A Collision Course With Life

In this episode:
I delve into the character of Captain Ahab. Ahab is a tragic figure who draws his whole crew into the orbit of his psychological atmosphere. I go on to look at the tension between the will of the ego and the will of fate and discuss the hard work involved in becoming conscious.

Sources for quotes and more:

1. 'Moby-Dick' by Herman Melville (Chapter 16: The Ship; Chapter 20: All Astir; Chapter 28: Ahab; Chapter 51: The Spirit-Spout) 
2. S4, Ep. 2: Outcasts of the Spirit
3. 1 Kings 16:30 (NIV)
4. 'A Pregnant Allegory,' Review of Moby-Dick by George Ripley (Norton Edition)
5. 'The Tragedy of Macbeth' by William Shakespeare
6. 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
7. 'Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self' by C.G. Jung (CW9ii)
8. S4, Ep. 6 - Moby-Dick: An American Myth, part 1
9. 'Two Essays on Analytical Psychology' by C.G. Jung (CW7)
10. 'Psychology and Alchemy' by C.G. Jung (CW12)

Music:
"Dreaming Days," "Slow Vibing," and "The Return" by Ketsa are licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

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For more on living a symbolic life:
Please check out my book, Religious but Not Religious: Living a Symbolic Life.