by Joseph Lee | Aug 31, 2023 | Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO Art Credit: Female Ghost in the Moonlight, Artist unknown. School of: Katsushika Hokusai. (Japanese, 1760–1849) Edo period. AUDIO https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_281-Loss-Of-Soul.mp3 “Loss of soul amounts to a tearing loose of part of one’s...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 24, 2023 | Archetypal, Guests
VIDEO AUDIO Sharon Blackie calls us to the ancient archetype of the Hag as a figure of unapologetic emergence from cultural pressures that lock us into outworn roles and limiting beliefs. Drawing upon her transformative experiences in menopause Blackie grounds the...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 17, 2023 | Relationships
VIDEO AUDIO The essence of friendship is found in its linguistic root: ‘to love.’ Cicero wrote, “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.” In modern times the art of friending seems lost. We...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 3, 2023 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO VERSION AUDIO VERSION https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_277-AI-v1.mp3 The uses and abuses of ChatGPT artificial intelligence language model have taken the collective imagination by storm. Apocalyptic predictions of the singularity, when technology...
by Joseph Lee | Jul 6, 2023 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
VIDEO AUDIO https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_273-Anima-Mundi.mp3 Is it possible that all objects are alive? Are the winds, the oceans, the mountains ensouled, and if so, does humanity participate? Jung sensed the truth in this and embraced the concept of...