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Season Two - The Quest. With special focus on the evolving crises of the 21st century. Season One - Psychotherapy: Jungian Approach to Healing. Season Three - En Español: la Psicología Junguiana y la Crisis de Nuestro Tiempo Illustration is by LINDSEY HARRIS, Jungian Analyst. It is the front cover of the book ”The Sower and the Seed”.
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Sunday Aug 01, 2021
Sunday Aug 01, 2021
La 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 rendijas de su caverna.”
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Five 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 for the UK. Fiscal Risks Report to Parliament, July 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Jung 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 Psicología Analítica que a su vez ha entrado en nuestros propios tiempos. Esta combinación de los misterios, gnosis y la Psicología Analítica ofrece un camino del alma en el siglo XXI.
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
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 a message about the creative-destructive nature of our technologies as well as our mind? Will it be only when we can overcome the dominance of the mighty dwarf and consciously realise the great opposites that dominate the cosmos and our psyche that we will pass beyond this stage of our evolution?
Graphs and images mentioned in this episode are to be viewed in the philosophy section of www.alanmulhern.com
Martin Wolf's article Humanity is a cuckoo in the planetary nest can be found in the Financial Times 21st March 2021.
The Economics of Bio-diversity: the Dasgupta Review can be viewed in its entirety at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/final-report-the-economics-of-biodiversity-the-dasgupta-review
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
Saturday Jun 05, 2021
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. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?" Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
Tuesday Jun 01, 2021
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.
Saturday May 15, 2021
Saturday May 15, 2021
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 other cultures lived closer to archetypal reality than the modern European.
D. That the modern white man and woman were archetypally and mythically impoverished.
E. That contemporary issues in his day related to sexuality and gender roles were leading to a future goal - the prevention of reproduction.
References in the podcast include:
Cushman, P. (1990) Why the self is empty: American Psychologist vol. 45, no.5.
Frosch, S. (1991) Identity Crisis: Psychoanalysis and the Self.
Gergen, K.J. (1991) The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life.
Giddens, A. (1991) Modernity and Self Identity.
Jung C.G. (1962) Memories, Dreams, Reflections.
Saturday May 01, 2021
Saturday May 01, 2021
En 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 mitológicas que formaban un puente hacia los aspectos transpersonales de la psicología analítica. También su influencia personal sobre Jung fue inmensa, ya que él experimentó la gnosis a través de su espíritu.
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
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.
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
Sunday Apr 11, 2021
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.
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
S3 Ep12. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte A. Spanish Language Podcast.
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
Thursday Apr 01, 2021
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.
Friday Mar 26, 2021
Friday Mar 26, 2021
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 species (Homo sapiens) and their technologies.
Early humanity and its technology.
The Agricultural Revolution.
Capitalism, the most technological of all economic systems - the Kondratiev technological waves that are its motor. We are in the fifth characterised by a fusion of technologies of unprecedented power and danger.
Monday Mar 08, 2021
S2 Ep50. The Financial Crisis part B. The Crisis of our Times. Part 23.
Monday Mar 08, 2021
Monday Mar 08, 2021
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 situation is that the major economies are not only hiding their chronic economic difficulties behind a financial façade of money creation and debt, they are also hiding their financial chaos and instability behind the same façade. You may ask then where is this infamous financial crisis that is so feared. The answer should be no surprise by now. We are already in it and have been so for a long time but its full force is yet to be revealed.
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
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.
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
S2 Ep49. The Financial Crisis part A. The Crisis of our Times. Part 22.
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
Thursday Feb 18, 2021
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 reshaping the world financial order in the immediate future.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
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.
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
S2 Ep48. The long pause. The Crisis of our Times. Part 21.
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
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 saturated the economy
# Stock markets have become disconnected fro the real economy
# Inflation in asset and housing prices have been typical of many counties.
# Increasing inequality
# Paralysed or declining productivity growth rates
# Astronomical and un-payable national debts which are ruinous for the future
# Price discovery, the essence of the free market system has been substantially eroded
Useful links for this episode:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?end=2019&start=1973
https://www.worldbank.org/en/research/publication/global-productivity
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
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.
Friday Jan 01, 2021
Friday Jan 01, 2021
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.
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
S2 Ep46. Overview of Series. The Crisis of our Times. Part 19.
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
Saturday Dec 12, 2020
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.