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.

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  1. 23h ago

    Jung’s Feeling Function: How We Know What Matters

    Two people stand at the rim of the Grand Canyon. One is overcome with awe at nature’s grandeur, while the other sees an enormous rift in the landscape. What accounts for the difference? This week, Jungian analyst and scholar JOHN R. WHITE joins Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart to explore Jung’s feeling function, our capacity to discern what matters. One of Jung’s best-known legacies is his categorization of ego functions: typology. Whether we are extraverted or introverted (terms Jung introduced), our four basic ego functions sort themselves into intuition, sensation, thinking, and feeling. We have all four functions but prefer some over others. Jung’s system led directly to the creation of the widely used Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator. The feeling and thinking functions are both ways of making judgments, but the feeling function is based on personal values: if you were a military commander, would you be like Napoleon, directing his troops from the hilltop -- or like Braveheart, leading his men on the field? When the feeling function is cultivated and differentiated, it illuminates much of how and why we do what we do. Do we tend to prefer a subjective stance based on personal values, or a more objective and strategic stance? Developing our feeling function may be challenging in the context of a culture that prioritizes thinking and sensate functions over feeling and intuition. It is a task worth taking on, however. Evaluating our experiences up close as well as from the greater distance the thinking function affords can be a profound step toward growth and individuation. Discerning whether the basis of a decision should be subjective or objective builds consciousness and expands choice. Since subjectivity is closely aligned with feelings, we can reflect on what a bruising encounter has made us feel—and choose our response rather than reacting. We discuss some of the strategies you might use to differentiate your feeling function, including embarking on analysis, writing in your journal, and Eugene Gendlin’s focusing technique, which asks us to tune into the body and carefully name what is felt. Visit our website to read today’s dream and follow up on the resources we mention. Connect With This Jungian Life Take a look at This Jungian Life Dream School, our online course in Jungian dream analysis.  Send a dream for us to analyze on the show Watch bonus mini-episodes on our Patreon channel Follow This Jungian Life on Instagram

    Jung’s Feeling Function: How We Know What Matters

  2. 1d ago ·  Bonus · Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Invasion of Maggots

    Hey Subscribers, This week, we're discussing a dream submitted by one of our supporters, a 70-year-old man who is a licensed professional counselor: "I am in our kitchen and there was a jar of jelly we bought somewhere down south. I had left the lid off by mistake, at least overnight. Previously, there were little flecks of white in the jelly, but I'd thought nothing of it. Today when I looked, those flecks had turned to maggots or very fast moving caterpillars. I couldn't get them back in the jar as my arms were restrained by what I was wearing. I had on my bathrobe and my wife's pink bathrobe and a pillow between the two bathrobes. The clothes got caught while I was sitting in the kitchen chair. The back of the chair was caught between the bathrobes. These maggots crawled out of the jar and over the top of the counter, the curtains, walls, and were spreading quickly. I was not sure if they were dangerous. Had I brought in an epidemic and needed to sound an alarm? I asked my mother-wife figure standing there to help get these clothes off me. She couldn't do it. She was slow, unable to maneuver her hands. I kept telling her to just pull the clothes down toward the floor. She just stood there, helpless. Someone else helped me get the clothes off. Now, these maggot things were all over the place, hiding, moving, trying to climb on people. My little dog Jacks was there and they went after him. I'm sure I still had some of them on me. I needed to round them up. Did I need to call for help? No one else was aware of this invasion of caterpillars and maggots. They seemed to develop short legs to help them move quickly, and they would run in packs." Thank you for supporting This Jungian Life! ~Lisa & Deb

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Invasion of Maggots

  3. Oct 29

    Communicating with the Dead: Dreams, Visions and Visitations

    This Halloween week, when the veil between worlds grows thin, Jungian analyst ROBERT SHEAVLY joins us to discuss ways in which we experience the dead communicating with the living. In times of grief, it is common to be briefly reunited with the person we have lost in the form of deeply comforting dreams, visions or visitations. Jung himself was visited in such a dream by his deceased wife, Emma. He dreamed that Emma was in the south of France, continuing her  research on the Holy Grail, and he felt comforted. People have also sought seances and mediums to contact the dead, and Jung had a lifelong interest in these phenomena. Family members, including a teenage cousin, were deeply involved in this work. Jung was fascinated by his cousin’s ability to transform into another personality with knowledge a young woman could not have acquired. These experiences were Jung’s first encounter with what we now call the paranormal. This remained a lifelong interest and would later give rise to his theory of the collective unconscious, the deep wellspring of psychic experience shared by all humankind. For Jungians, the appearance of the deceased loved one is not only a psychological metaphor; the possibility that such contact may be more than a reassuring fantasy is admitted into consideration. Jung’s work offers us ways to relate to mysterious phenomena that neither ask us to abandon critical thinking nor limit our understanding to rationality alone. In this wide-ranging conversation, we also discuss Jung’s Seven Sermons of the Dead, quantum physics, dreams that predict death, and the visitations from the dead that many people experience at the end of life. We consider, too, AI’s promise of technologically reuniting us with lost loved ones. Visit our website to read today’s dream and follow up on the resources we mention. Connect With This Jungian Life Join Lisa at the Kosmos Colloquium this Dec. 17-21. Podcast listeners can claim a 15% discount - details here. Take a look at This Jungian Life Dream School, our online course in Jungian dream analysis.  Send a dream for us to analyze on the show Watch bonus mini-episodes on our Patreon channel Follow This Jungian Life on Instagram

    Communicating with the Dead: Dreams, Visions and Visitations

  4. Oct 29 ·  Bonus · Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Does the Inner Critic Go By Other Names?

    Hey Subscribers, Today we're discussing a question submitted by a supporter: "Are there other, more specific, names to refer to the inner critic?" Thanks for supporting This Jungian Life! ~ Lisa & Deb

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Does the Inner Critic Go By Other Names?

  5. Oct 22

    The Search for Meaning with Gary Lachman

    Our guest this week is GARY LACHMAN, a founding member of the rock group Blondie, and the author of more than twenty books, including a biography of C.G. Jung, and a new memoir, Touched by the Presence: From Blondie's Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult. We explore Gary’s wide-ranging interests, from the nature of consciousness and the history of the occult to the lives and ideas of Rudolf Steiner, Aleister Crowley, and Colin Wilson. Our current era of cultural dissolution and environmental destruction can feel towering and fearsome. Yet might this moment also represent the state of dire necessity required for a change in consciousness? It is important to realize that we are always part of the great mythic cycle of life, death, and rebirth, so during times of disintegration cultivating our capacity for awe, attending to synchronicities, and listening to the wisdom of dreams can help us find a path forward. Jung’s search for meaning and a relationship to the infinite offers a way to approach this question. There are still spaces available to join Lisa Marchiano and Gary Lachman in Switzerland for the Kosmos Institute’s First Annual Colloquium this December 17-21. This Jungian Life podcast listeners can claim a 15% discount - details here. Visit our website to read today’s dream and find a detailed list of the resources we mention. Follow Up the Episode Check out This Jungian Life Dream School, our 12-month online course in Jungian dream analysis. Send a dream for us to analyze on the show. Watch bonus mini-episodes on our Patreon channel.

    The Search for Meaning with Gary Lachman

  6. Oct 22 ·  Bonus · Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] How Do We Surface Inner Desires?

    Hey Subscribers, Today we're discussing a question submitted by a supporter: "What are some ways you might recommend for allowing one's inner desires to surface?" Thanks for supporting This Jungian Life! ~ Lisa & Deb

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] How Do We Surface Inner Desires?

  7. Oct 15

    The Heart of Transformation with Michael Meade

    Many of us live with heavy awareness of cultural unraveling, and the natural world faces sustained and escalating threats. According to author, storyteller and podcaster MICHAEL MEADE, humanity has reached the end of an era, with no clear vision of what is to come.   Michael's new book, The Heart of Transformation: Personal and Cultural Renewal on Earth, offers a fundamentally hopeful perspective. Despite the divisions, conflicts and betrayals of our time, the essential story of the world—birth, death, rebirth—endures and is ready to be rediscovered. The loose threads of our unraveling world are waiting to be woven into something new, and the secret of this transformation lies not in politics or activism, but in the depths of the individual heart and soul.   Meanwhile, we inhabit a phase of life that is full of chaos and creativity. Like butterfly larvae, we rest in darkness, the outcome of our mysterious transformation unclear. We must find a way to accept the dark  and recognize it as a rite of passage in service of new and transformed life.    Michael Meade is a renowned storyteller and author who combines hypnotic storytelling, street-savvy perceptiveness, and spellbinding interpretations of ancient myths. He is the creator of the Living Myth Podcast, and the founder of Mosaic Multicultural Foundation. His latest book is The Heart of Transformation: Personal and Cultural Renewal on Earth.   Visit our website to follow up on the resources we mention in this episode. Connect With This Jungian Life   Join Lisa at the Kosmos Institute’s Colloquium in Switzerland this December. This Jungian Life listeners can now claim a 15% discount. Send a dream for us to analyze on the show Watch bonus mini-episodes on our Patreon channel Follow This Jungian Life on Instagram

    The Heart of Transformation with Michael Meade

  8. Oct 15 ·  Bonus · Subscribers Only

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] What Does Blood Mean in My Dreams?

    Hey Patrons, Today we're discussing a question submitted by a supporter: "Could you talk about blood in dreams and the various forms it takes and if or how that changes its symbology? I've heard you reference blood on the podcast as a symbol of life, and I'm wondering if there are subtleties to that within the myriad ways it might show up in dreams. For instance, menstruation compared to a wound; a river or gush of blood versus a scratch; blood of an animal compared to human blood; blood as we would normally encounter it juxtaposed to supernatural, odd, or out-of-the-ordinary occurrences; and so forth." Thanks for supporting This Jungian Life! ~ Lisa & Deb

    [SUBSCRIBER BONUS] What Does Blood Mean in My Dreams?
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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
    585
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    © Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
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