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Sophia Calling: Wisdom in the Streets
Sophia calls out in the streets and at the city gates. She is the Bible’s personification of Wisdom, and through a Jungian lens, a figure of the archetypal feminine. I...
The archetype of the Puer Aeternus
Jakob Lusensky on the Hermitix podcast discussing the archetype of the puer aeternus, or eternal youth. Drawing on Marie-Louise von Franz and James Hillman, they expl...
I'm not a machine - Jung, AI and the Religious Attitude
“I'm not a machine,” Jung insists in one of his last recorded interviews. What might his resistance tell us about our relationship to technology today? An audio essay ...
Möglichkeit — Jung, the Present and the Future
In this short reflection, I return to the final page of Jung’s Red Book, where he left a single handwritten word: Möglichkeit. Possibility. What does it mean to contin...
To redeem the day
Leonard Cohen on songwriting, self-respect and getting up at 4:30. In this excerpt from his 1992 conversation with Paul Zollo, Cohen shares the patient work of finding...
A Psychology of the Religious Making Process
Can psychology take religious experience seriously without reducing it to psychological explanations? Did Jung succeed in remaining a psychologist of religion, or did ...
A Paradise of Machines
If we are to avoid losing our humanity amid a paradise of machines invading and conditioning our daily lives, there is an urgent need for education in ethical discernm...
Jung, Nietzsche and Zarathustra: The Challenge of Transformation with Paul Bishop
In this episode, Jungian scholar Paul Bishop joins Jungian analyst-in-training Emma Iovoli to explore Nietzsche’s Thus Spoke Zarathustra and C.G. Jung’s complex relati...
Can the Self Be Known? A Conversation with Donald Carveth
What is the goal of psychoanalysis? Is it greater self-knowledge, or the recovery of our capacity simply to be? In this third Freudian/Jungian conversation with psycho...
Becoming Human in the Age of AI - A conversation with Sean McGrath
Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas may be one of the most important reflections yet on artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. In this conversation, Jakob ...
Magnifica Humanitas by Leo XIV - The introduction
This is a reading of the introduction to Magnifica - Humanitas - On Safeguarding the human person in the time of Artificial Intelligence, by Pope Leo XIV. For the full...
Emma Jung with Ann Conrad Lammers
After our excursion along the currents of our collective dreams, we now turn our attention back to Psychology on the Cross. For this conversation, I invited Jungian sc...
Was it just a Dream? | The spirit in the cloud
In the final episode of the first wave of Was it just a dream?, the outside world folds inward, everything condensing toward a single point, triggering a shocking real...
Was it just a Dream? | Collective commentary
Our last dream received some thoughtful commentary from listeners. We decided to put together some of these as extra material. Read the full dream here. Music: It wa...
Was it just a Dream? | Looking the other way
In the sixth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves in a church, looking the other way. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack...
Was it just a Dream? | The Raven
In the fifth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves at sea in the Middle Ages. A raven lands on deck and transforms. What is it asking of us? Share your o...
Was it just a Dream? | I want to help
In this fourth episode of Was it just a dream?, we're discussing a dream we received as a response to previous dreams. It again involves cutting. Share your own comm...
Was it just a Dream? | How can this be done unto me?
In this third episode of Was it just a dream?, we are faced with catastrophe, and learn something about the creative response to it. The name “Edward” comes from an A...
Was it just a Dream? | The Fish
In this second episode of Was it just a dream?, we’re invited to follow the symbol of the fish. We’re inviting the fish to remain a fish, to swim swiftly, hard to gra...
Was it just a Dream? | I don't want to hurt you
The first episode of our new podcast series, Was it just a Dream?, is titled “I Don’t Want to Hurt You.” Listen to the dream, and you will understand why. If you’d lik...
