Read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 Read More on Jung here: Carl Jung's Major Influences Jungian Analysis Archetypes Jung’s Method Jungian Thought Part 1: What was Jung's Method to Discover Reality? Jung's Empirical Phenomenology: Uniting Subjective Spirituality...
Jung told an interviewer in 1936 that in analysis he and the patient turn together toward the two-million-year-old man that lives in all of us. He meant it almost literally. The psyche is not a blank slate scribbled on by childhood; it is an ancient, evolved organ...
How do you know that the color blue you see is the same as the color blue I see? We both call it blue. We point at the sky and use the same word. But do we actually share the same subjective experience of that wavelength of light? Some people do not. They might be...
The Eleusinian, Mithraic, and Dionysian mysteries weren’t religious observances. They were orchestrated psychodramas designed to shatter the ego and rebuild the self. Modern trauma therapy has inadvertently reconstructed their methods.
Parental Parts & Differential Treatment of Children: A Parts-Based Perspective It is a commonly observed phenomenon that parents often treat their children differently, even when they strive to be fair and equal. Birth order is often cited as a key reason—the...
When the Unconscious Goes Online What happens when Jung's collective unconscious meets the internet? This question, once relegated to speculative philosophy, has become one of the most pressing concerns of our metamodern age. We are witnessing something unprecedented...
You've had the experience. You're usually calm, but suddenly you're screaming at your partner over dishes. You're normally logical, but you're sobbing uncontrollably about something that "shouldn't" matter. You're typically easygoing, but you've become rigidly fixated...
You've tried therapy before. Maybe it helped a little. Maybe you spent months talking about your childhood without anything changing. Maybe you learned coping skills that worked until they didn't. Maybe the therapist was nice but you left each session feeling like...
Ken Wilber's Integral Theory: Architecture, Ambition, and the Anatomy of Its Decline Ken Wilber's Integral Theory stands as one of the most ambitious intellectual projects of the late twentieth century, attempting nothing less than a comprehensive synthesis of human...
On the strange convergence between cutting-edge physics and ancient healing wisdom, and why the collapse of a wavefunction might be the best model we have for the moment a client finally changes. There is an old joke in clinical circles that when psychotherapy is...