Eternalised

Creativity is a deeply personal journey of bringing one's true self to life, often hindered by fear or conformity. Unused creative potential can lead to psychological struggles. Genuine creativity involves sacrifice and inner conflict, with joy emerging from the pursuit of one's authentic potential. Artists serve as societal mirrors, reflecting the zeitgeist through their work. The process can demand confronting one's inner critic, exploring childhood patterns, and balancing personal meaning with external pressures. Ultimately, embracing suffering and transformation is essential for true individuation.

The archetype of the Wanderer appears as a figure of profound loneliness, who drifts through life without a fixed home or direction, restless in the search for purpose and belonging. He has far-sickness, a deep longing for distant places and the hope of eventually finding a place on earth where he truly feels at home. The Wanderer longs for home, yet feels at home nowhere, dwelling in a liminal space between past and present, the familiar and the unknown, echoing what Lovecraft wrote: “I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men.”If there is one key characteristic of the Wanderer, it is restlessness, which appears as a constant need to chase the next thing, whether it be in the outer world. Once something is achieved, the Wanderer is no longer satisfied, and seeks something else, ad infinitum. This insatiable desire is the cause of much of our suffering. One could say that the Wanderer cannot commit to anything, but he is certainly committed to wandering. After a long period of aimless wandering, one may finally commit to the inner journey, and the archetype of the Seeker becomes constellated, beginning the search for one’s soul. The focus of life shifts from external achievements and aimless wandering to the pursuit of self-realisation and theosis (union with God).📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🛒 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Official merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Recommended Reading▶ Awakening the Heroes Within - Carol S. Pearsonhttps://amzn.to/4n6iI7m▶ Either/Or - Kierkegaardhttps://amzn.to/46ltGR6▶ Divine Comedy - Dantehttps://amzn.to/47R1Flc▶ The Tibetan Book of the Deadhttps://amzn.to/4pvuud3▶ Zombies in Western Culture - John Vervaekehttps://amzn.to/4goz1tI▶ The Red Book - Junghttps://amzn.to/4nCzCdW▶ Praktikos - Evagrius Ponticushttps://amzn.to/3Vgmq2b▶ The Cherubinic Wanderer - Angelus Silesiushttps://amzn.to/4mh5pQc▶ C.W. Vol. 6: Niklaus Von Flüe And Saint Perpetua - Marie-Louise von Franzhttps://amzn.to/4pp1Kmj▶ Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzschehttps://amzn.to/46EvBjh▶ The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself https://amzn.to/3I0gffJ🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzNAs an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps0:00 Introduction3:25 Lack of Belonging4:50 The Meaning of Wanderer5:08 Ronin5:50 Far-Sickness 6:49 Restlessness and Insatiable Desire10:45 Boredom: Our Worst Enemy12:23 Digital Wanderer14:55 The Realm of Hungry Ghosts16:21 Lukewarm Souls and Limbo17:41 Inner Yearning, Existential Crisis, Lifelessness20:42 The Grey Life: Inner Death21:15 The Archetype of the Zombie23:00 The Path of Exile and Loneliness26:08 Buddha: The Awakened One27:25 The Seeker Archetype: In Search of the Soul35:58 Acedia: Spiritual Restlessness37:25 Shadow Seeker39:41 In Filth It Will Be Found41:05 The Monster You Fear Becomes the Saviour You Need41:58 Individualism and Individuation (The Self)43:25 Balancing Inner and Outer World48:20 The Ultimate Union of Opposites: Physical and Spiritual

While Death may appear at times terrifying and at other times playful, those he summons almost always tremble with fear. All except one: the Fool. He joins the dance with a smile, laughing at the absurdity of it all. To him, the world is a theatre, and all men and women merely actors, each wearing different social masks to play their roles in society.There is something in the fool that Death appears to admire, something he seeks to imitate. Death, too, likes to play tricks. He does not always come as grim and serious, but often laughing, and dancing, mimicking the fool. Both laugh at human pretensions and the illusion of control over life, bringing down the proud and powerful whenever possible. Death’s unsettling grin mirrors the fool’s vacant smile or raucous laughter. Together, they embody two universal conditions that many prefer to ignore: mortality and folly. As “truth-tellers”, they show the hard truths hiding beneath everyday life.The fool’s joy in life dares to challenge Death’s dominion. Though Death always triumphs, it is never without a fierce struggle to overcome one of his most stubborn victims. For the fool embodies life, not death. He laughs at Death, and Death laughs back, but the fool still dances along the track.The fool dancing with death represents the union of opposites, life and death, wisdom and folly—a characteristic of the Self. When we stop seeing contradiction and start recognising paradox, something within us begins to heal. When the opposites are united, bliss arises. This is the true transcendent experience.“There is a mystical fool in me that proved to be stronger than all my science.” - Carl Jung📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🛒 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Official merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Recommended Reading▶ Either/Or - Kierkegaardhttps://amzn.to/46ltGR6▶ The Top Five Regrets of The Dying – Bronnie Warehttps://amzn.to/4f0Jpr3▶ Twelfth Night – Shakespearehttps://amzn.to/46Efq6f▶ Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Nietzschehttps://amzn.to/46m7M06▶ The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales https://amzn.to/415wX3j▶ The Idiot - Dostoevskyhttps://amzn.to/3IX3Ade▶ Tarot and the Archetypal Journey: The Jungian Path from Darkness to Light – Nicholshttps://amzn.to/4lHLxqf🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps0:00 Introduction0:35 Memento Mori3:32 The World is a Theatre5:02 Laughter and Tragedy9:08 Regrets of the Dying, Unlived Life, Persona11:41 Archetypal Images of the Fool12:09 Buffoon12:56 Court Jester14:42 Trickster15:26 Clown17:33 Joker 18:56 Wise Fool19:56 Madness, Folly, Wisdom21:14 Physical Deformity as Divine Gift21:59 Natural Fool25:47 Holy Fool27:36 Self-Transforming Machine Elves28:40 The Purpose of the Fool30:41 The Fool Dances with Death33:35 Union of Opposites and Eternal Now35:04 Dance of Bliss and Maya36:45 Lila (Divine Play)38:21 The Great Cosmic Joke41:43 The Fool’s Journey44:13 The Fool as Paradox45:33 The Transcendent Experience46:51 The Fool Meets Death49:33 Conclusion

“I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” These profound words by St. Paul express the struggle between the desire to do good and the inability to carry it out, due to the power of sin within human nature. The misalignment between our intentions and our actions is part of our daily life. For example, we may know that we love someone deeply, yet find ourselves acting with wrath towards that person. We want to be humble, but fall into pride. We intend to work hard or study, but give in to sloth. This lack of self-control reveals an inner split, an age-old problem that lies at the heart of the human condition. It is more than mere weakness; it is a symptom of sin. But sin is not just the breaking of moral rules. It is a rupture in our very being, a loss of inner harmony. Since this condition is something we all share, it cannot merely be seen as a personal sickness but as a universal aspect of the human condition.📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🛒 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Official merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Recommended Reading▶ Poetics - Aristotlehttps://amzn.to/4037U0i▶ Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotlehttps://amzn.to/4kFLYRk▶ ESV Biblehttps://amzn.to/45gxDWJ▶ The Divine Comedy - Dante Alighierihttps://amzn.to/3SPbF5M▶ Faust - Goethehttps://amzn.to/3HFzYAC▶ Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Junghttps://amzn.to/3HQqKS2▶ Projection and Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul - M.L. von Franzhttps://amzn.to/3FLIYUn▶ C.W. Vol. 11: Psychology and Religion - Carl Junghttps://amzn.to/4dVu8XS▶ C.W. Vol. 12: Psychology and Alchemy - Carl Junghttps://amzn.to/3SJrbjz▶ Studies in Hysteria - Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuerhttps://amzn.to/3HDktcr🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps0:00 Introduction1:30 Inner Split and Sin2:41 Hubris, Hamartia, Akrasia4:59 St. Paul: Flesh and Spirit5:48 The Meaning of Sin: To Miss the Mark7:46 Types of Sin10:25 The Worst Sins12:10 The Vicious Cycle of Sin14:56 The Cry of the Soul for Growth16:46 Neurosis: State of Disunity18:00 Projection, Shadow, Sin22:14 Sin Against Your Own Individuality23:20 Sins You Deny, Control You25:58 Catharsis28:10 The Journey from Brokenness to Wholeness31:27 Christian Spiritual Journey32:30 The Psychology of Confession and Secrets41:37 The Greatest Sin: Unconsciousness

Explore the emotional tumult faced by a prominent psychologist as he dives into God’s dark side and the paradox of faith in suffering through the story of Job. Unravel the complexities of divine justice and the idea that love and fear coexist within the divine. Discover Jung's insights on biblical visions and their psychological implications, including the balance between consciousness and darkness. The discussion illuminates the cosmic battle between light and darkness, encouraging a deeper understanding of our spiritual journeys.

Carl Jung published his book Psychological Types in 1921, introducing four functions of consciousness: thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition, and the two attitudes through which these four functions are deployed: introversion and extraversion. Jung’s functions follow a fourfold structure, which is typical of the archetype of the Self. We are dealing with the archetype of the differentiation of consciousness, which helps you to become who you are meant to be. Jung combined function types and attitude types to describe, in turn, eight function-attitudes. These were the psychological types in Jung’s original description. However, very few of us, even among psychologists, can recognise the eight function-attitudes described by Jung.Jungian psychologist John Beebe expands on Jung’s work on types, extending the fourfold model to an eightfold model of personality, as well as associating an archetype with each type. The first four archetypes are: the hero/heroine, the father/mother, the puer aeternus/puella aeterna, and the anima/animus. These are ego-syntonic, as they align harmoniously with the needs and goals of the ego. As for the other four function-attitudes, we enter the realm of the shadow, or the ego-dystonic personality, which includes: the opposing personality, the senex/witch, the trickster and the demonic/daimonic personality.We may see these eight archetypes as different personalities within the vast theatre of the unconscious. They too have a role to play in our lives, seeking to express themselves outwardly. It is by integrating these archetypes of the collective unconscious that we truly become an individual. This process is at the heart of individuation. It is the journey of discovering your essence—who you were meant to be. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate. If we do not gain control over the images within us, we run the risk of them gaining control over us.📖 Personality Types, Astrology, Numbers (eBook) 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠🛒 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Official merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 Recommended Reading▶ C.W. Vol. 6: Psychological Types – Carl Junghttps://amzn.to/3CVSp1V▶ Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type – John Beebehttps://amzn.to/41jUpdJ▶ Lectures on Jung's Typology – M.L. von Franz and James Hillmanhttps://amzn.to/4i13jCC▶ Personality Types: Jung's Model of Typology – Daryl Sharphttps://amzn.to/3EHwUm1🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzNAs an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps0:00 Introduction4:55 Consciousness is the Human Being’s Flower 6:14 The Eight Function-Attitudes7:08 Extraverted Thinking9:03 Extraverted Feeling10:36 Extraverted Sensation12:11 Extraverted Intuition13:37 Introverted Thinking16:08 Introverted Feeling18:37 Introverted Sensation20:46 Introverted Intuition22:35 The Most Difficult Types23:26 A Dinner Party with the Types25:00 Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type 27:16 The Eight-Function, Eight-Archetype Model32:12 Hero/Heroine33:20 Father/Mother35:06 Puer Aeternus/Puella Aeterna36:40 Anima/Animus40:46 Opposing Personality42:41 Senex/Witch45:41 Trickster47:11 Demonic/Daimonic Personality49:32 Conclusion

Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology, dives deep into the journey of self-realization and the unconscious. He shares insights through the lens of childhood dreams and personal experiences, revealing how they shape identity. Jung explores the duality of human nature, emphasizes the importance of understanding the whole person in therapy, and contemplates the role of suffering in life. His reflections lead to profound questions about existence, change, and the continuity of life beyond death.

Explore the fascinating world of feminine archetypes rooted in ancient mythology. Discover how these seven goddesses shape women's identities and relationships. From Artemis' fierce independence to Demeter's nurturing essence, each archetype reveals unique strengths and shadows. Learn about the complexities of Hera's dependency, Persephone's transformative journey, and the creative spirit of Aphrodite. This insightful discussion provides vital tools for understanding oneself and others in the intricate dance of femininity.

Men today grapple with a crisis in mature masculinity, feeling anxious and unappreciated. The absence of rituals and role models stunts emotional growth, leading to immature behavior driven by fear. Delving into archetypes, the discussion contrasts boy psychology with mature masculinity, highlighting crucial figures like the King, Warrior, Magician, and Lover. Each archetype has its shadows, revealing the complexities of male identity. The conversation encourages introspection and the integration of these archetypes to foster balanced, mature masculinity.

Delve into the fascinating symbolism of the labyrinth, an ancient archetype representing life's complex journey. Explore its cultural significance across civilizations like the Minoans and Egyptians, revealing the emotional intricacies navigators face. The discussion touches on the anxiety of choices and the philosophical musings of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, linking labyrinths to the unpredictability of existence. Moreover, the myth of Theseus and the role of Ariadne symbolize the path through chaos, leading to personal transformation and self-discovery.