by Joseph Lee | Oct 29, 2020 | Cultural Currents
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_135-Horror.mp3 Why can’t we look away? The hair on the back of our necks bristles in response to the horrors of the uncanny. Transfixed by shock, awe, dread and fascination, we can neither dare the dangerous...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 3, 2020 | Cultural Currents
In times of uncertainty truth is hard to discern, collective cohesion frays, and social factions become embattled. Unmediated shadow then seeks expression through the archetypal realm and takes on extra-ordinary attributes. Persecutory mythologies arise, for big...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 27, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_126-Money-v3-d.mp3 Money reflects our shadows and strengths as much as our bank accounts. Like Hermes, money traverses the realms from Hades to Heaven–money can be a matter of survival, and money can turn...
by Lisa Marchiano | Jul 30, 2020 | Cultural Currents
Masks are the symbol of COVID life, and they have archetypal roots as old as humankind. We ward off evil microbial forces with bandanas, neck gaiters, patterned fabrics, and high filtration medical masks. Masks provide access to our shape-shifting potential,...
by thisjungian | Jun 11, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Guests
Racial injustice takes one’s breath away. It reaches back to the psychic asphyxiations of the Middle Passage, slavery, and Jim Crow—cut-offs from home, family, freedom and justice. Racism persists in systemic inequities and ongoing instances of police...
by thisjungian | Jun 4, 2020 | Cultural Currents
How can we understand the psychological wild fire of rioting? Jung, who lived through two world wars, understood that mass movements had the power to manifest archetypal energy. The urge to unleash destructive chaos is depicted in mythologies around the world. Early...