This is synchronicity. This is synchronicity. This is synchroncronicity. This is synchronicity. Welcome to episode 16 of Synchronicity.

My guest today is Kelly Carlin.

I also have a cold, so I'm going to keep this pretty short.

I was up in New York the past few days and had a great time.

I had some cool guests on the podcast, did some in-person ones, which are great.

But I also got a cold up there, so that wasn't so great.

So rather than you listen to my sick voice for this typical 5-10-minute intro,

I'm just going to give you the DL, the down low on Kelly Carlin.

Kelly is the daughter of George Carlin, legendary comedian and counterculture figure,

one of my favorite comedians.

But more importantly, Kelly is incredibly interesting and smart and wise in her own right.

Has a degree, got her master's in Jungian death psychology, studied at Pacifica.

She's a huge Joseph Campbell fan. And more importantly, just really seems to dive in to what the

heck are we doing here on earth. What are we doing's she's looking for meaning and more importantly

um seems to have a pretty balanced view um of the world she doesn't she she says something in

this episode where she says you know whenever we too heavily look at something from one side

she's always fundamentally interested in what is being overlooked

on the other side. So this equanimity or this balance concept is peppered out throughout this

entire discussion. We talk about a bunch of other things too. We talk about the concept of the

shadow, which is kind of something that in, at least in the New

Age movement, I think, is overlooked quite a bit. Everyone is kind of into this whole

positive thinking. Everything is love and light. And yes, everything is love and light. But there's

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