by Joseph Lee | Mar 25, 2021 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Roi Dimor via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_156-Exile.mp3 Exile and alienation could be considered the external and internal aspects of rejection. Exile is not chosen but is imposed and unwanted: a relational break-up,...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 26, 2021 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Vadislav Babienko via Unsplash 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 the ego strength...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 28, 2021 | Cultural Currents, Guests
Kwame Scruggs https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_148-Myth-as-Medicine.mp3 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...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 31, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_144-Female-v2.mp3 Myths and fairy tales depict female initiations into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) into the underworld; Snow White choked on a poisoned apple and lay in stasis;...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 24, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Metaphysical
Something’s going on in Scrooge’s soul…and it’s tired of waiting for an invitation. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_143-Holiday_rerun_v2.mp3 Charles Dickens’ novella, A Christmas Carol, vividly portrays the journey to...
by Joseph Lee | Nov 12, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Guests
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_138-Sexual-Slander_v2.mp3 QAnon is a recent iteration of a historical pattern: Romans persecuted Christians, Christians libeled Jews, and citizenries hunted witches. When existing social structures break down,...