This Jungian Life Podcast

Outsourcing Love: AI and Relationships

When we ask AI for advice, what we are offered is comparable to psychopathy: a performance of warm emotional intelligence without care or concern for our fate. As today’s

Patience is Not Passivity

This week’s guest, Jungian analyst Dr. Warren Sibilla, defines patience as the ability to live one's life with eyes, ears, and heart wide open. That is a far cry from wai

The Princess Who Changed Her Fate: How to Negotiate with Destiny

The fairy tale of the Princess Who Changed her Fate enacts what Jung tells us will happen when we remain unconscious of an inner situation: it happens outside us, as fate

Inner Life, Outer World: The Psychology of Adaptation

Adaptation is a bread-and-butter concept in psychotherapy - can we accept, adjust to, and thrive in the outer and inner worlds we live in? Given constraints, what does it

Lindsay Clancy & Maternal Infanticide: An Archetypal Perspective

Lindsay Clancy has brought renewed attention to the horror of infanticide: babies and children dying at the hands of their mother. Infanticide has taken place for millenn

Goblins, Demons and Goddesses: A Conversation at the Edge of AI

OpenAI recently had to explain to frightened users why their models kept introducing goblins and gremlins into otherwise humdrum conversations. Is it possible that archet

The Psychology of Magic: A Jungian Exploration

Magic can be viewed as intentional engagement with what Jung called synchronicity. It is closely related to a mythological worldview, which recognizes a grand narrative s

In Search of the Wild Man: Befriending Bigfoot

The wild man is an enduring archetypal figure worldwide, from Enkidu in Gilgamesh, to the Greek god Pan (worshipped in glens and woods), the Green Man in England, and Big

Jung vs. Borg: Staying Human in the Age of AI

Are we living through a tech-driven collapse of the ecology of mind? In his new book, Jung vs. Borg, author, psychologist and Jungian scholar GLEN SLATER Ph.D suggests th

Ritual: Finding the Center in a Turning World

As we confront the turbulence of rapid change, technological dehumanization, and cultural polarization, how do we reconnect to being and meaning? Best-selling author BRUC

Carl Jung in Basel: A Walking Tour

Happy Birthday to Carl Gustav Jung! To celebrate, we're sharing Lisa's walking tour of Basel with Jungian Analyst and author Kathrin Shaeppi. Last year, she visited Jung'

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Power Without Wisdom

The tale of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice is a gripping story about loss of control and the timeless warning to be careful what you wish for.  It sets out the archetypal them

The Odyssey: A Jungian Journey Home

The Odyssey (the subject of a new Christopher Nolan film released on the same day as this episode), is the ancient Greek epic attributed to Homer and one of the foundatio

Prayer and the Psyche: A Jungian Exploration

Throughout human history, prayer has been a constant. Jung referred to it as “not only one of the most original but also the most frequent means to change the condition o

Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Individuation: A Jungian Reading of the Declaration of Independence

America’s Declaration of Independence has profoundly influenced the development of democracy and democratic movements all over the world, with its bold assertion: “We ho

The Descent: A Jungian Exploration of the Underworld

In every culture and every religion, we find the concept of the underworld: sometimes located underground, and usually understood as a final destination after death. Th

The Absent Father: Jung and the Missing Masculine

A father who is unavailable - whether due to untimely death, a demanding job, family breakup, or simply an inability to step up and meet his children’s needs - may depriv

The Cry of Merlin: A Jungian Approach to the Wizard

Merlin, the mythical prophet, magician, and kingmaker of medieval legend, has lived in the Western imagination for centuries. Arthurian legend gives us more than the idea

Working with Short Dreams and Fragments

This week, to mark the publication in paperback of Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams, Jungian analysts Lisa Marchiano and Deborah Stewart interpret a selec

The Devouring Mother: Facing Archetypal Darkness

Every archetype has a dual aspect: light and dark, and ‘mother’ as devouring and destructive is the dark side of this ever-present, over-arching archetype. The mother’s l