by thisjungian | Jul 9, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
The religious instinct is as basic as the need for food or shelter. Psyche seeks and selects a central, organizing life principle whether consciously or unconsciously chosen. Secular deities range from food, money, or even science, to the gods of addiction; false...
by thisjungian | Jun 25, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
The transcendent function comes in all sizes, from “aha” moments to epiphanies. A new orientation to a dilemma arrives unthought, recognized, and right. Perhaps there is a moment where loneliness gives way to solitude, or heartbreak yields to a larger...
by thisjungian | May 14, 2020 | Metaphysical
The Pentagon recently released a film of a UFO made by Navy pilots. Although such credible documentation is new, UFO sightings go back to ancient times and surged after World War II. Interstellar travel then seized the collective imagination, and the ongoing...
by thisjungian | Apr 30, 2020 | Guests, Metaphysical
Astrology is a 4000-year-old discipline rooted in the mystery of man’s relationship to the universe. It is an archetypal frame for human experience that influenced Jung, depicts our connection to the heavens, and anticipates future trends. We are now beginning...
by thisjungian | Apr 2, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
The archetype of origins is in resurgence since the advent of ancestry-mapping programs. What are the psychological and symbolic meanings of ancestry? Identity is often strongly linked to ancestry in its ethnic and cultural aspects, and as the carrier of personal...
by thisjungian | Mar 12, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Metaphysical
Questions about fate and destiny have existed for millennia. Fate often refers to unalterable realities, from genes to future events, whereas destiny points to future potential. An acorn’s likely fate is to die on the forest floor, but its destiny is to become...