Nigredo: Finding Light in Our Darkness
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated with decomposition and putrefaction. As a psychological state, nigredo is “the great suffering and grief” which the detached forces of nature inflict on the soul. We realize in sorrow that what we thought were truths were illusory. Individuals may have taken pride in their virtues, talents or good fortune; societies may have touted their cultural superiority, military prowess, or wealth. When we are stripped of easy beliefs, we have no defense against the desolation of nigredo. But as surely as a seed releases its urge to life underground, blackness is also a place of incubation. Jung states, “Everything psychic is pregnant with the future.” Our task is “to be at home in the darkness of suffering and there find germs of light and recovery” from which new life will come.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what your dreams mean? Join us in DreamSchool at thisyunginlife.com and find out. |
| 0:09.4 | Jung wrote, dreams are a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul. |
| 0:15.5 | DreamSchool is a unique, self-paced online program you can start at any time that unlocks access to your inner |
| 0:23.6 | world. Our 12-month program provides the support, knowledge, and guidance you need to reach within, |
| 0:31.1 | decipher your personal dream code, and harness it to optimize your life. By enrolling, you'll join an affirming community of fellow travelers, |
| 0:40.8 | each pursuing a unique quest. |
| 0:43.6 | And it's fun. |
| 0:45.0 | Join us on an adventure to wholeness and healing through understanding your dreams. |
| 0:50.1 | Go to thisyongyeinLife.com and click on Dream School. |
| 0:54.5 | You'll be taken to our secure checkout. |
| 0:57.0 | Once you join, you'll get immediate access to our first three modules. |
| 1:01.7 | You can get started right away. |
| 1:04.0 | We look forward to seeing you there. |
| 1:09.5 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 1:11.4 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 1:17.4 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological |
| 1:22.7 | perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. |
| 1:31.2 | I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:36.1 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 1:59.0 | The three of us are sitting with the unfolding events of the times and thinking about the great arc of transformation that life imposes upon us. Jung thought greatly about his own process as well as the process of the culture, and if |
| 2:06.1 | he were here today, he might say that we are all participating in a collective |
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