Logos Soup

This episode is an uncut conversation I had with @FloatUniverse. Float is a content creator and influencer in the spiritual/psychedelic community. He is famous for his memes, his occasional Tom Cruise references, and his advocacy for flotation tank meditation as a vehicle for self-improvement and psychological healing.

Jesus told his disciples, "All they that take the sword shall perish by the sword." This episode looks at the concept of radical pacifism in the Gospels, and the reactionary movements from the far-right that reject Christianity for this very reason. I attempt to analyze the dangerous conspiracies of the Neo-Pagan Ethno-Nationalists using the interpretive lens of Jungian shadow possession. The episode concludes with a discussion about Chinese Daoism and the proper role of aggression in our lives.

This episode analyzes the psychopathology of modern Flat Earthers, and the cultural shift that created to their absurd movement. 100 years before the rise of internet Flat Earthers, Carl Jung had a vision where he crippled a giant by telling him that the Earth is a spinning ball. Can this vision, paired with the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, be the key to understanding and curing Flat Earthers?

Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a famous work of Modernist American poetry. This episode analyzes the poems using Sigmund Freud's theory of psychopathology, explores Freud's idea of the Oedipus Meta-narrative, and compares his work against Carl Jung's competing psychoanalytic theory.

This episode discusses the Anima archetype in Jungian Psychology. I talk about her significance in movies, literature, and dreams, and I explore her relationship with the Marian apparitions, the concept of synchronicity, and Taylor Swift.

In this episode, I talk about the religious and philosophical influences that let to me creating my meme page and podcast. In particular, I discuss my Catholic education, Taoism, superhero comic books, and the Jungian psychoanalytic movement.