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This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
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Join us—Lisa, Deb, and Joseph—for sometimes irreverent but potentially life-changing conversations. Every Thursday, we explore culture, relationships, and depth psychology through the lens of Carl Jung. We devote a segment of each episode to analyzing a listener’s dream.

  1. The Labyrinth: Soul’s Winding Journey

    4D AGO

    The Labyrinth: Soul’s Winding Journey

    The labyrinth is a powerful metaphor for psychological development and the path of individuation. This week Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart consider how twists and turns in the path of life (especially in early adulthood), ask us to confront uncertainty, anxiety, and the unknown. Ego may crave a straight, well-planned path, but life inevitably offers something else: a fiendishly difficult labyrinth. If we want to get the most out of the journey, we’ve no choice other than to give it all we’ve got. Through the story of Theseus and the Minotaur, we reflect on the necessity of facing up to our darkness. Ariadne’s thread, which allows Theseus to return after slaying the beast, shows us the vital role of connection in helping us find our way back. We also explore the story of Abhimanyu from the Mahabharata. Abhimanyu’s mother gives him some knowledge of the labyrinth, but doesn’t tell him the way out, leading to tragedy. If we’re going to crack the code and exit the labyrinth, we’ll require a soulful attitude towards life, and the right psycho-spiritual teachings. Finally, we turn to the contemplative labyrinth. This is not a place to escape from, but a path toward the center. Here, the journey becomes one of surrender, reflection, and gradual movement toward wholeness. Read the dream we analyze in full on our website. Connect With This Jungian Life Dream Studio: Our new ⁠Dream School program⁠ on dreams and art starts April 16. Send a ⁠⁠⁠⁠dream⁠⁠⁠⁠ for us to analyze on the show. Check out our TJL ⁠⁠⁠⁠podcast merch⁠⁠⁠⁠. Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠.

    1h 6m
  2. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Swallowed Whole

    4D AGO ·  BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Swallowed Whole

    Hey Subscribers, This week, we're discussing a dream submitted by one of our supporters, a 39-year-old woman who is a CPA: "I'm on an open savanna. A silverback gorilla and a lion run amok. I wasn't afraid of them. But, I was worried when I saw a gorilla charging down a dirt road toward my guy friends. The lion ran straight at me, and I climbed a tree to escape, but it followed me up and swallowed me whole. I didn't feel fear or pain, only acceptance." Thank you for supporting This Jungian Life! ~Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    10 min
  3. LOW ENERGY: Where Can We Source the Drive to Take Action? (Re-Publish)

    APR 9

    LOW ENERGY: Where Can We Source the Drive to Take Action? (Re-Publish)

    Many people just can’t rally to do what’s necessary and improve their lives. Is it possible they just don’t carry much vitality, or is some inner conflict blocking their access? We share personal stories of ‘energy loss’ and offer insights into purposelessness. Carl Jung tells us inner energy flows according to its own laws, but if we can’t harness it? Expect to learn why some people are naturally low-energy, which aspects of your psyche might be leaking energy, how over-aligning with cultural norms can cut off access to instinctive vitality, where we can look for solutions, and much more... SPECIAL NOTE: This is the second dream we've interpreted from this listener. The first interpretation follows. This is an extraordinary opportunity to see how a dream sequence evolves! Read along with our dream interpretations HERE. Connect With This Jungian Life Dream Studio: Our new Dream School program on dreams and art starts April 16. Send a ⁠⁠⁠dream⁠⁠⁠ for us to analyze on the show. Check out our TJL ⁠⁠⁠podcast merch⁠⁠⁠. Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠.

    1h 58m
  4. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] What is the Demon Lover Archetype?

    APR 9 ·  BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] What is the Demon Lover Archetype?

    Hey Patrons, Today we're discussing a question submitted by a supporter: "Can you please discuss the demon lover archetype? Deb made reference to it in the Death Mother episode and I would love to learn more." Thanks for supporting This Jungian Life! ~ Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    20 min
  5. A Jungian Sense of Place: Bollingen and The Tower on the Marsh

    APR 2

    A Jungian Sense of Place: Bollingen and The Tower on the Marsh

    Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz and Christiana Morgan all dedicated time, soul and imagination to a peculiarly Jungian form of architecture: the stone tower. This week host Deborah Stewart is joined by Dr. Martin Gledhill, an architect, author and Jungian scholar, and filmmaker Hilary Morgan, the granddaughter of Christiana Morgan, an eminent American psychologist who collaborated with Jung on some of his most important work. Deb, Martin and Hilary explore Jung’s Bollingen Tower and Christiana Morgan’s Tower on the Marsh, discussing the profound expressions of psyche through place. Both towers render psyche in art, carvings and stone. They are more than just physical places, they are architectural explorations of Self and soul. The two towers are what Martin calls “restless places”: dream-like in ambience, shaped through an ongoing, iterative process, and surrounded by differing, sometimes conflicting, accounts of their evolution. Follow Up Read Martin Gledhill’s book, The Bollingen Tower: Constructing a Jungian Sense of Place Watch (for free) The Tower of Dreams - a film by Hilary Morgan Connect With This Jungian Life Send a ⁠⁠dream⁠⁠ for us to analyze on the show. Check out our TJL ⁠⁠podcast merch⁠⁠. Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠.

    1h 10m
  6. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Treasure in the Dirt

    APR 2 ·  BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Treasure in the Dirt

    Hey Subscribers, This week, we're discussing a dream submitted by one of our supporters, a 39-year-old woman who is a writer: "I am in a massive industrial warehouse. Tiny white mice are helping me scoop a big pile of wet sugar into the cups and teapot of a tiny ceramic tea set. I have the sense we are going to feed this sugar to someone and need the containers to bring it to them. But the cups and teapot are too small to hold it all. One of the mice pulls out a blue plastic wheelbarrow and tells me this is probably too big. But I am excited and say, 'No, this is perfect, we need something bigger.' And I excitedly start piling wet sugar into it and then mixing it up with a little shovel. As I mix it, I turn up damp, dark soil that was at the bottom of the wheelbarrow. And I'm annoyed with myself that I hadn't noticed it was there. I carefully start trying to separate the dirt from the sugar. I want to keep the dirt out. One little mouse sniffs the air delicately as I work and sighs with pleasure. She tells me she loves this smell and she has never smelled it before. I realize with sadness that these mice have lived their whole lives in this warehouse, and they have never been outside, never smelled damp soil. I see the dirt now as something precious and valuable, and I decide to leave it mixed in with the sugar." Thank you for supporting This Jungian Life! ~Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    16 min
  7. The Age of Aquarius: A Jungian View of a Changing World

    MAR 26

    The Age of Aquarius: A Jungian View of a Changing World

    Jung suggested in Aion that humanity is moving from the great symbolic Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius. Join Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, as we ask what it means to live through the turbulence and vitality of this period of transition. Jung pioneered the idea that human consciousness unfolds in great symbolic ages. The shift from one to the next is not a smooth or pleasant experience. As Jung saw it, each new age emerges through a process of decline, breakdown, and renewal, a process that can bring with it frightening levels of destabilization. The Age of Pisces, shaped by Christianity, emphasized faith, morality, and the authority of external structures. But as this era wanes, Jung suggested we are coming under the influence of a new attitude, one that asks more of the individual psyche. This new Age of Aquarius asks us to hold the tension of opposites consciously, rather than splitting experience into simple categories of right and wrong, and to be open to a genuinely new attitude that can contain much greater complexity. We consider whether this emerging age calls us into a deeper interior life, one grounded not in external authority, but in an evolving relationship to the Self. Read the dream we analyze in full on our website. Connect With This Jungian Life Book your place at our ⁠⁠free seminar⁠⁠ on March 28, Your Personal Red Book: A Dream School Taster. Send a ⁠⁠dream⁠⁠ for us to analyze on the show. Check out our TJL ⁠⁠podcast merch⁠⁠. Follow This Jungian Life on ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠.

    1h 30m
  8. [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] A Three-Headed Offering

    MAR 26 ·  BONUS • SUBSCRIBERS ONLY

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] A Three-Headed Offering

    Hey Patrons, This week, we're discussing a dream submitted by one of our supporters, a 33-year-old woman who is a Latin teacher: "I'm sightseeing in the south of the United States with my aunt. She is wearing an ostentatious hat and boots, and she is pointing down towards a canyon. At the bottom, I can see a marvelous city with a golden river. She says, it is Phoenix. All of a sudden, a huge statue made of bronze emerges from within the city and elevates itself before our eyes, then even higher above us. Although it is backwards, I can see that it represents a man, probably a hunter or a shepherd, holding a lamb over his shoulders. Slowly, the statue starts turning on itself. When it is facing us, I see that the lamb is dead and it has three heads." Thank you for supporting This Jungian Life! ~Lisa, Joseph, and Deb

    18 min
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Join us—Lisa, Deb, and Joseph—for sometimes irreverent but potentially life-changing conversations. Every Thursday, we explore culture, relationships, and depth psychology through the lens of Carl Jung. We devote a segment of each episode to analyzing a listener’s dream.

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  • Creator
    Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    525
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
  • Show Website
    This Jungian Life Podcast
  • Provider
    Lisa Marchiano

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