by Joseph Lee | Sep 15, 2022 | Cultural Currents
https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_231-Queen.mp3 Queen Elizabeth II is mourned around the world. The world saw stages of life live in and through her: from maiden to mate, mother to matriarch, elder to aged. She inherited her title but grew into her role,...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 8, 2022 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Connor Wilkins via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_230-Road-Trip.mp3 The open road beckons: bigger, better, boundless. To see and to seek is a mythological theme with an American stamp, from wagon trains to memoirs and movies. The...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 1, 2022 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Peter Forster via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_229-Hatred.mp3 Hatred is a universal human emotion related to distancing and destroying. Hatred is anger, disgust, judgment, and contempt cemented into implacable permanence....
by Joseph Lee | Jun 30, 2022 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Jackson Simmer via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_220-Abortion.mp3 The word consider derives from Latin considerare, “to look at closely, observe.” Con means “with, together,” and sidus refers to “heavenly body, star...
by Joseph Lee | Jun 10, 2022 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents, Metaphysical, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Mathias Reding via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_217-Death.mp3 Awareness of death can help us create an intentional life—one that serves the movement of soul toward wholeness. Jung realized that although we experience death as...
by Joseph Lee | May 26, 2022 | Cultural Currents
Photo Credit: Creative Commons https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_215-Poison.mp3 Pharmakon, the ancient Greek word for drug, can mean both “remedy” and “poison.” There is a close connection between poison and cure. Poison is stealthy, and takes us by...