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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. Banner illustration is by LINDSEY HARRIS, Jungian Analyst. It is the front cover of the book ”The Sower and the Seed”. Music extracts at start and finish of episode from Beethoven’s 3rd symphony - creative commons.
Episodes

Saturday Jun 01, 2019
S2.Ep 8. Jung: Visions, Journey of the Soul
Saturday Jun 01, 2019
Saturday Jun 01, 2019
The depths of the psyche irrupted in Jung with tremendous force. But he found that ore from which he alchemised the gold of his creations. It came from an inexhaustible seam where psyche means cosmos and buried so deep and under such pressure that it was dangerous to approach. But his daemon drove him and he unravelled the secret of bringing it to the surface, at first hot white and liquid but then transformed through symbol on its long journey from the interior.
The underlying philosophy upon which these podcasts are based is in the following book and can be obtained at the link below:
The Sower and the Seed
Reflections on the Development of Consciousness
(Karnac Books 2015)

Saturday May 18, 2019
S2.Ep 7. Jung: Introverted Mystic
Saturday May 18, 2019
Saturday May 18, 2019
We examine Chapters 8 and 9 of Memories,Dreams, Reflections which tell of the building of his Tower at Bolligen, Lake Zurich, and his travels to find a non-European perspective on himself and Western civilization.

Saturday May 04, 2019
S2.Ep 6. Jung: The Wounded Visionary
Saturday May 04, 2019
Saturday May 04, 2019
Jung and the recovery of the soul: the first of a series on Carl Jung, his life, thought, formation of a school of psychotherapy, and contribution to Western civilization.

Saturday Apr 20, 2019
S2. Ep 5. Richard Dawkins:The God Delusion
Saturday Apr 20, 2019
Saturday Apr 20, 2019
We critically explore a humanist vision that argues there is almost certainly no God, that evolution and natural selection are the only plausible explanations for the universe and ourselves, that religions have caused enormous damage, and that our ethical systems should be forged from reason.
"When one person suffers a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer a delusion it is called religion". Richard Dawkins.

Saturday Apr 06, 2019
S2.Ep 4. James Locklock: Ecological visionary of our time. Part 2
Saturday Apr 06, 2019
Saturday Apr 06, 2019
"If it be now, tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." (Hamlet: Act 5 Sc.2)

Saturday Mar 23, 2019
S2.Ep 3. James Lovelock: Visionary of the Ecological Crisis. Part 1
Saturday Mar 23, 2019
Saturday Mar 23, 2019
The first of two podcasts on James Lovelock. The evolving ecological crisis is of such gravity as to constitute collective suicide by humanity. This first podcast looks at the theory and evidence.

Saturday Mar 09, 2019
S2.Ep 2. The Quest: Mysticism and Evolution
Saturday Mar 09, 2019
Saturday Mar 09, 2019
This is the first episode in a series that explores great visionaries from across the ages who have changed our history and contemporary world. This episode examines Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - an obscure Jesuit priest of the 20th century who gave a blazing vision of the miracle of evolution and offers an alternative view to the materialist world paradigm which has led us, sleepwalking, into our current crisis.

Saturday Feb 09, 2019
S2.Ep 1. The Quest Series: The Search for Vision in the Evolving Crises of our Times
Saturday Feb 09, 2019
Saturday Feb 09, 2019
The Quest Season about to begin will examine the great visionaries across the ages in order to seek vision for the crises of our times. These are termed the eight horseman of the apocalypse: the conflict of ideas, the economic, political, military, social, ecological and spiritual crises as well as the alteration of human consciousness as it becomes fused with artificial intelligence. The human race stands at a crossroads or at a dead end. Just as individuals suffer wounds and traumas and need healing, so too with the collective and planetary dimensions. We search the world's wisdom traditions in order to heal the wounds of our age and seek meaning and direction in the evolving crises of the 21st century.
The underlying philosophy upon which these podcasts are based is in the following book and can be obtained at the link below:
The Sower and the Seed
Reflections on the Development of Consciousness
(Karnac Books 2015)
Musical extracts in these podcasts taken from:
1. BBC radio 3 recording of Beethoven’s 3rd symphony 2005 and made available on the Internet Archive on a Creative Commons label. https://archive.org/details/BBCSymphony3Beethoven_1
2. The Internet Archive on a Creative Commons label a 1943 Bayreuth recording extract from the end of Wagner’s Gotterdammerung: https://archive.org/details/Goett42bayreuth3/29+-+3.Szene+4+-+Fliegt+heim%2C+ihr+Raben.mp3
The image accompanying these podcasts is The Sower and the Seed which was drawn by Lindsey C. Harris and was incorporated on the front page of the book of that name.

Saturday Jan 26, 2019
S1.Ep 23. The Secret of the Golden Flower 2
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
Saturday Jan 26, 2019
We explore the connection between this ancient Taoist meditation text and the school of Carl Jung. Despite it being an esoteric text it contains a wonderful meditation guide and an entrance into the philosophy of the Far East. It has much to offer modern psychotherapy and those who seek healing in so far as it has a transpersonal dimension and takes seriously the proposition that spiritual practice is of great value in the healing of emotional wounds.
If thou wouldst complete the diamond body without emanations,
Diligently heat the roots of consciousness and life.
Kindle Light in the blessed country ever close at hand,
And, there hidden, let thy true self eternally dwell.
The Book of Consciousness and Life

Saturday Jan 19, 2019
S1.Ep 22. The Secret of the Golden Flower 1
Saturday Jan 19, 2019
Saturday Jan 19, 2019
The history, metaphysics, and spirtual position of this ancient Taoist text is described. It has an ancient Chinese style which is inherently mysterious, symbolic, and elusive yet it has within its pages a secret of spirtual transformation that is inherently facinating and has stood the test of time.
The Tao (the Way) is that which exists through itself; it is the one essence; there is nothing above it; it is the one primal spirit.
Essence and life cannot be seen but are contained in the light of heaven. This light is the Golden Flower, the true energy of the transcendent one which, if attained, brings life, if lost brings death. One may live in the energy and light but not see it as fish live in water but see it not.
"Silently thou fliest upward in the morning".

Saturday Jan 12, 2019
S1.Ep 21. Questions and Responses on healing - 2
Saturday Jan 12, 2019
Saturday Jan 12, 2019
THE NATURE OF HEALING INTELLIGENCE
Can religions be integrated with a spiritually orientated psychotherapy? Are there psychological skills favouring healing? What is the role of the psychotherapist in this healing process? Is psychotherapy necessary for healing to take place? Can psychotherapy block the healing process? Can all wounds be healed? What is the wounded healer? Can psychotherapy benefit those on a spiritual path? How is healing connected with individuation and wholeness? What has love and death got to do with it?
The book upon which these podcasts are based is:
Healing Intelligence:The Spirit in Psychotherapy
Working with Darkness and Light.
(Karnac Books 2012). It can be otained at https://rb.gy/v4vntt

Saturday Jan 05, 2019
S1.Ep 20. Questions and Responses on Healing - 1
Saturday Jan 05, 2019
Saturday Jan 05, 2019
My initial question (how does healing work in psychotherapy?) and subsequent search has really turned into a longer series of other questions each of which could be broken down into further questions themselves. Let me add the obvious. The ultimate answer will never be given; but like the pearl of great price it might be intuited, approximated, and hopefully lived. Our knowledge in this field is necessarily limited; one can only reach so far into the unconscious, like wading out from the shore of an ocean.

Saturday Dec 29, 2018
S1.Ep 19. Integration of the Spirit in Psychotherapy
Saturday Dec 29, 2018
Saturday Dec 29, 2018
The sweetness of the desert breeze
You can’t grasp in your hands.
She’s like the waters of the Nile,
She comes from other lands.
The Sower and the Seed - Isis poem

Saturday Dec 22, 2018
S1.Ep 18. Empathic resonance in the field of therapist and client
Saturday Dec 22, 2018
Saturday Dec 22, 2018
There may emerge unusual features once the inter-subjective field is activated. A field is an area of influence and a shared field is where two psyches, apparently separate, have temporarily dropped their boundaries and a non-verbal sharing of experience, sometimes in the form of images, sometimes with voices, takes place. This is a manifestation of healing, not belonging to an individual psyche; it is the intelligence that organises the field itself.
It is often said that therapists should have empathy. But what is this capacity to enter into the emotions of another and feel things from their point of view? And are there different grades or qualities of empathy? This podcast will provide a perspective and suggest some answers to this important question.

Saturday Dec 15, 2018
S1.Ep 17. How healing Intelligence works in the psyche and how we resist it.
Saturday Dec 15, 2018
Saturday Dec 15, 2018
The cosmic principle of the opposites of creation and destruction, life and death as illustrated in Hindu metaphysics with the dancing Shiva is played out in psyche in many ways of which healing intelligence versus the forces that undermine it is one manifestation.
Six ways in which healing works in the psyche are described. There are also numerous impediments in our psyche to this wonderful intelligence functioning properly: twelve are outlined.

Saturday Dec 08, 2018
S1.Ep 16. Healing and the subtle body/psyche
Saturday Dec 08, 2018
Saturday Dec 08, 2018
The role of the therapist in the healing process is rarely one of distance and anonymity. It is one respecting proper clinical boundaries but there are important times when there is co-evolution and mixing of psyches at a deep level and healing intelligence is activated, stimulated and shared. It is useful to think of the Self, the inner directing centre of an individual, as having shared-field properties – not a personal possession but a manifestation of the collective unconscious

Saturday Dec 01, 2018
S1. Ep 15. Healing intelligence, consciousness and the ego
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
Saturday Dec 01, 2018
Healing intelligence is integral to the complete functioning of the healthy psyche. It requires the cooperation of consciousness itself, which, when orientated towards healing, is aligned to the deeper psyche, learns from it, but can question it and engage in a healthy dialogue which is transformative for both consciousness and the unconsciousness.
The practitioner needs to be aware of the crucial yet variable importance of the ego and of consciousness at each stage of the transformation process and healing journey and be able to judge whether the ego and its defences need challenge or support. However, it is their challenging and dismantling which leads to healing intelligence being released.
The book upon which these podcasts are based is:
Healing Intelligence:The Spirit in Psychotherapy - Working with Darkness and Light.
(Karnac Books 2012). It can be otained at https://rb.gy/v4vntt

Saturday Nov 24, 2018
S1.Ep 14. The potency of the healing force in the psyche
Saturday Nov 24, 2018
Saturday Nov 24, 2018
The vitality of healing intelligence determines the capacity of a wounded area to heal itself. This energy may be thought of as potency two characteristics of which are:
Expressiveness - the capacity of the psyche, suffering a wound, complex or trauma to express its pain in a healthy and effective manner.
Receptivity - the capacity of the wounded psyche to listen and be open.
While healing intelligence is an expression of the wholeness of the psyche, it is intimately bound up with numerous healthy character components, some of which are constitutional, some the result of early conditioning, some the result of training, and others Self-forged.

Saturday Nov 17, 2018
S1.Ep 13. The wound that won't heal
Saturday Nov 17, 2018
Saturday Nov 17, 2018
Therapy is not always successful; the deep psyche is not always accessible and even when it is, healing is not guaranteed. Transpersonal vision may be possible but the psyche may not have the capacity to integrate its meaning and energy. Sometimes, parts of the emotional structure are damaged and cannot heal, no matter how heroic the efforts.

Sunday Nov 11, 2018
S1.Ep 12. Integration and the movement to a new centre of the psyche
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Sunday Nov 11, 2018
Integration implies character re-formation, a change in identity structure. This requires greater access to the underlying emotional structure underpinning the ego, which undergoes change thereby stimulating character reform and development. What begins and sustains this change is the power of awareness. Self-reflectivity is the essence of the process. This is the normal but extra-ordinary process of psychotherapy, which seeks, therefore, to reinforce self-awareness by becoming more conscious of the underlying emotional structure, its complexes, difficulties, and healing possibilities. The work of personal development necessitates an intense process of integration which takes time, effort, and considerable courage. Quick solutions are rarely available, especially when the emotional wounds are serious.