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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 quest to know ourselves allows us to better understand the complexity and intricacies of the human condition, improve our relationship with ourselves, with others, and with the world.   

Carl Jung’s model of typology is not a system of character analysis, nor is it a way of labelling oneself or others. Much as one might use a compass to determine where one is in the physical world, Jung’s typology is a tool for psychological orientation.   

The main aspects are the attitude types: extraversion and introversion, and the psychological functions: feeling, thinking, sensation and intuition.

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(0:00) Introduction

(0:27) Introversion and Extraversion

(5:48) Example of Introvert with Extravert

(7:50) The Four Psychological Functions

(8:36) Libido

(9:16) Thinking and Feeling

(10:47) Feeling, Emotion, Affect

(11:50) Sensation and Intuition

(14:42) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

(16:45) Dominant Function

(18:00) Differentiation and Distorted Types

(20:05) Auxiliary Functions

(21:48) Inferior Function

(27:10) Conclusion

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 Ibis-headed moon god Thoth.  

The Way of Hermes involved altered states of consciousness in which practitioners went through a training regime that involved luminous visions, spiritual rebirth, cosmic consciousness, and union with the divine beauty of universal goodness and truth to attain the salvational knowledge known as gnosis.

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3:43 Renaissance of Hermeticism

9:33 Technical and Religio-philosophical Hermetica

11:38 Where to start?

15:53 Gnosis

18:36 Hermeticism and Gnosticism

21:40 Eusebeia

22:50 The Hermetic Universe: Ogdoad, Ennead, the One

25:20 The Three Worlds: God, Cosmos, Man

28:03 The Three Faculties: Logos, Gnosis, Nous

29:08 Corpus Hermeticum: Introduction

30:48 The Vision of Poimandres (Nous)

37:05 Corpus Hermeticum: Hermes and Tat

43:05 The Discourse on the Ogdoad and Ennead

46:22 Writing as Healing or Poison (Pharmakon)

48:24 The Illusion of Death

50:30 Man as a Divine Being

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 discipline, which can get abstract and divorced from the real world, but is most importantly a way of life that teaches us how to best live our lives.   

Philosophy is a mode of existing in the world, which has to be practiced at each instant, and the goal of which is to transform the whole of the individual’s life. Real wisdom does not merely cause us to know: it makes us “be” in a different way.   

Ancient philosophy proposed to mankind an art of living. By contrast modern philosophy appears above all as the construction of a technical jargon reserved for specialists.

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(2:18) Philosophy as a Way of Life

(7:12) Socrates

(8:53) Master of Dialogue: Know Thyself

(13:30) Plato

(15:58) Idealism: Platonic Forms

(17:15) Parable of the Cave

(19:33) Plato’s Cave in The Matrix

(20:16) Plato’s Tripartite Theory of the Soul

(22:36) Philosophy as an Exercise of Death

(24:56) Aristotle

(27:06) Hellenistic Schools

(28:25) Cynicism

(31:45) Pyrrhonism

(34:46) Stoicism

(39:45) Premeditatio Malorum

(41:03) Memento Mori

(42:24) Voluntary Discomfort

(43:54) Epicureanism

(50:12) Similarities Epicureanism & Stoicism

(50:57) Neoplatonism

(57:45) View from Above: Cosmic Consciousness

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 we feel victimised, bitter and resentful towards our wound, and seek to escape from suffering it, we remain inescapably bound to it. This is neurotic suffering, as opposed to the authentic suffering of the wounded healer which is purified. The wound can destroy you, or it can wake you up.  As Carl Jung wrote, "The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals."

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(1:39) Chiron: The Wounded Healer

(4:03) Asclepius: The Greek God of Healing

(6:13) Asclepieia: Healing Temples

(11:12) The Importance of Death

(15:06) The Wound as Initiation: Hero’s Journey

(17:30) The Sacred and The Profane

(19:59) The Wound as Initiation: Shamanism

(21:49) Compensatory function

(22:51) Repetition Compulsion

(23:32) Pharmakon: Poison and Cure

(24:26) Therapist as Wounded Healer

(29:49) Conclusion

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 or rituals of passages, the hero must descend into a dark place in order to give birth to a new consciousness and gain access to a new stage of life. It is the most profound psychological death and rebirth of the self.   

We will be exploring the journey into hell as the path to self-knowledge, self-transformation, and ultimately, self-transcendence. Only in the region of danger can one find the treasure hard to attain. As Carl Jung stated, “No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

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(0:00) Introduction: Concept of Hell

(2:33) Hell is Other People

(3:56) The Therapist and The Journey into Hell

(5:15) Paradise Lost

(6:12) Divine Comedy: Introduction

(10:21) Divine Comedy: Hell

(14:05) Faculty of Knowing and Faculty of Choosing

(16:05) Divine Comedy: Purgatory

(18:30) Divine Comedy: Heaven

(19:58) Salvation as Individuation

(21:15) Marriage of Heaven and Hell

(25:32) The Red Book: Descent into Hell

(35:08) Conclusion

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 more relevant than ever in our modern age.  

When society can no longer give us a clear picture of our values and standards, of what we are and what we ought to be, we are then thrown back on the search for ourselves. This is one of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety. To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose oneself. To venture in the highest sense is precisely to become conscious of oneself.

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(0:47) Emptiness

(4:46) Loneliness

(8:17) Anxiety

(13:22) Rediscovering Selfhood

(24:08) Freedom

(28:12) Courage

(29:19) Death

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 positive and a  negative side. It can bring the energy, beauty and creativity of  childhood into adult life, or thwart self-realisation and doom us to both unrealistic adolescent fantasies and experiencing life as a prison.    

The puer is the man-child who refuses to grow up, take responsibility,  and face life’s challenges, he expects other people, typically his  parents, to solve all his problems. He tries to go as high as possible  away from reality, ending up like Peter Pan, the boy who wouldn’t grow  up, who lives in Neverland, a place where people cease to age and are  eternally young. The puer aeternus is also known as the Peter Pan syndrome. This has become an increasingly common problem in our modern age.  

Those who find themselves unable to commit to work, to form satisfactory  relationships, to commit to the discipline of education, to carry the  weight of responsibility, or who feel that their life has become  meaningless, will find the integration of the archetype of eternal youth  invaluable in their life.

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(2:36) Adult Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood

(15:08) Senex and Puer

(16:55) The Role of Play in Jung’s Life

(19:24) The Puer Aeternus and The Little Prince

(26:16) Integration of Puer Aeternus

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, and is not reducible to one single literary entity. Trickster tales have existed since ancient times, and has been said to be at the very foundation of civilisation and culture. They belong to the oldest expressions of mankind.   

Tricksters are the breakers of rules, agents of mischief, masters of deceit, and boundary crossers. He is an agent of change, and is amoral, not immoral.  

Trickster is at one and the same time creator and destroyer, giver and negator, he who dupes and who is always duped himself.   

Psychologically, the trickster is an archetype, part of the collective unconscious. Trickster is everywhere, he is an eternal state of mind.   

The integration of the trickster archetype allows us to go from being ruled by our own self-centred ego to a new way of living, in which one has integrity and relatedness. It allows us to become aware of our true emotions, behaviours, and thoughts, that our unconscious persona is hiding, and without which there is no individuation at all.

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(2:35) Primitive Form of The Trickster

(3:48) Trickster and Laughter

(5:50) Trickster as Agent of Change

(7:35) Trickster as Creator and Destroyer

(9:40) Trickster as Amoral

(10:50) Trickster Figures

(17:32) The Psychology of The Trickster

(22:10) Trickster and Shadow

(24:04) Trickster and Ego Inflation

(26:15) The Trickster in Alchemy

(29:08) Conclusion

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 we see the strange dream-like mixture of perplexity and embarrassment play out, and the notion of a grand organisation with its incomprehensible bureaucratic system that hovers invisibly over each helpless individual, taking complete control over one's life.

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(9:20) The Metamorphosis (1915)

(13:59) The Trial (1925)

(23:07) The Castle (1926)

(24:29) Conclusion

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 past, for it was considered pseudoscience, a forgotten relic of history and despised field of investigation which he had suddenly revived.   

Alchemy allows one to achieve wholeness of personality, of aligning one’s ego to the Self through a reconnection with the unconscious. For Jung, the task of alchemy was and has always been psychological. The end product is not material in nature, but rather spiritual. Alchemy is the art of expanding consciousness, of self-realisation.

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⌛ Timestamps

0:00 Introduction

6:33 The Self: Achieving Wholeness

13:45 The Origins and History of Alchemy

20:20 The Basic Concepts of Alchemy

28:54 Alchemy as Psychological Projection

32:07 The Importance of Symbols

35:50 The Operations of Alchemy

42:52 Stages of Alchemy: Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo

50:03 Conclusion