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THIRD EYE DROPS

Encountering Archetypes, Psychological Alchemy & Carl Jung, MJDorian | Mind Meld 378

THIRD EYE DROPS

Michael Phillip

Spirituality, Development, Philosophy, Psychedelic, Comedy, Psychology, Mckenna, Future, Plato, Rogan, Science, Society & Culture, Watts, Trussell, Mind, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 106 minutes

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MJDorian of the fantastic Creative Codex podcast returns to the mind meld!

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We riff on the philosophy of Carl Jung, archetypal encounters, active imagination, psychological alchemy, the strangeness of the psyche, creative inspiration, and much more.

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0:00.0

Now administering third eye drops. He terms that inner space that inner space that they engage with in his creative meditations,

0:23.4

Mundus Imaginales.

0:25.3

It's the engagement of an inner world

0:28.6

through imagination.

0:29.8

In the case of something like the Sufis,

0:32.1

they view this as spiritual work.

0:34.0

You know, we view it through the Jungian lens as psychological work.

0:37.0

Certain, certain Jungian authors and analysts themselves like Jeffrey Rath, wrote the book Jung and the

0:44.3

alchemical imagination he claims that active imagination is

0:48.7

young's method for the transmutation of the soul so here's's somebody, you know, who's a trained union analyst who writes and understands the importance of

0:58.1

alchemy and active imagination and he doesn't mince any words. He brings the soul right into it. I think there's something to that.

1:06.0

Welcome back to the transmission my friends. I've said it before. I'll say it probably many more times but I'll say it again right now that there is no normal

1:16.0

only familiar weirdness when it comes to the human experience because if you think

1:21.6

about it what is is it? It's this stack of phenomena that feel

1:27.5

normal by virtue of the fact that we've been in them for decades. But when you begin to investigate the core pieces of that phenomena, you find

1:38.1

that it's all intensely nebulous, undefinable, uncapturable by empirical, scientific instrumentation.

1:47.3

As familiar as it feels, though, at least in waking consensus reality sort of consciousness, as soon as one digs below the surface,

1:56.2

the weirdness begins to make itself known.

1:59.6

You know, when we go into these realms we call the unconscious, the imagination. We enter symbolic mythological

2:08.0

territory, territory that by the way seems to have a life of its own, seems to have a symbol system of its own.

2:16.1

And of course if we want to investigate the psyche, if we want to learn its mysteries,

2:20.8

we have to go to these strange unconscious at least by normal standards

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