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

In her 1984 book, Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives, psychiatrist and Jungian analyst Jean Shinoda Bolen delves into seven feminine archetypes within woman’s psyche, based on the goddesses of ancient Greece, whose names and mythologies have endured for more than three thousand years. Myths are not mere fictitious stories or fantasies of the human mind, but perennially recurring patterns that describe fundamental concerns of the human condition. What fulfils one woman may mean little to another, depending on which feminine archetype is constellated (or activated). Knowledge of the feminine archetypes provides women with vital information about their psychological difficulties, allowing them not just to understand themselves, but also their relationship with others. They also explain some of the difficulties and affinities women have with men. Knowledge of the “goddesses” provides useful information for men too. Men who want to understand women better can use feminine archetypes to learn that there are different types of women and what to expect from them. When you recognise the forces influencing you, you move closer to fulfilling the age-old maxim, “know thyself.” If you can learn about your own patterns of being, you can save yourself from some suffering. 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛒 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Official merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives https://amzn.to/4ewYjU1 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 2:56 Goddesses in Everywoman 4:08 The Seven Feminine Archetypes 5:20 Identification and Integration of Archetypes 6:06 The Virgin Goddesses: Artemis, Athena, Hestia 7:20 Artemis: Goddess of the Hunt and Moon 11:57 The Shadow of Artemis 13:37 Athena: Goddess of Wisdom and Crafts 17:38 The Shadow of Athena 19:43 Hestia: Goddess of the Hearth 23:31 The Shadow of Hestia 24:49 The Vulnerable Goddesses 26:15 Hera: Goddess of Marriage 29:18 The Shadow of Hera 32:11 Demeter: Goddess of Grain 34:41 The Shadow of Demeter 36:49 Persephone: Maiden and Queen of the Underworld 38:14 The Shadow of Persephone 41:55 The Transformative Goddess 43:31 Aphrodite: Goddess of Love and Beauty 45:10 The Shadow of Aphrodite 47:10 Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain

The crisis in mature masculinity is very much upon us. Men feel anxious, on the verge of feeling impotent, helpless, frustrated, unloved, unappreciated, and often ashamed of being masculine. Something vital is missing in the many lives of men. For students of mythology and Jungian psychology, there is hope. The external deficiencies we face—absent fathers, immature role models, a lack of meaningful rituals, and the scarcity of ritual elders—can be overcome if we look within ourselves, and turn towards the archetypes of the mature masculine within our unconscious. In King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette explore the difference between Boy psychology or the archetypes of immature masculinity and Man psychology or the archetypes of mature masculinity, as well as their shadow sides. “The more beautiful, competent, and creative we become, the more we seem to invite the hostility of our superiors, or even of our peers. What we are really being attacked by is the immaturity in human beings who are terrified of our advances on the road toward masculine or feminine fullness of being.” 🛒 ⁠⁠⁠⁠Official merch⁠⁠⁠⁠ ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine https://amzn.to/3BJI1cz 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ ⁠⁠⁠https://amzn.to/332zPzN⁠⁠⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:26 Absence of Rituals 1:55 Patriarchy 3:33 The Crisis in Mature Masculinity 6:00 The Immature Masculine Archetypes 7:07 Accessing The Archetype in its Fullness 7:42 The Divine Child 10:21 The Shadow of The Divine Child 13:00 The Precocious Child 13:53 The Shadow of The Precocious Child 15:40 The Oedipal Child 17:00 The Shadow of The Oedipal Child 18:40 The Hero 21:00 The Shadow Side of The Hero 22:13 The Mature Masculine Archetypes 22:50 The King 25:55 The Shadow of The King 27:24 Accessing The King 28:00 The Warrior 32:00 The Shadow of The Warrior 33:33 Accessing the Warrior 33:58 The Magician 35:58 The Shadow of The Magician 37:10 Accessing The Magician 38:12 The Lover 40:25 The Shadow of The Lover 42:50 Accessing the Lover 43:37 Techniques 46:08 Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain

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.

Animals have been an integral part of human existence since our earliest origins. They are deeply ingrained within us and play a crucial role in the unconscious. In various religions, animals are revered as gods. Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Carl Jung frequently remarked that animals embodied the divine aspect of the human psyche. He wrote a bold statement for a thinker of his era, "Even domestic animals, to whom we erroneously deny a conscience, have complexes and moral reactions.” We belong to the animal kingdom, and knowing this is part of the individuation process, the journey towards wholeness. Yet, we seem to have forgotten our roots. The animal is a symbol of the Self. It embodies the complete wisdom of nature yet does not possess the light of human consciousness. Animals are deeply connected to a “secret” order within nature itself and the absolute knowledge of the unconscious, living according to their own inner laws beyond human notions of good and evil. Animals live exactly as they were meant to live, and grasp a sense of wholeness instinctively, rather than intellectually. They are the ones who can lead us to this source of natural life. 🛒 ⁠⁠Official merch⁠⁠ ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:45) Animals: The Divine Side of The Human Psyche (7:42) Animals in the Unconscious (8:46) Our Animal Instincts and Symbolic Animals (12:08) The Helpful Animal Motif (15:36) The Archetypal Symbolism of Animals (18:05) The Psychology of The Cat (25:50) The Psychology of The Dog (33:53) The Psychology of The Horse (37:35) The Psychology of The Bull and Cow (40:30) The Psychology of The Lion (45:43) The Psychology of The Serpent (58:05) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Archetypal Symbolism in Animals – Barbara Hannah https://amzn.to/3AaM1lW ▶ Grimm’s Fairy Tales https://amzn.to/3WwtBDk ▶ The Interpretation of Fairy Tales – Marie-Louise von Franz https://amzn.to/3yxI8qt ▶ Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales – Marie-Louise von Franz https://amzn.to/3Wm2ta4 ▶ The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption – Marie-Louise von Franz https://amzn.to/3ya7Z80 ▶ Animal Presences: Uniform Edition of the Writings of James Hillman, Vol. 9 https://amzn.to/3Wwgylq ▶ Aesop’s Tales https://amzn.to/4fqrhGO ▶ Medieval Book of Beasts https://amzn.to/4foDzPT 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ ⁠https://amzn.to/332zPzN⁠ As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain

Strange sightings have been reported in the sky throughout history. After the Second World War, however, the appearance of UFOs became prominent in culture. Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung studied the UFO phenomenon for more than a decade until his death in 1961. He wrote a book entitled Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, where he saw UFOs as a living myth for modern man, stating that we have the golden opportunity of seeing how a legend is formed, and how in a difficult and dark time for humanity a miraculous tale grows up of an attempted intervention by superior or “heavenly” beings. Jung’s field of interest is the human reaction to the phenomena, an effort to understand the complex working of our interior life, as this is revealed through the UFO phenomenon. UFOs are visionary rumours whose basis is an emotional tension having its cause in a situation of collective distress or danger, or in a vital psychic need – shedding light on the psychic compensation of the collective fear weighing on our hearts. UFOs have become a saviour myth, as we have projected on them a hope, an expectation. They express the symbol of totality represented by the mandala, the archetype of the Self, whose chief role is in uniting apparently irreconcilable opposites and is therefore best suited to compensate the split-mindedness of our age, bringing order and regulation to chaotic states. 🛒 ⁠Official merch⁠ ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (3:32) UFOs as Visionary Rumours and Collective Visions (5:56) UFOs as Collective Distress and Mass Hysteria (7:30) UFOs as Saviour Myth (10:02) UFOs as Living Myth (12:29) Folklore and UFOs (16:30) Collective Dream (17:17) Messengers of Deception (19:19) Religion and UFOs (20:05) Ontological Shock and The Absurd (21:00) Psychic Aspects of UFOs (28:45) Unus Mundus: Psyche and Matter (30:55) Crop Circles and Archetypal Feminine (35:36) The Physical Existence of UFOs (37:15) The Case of Orfeo (44:53) UFOs and The Age of Aquarius (49:10) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3RRw8GL ▶ Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers - Jacques Vallée https://amzn.to/3W3el1X ▶ Crop Circles, Jung, and the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine - Gary S. Bobroff https://amzn.to/3RQUYH3 ▶ Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults - Jacques Vallée https://amzn.to/3VNU0fH ▶ American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology - Diana Pasulka https://amzn.to/4cHVNtI ▶ Wonders in the Skies: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times - Jacques Vallée https://amzn.to/4cJjS30 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain

Since early childhood, Carl Jung experienced paranormal phenomena, that is, phenomena that are beyond the scope of scientific understanding. They were virtually commonplace in Jung’s family. Jung’s personal experiences with the paranormal would set him on a quest to find an explanation of these events with his theory of analytical psychology, as well as sparking his interest in parapsychology, the study of psychic or paranormal phenomena, especially regarding extrasensory perception or ESP (precognition, clairvoyance, telepathy, intuition, etc). Jung attended séances which formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation published in 1902, entitled On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena. Jung admits that his period of the séances with his medium cousin contained the origin of all his ideas. He had discovered some objective facts about the human psyche. From then on, Jung got his first glimpse of the fact that there was another world (the unconscious) which had a life of its own quite apart from the life of consciousness. 🛒 Official merch ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (0:53) The Paranormal in Jung’s Family (4:43) Séances and Occult Phenomena (12:22) Confrontation with The Unconscious and Synchronicity (16:09) Visions and Altered States (21:22) The Seven Sermons of the Dead (23:30) Jung's First Mandala: Systema Munditotius (24:36) The Voice of the Dead (26:58) Jung’s Paranormal and Parapsychological Experiences (37:26) Rationalism and Superstition (39:13) The Psychological Foundations of Belief in Spirits (41:56) On The Reality of Spirits (46:26) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ Memories, Dreams, Reflections - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3waQbIJ ▶ Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung: by Aniela Jaffé from conversations with Jung https://amzn.to/4bFphZ5 ▶ Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3V2vaIG ▶ The Zofingia Lectures - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/4bGr5kp ▶ The Red Book - Carl Jung https://amzn.to/3V6HB6a ▶ Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal - Roderick Main (Editor) https://amzn.to/4e59ZP0 🎧 Prefer Audiobooks? Get a 30-day Audible Plus FREE trial: ▶ https://amzn.to/332zPzN As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission from qualifying purchases at no additional cost to you. Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain

The villain is the most captivating and intriguing of all archetypes. The hero would not exist without his darker counterpart, which reflects aspects of ourselves that we do not dare to acknowledge or confront, but which are present within all of us. 🛒 ⁠Official merch⁠ ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (1:46) The Meaning of Villain (2:40) The Oldest Form of The Villain (3:18) The Villain Archetype in Literature (11:00) The Superhero (12:26) Sympathy for the Villain (13:17) The Antihero (14:56) The Modern Villain (16:03) The Joker and Hyper-Sanity (19:55) Villains and The Dark Side (21:40) The Villain’s Journey (23:00) The Villain and The Hero (28:22) Villain: Mirror of The Dark Aspects of Humanity (32:56) The Villain Redemption Arc (33:18) The Dark Triad (36:20) The Tyrant (38:26) The Resentful One (40:19) The Traitor (41:30) The Sadist (41:58) The Criminal Mastermind (43:25) The Mad Scientist (43:54) The Jester or Trickster (44:20) The Terrible or Devouring Mother (44:50) The Femme Fatale (45:50) Conclusion ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain

The Magician is the most mysterious and fascinating of all archetypes. He is a person who has gained access to esoteric or occult (hidden) knowledge, bringing the spiritual to the material. Thus, he is an initiate of secret and hidden knowledge of all kinds. As the Emerald Tablet teaches us, “As above, so below, and as below, so above, to accomplish the marvels of the One work.” The Magician is often the mentor or guide to his people, and even to the king. Psychologically, the Magician is the archetype of transformation, transforming old realities into new ones. He is the archetype of self-realisation par excellence. The Magician aids us in our lifelong task of attaining a higher level of consciousness, and of recognising that higher power which is greater than ourselves. 🛒 ⁠Official merch⁠ ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (2:22) Merlin (5:10) Hermes Trismegistus (6:17) Magic: The Shadow of Religion (7:32) Sympathetic Magic (8:30) Magic in Ancient Times (10:53) Grimoires and King Solomon (12:10) Necronomicon (13:00) The Archetype of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice (15:10) Renaissance Magic (18:13) Low Magic and High Magic (18:34) White Magic and Black Magic (20:11) Archetypal Images of the Magician (23:45) The Archetype of the Miracle (25:12) Magician: The Archetype of Transformation (29:29) Mana Personality (30:20) The Shadow Magician (31:50) The Magician and The Trickster (33:36) The Magician in Tarot (35:30) The Magician in Jung’s Red Book (37:18) The Integration of the Magician Archetype Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain

The Wise Old Man or Sage is an archetype that is recognised by almost everyone, be it in stories, games, movies, or everyday life. In myth he is often shown as one living in isolation, meditating and living a simple life deep in a forest, in the mountains, or in other uninhabited places. The Wise Old Man is a lover of wisdom, and uses his experience to guide others. He is portrayed as a mysterious person or a wizard, in contact with nature and the numinous and unseen forces that permeate our existence. The Wise Old man appears as a teacher of wisdom such as King Solomon from the Bible. In Hermeticism, he is Hermes Trismegistus, the fount of all wisdom and the teacher of the mystery of all ages. In China, the sage is Lao Tzu ("old man" or "old master"), the founder of Taoism, while in India there are the sadhus and yogis. In Arthurian Legend he is Merlin, in Nietzsche he appears as the prophet Zarathustra, and in Carl Jung as Philemon. In modern popular fiction we have Yoda, Gandalf and Dumbledore, among others. In the individuation process (the lifelong journey towards psychic wholeness), the archetype of the Wise Old Man is late to emerge, and is therefore seen as an indication of the Self (the total personality). 🛒 ⁠Official merch⁠ ☕ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Donate a coffee⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⭐ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 📨 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps (0:00) Introduction (1:35) The Symbolism of the Desert (3:30) The Hermit and The Wandering Ascetic (5:00) The Wise Old Man Archetype (12:32) Senex and Puer Aeternus (14:47) The Dark Side of The Wise Old Man (18:34) The Wise Old Man and The Hero (19:44) The Dangers of Identifying as The Sage (21:00) The Hermit in Tarot (24:35) The Hermit and The Madman Archetype (27:18) Facing Death in Old Age (28:08) The Forgotten Art of Solitude (32:48) The Sage’s Journey: The Search for Truth (35:20) The Eternal Inner Centre (37:24) The Book of Ecclesiastes: Meaninglessness (38:47) The Truth Shall Set You Free (39:50) Conclusion Thank you for your support. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address: Eternalised P.O. Box 10.011 28080 Madrid, Spain