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This Jungian Life Podcast

Episode 148 - MYTH AS MEDICINE: An Interview with Kwame Scruggs, PhD

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.81.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Kwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire through African-based initiatory rites. He asked himself “What is it I really want to do? Not what could I do. What did I want to do?”

His passion for myth and drumming led him to graduate studies and creating programs in which story is the catalyst for inspired manhood and realization of potential. Story, fellowship and rhythm create an alchemical mixture that facilitates connection with self and others and the deep archetypal wellsprings of mature masculinity. As one participant exclaimed, “It works—it really works!” Alchemy, Scruggs’ award-winning program for young men, is the backdrop of a documentary film, Finding the Gold Within. On February 6 Kwame Scruggs brings his wisdom to a four-week online program, Men and Mythology (link below).

Here's the dream we analyze

"I am in an enormous, old building with a male friend. We are on a trip in a Middle Eastern, South Asian or North African country, and this building houses a huge market full of people, goods and activity. We, however, are in a big dusty storage/junk room, and there is no one else there. The ceilings are extremely high and light fills the room from windows near the top. The room is a pleasant warm color, and I feel contented. We aren't doing anything in particular and have no agenda. I have no problems, questions or desires. My friend goes into an adjoining room that is also very large and stores old, forgotten stuff, but it's completely dark. I can only make out the body of a dead man on a table and can only see his feet, which have a mummified appearance. My friend approaches the body, which surprises and somewhat alarms me. He reaches out and removes the tag from its toe. He flings it toward me while bent over with laughter. I turn away and the tag lands on the back of my left shoulder. I'm aware that we don't know the cause of death and think there could be smallpox on the tag for all we know. I'm not scared, though, just a bit disgusted and very annoyed."

References:

https://salomeinstitute.com/seminars/men-mythology-kwame-scruggs-february

Michael Meade. Men & the Water of Life (Amazon)

Transcript

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Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean?

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Young wrote, Dreams are a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul.

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Dream School is a unique self-paced online program you can start at any time that unlocks access to your inner world.

0:24.9

Our 12-month program provides the support, knowledge,

0:28.4

and guidance you need to reach within,

0:31.2

decipher your personal dream code,

0:33.4

and harness it to optimize your life.

0:36.3

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0:39.3

of fellow travelers, each pursuing a unique quest.

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Join us on an adventure to wholeness and healing through understanding your dreams.

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Go to this Yungi Life.com and click on dream school.

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Once you join, you'll get immediate access to our first to three modules.

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You can get started right away. We look forward to seeing

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you there.

1:07.0

Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and

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youngian analysts Lisa Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,

1:16.4

invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological

1:21.7

perspective to important issues of the day.

1:25.0

I'm Lisa Marchiano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.

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