Ecstatic Transformation: Activating the Archetype of Radical Joy
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
What does it mean to depose the ego and encounter the dismantling joy of the Self?
Ecstatic transformation challenges our understanding of ourselves and breaks the boundaries of ordinary experience, leaving us questioning a lifetime of assumptions. It shatters our ego’s illusions of separation, shifting the foundation of our identity. It is the greater solutio where our ego and Self come face to face. This psycho-spiritual process is symbolized in the Dionysiac archetypal themes of death and rebirth through ecstatic states that transcend the rational, intensify emotion, and connect us to something greater. Through myths, dreams, rituals, and neurobiological insights, we encounter the dynamic interplay between dissolution and reformation, creation and destruction, and individuality and unity. This episode offers a framework for understanding how shattering joy, vulnerability, and the unconscious reshape psyche.
Prepare to discover what it takes to break free from the limits of who you think you are, how moments of ecstasy can transform your life by revealing deeper truths about yourself, which universal patterns shape our experiences of joy and renewal, whether intense experiences of ecstasy lead to lasting growth or temporary relief, why letting go of control is essential for discovering the fullness of your being…and so much more.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:04.2 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.7 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation |
| 0:13.2 | that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 0:23.4 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 0:28.3 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 0:56.7 | Thank you. Today, we're going to talk about a wonderful topic, ecstasy, which is something that all of us have at least for a moment experienced and perhaps maybe as toddlers we experienced many times, the sense of unity or oneness with the universe, a dissolution |
| 1:04.8 | of the limits of the ego, experiences of intense joy and love, or sometimes think of it as self-transcendence. |
| 1:17.0 | This topic wonderfully was suggested by a listener, and we're very appreciative for that, |
| 1:23.9 | for ringing that bell. |
| 1:27.2 | We'd love to hear from you about what you'd like us to talk about. |
| 1:31.1 | So just go to our website, this youngianlife.com slash podcast, and then click, do you have a podcast |
| 1:39.3 | topic suggestion? There's a form opens up. Just type in a couple of your thoughts. We do read through |
| 1:46.0 | them. So, and we collect them and we use them for inspiration. So please, don't hesitate. |
| 1:52.0 | Let us know what you'd like to jump into with us. So ecstasy, jumping into ecstasy with us. I'm just going to read a quick poem |
| 2:04.7 | by Rumi, who is, so many of us know, the poet of ecstasy, like many of the ecstatic mystics |
| 2:12.4 | throughout time. And this is a poem called Agony and Ecstasy. |
| 2:22.7 | In the orchard and rose garden, I long to see your face. |
| 2:27.1 | In the taste of sweetness, I long to kiss your lips. |
| 2:30.7 | In the shadows of passion, I long for your love. |
| 2:37.3 | O supreme lover, let me leave aside my worries. The flowers are blooming with the exultation of your spirit. By Allah, I long to escape the prison of my ego and |
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