Navigating Young Adulthood: Risks & Rewards
The twenties are a period of emerging adulthood, a time to engage in the maturational tasks of finding one’s place in the wider world and forming intimate relationships. This stage of life calls for t...
25 Helmi 20211h 4min
Truth Telling: Revelations & Realities
Subjective truths yield multiple realities—political and religious truths famously differ. Objective truths rely on independent realities—two plus two must ever be four, not five. Jung’s four function...
18 Helmi 202156min
Facing Your Feelings: Avoidance or Encounter?
While we welcome “good” feelings, we often try to banish “bad” ones like sadness, fear, vulnerability and shame. We may deny them by trying to “think positive.” We may attribute them to political wron...
11 Helmi 20211h 4min
Self-Loathing: What’s Gnawing on Your Bones?
The judgmental inner voice has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding taskmaster, or abusive bully. It also seeps in through the collective, with criteria...
4 Helmi 20211h 3min
MYTH AS MEDICINE: An Interview with Kwame Scruggs, PhD
Kwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire through African-based initiatory rites. He asked himself ...
28 Tammi 202158min
The Archetype of the Good King
The king is figured prominently in myth, religion, and fairy tale. This compelling archetypal image has roots in our earliest human beginnings, when the king embodied his tribe’s earthly vitality and ...
21 Tammi 20211h 17min
Willpower: Choice, Energy & the Power to Achieve
The ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape the rule of instinct. Jung says, “the realm of will ...
7 Tammi 20211h 19min
Fierce Female Initiations: Claiming Authority & Selfhood Through Trials
Mythological Paths to Personal PotentialMyths and fairy tales depict women’s initiation into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) into the underworld; Snow White choked on a poisoned ...
31 Joulu 20201h 7min
