by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 15, 2026 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Guests
Many of us live with a heavy awareness of cultural unraveling, while the natural world faces sustained and escalating threats. According to author, storyteller and podcaster MICHAEL MEADE, humanity has reached the end of an era, with no clear vision of...
by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 8, 2026 | Archetypal, Core Jungian Concepts, Therapy Related
Psychological inflation implies an exaggerated sense of self-importance, accompanied by an unconscious feeling of inferiority. For Jungians, it involves identification with an archetypal energy. When the ego starts to feel that it IS an archetype,...
by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 1, 2026 | Guests, Relationships, Therapy Related
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 guest Dr. Aaron Balick has written, “it may have a warm exterior, but its heart is...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 24, 2026 | Guests, Therapy Related
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 waiting to see what happens, or giving up. Patience asks us to go within, find...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 17, 2026 | Fairytales
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. Just as the princess in the story finds her unruly “fate” tearing up cloth and...