THE GETHSEMANE ENCOUNTER

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

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

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The Garden of Gethsemane is the place of life crisis; it permits no escape or compromise. There, we suffer the agony of choosing between personal will or willing submission to something greater. Jesus’ companions could not stay awake, and God did not answer his prayers to be spared. We suffer dark and harrowing Gethsemanes alone. We may have to give up familiarity and safety for the unprecedented and unpredictable. We may ache from anguish and abandonment. Yet, to surrender voluntarily and consciously is to bow to a greater truth and yield to a higher power. In doing so, we transcend despair, resentment, and victimhood--and may find ourselves transformed. Gethsemane is a universal human story. If we can keep vigil and stay awake, we can hear the voice within. And say yes.

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“I am on the youtube show, Good Mythical Morning. The two hosts are dumping buckets of spiders on me. They start with daddy long legs. I hunch over and can feel them tickling my back. Then a bigger black type of spider. Then the last bucket is scorpions. I stay hunched over, covering my head. With each bucket, I can feel the insects tickling me, but that’s it.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano,
0:07.1	Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation
0:12.3	that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. I'm Lisa Marchiano,
0:20.1	and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.
0:22.5	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
0:27.5	I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod.
0:37.1	Well, given that Easter is coming up, we thought it would be a good time for us to talk about
0:44.4	Gethsemini, which is the moment in the New Testament when Christ is coming to terms with what's about to happen to him.
0:57.7	And it's an important scene in the New Testament in the life of Christ.
1:03.9	It's an important scene we think psychologically and mythologically.
1:10.6	It relates to initiation, it relates to sacrifice,
1:16.5	and it says something about the ego's relationship to the self
1:22.5	in our psychological understanding of it.
1:25.8	So we wanted to try to unpack that today. So as we prepared to
1:32.5	move into this, I thought that I would read this small section from the book of Matthew so that the
1:39.0	images and words are with us. Because I was raised Roman Catholic, I'm going to read the King James Version.
1:47.3	Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemini, and said unto the disciples,
1:55.2	Sit ye here, will I go and pray yonder. And he took with him Peter
2:01.0	and the two sons of Zebedee,
2:04.6	who are James and John,
2:06.5	and began to be sorrowful and very heavy.
2:11.2	Then saith he unto them,
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