
Eternalised
In Pursuit of Meaning.
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Aug 26, 2022 • 28min
The Dark World of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka's dark world deals with existentialist themes such as alienation, anxiety, disorientation and the absurd. His work is so original that the term Kafkaesque was coined to describe the nightmarish and bizarre atmosphere of his work. Throughout his works we see the strange dream-like mixture of perplexity and embarrassment play out, and the notion of a grand organisation with its incomprehensible bureaucratic system that hovers invisibly over each helpless individual, taking complete control over one's life.
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(0:00) Introduction
(1:10) The Life of Kafka
(9:20) The Metamorphosis (1915)
(13:59) The Trial (1925)
(23:07) The Castle (1926)
24:29) Conclusion
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Jul 30, 2022 • 53min
Inner Gold - Alchemy and Psychology
Alchemy occupies a unique place in the collective psyche of humankind. Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Jung discovered alchemy and devoted the remaining 30 years of his life to studying it, which he practically dug up from the dunghill of the past, for it was considered pseudoscience, a forgotten relic of history and despised field of investigation which he had suddenly revived.
Alchemy allows one to achieve wholeness of personality, of aligning one’s ego to the Self through a reconnection with the unconscious. For Jung, the task of alchemy was and has always been psychological. The end product is not material in nature, but rather spiritual. Alchemy is the art of expanding consciousness, of self-realisation.
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(0:00) Introduction
(6:33) The Self: Achieving Wholeness
(13:45) The Origins and History of Alchemy
(20:20) The Basics Concepts of Alchemy
(28:54) Alchemy as Psychological Projection
(32:07) The Importance of Symbols
(35:50) The Operations of Alchemy
(42:52) Stages of Alchemy: Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo
(50:03) Conclusion
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Jun 12, 2022 • 32min
The Psychology of Projection
Projection is a psychological fact that can be observed everywhere in the everyday life of human beings. It is an unconscious mechanism where one ascribes one’s own motivations, thoughts, feelings, and desires that are unacceptable to oneself, while attributing them to others. It is a misalignment of the inner and outer world, because what one is inwardly, one will see outwardly.
To really know who we are, we must concern ourselves with correcting such misjudgements. Many people will cling to them with every fibre of their being, because if one accepts correction, one may fall into a depression.
When we find certain unacceptable feelings, thoughts or behaviours in ourselves that we refuse to acknowledge, and see someone with that specific trait, we will feel resentment, hatred and anger towards them. Projection occurs not because of what other people say to you, but rather because of what you yourself think about those people.
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(0:00) Introduction
(2:15) Example of Projection
(6:37) Freud: Mother Complex and Transference
(8:06) Carl Jung on Projection
(9:33) Jung: Shadow Projection
(12:52) Jung: Anima and Animus Projection
(16:18) Projection and Projectile
(19:11) Active and passive projection
(20:54) Introjection
(21:42) Mystical participation
(25:36) Psychological Projection as Inner Gold
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May 23, 2022 • 28min
Synchronicity: Meaningful Patterns in Life
Synchronicity is a term coined by Carl Jung which describes a meaningful patterns or meaningful coincidences of outer and inner events that cannot be causally linked. It occurs with an inwardly perceived event (dream, vision, premonition, thought or mood) is seen to have a correspondence in external reality: the inner image has "come true", bringing meaning to your life.
When Jung was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious, he kept on coming across “coincidences” that were connected so meaningfully, that they broke all statistical probabilities. The culmination of his investigations is covered in his work: Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle.
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(0:00) Introduction
(4:50) Origins of Synchronicity
(8:38) What is Synchronicity?
(10:09) Atom and Archetype: Matter and Psyche
(11:43) Rhine: Extrasensory Perception Experiments
(13:00) Archetypes, Collective Unconscious, Psychoid
(15:54) Examples of Synchronicity
(26:16) Synchronicity at Jung’s death
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May 9, 2022 • 31min
Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious
Explore the fascinating technique of active imagination, a powerful tool to access the unconscious. Discover Carl Jung’s journey through inner turmoil, leading to the creation of the influential Red Book. Engage in dialogue with different parts of yourself and learn how this process aids in self-discovery. The podcast reveals the significance of personalized rituals and how they can illuminate hidden aspects of your psyche. Delve into the transformative journey of understanding yourself, bridging imagination with reality.

Apr 25, 2022 • 26min
Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche
In his book Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche, American author and Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson states that to honour and accept one’s own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime.
In this podcast, we briefly clear up some misconceptions regarding the concept of shadow. It is not our enemy, but our friend. It contains pure gold waiting to be integrated into our personality.
It is not the light element alone that does the healing; the place where light and dark begin to touch is the most profound religious experience we can have in life. The religious task is to restore the wholeness of personality. Religion means to put things back together again, to connect whatever is fractured.
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(0:00) Introduction
(3:12) Misconceptions of the Shadow
(5:20) How the Shadow Originates
(8:35) Balancing Culture and Shadow
(12:39) The Shadow in Projection
(15:04) The Gold in the Shadow
(16:38) The Shadow in Middle Age
(16:59) The Ceremonial World
(17:46) Paradox as Religious Experience
(21:54) The Shadow as Entree to Paradox
(23:02) The Mandorla
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Apr 11, 2022 • 38min
William Blake: The "Madman" Who Saw Another World
William Blake was an English poet and visionary artist whose unique work gives us a glimpse into an entirely different world. His art was ignored and neglected, and few people took his work seriously. He was generally seen as a madman. His vivid imagination, visions and mystical experiences lead him to a spiritual task that was the exploration of his inner self. For Blake, the essence of human existence is imagination.🛒 Official merch☕ Donate a coffee⭐ Support on Patreon📨 Subscribe to newsletter━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) The Life of William Blake(13:16) The Lyrical Poems of William Blake(15:48) Prophetic Books & Mythology (21:35) 1. The Ancient of Days (1794)(22:38) 2. Albion Rose (1794 – 1796)(23:37) 3. Isaac Newton (1795 – 1805)(24:23) 4. Nebuchadnezzar (1795 – 1805)(25:39) 5. The Night of Enitharmon's Joy (1795)(26:31) 6. Satan Exulting over Eve (1795) (27:00) 7. The Good and Evil Angels (1795 – 1805)(28:13) 8. The Angel of Revelation (1803 – 1805)(28:36) 9. Los Enters the Door of Death (1804-1820)(29:35) 10. The Great Red Dragon Paintings (1805 – 1810)(31:20) 11. The Man Who Taught Blake Painting in his Dreams (1819 – 1820)(31:44) 12. The Ghost of a Flea (1819 – 1820)(32:58) 13. Elisha In The Chamber On The Wall (1820)(33:30) 14. The Spectre over Los (1821)(34:38) 15. The Inscription over the Gate (1824 - 1827)(36:18) 16. Behemoth and Leviathan (1825)(36:41) How Blake's Art Can Help Us━━━━━━━━━━━━━✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address:EternalisedP.O. Box 10.01128080 Madrid, Spain

Mar 25, 2022 • 32min
The Dark Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German Philosopher born in 1788 known for his dark pessimistic philosophical reflections.
For Schopenhauer, the underlying force of reality is the Will (also called will to live or will to life), which is the essence of existence. It is an unconscious and blind desire that restlessly strives for more activity. The will is the tornado that swirls inside of us and throws us from one place to the other, it is the source of our insatiable appetite that results in strife and misery.
Schopenhauer’s writing is far from the sterile and academic German of the time, his work is straight-forward, colloquial, concrete, full of metaphors and anecdotes. His philosophy sent him on a quest for tranquility and peace of mind. He offers as alternatives the denial of the will, the wisdom of life through philosophy, aesthetics and ethics.
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(0:00) Introduction: Arthur Schopenhauer
(7:47) The World as Will and Representation
(15:07) The Will to Reproduce
(16:36) The World as Evil
(22:52) The Denial of the Will
(25:11) Philosophy: The Wisdom of Life
(27:32) Aesthetics
(30:45) Ethics
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Mar 11, 2022 • 21min
How Facing Nothingness Can Transform Your Life
Nothingness is generally considered to be analogous with death and extinction which every healthy living instinct wants to avoid. Many find the notion of nothingness unfathomable. Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani, however, was convinced that the way out of nihilism, that which renders meaningless the meaning of life, could only be reached by gazing into the abyss itself. Nishitani understands human existence as consisting in three fields: consciousness, nihility and emptiness. Nihility is as part of the fabric of reality as Being is, it is relative nothingness, and emptiness is absolute nothingness, where the “absolute negation” as the negation of negation becomes the “great affirmation”. In the openness of śūnyatā realised by nihility overcoming itself, one completely oversteps the confines of self-consciousness and comes to be free of egocentrism, anthropocentrism and even theocentrism, thus allowing ultimate reality to manifest itself in all its fullness. We will be focusing on two important works of Nishitani: The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism and Religion and Nothingness.📨 Subscribe to newsletter☕ Donate a coffee⭐ Support on Patreon✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address:EternalisedP.O. Box 10.01128080 Madrid, Spain━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: Keiji Nishitani(4:24) The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism(8:12) Religion and Nothingness(14:36) Consciousness, Nihility, Emptiness(19:13) Cosmic Individual

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Feb 24, 2022 • 21min
The 3 Anxieties That Control Your Life: Death, Guilt, Meaninglessness
While lecturing on anxiety, Christian existentialist philosopher Paul Tillich noticed that there was an enormous response in the post-war era, especially in the younger people, and he sought to give an answer to the growing anxiety which had developed. The aftereffects of the two World Wars had left the world in a state of disorientation, estrangement, anxiety and meaninglessness.Tillich tells us that there are three types of anxiety: anxiety of death which is tied to the unpredictability of fate (ontic anxiety) anxiety of guilt and condemnation which is linked to the failure to live up to our ideal (moral anxiety), and anxiety of emptiness and meaninglessness, when what one had found most meaningful in life is transformed into indifference or aversion (spiritual anxiety).📨 Subscribe to newsletter☕ Donate a coffee⭐ Support on Patreon✉️ Send me anything you like to my mailing address:EternalisedP.O. Box 10.01128080 Madrid, Spain━━━━━━━━━━━━━⌛ Timestamps(0:00) Introduction: Paul Tillich(3:17) Method of Correlation(4:02) The Courage to Be: Introduction(5:49) The Courage to Be: Anxiety(11:30) The Courage to Be: Participation and Individualisation(13:12) The Ground of Being(14:20) Symbols (16:17) The Ultimate Concern