrooge revisits his past; by reclaiming the feelings he exiled as a child, Scrooge discovers compassion and connection.The visitation to the present shows Scrooge fami...
2020-12-241h 16This Jungian Life PodcastThe Archetype of the Divine Child: Light RebornFear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be unto all people. Luke 2:10 The divine child appears when least expected, new potential born from the womb of the unconscious. Helpless and blessed and against all reason, the divine child represents the creative union of opposites that births a new beginning. Every new beginning is a divine child, and mythological revelations since ancient times greet new psychic potential with awe and adoration. Miraculous birth signals initiation into individuation and the preordained destiny of sacred and heroic figures across cultures and through time i...
2020-12-171h 01This Jungian Life PodcastFANTASY: Do We Have Fantasies or Do They Have Us?Is fantasizing helpful or harmful?Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the make-believe worlds of online gaming. In passive fantasy we receive products of the unconscious as charged internal images: nighttime dreams, trance states and visions. Passive fantasy transgresses natural law, the limitations of waking life, and cultural restrictions, for in the subterranean realms of psychic experience all is permitted.Active fantasy allows us to interact with the unconscious and shape our experiences. It lives next door to ideas, reverie, play, intuition, and creativity...
2020-12-101h 03This Jungian Life PodcastDoubt: Facing Life’s UnknownsDoubt disturbs us. Unlike the more defined polarities of ambivalence, doubt is pervasive, muddy, and ranges from crippling to constructive. We may doubt our capacity to meet a challenge, achieve a desired outcome, or make the right decision. At a deeper level, doubt can threaten our orientation to reality and erode our sense of self.Doubt can also help us prepare, increase our capacity to take risks and build confidence in our ability to prevail whether we win or lose. Doubt is about the future—possibilities, and perils. We are called to remain steadfast and chart a co...
2020-12-031h 03This Jungian Life PodcastVisionary Imagination: Jung’s Private JournalsWe welcome Sonu Shamdasani, PhD, scholar and historian of depth psychology and Jung’s opus. His research and expertise were instrumental in bringing Jung’s Red Book to the public in 2009. Jung’s Black Books, the journals in which he recorded “my most difficult experiments,” have just been published. We discuss Jung’s encounters with figures and images from his psychic depths--experiences foundational to Jung’s subsequent work and which opened a portal to humankind’s imaginal mind and mythic substrata.The Philemon Foundation, which Dr. Shamdasani co-founded in 2003, is dedicated to bringing forward more of Jung’s unpublished manu...
2020-11-2653 minThis Jungian Life PodcastSpider Parents: Finding Freedom from DependenceThe spider is a symbol of generative and destructive capabilities. As creator, spider spins the sustaining web of life. As predator, spider’s sticky web is an inescapable trap. Parents weave webs of familial ties, cultural norms, and generational patterns that contain—or restrain--their children. Emotional strings of attachment or enmeshment affect how—or if—a young adult child is released into the world.A net of comfort and connection can become a web of entanglement and stultification. The tale of Sleeping Beauty portrays the stasis that ensues when parents try to protect their child from future dangers...
2020-11-191h 06This Jungian Life PodcastQAnon: Ancient Lies & Sexual SlandersQAnon is a recent iteration of a historical pattern: Romans persecuted Christians, Christians libeled Jews, and citizenries hunted witches. When existing social structures break down, psychological splitting ensues in an effort to counteract fear and re-establish certainty. Collective projections demonize a selected ‘other’ and tend toward lurid attributions of badness: pedophilia, blood drinking, and devil worship.At the same time collectives project their need for leadership and unity onto a leader, investing the person with larger-than-life qualities. The mythic unconscious creates a dualistic division between ‘above and below’-- religious purity and righteousness versus ‘beasts of darkness,’ especially s...
2020-11-121h 23This Jungian Life PodcastREVIVING OUR CAPACITY TO FEEL: The Core of Jung’s LegacyMarie-Louise von Franz, Jung’s close collaborator, capped her public work in a 1986 lecture that summarized Jung’s signal contributions to understanding the human experience. Jung was concerned that rationalism, quantitative methodologies, and the objectification of people and animals had become one-sided, resulting in ethical and empathic deficiencies. He felt the over-development of professional personas—even among physicians and psychotherapists—led to avoiding authentic encounters. Sentimentality, a superficial expression of feeling, could be used to mask cruelty, including to animals.For Jung, relationship to the sacred was foundational, and was the true source of an ethical stance. He felt...
2020-11-052h 30This Jungian Life PodcastHorror: Why Can’t We Look Away?The hair on the back of our necks bristles in response to the horrors of the uncanny. Transfixed by shock, awe, dread and fascination, we can neither dare the dangerous darkness nor turn away. The mysteries of the unknown take us into realms of transgression and taboo.Enthrallment and abhorrence mix in encounters with all that is alien and dispossessed. We face our own human monstrosities and the traumas that create them. We also meet the dark, nonhuman otherness of the collective unconscious; it threatens to possess us and can annihilate our sense of self. Whether we...
2020-10-291h 02This Jungian Life PodcastWhen Despair Prevails: Facing Suicidal DarknessDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! There are few more painful thoughts or frightening events than suicide, a phenomenon unique to the human species. Depression, rage, and powerlessness can overwhelm ego functions, leading someone to believe that escaping life is the only option. Affects of archetypal proportions can act like tsunamis in the psyche. What can help?A supportive other can offer protection, options, and hope. Willingness to engage in mental health and medical treatment is critical, as is the development of a symbolic attitude: what value, belief, or ambition may need to die instea...
2020-10-221h 02This Jungian Life PodcastAdaptation: Meeting Life’s DemandsDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The world is the canvas on which we paint our lives. Through this lifelong work, we express personal vision, develop skills, and come to terms with the realities of our outer and inner worlds. The first major stage of adaptation, the transition from child to adult, requires readiness to separate from protective life structures in pursuit of outer world goals. It entails developing a strong, flexible ego devoid of overly negative or idealistic beliefs about self and world, a progressive orientation, and ability to cope with disappointment.In the seco...
2020-10-151h 15This Jungian Life PodcastNeurosis: Befriending Our Broken PlacesDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Although neurosis is no longer a clinical diagnosis, it is often used to describe anxious attitudes and behaviors that are maladaptive to life situations. Neurosis often entails a capacity to function well despite feeling bad; emotional suffering leeches ease and pleasure from life. A neurotic symptom—a phobia, compulsion, or addictive tendency—is no different from a dream.It is important to hear the unconscious story ego has disallowed, welcome fantasies, fears, and instinctual life, and understand their symbolic meaning. Symptoms ask us to know ourselves as we really a...
2020-10-081h 07This Jungian Life PodcastCuriosity: The Inner Engine of ChangeDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We celebrate curiosity’s role in discovery, and regret its potential for damage. Mature curiosity demands that we embrace the confusion, doubt and anxiety inherent in engaging new ideas and complex problems. Social curiosity requires discernment: are we genuinely and empathically interested in others, or simply indulging voyeurism via social media?Curiosity can lead us into thrill seeking, but lack of it dulls our libido for life. Is it grandiosity, ambition, or impulsive desire that is tweaking our interest—or is curiosity leading us into purpose, service and...
2020-10-011h 16This Jungian Life PodcastSacred Symptoms: How the Numinous HealsDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Jung states “the main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neurosis but rather with the approach to the numinous…the real therapy. In as much as you attain to the numinous experiences you are released from the curse of pathology.” Jung defines numinous as “a dynamic agency or effect not caused by an arbitrary act of will” that conveys a mysterious yet deeply meaningful message.Numinous experiences happen to us, yet we can approach the numinous by engaging in practices like active imagination, r...
2020-09-241h 13This Jungian Life PodcastAt Home in Our Bodies: Incarnation & IndividuationDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Jung teaches that soul and spirit have a home in a living body, the font of psyche’s images and means of their incarnation in the world. Embodiment is the ground of being, and engaging the tension between instinct and archetype shapes consciousness and character. Jung identified five instincts: creativity, movement, sexuality/eros, hunger in its many manifestations, and the ability to reflect and make meaning.If Pinocchio’s task was to humanize his instincts, much of modern man’s mission may be to re-establish vibrant connection wit...
2020-09-171h 18This Jungian Life PodcastIntuition: Non-Rational KnowingDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We all have intuitive experiences, from an occasional hunch to powerful gut feelings. Unconscious intelligence is a storehouse of instincts and wisdoms humankind has accumulated over millennia. We would be lost without intuition and give importance to warnings and inspirations that saved or made the day.We are also skeptical of intuition, which tends to become infused with emotion, superstition, and cultural bias. Altogether, intuition is about the future, from promising possibilities to potential pitfalls. To apply inner perception in meaningful ways we need to balance it with...
2020-09-101h 13This Jungian Life PodcastSeeking Certainty: The Seduction of Conspiracy TheoriesDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!In times of uncertainty truth is hard to discern, collective cohesion frays, and social factions become embattled. Unmediated shadow then seeks expression through the archetypal realm and takes on extra-ordinary attributes. Persecutory mythologies arise, for big psychic situations need big stories to compensate for big feelings of anxiety, powerlessness, and marginalization.Insecurities are projected onto the outer-world as clandestine enemies of mythic proportions: alien rulers, government cabals, and other images of secret domination. Understanding conspiracy theories as symbolic expressions of unconscious contents can allow us to take them ser...
2020-09-031h 03This Jungian Life PodcastThe Money Complex: Incarnating Our DreamsDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Money reflects our shadows and strengths as much as our bank accounts. Like Hermes, money traverses the realms from Hades to Heaven--money can be a matter of survival, and money can turn dreams into realities. Because money represents value we can acquire, exchange, and store, it can become conflated with our value as persons.Material wealth can become equated with status and self worth—and the lack of it with inadequacy and anxiety. To come into right relationship with money we need to develop a realistic perception...
2020-08-271h 13This Jungian Life PodcastThe Provisional Life: Redeeming the RealDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and lifestyle feel like placeholders until the ‘real thing’ arrives—someday. If early life circumstances made over-conforming to others’ needs and expectations necessary, persona can be over-developed and shadow denied.The person may orient to external sources for self-definition, acceptance and direction, because deep roots in shadow’s dark, fertile soil of authentic feeling and experience are lacking. The recovery and discovery of the true self comes from engaging the inner world: dreams, reverie, creative...
2020-08-201h 05This Jungian Life PodcastPets: A Lived Relationship with SoulDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!When far from life in the wild, relationships with animals are often through pets. We find kinship and difference in our friends of very foreign origin. Pets let us be tender, elicit nurturing, and help heal trauma through secure attachment. Our creatures keep our secrets. They accept our lapses and shadows. They invite us to play and appear in our dreams--and when they are gone, we mourn.Henry Beston said, “In a world older and more complete than ours [animals] move finished and complete, gifted with extensions...
2020-08-131h 11This Jungian Life PodcastEvery Hero’s JourneyDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The hero’s journey has been the stuff of story from earliest times. Today’s popular heroes include Harry Potter, Frodo, Spiderman, Neo, and Luke Skywalker. They are all ordinary guys who suddenly receive the Call to Adventure, mythologist Joseph Campbell’s term for the beginning of the journey.The would-be hero first declines, then answers the call; he suffers tests and trials, succeeds with help from unexpected sources, and returns with the gifts of all he has learned. The hero’s journey is the human story--we are al...
2020-08-061h 32This Jungian Life PodcastCOVERED: An Archetypal Take on the COVID MaskDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Masks are the symbol of COVID life, and they have archetypal roots as old as humankind. We ward off evil microbial forces with bandanas, neck gaiters, patterned fabrics, and high filtration medical masks. Masks provide access to our shape-shifting potential, connect us to our instinctual depths, mediate our relationship to the spirits, and open a portal to the mythic realm of story and drama.Masks waft us into new identities: children become superheroes or face-painted animals; women apply make-up, men craft beards, and everyone wears sunglasses t...
2020-07-3058 minThis Jungian Life PodcastNot Alone: Finding the Inner CompanionDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! When you’re down, and in trouble, and you need some loving care...You just call out my name, and you know wherever I am, I’ll come running to see you again…you’ve got a friend. Carole King song The companion has a beloved place in our hearts. Famed modern-day teammates include Captain Kirk and Spock, Frodo and Samwise, Batman and Robin, and Sherlock Holmes and Watson. The companion serves and supports the hero, contributing quieter gifts of guidance, capability...
2020-07-231h 02This Jungian Life PodcastCreativity: Drawing from the Inner WellDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The root of create, “to bring something into being out of nothing,” echoes divine creation. Ideas arise from mysterious sources, yet creativity is such an intrinsically human function that Jung considered it one of five human instincts, together with hunger, sexuality, activity, and reflection (a function of consciousness). Positive circumstances foster creativity: the ability to engage imagination, seek novelty, hone competency, and pursue autonomous, intrinsically rewarding activities. Stress inhibits new possibilities, and rigid societies and personalities fear creators, as new ideas and images challenge the status quo. Creativity can a...
2020-07-161h 09This Jungian Life PodcastThe Religious Attitude: What Do You Worship?DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The religious instinct is as basic as the need for food or shelter. Psyche seeks and selects a central, organizing life principle whether consciously or unconsciously chosen. Secular deities range from food, money, or even science, to the gods of addiction; false gods lie behind neuroses and pathology. Traditional religions and cosmologies offer connection to large, well-ordered frameworks of myth and meaning. Realizing one’s place in the context of larger realities has the potential to connect us to mystery and numinous experience; then we belong to something grea...
2020-07-0953 minThis Jungian Life PodcastDissociation: Encountering Our Inner ExileDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Jung discovered the psyche’s dissociative nature through his Word Association Test. Subjects would delay or make nonsensical responses to ordinary words associated with troublesome personal memories or traumas. Dissociation, our autonomous psychic “circuit breaker,” exists on a spectrum from ”spacing out” to disorders that interfere with life functioning. Psychotherapy could be considered the practice of healing dissociations, as treatment entails bringing banished contents into consciousness with feeling and understanding. Fairy tales such as Sleeping Beauty frequently depict dissociation as enchantment, abduction, or dismemberment. Reconnection with consciousness is the happily-ever-af...
2020-07-0252 minThis Jungian Life PodcastThe Transcendent Function: Getting UnstuckDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The transcendent function comes in all sizes, from “aha” moments to epiphanies. A new orientation to a dilemma arrives unthought, recognized, and right. Perhaps there is a moment where loneliness gives way to solitude, or heartbreak yields to a larger sense of self. Apprehension of a new attitude--sunlight breaking through clouds--has overcome the impasse, bringing freshness, spaciousness and possibility. Engaging the tension of an emotional struggle without giving in to premature, one-sided action can prepare the way for the unconscious to unite with consciousness. The transcendent function can also be soug...
2020-06-251h 03This Jungian Life PodcastFinding Resilience: A Conversation with Jim HollisDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!James Hollis, noted Jungian scholar, teacher and author, joined us to discuss resilience. His new book, Living Between Worlds: Finding Personal Resilience in Changing Times, will be available on Amazon in mid-June. When life rhythms and habits are suspended or upended, we may find ourselves adrift. What supports us then? For most of history institutional religion, tradition, and tribal mythology unified communities and connected members to the transcendent. Today, however, discovering the capacity for creativity, wisdom and connection to a larger reality has become increasingly an individual endeavor. Ha...
2020-06-1856 minThis Jungian Life PodcastWe Can’t Breathe: Facing the Pain of RacismDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Racial injustice takes one’s breath away. It reaches back to the psychic asphyxiations of the Middle Passage, slavery, and Jim Crow—cut-offs from home, family, freedom and justice. Racism persists in systemic inequities and ongoing instances of police violence. The death of George Floyd, handcuffed, pleading, and unable to breathe, has inspired a collective rising in protest against current brutality and historic inhumanity. Breath as essence, consciousness and soul gives voice to lamentation and outrage. We cry out for the clean air of fairness, because racism is utterly breat...
2020-06-111h 11This Jungian Life PodcastOn Becoming a Jungian AnalystDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Many listeners have expressed interest in Jungian analytic training. We welcome those inquiries and outline the prerequisites, practicalities and processes which lead up to and constitute Jungian analytic training--a life path of ongoing growth, challenge and satisfaction. We encourage all who are interested in becoming a Jungian analyst to consult the major Jungian organizational and training resources below, and to research additional educational and Jungian institutes around the world. There are many routes to training as a Jungian analyst and we hope to help you find yours.Referen...
2020-06-0845 minThis Jungian Life PodcastRiots: When the Collective Catches FireDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!How can we understand the psychological wild fire of rioting? Jung, who lived through two world wars, understood that mass movements had the power to manifest archetypal energy. The urge to unleash destructive chaos is depicted in mythologies around the world. Early Norse warriors attained battle-crazed states as "berserkers," and Cu Chulainn, a mythological Irish warrior, killed both friends and foe. Eris, the Greek goddess of discord and strife, started the Trojan War, and Kali, a Hindu god whose name derives from suffer, hurt, startle and confuse, also incited...
2020-06-041h 02This Jungian Life PodcastLockdown: Decoding the Covid ComplexDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Oppressed, repressed and regressed, the forced restrictions of the Covid Complex have us in its grip. We may see friends and family more often than ever, but only on a screen. Work, school, home, weekdays, weekends—time and tasks slide around like Jello on a hot plate. Loss of structure, variety, movement and touch are destabilizing. Confined to tight physical and emotional spaces, we may collapse into ourselves or lash out at loved ones. We hear contradictory messages on the news and go outside only if masked and defended...
2020-05-281h 02This Jungian Life PodcastMidlife Crisis: Renewal or StagnationDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Jung was particularly interested in the second half of life, perhaps because after his own midlife crisis he found himself so surprisingly generative. We tend to spend the first half of life oriented to familial values and cultural norms for success. Education, work, partnering and child rearing are some of the mile markers for speed and distance on the road of life—until midlife strikes. We may then discover that worldly successes feel flat, or blame discontent on bad breaks. Although dramatic lifestyle changes at midlife are the stuff of sto...
2020-05-211h 04This Jungian Life PodcastJung, UFOs & Aliens: The Truth is Out ThereDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The Pentagon recently released a film of a UFO made by Navy pilots. Although such credible documentation is new, UFO sightings go back to ancient times and surged after World War II. . Interstellar travel then seized the collective imagination, and the ongoing abundance of books, television shows and films signals the emergence of a new mythology. In his treatise “Flying Saucers,” Jung took a phenomenological stance, acknowledging experiences of sightings without concretizing them as physical or dismissing them as fictional. Alchemists projected psyche onto matter at a time when its tran...
2020-05-141h 08This Jungian Life PodcastZOOMing In: Is Psyche Alive Online?DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We have moved our lives online. But can we experience authentic human connection through virtual technology? Can we date, mourn, or have psychoanalysis on a screen? If screens offer some surprising intimacies—close-ups of wedding vows and eulogies—they also deprive us of embodied participation. Staying at home has made us newly eager to socialize—separately. Dating means conversation, not cuddling. We enter the homes of colleagues, clients, and even newscasters, but despite this implicit amity we’re not guests. Psychoanalysts refer to “the analytic third,” physicists propound unified field t...
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Unpaused the PodcastS3, Ep 24 - Deborah Needleman: Reinvented by HandFormer Editor in Chief of T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Deborah Needleman shares her enchantment with the world of the composed and handmade on Unpaused. It's a timely reflection of how time was once measured: when a basket, woven by hand, was the diary of a person's day.
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2020-05-0436 minThis Jungian Life PodcastJung & Astrology: Cosmos & CharacterDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Astrology is a 4000-year-old discipline rooted in the mystery of man’s relationship to the universe. It is an archetypal frame for human experience that influenced Jung, depicts our connection to the heavens, and anticipates future trends. We are now beginning an approximately 38-year Pluto-Saturn cycle—and Covid-19 has appeared at its outset. Pluto is associated with the underworld; Saturn is a stern taskmaster and enforcer of boundaries. The virus is forcing us to face fear and death—and also consider what egoistic attitudes may need to die. We can relate...
2020-04-301h 31This Jungian Life PodcastAuthority: Who’s in Charge Around Here?DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! The dictionary defines authority as the power to “influence or command thought, opinion or behavior.” Authority’s Latin roots are master, leader, author—thus it lives next to its tough cousin, power. Families, organizations, and governing bodies influence and command us, whether slightly or mightily. Authority has legitimacy, from a traffic officer’s directives to a mentor’s wisdom. An authority may reward desired behavior or provide expert advice. We can rebel against authority, be coerced into compliance, or fall into identification with a leader. Ultimately, we must claim our own authority...
2020-04-231h 07This Jungian Life PodcastNigredo: Finding Light in Our DarknessDREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated with decomposition and putrefaction. As a psychological state, nigredo is “the great suffering and grief” which the detached forces of nature inflict on the soul. We realize in sorrow that what we thought were truths were illusory. Individuals may have taken pride in their virtues, talents or good fortune; societies may have touted their cultural superiority, military prowess, or wealth. When we are stripped of easy beliefs, we have no defense against the desolation of nigredo. But as surely as a se...
2020-04-161h 05This Jungian Life PodcastWhen Everything Changes: Is There Opportunity in Crisis?DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! In the Chinese language, the two characters representing crisis are danger and opportunity. Can that possibly be true of these days of pandemic crisis, with physical, economic, and psychological destabilization? Voices of experience and wisdom speak to us about finding potential in desperate situations. Victor Frankl, imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, discovered he had the power to choose his attitude toward brutal circumstances. Erich Fromm felt that isolation and fear could lead either to experiencing or forfeiting personal freedom. Carl Jung valued the human capacity for consciousness: “A...
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