by Joseph Lee | Feb 18, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: John Towner via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_151-Truth-v2.mp3 Subjective truths yield multiple realities—political and religious truths famously differ. Objective truths rely on independent realities—two plus two must...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 11, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_150-Facing-Feelings.mp3 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...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 8, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Sean Benesh via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_145-Willpower.mp3 The ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape the rule...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 31, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_144-Female-v2.mp3 Myths and fairy tales depict female initiations into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) into the underworld; Snow White choked on a poisoned apple and lay in stasis;...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 17, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Madonna and Child by an anonymous Northern Italian Artist https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_142-Divine_Child.mp3 Fear 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...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 10, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Johannes Plenio via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_141-Fantasy.mp3 Is fantasizing helpful or harmful? Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the...