Psychological Alchemy, the Hermes Archetype and Carl Jung
THIRD EYE DROPS
Michael Phillip
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🗓️ 24 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
What if we have “the gods” all wrong? What if they’re not bygone superstitions of ancient cultures, but living archetypes that are endemic to the human psyche?
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Mythopoetic thinkers like psychiatrist, Carl Jung argued just that. But there’s one archetype that Jung and many others were (and are) particularly interested in. The Greeks called him Hermes, the Romans, Mercury.
What is about this figure that captivates the curiosity of so many great minds? What does the archetype really symbolize? Why does Hermes stay in the zeitgeist? Why is he associated with the phenomenon of synchronicity? Why did Jung place him at the center of both the alchemical process and individuation? In this transmission, we’ll explore all of the above and more!
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| 1:54.5 | psychological alchemy and the Hermes archetype. What if we have the gods all wrong? Let me explain. |
| 2:05.7 | If we think about them in a modern sense, we tend to do so pretty reductively. We grow up being |
| 2:11.2 | taught that our ancient ancestors had primitive minds. They used this idea of these super beings they |
| 2:18.4 | called gods to explain natural phenomena disasters and other circumstances they couldn't understand |
| 2:26.0 | because they didn't have access to science. And I'll admit perhaps some of our ancient ancestors |
| 2:31.2 | did think in such simplistic terms. I mean, if you look at a lot of modern spirituality and |
| 2:37.9 | modern religion, I'm not sure it's gotten a whole lot better. But if you dive into the work of |
| 2:43.1 | Socrates and Plato or Heraclitus or really any ancient philosopher of note, you'll find very |
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