by Joseph Lee | Jul 22, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash In 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...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 17, 2021 | Cultural Currents, Metaphysical, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Gabriel E. via Unsplash.com https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_168-Wounded-Man-v2.mp3 Jung’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...
by Joseph Lee | May 6, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Photo Credit: Marc Oliver Jodoin via Unsplash Erich 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...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 8, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_158-Phoenix.mp3 The 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...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 1, 2021 | Metaphysical
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_157-Fool.mp3 The archetype of the 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...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 24, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Metaphysical
Something’s going on in Scrooge’s soul…and it’s tired of waiting for an invitation. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_143-Holiday_rerun_v2.mp3 Charles Dickens’ novella, A Christmas Carol, vividly portrays the journey to...