Hello everybody and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio.

So on today's episode I have a special guest.

It is a Spencer who is behind the YouTube channel Thoughts on Thinking.

This is a channel I recently came across actually as I was struggling with my own depression

and anxiety looking into as I often do into psychology and psychological thinkers and philosophy

of mind to just sort of help myself deal with what I'm going through and try to find

some resources that I can implement in my struggle with these things and I came across

thoughts on thinking and just love the content particularly because I was getting into

Carl Jung but also because of the creative ways in which Spencer takes those concepts

and so much more in philosophy and applies them, explains them, etc.

It's just really really helpful and I found it really creative and interesting and I jumped

on Twitter, found his account, reached out to him immediately, he said he'd be interested

in coming on and maybe doing a collab around the work of Carl Jung.

Now as I've said the reason I've gotten into Carl Jung many of you know he's already

done episodes on psychoanalysis, we've done episodes on Freud, we've done episodes

on Nietzsche and you know I've always had an interest in that line of intellectual thought,

philosophy and psychology and in Jung is a natural fit and more than that is a natural fit

and dovetails perfectly with my ongoing and deep-seated interest in mysticism and the

religious impulse and religious experience and you know so much of the people I admire

on the Eastern philosophy front, on the mysticism front, on the Hindu and Buddhist fronts,

we'll often bring up Carl Jung as a foundational thinker and somebody that complements those

traditions incredibly well was influenced by them and turns around and influences them

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