by Joseph Lee | Sep 21, 2023 | Archetypal
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO The Selkie swims ashore at night, sheds her seal skin, hides it, and delights in her human form. In Celtic lore, she is the wild feminine soul, a creature of land and sea, innocent and beautiful, who...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 14, 2023 | Archetypal
VIDEO Art Credit: Jano Tantongco jano.tantongco@gmail.com AUDIO https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_283-Initiation.mp3 The archetype of Initiation is primordial, and its force shapes our transformative transitions. For Jung, this change reshapes spiritual,...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 7, 2023 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_282-Barbie.mp3 [Spoiler Alert.] In the opening scene of the Barbie movie, listless little girls dressed as drab Dust Bowl mothers play at ironing as they tend plastic babies until a gigantic cosmic Barbie...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 31, 2023 | Core Jungian Concepts
VIDEO Art Credit: Female Ghost in the Moonlight, Artist unknown. School of: Katsushika Hokusai. (Japanese, 1760–1849) Edo period. AUDIO https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_281-Loss-Of-Soul.mp3 “Loss of soul amounts to a tearing loose of part of one’s...
by Joseph Lee | Aug 24, 2023 | Archetypal, Guests
VIDEO AUDIO Sharon Blackie calls us to the ancient archetype of the Hag as a figure of unapologetic emergence from cultural pressures that lock us into outworn roles and limiting beliefs. Drawing upon her transformative experiences in menopause Blackie grounds the...