by Joseph Lee | Nov 7, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Lucid dreaming is an interesting ego state when we are dreaming and regain full self-awareness. Being awake in the dream world can be useful, but imposing a rigid agenda can undermine the Dream Maker’s attempts to educate and help us. Each dream is...
by Joseph Lee | Oct 23, 2025 | Cultural Currents, Guests
VIDEO AUDIO The new controversial Netflix series MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story offers a window into the devouring mother archetype, a transformation fantasy gone horribly wrong, and the human capacity for monstrous behavior. Gein’s crimes inspired the Hitchcock...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 25, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Dolls are human stand-ins that invite projection and play; children use them (including action figures and Barbies) to try on identities and develop imagination, then later withdraw the projection as the figure becomes inert again. Icons and idols differ...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 11, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Bullying is about unmanaged aggression and broken containment in early life. Aggression is normal, but kids need adults to name it, hold it, and channel it into play with clear rules. When that doesn’t happen, some children learn to control and humiliate...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 24, 2025 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO Inner guidance is Psyche’s built-in orienting system, a silent interlocutor that Jung named the Self. When the ego listens to that source, life organizes around an inner axis rather than around social noise. The conversation begins in dreams: every night...
by Joseph Lee | Apr 17, 2025 | Cultural Currents
VIDEO AUDIO In this episode, we embark on a Jungian exploration of adolescence. Adolescence is a transitional life stage marked by profound biological, psychological, social, and cultural changes. Spanning roughly the second decade of life (and often extending into...