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What's Eternalised about?

In Pursuit of Meaning. My life’s task is to help as many people as possible who seek to enrich their lives with value and meaning.

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05.02.2024
How Dreams Can Anticipate Death and Point to the Afterlife
Death is one of the greatest mysteries of human existence, the inevitable fate that unites us all. Whenever man is confronted with something mysterious and unknown such as the origin of the world, death, the afterlife, etc., the unconscious produces...
03.26.2024
The Psychology of The Villain
The villain is the most captivating and intriguing of all archetypes. The hero would not exist without his darker counterpart, which reflects aspects of ourselves that we do not dare to acknowledge or confront, but which are present within all...
02.18.2024
The Psychology of The Magician
The Magician is the most mysterious and fascinating of all archetypes. He is a person who has gained access to esoteric or occult (hidden) knowledge, bringing the spiritual to the material. Thus, he is an initiate of secret and hidden...
01.12.2024
The Psychology of Numbers
Numbers do not merely have a quantitative nature, but also a qualitative one (for Pythagoras they were divine). Numbers have life, they are not just symbols on paper. Several philosophers, alchemists and mystics throughout history have associated religious or mystical...
11.29.2023
The Psychology of Astrology
The Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Carl Jung studied astrology for over 40 years, and was primarily interested in the way astrology could help to explore the psyche. For Jung, astrology represents the sum of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity....
10.25.2023
The Psychology of Angels
Angels have fascinated human consciousness since the beginning of time. The word angel derives from the Greek angelos, which is the default translation of the Biblical Hebrew term mal’ākh (literally “messenger”). The angel is a messenger between God and mankind. Whether...
09.25.2023
The Psychology of The Wise Old Man (Sage)
The Wise Old Man or Sage is an archetype that is recognised by almost everyone, be it in stories, games, movies, or everyday life. In myth he is often shown as one living in isolation, meditating and living a simple...
08.23.2023
The Quest for the Holy Grail (The Self)
The Quest for the Holy Grail has fascinated the Western consciousness for a long time. It epitomises the true spirit of Western man and is, in many ways, the myth of Western civilisation. It is a perennial and timeless pattern...
07.23.2023
The Psychology of Fairy Tales
Fairy tales fascinate us and give us a sense of warmth and home-coming that comes from the mythical realm of the imagination, a necessary complement to our everyday life. We are fundamentally story-telling creatures, and there is much we can...
06.24.2023
The Psychology of the Devil
The Devil goes by many names: Satan, Lucifer, The Great Beast, Beelzebub, The Prince of Darkness. He is the adversary, the accuser, the tempter, the deceiver, and the one who divides from God. The Devil is incredibly wicked and evil,...
05.25.2023
The Psychology of The Fool
The fool is one of the most relatable, intriguing and recurring figures in the world. There have been fools who have caused surprise and laughter since time immemorial. We worship folly by seeing it in people and in the world...
04.27.2023
The Psychology of Nightmares
Nightmares. We all have them. But what exactly do they mean? Why do we have bad dreams? Is there any psychological meaning behind them? Nightmares are the source of much of the horror we see in stories, myths, movies and...
03.30.2023
The Psychology of The Shaman (Inner Journey)
Shamanism is one of the oldest, if not the oldest system of healing known in the world. It forms the prototype from which many other forms of healing are derived, such as modern psychotherapy. The shamanic journey is an expression...
03.01.2023
The Psychology of Personality Types (Know Yourself)
We all have a particular personality type, and at the same time, we are all unique. To partake in the journey of discovering who we truly are, it is necessary for us to know our true and authentic personality. The...
02.07.2023
Hermeticism: The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus
The legendary figure of Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes Thrice Great) is the inspiration for the spiritual teachings known as Hermeticism. He is a syncretism (joining) of the Greek deity Hermes, the winged messenger of the Gods, and his Egyptian counterpart, the...
01.14.2023
Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom | A Guide to Life
Philosophy is a mode of life, an act of living, and a way of being. Modern philosophy has forgotten this tradition, and philosophical discourse has all but overtaken philosophy as a way of life. Philosophy is not just an intellectual...
12.17.2022
The Psychology of The Wounded Healer
The wounded healer refers to the capacity to be at home in the darkness of suffering and there to find germs of light and recovery. It is the archetype at the bottom of all genuine healing procedures. As long as...
11.24.2022
Journey to Hell - The Path to Self-Knowledge
Hell is understood as the archetype of ultimate suffering. It is no imaginary place, but rather a state of consciousness that we all experience at some point in our lives. Hell is an unavoidable journey in life. In ancient mysteries...
11.07.2022
Loneliness, Emptiness, Anxiety in Modern Society
Loneliness, emptiness, and anxiety – these are the main complaints American existential psychologist Rollo May encountered over and over from his patients. In 1953, May published Man’s Search for Himself, in which he explores these problems – that are perhaps...
10.08.2022
The Psychology of The Man-Child (Puer Aeternus)
The term puer aeternus is Latin for eternal boy. Carl Jung used the term in the exploration of the psychology of eternal youth and creative child within every person. It is an archetype, and like all archetypes, has both a...
09.16.2022
The Psychology of The Trickster
There is perhaps no figure in literature more fascinating than the trickster, appearing in various forms in the folklore of many cultures. Trickster is witty and deceitful. He is the timeless root of all the picaresque creations of world literature,...
08.26.2022
The Dark World of Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka's dark world deals with existentialist themes such as alienation, anxiety, disorientation and the absurd. His work is so original that the term Kafkaesque was coined to describe the nightmarish and bizarre atmosphere of his work. Throughout his works...
07.30.2022
Inner Gold - Alchemy and Psychology
Alchemy occupies a unique place in the collective psyche of humankind. Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist Jung discovered alchemy and devoted the remaining 30 years of his life to studying it, which he practically dug up from the dunghill of the...
06.12.2022
The Psychology of Projection
Projection is a psychological fact that can be observed everywhere in the everyday life of human beings. It is an unconscious mechanism where one ascribes one’s own motivations, thoughts, feelings, and desires that are unacceptable to oneself, while attributing them...
05.23.2022
Synchronicity: Meaningful Patterns in Life
Synchronicity is a term coined by Carl Jung which describes a meaningful patterns or meaningful coincidences of outer and inner events that cannot be causally linked. It occurs with an inwardly perceived event (dream, vision, premonition, thought or mood) is...
05.09.2022
Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious
Active imagination is a technique developed by the Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Jung. He considered it the most powerful tool to access the unconscious and for achieving wholeness of personality. Jung discovered this method between the years of 1913...
04.25.2022
Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche
In his book Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche, American author and Jungian analyst Robert A. Johnson states that to honour and accept one’s own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus...
04.11.2022
The Otherworldly Art of William Blake
William Blake was an English poet and visionary artist whose unique work gives us a glimpse into an entirely different world. His art was ignored and neglected, and few people took his work seriously. He was generally seen as a...
03.25.2022
The Dark Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German Philosopher born in 1788 known for his dark pessimistic philosophical reflections. For Schopenhauer, the underlying force of reality is the Will (also called will to live or will to life), which is the essence of existence....
03.11.2022
Nihilism | Encounter with Nothingness
Nothingness is generally considered to be analogous with death and extinction which every healthy living instinct wants to avoid. Many find the notion of nothingness unfathomable. Japanese philosopher Keiji Nishitani, however, was convinced that the way out of nihilism, that...
02.24.2022
The Courage to Be: An Antidote to Meaninglessness
In The Courage to Be, Paul Tillich presents his antidote to meaninglessness through the concept of courage. He was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher born in 1886 and is considered as one of the most influential theologians of the 20th...
02.11.2022
The Dark Philosophy of Cosmicism - H.P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft's dark philosophy is known as Cosmicism, which focuses on the insignificance of humanity and its doings at the cosmos-at-large, in contrast to the anthropocentric philosophies in which many find intellectual reassurance. This form of non-anthropocentrism is crucial to the...
01.29.2022
The Dream Artist Nobody Knows About
Few artists have so powerfully evoked the uncanny otherness of the unconscious like Swiss artist Peter Birkhäuser. His unknown dream paintings were met with blank incomprehension, and were not well-received by the art community of the time, but, viewed today,...
01.21.2022
Anima and Animus - Eternal Partners from the Unconscious
The anima and animus are two contrasexual archetypes crucial for individuation and to progress towards the Self in Carl Jung’s analytical psychology, they are the archetype of life and archetype of meaning, respectively. The anima is the personification of all...
01.14.2022
The Nightmare of Total Equality - A Warning to The World
In Harrison Bergeron, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. describes the nightmare of total equality, a society in which equality is finally achieved, but at the cost of freedom and individuality. One’s utopia is another’s dystopia. We’ll be exploring the increasing promotion of...
01.03.2022
The Philosophy of Existential Despair
The Russian existentialist philosopher Lev Shestov is known for his “philosophy of despair” or “philosophy of tragedy”. For Shestov, the sources of philosophy were the human tragedy, the horrors and sufferings of human life and the sense of hopelessness. Tragedies...
12.26.2021
The Persona - The Mask That Conceals Your True Self
The persona is one of Carl Jung's most well-known concepts, representing the social mask that we put on. We all embody different masks in different settings, as it is our way to adapt to the demands of society, playing an...
12.16.2021
Mass Society - A Warning to The World
In the 19th century the status of mass society became a philosophical and moral issue in a manner hitherto unseen. It came to be defined as the permanent possibility in all individuals of losing concern for their personal status and...
12.08.2021
Carl Jung and The Collective Unconscious
Carl Jung’s collective unconscious is one of his most well-known (and controversial) concepts. The collective unconscious is the aspect of the unconscious mind which manifests inherited, universal themes which run through all human life. He came upon the idea in...
11.28.2021
The Underground Man - Dostoevsky's Warning to The World
Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote Notes from Underground in 1864 which is considered to be one of the first existentialist works, emphasising the importance of freedom, responsibility and individuality. It is an extraordinary piece of literature, social critique and satire...
10.30.2021
The Hero's Journey - Experiencing Death and Rebirth
In his best-known work The Hero with a Thousand Faces published in 1949, Joseph Campbell describes the archetypal Hero’s Journey or “monomyth” shared by the world. The Hero’s Journey occurs in three sequential phases: separation, initiation and the return. In...
10.22.2021
Mental Illness as a Crisis of Meaning in Modern Society
Modern society has seen a massive spike in mental illness. Why could this be? We will be exploring the characteristics of modernity and associate it with the rise of mental illness. Modernity is associated by scientific and technological advancement, individualism...
10.15.2021
Nihilism - Friedrich Nietzsche's Warning to The World
Friedrich Nietzsche provided the first detailed diagnosis of nihilism as a widespread phenomenon of Western culture and warns the world of its consequences, most famously in the parable of the madman where he proclaims that "God is dead". Nietzsche was...
10.09.2021
KIERKEGAARD: The Knight of Faith
The knight of faith is one of Kierkegaard’s most important concepts, which he discusses in Fear and Trembling under the pseudonym Johannes de silentio. He begins explaining the knight of faith through the story of Abraham and Isaac. Although he...
10.01.2021
The Shadow - Carl Jung's Warning to The World
Carl Jung warns us against the dangers of the collective shadow (the unknown dark side of society) and urges us to develop our personal shadow (the unknown dark side of our personality) to be consciously aware of the collective shadow...
09.26.2021
What is the Meaning of Life?
Man cannot stand a meaningless life. What is the meaning of life? It is hard to think of a single proposition that can make your life meaningful in an instant. One can, however, orient oneself more meaningfully towards one’s goals....
09.18.2021
What is the Meaning of Death?
What is the meaning of death? It is the unequivocal and permanent end of our existence. Most people unconsciously repress the idea of their death, as it is too horrifying a notion to think about. Some are perhaps not so...
09.10.2021
What is the Meaning of Self Realisation?
Life is a journey of self-realisation, of understanding and discovering who we truly are, and of maximising our potential. While this might be a life long journey, one can be closer or further from one's true self. This video analyses...
09.03.2021
What is the Meaning of Suffering?
What is the meaning of suffering? One of the problems of life is meaningless suffering. Life is pervaded by suffering, and this suffering must be meaningful. It is hard to deny that to live is to suffer, as long as...
08.27.2021
KIERKEGAARD: How To Avoid Boredom and Maximise Happiness
In Either/Or, Kierkegaard dedicates a chapter on the problem of boredom and the difficulty of maintaining happiness, and proposes his solution for it through the aesthetic sphere of existence. To explain how one avoids boredom, the aesthete’s worst enemy, he...

What's Eternalised about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Eternalised episodes:

How Dreams Can Anticipate Death and Point to the Afterlife

The Psychology of The Villain

The Psychology of The Magician

The Psychology of Numbers

The Psychology of Astrology

The Psychology of Angels

The Psychology of The Wise Old Man (Sage)

The Quest for the Holy Grail (The Self)

The Psychology of Fairy Tales

The Psychology of the Devil

The Psychology of The Fool

The Psychology of Nightmares

The Psychology of The Shaman (Inner Journey)

The Psychology of Personality Types (Know Yourself)

Hermeticism: The Ancient Wisdom of Hermes Trismegistus

Philosophy: The Love of Wisdom | A Guide to Life

The Psychology of The Wounded Healer

Journey to Hell - The Path to Self-Knowledge

Loneliness, Emptiness, Anxiety in Modern Society

The Psychology of The Man-Child (Puer Aeternus)

The Psychology of The Trickster

The Dark World of Franz Kafka

Inner Gold - Alchemy and Psychology

The Psychology of Projection

Synchronicity: Meaningful Patterns in Life

Active Imagination: Confrontation with the Unconscious

Owning Your Own Shadow: The Dark Side of the Psyche

The Otherworldly Art of William Blake

The Dark Philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer

Nihilism | Encounter with Nothingness

The Courage to Be: An Antidote to Meaninglessness

The Dark Philosophy of Cosmicism - H.P. Lovecraft

The Dream Artist Nobody Knows About

Anima and Animus - Eternal Partners from the Unconscious

The Nightmare of Total Equality - A Warning to The World

The Philosophy of Existential Despair

The Persona - The Mask That Conceals Your True Self

Mass Society - A Warning to The World

Carl Jung and The Collective Unconscious

The Underground Man - Dostoevsky's Warning to The World

The Hero's Journey - Experiencing Death and Rebirth

Mental Illness as a Crisis of Meaning in Modern Society

Nihilism - Friedrich Nietzsche's Warning to The World

KIERKEGAARD: The Knight of Faith

The Shadow - Carl Jung's Warning to The World

What is the Meaning of Life?

What is the Meaning of Death?

What is the Meaning of Self Realisation?

What is the Meaning of Suffering?

KIERKEGAARD: How To Avoid Boredom and Maximise Happiness