Episodes
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In today's episode, I speak with Danielle Alexander about the stories we live and the stories that unconsciously live through us.
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In today's episode, I am releasing a recording of my talk at the 2024 South by Southwest Conference and Festival called Psychedelics and the Soul. Drawing on Jungian psychology I explore the need for a psychology that accounts for the soul as a reality when working with the psychedelic experience.
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In today's episode, Rick shares a paper he wrote called The Soul in Conflict, which uses archetypal psychology to look at the pagan / Christian divide that tends to unconsciously exist in the Western psyche.
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Intro Music: Royals, by Vitamin String Quartet
Outro Music: I am, by Satsang
Sources used in today's show:
Eknath, Easwaran. The Bhagavad Gita. Nilgiri Press, 2019.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Stanley Appelbaum. Self-Reliance, and Other Essays. DoverPublications, 2016.
Frantz, Alison. From Paganism to Christianity in the Temples of Athens.
Hillman, James. Re-Visioning Psychology. HarperCollins, 1975.
Hillman, James. Mythic Figures. Spring Publications, 2021.
History Today. “The Dream of Constantine.” History Today, Volume 69 Issue 3 March 2019
www.historytoday.com/archive/foundations/dream-constantine.
López-Pedraza, Rafael. Cultural Anxiety. Daimon Verlag, 1994.
Paris, Ginette, and Gwendolyn Moore. Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia. Spring Publications, 1991.
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In today's episode, Rick Alexander shares a paper he presented at the 2023 Mythologium Conference called Tantra and the Erotic Heart of Individuation.
In 1932, C.G. Jung first put depth psychology in dialogue with the Tantric worldview through his lectures on Kundalini Yoga. This paper is an attempt to dream that project forward, asking essential questions about how taking Tantra seriously might inform our ideas about how we relate to the soul, the body, and ultimately, the path of individuation.
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Sources:
Roche, Lorin. The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to The Yoga of Wonder & Delight. 2014.
Jung, C. G. The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga. Princeton University Press, 1996.
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Today's show is about exploring the archaic worldview. When the ancient way of seeing is recovered, the sacred is made visible.
For more content or to work with Rick Alexander, visit www.rickalexander.com
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Sources mentioned in today's show:
Hatab, Lawrence J. Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths. Open Court, 1992.
Homer, Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles, Penguin Classics, 2nd edition, 1998.
Krell, David Farrell. “Martin Heidegger the Anaximander Fragment.” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, vol. 1, no. 4, 1973, pp. 576–626
Leland, John. “How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, et al. The Birth of Tragedy, and Other Writings. Cambridge, University Press, 2019.
Vervaeke, John. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY.
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In today's show, I feature another Deep End episode with Dr. Danielle McGinnis, where she and I talk about the psychology and spirituality of Pornography and porn addiction.
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In today's Deep End episode, Danielle McGinnis and I discuss our views of embodiment on the psychological and spiritual path.
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Today's episode is another Deep End Podcast with Dr. Danielle McGinnis. In this show, we talk about the relational dynamics that result when only one person in the relationship is committed to 'inner-work'.
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In today's Deep End episode with Dr. Danielle McGinnis, we discuss themes around Memorial Day and how to make sense of our experience with the holiday through a psychological lens.
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Today's episode is another 'Deep End Podcast' with myself and Dr. Danielle McGinnis where we discuss the nature of the psychic complex and the way it impacts our ability to love.
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Today's episode features another 'Deep End' podcast with Dr. Danielle McGinnis where we discuss some of the mythic motifs surrounding the Easter story.
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Today's teaching comes from chapter 15 of my latest book Ambitious Heroes and Heartache.
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Today I talk about how analytical psychology can help the Western person better understand Eastern philosophy, especially in reference to the Chakra system found in Kundalini Yoga. This episode is based heavily on the work of Carl Jung (cited below) and the teaching comes from an academic paper that you can find here.
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Sources mentioned in this show:
The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga
The Secret of the Golden Flower
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Integrative Spirituality
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Today I chat with Dr. Daniell McGinnis for another Deep End episode. Our topic today is spiritual materialism.
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Today's teaching is a reflection on our Western models of reality and how they might hold us back from experiencing the fullness of who we are and what this life is about.
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Today's teaching comes from the third patriarch of Zen, Seng-Ts'an, and focuses on the role of acceptance in the spiritual path.
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Sources mentioned in the show:
The work of Eknath Easwaren
The work of Tara Brach
Stephen Batchelor's Buddhism with beliefs
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In today's episode, Dr. Danielle McGinnis and I talk about our recent tour of Carl Jung's house, using the episode to talk about his life, work, and philosophy.
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In today's episode, I talk about the role of trust in the transformational journey. In order to talk about the importance of trust, I use lecture material and quotes from Alan Watts.
Sources:
Click here to learn more about my lecture series on transformational work
Click here to get my book Ambitious Heroes & Heartache
Click here to hear my spoken word album The Devastated Kingdom
Click here to listen to the Intro / Outro music
Click here for the full Alan Watts lecture
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Today I air chapter four from my latest book Ambitious Heroes and Heartache.
To check out my new lecture series ReBirth; Psychological and Spiritual reflections on Transformational work, click here.
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Today I use Homer's Odyssey to talk about the spiritual path to liberation by comparing the story with a lecture given by psychotherapist Polly Young-Eisendrath called The Spiritual Adventure of Being Human.
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Sources:
The Odyssey
Lecture by Polly Young-Eisendrath
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