You know from time to time life is going to take us to these places that we don't want to visit but we all have appointments

to places of depression, places of addiction, places of loss, places of betrayal, etc.

And we'll feel victimized.

We'll want to blame somebody, blame the universe, blame God, for example.

Yes. And every one of them, there God for example. Yes.

Every one of them, there's a task.

And to identify that task and to ask, what is my task here and how do I address that?

allows one to move from a sense of victim age to active participation in one's life.

Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Check.

Today Paul is talking with Young E and Scott. Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek.

Today Paul is talking with Youngian scholar Dr James Hollis.

Dr Hollis is a graduate of Zurich's Young Institute,

a licensed Youngian analyst practicing in Washington, D.C., and is the author of 15 books, including

living and examined life, and one of Paul's favorite books, Tracking the Gods, The Place of Myth in Modern Life.

Well, Dr Hollis, what a pleasure to have you here

and to share with me and my listeners on living for a d with Paul check

I've studied a fair bit of your work. You have an incredible number of books out there so so I know that you're a very, very busy man.

I recently finished reading, tracking the gods, which I found absolutely awesome.

I was reading that book and over and over again what kept coming to me in my mind was the

painting that Jung did of Philamon and his conversations with Philamon and I felt I am reading I'm communicating through the the non-local

mind with the archetype of the wise man I feel that that you embody that

archetype very fully and I went through a midlife

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