It's exactly what a labyrinth or even a corn maze should do as practice in finding a new attitude, practice in finding a new orientation, practice in letting go of ego, that we will have gone to a center in ourselves as we go to the center of the labyrinth.

Welcome to this Jungian life.

Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee,

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

issues of the day.

I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia.

I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod.

Today, Lisa and I are here to explore the deep, dark pathways known as labyrinths.

And they have been famous in mythology as a kind of a darkness or circular pathway. quite a bit of puzzlement of from time immemorial.

Basically, there are kind of two kinds of labyrinth. This is an archetypal structure,

one of which has to do with going down into the underworld and making a descent,

and the other which is famously present in the Cathedral of Chartre,

has to do with an ascent and making a spiritual journey.

So let's talk about labyrinths as a metaphor for human experience, a map of life, and how labyrinths are

different from mazes.

And I want to say that this was one of the many topics that we've done recently that was suggested by you, our listeners.

If you have a topic that you'd like us to cover, you can feel free to submit that any time.

Just go to our website, this union life.com, and there's a place on the top for podcast. You could drop it down and

there's a form that you can fill out to suggest topics. And we take those seriously. So we love to

hear your thoughts about what we should talk about. And I have to say that I have loved exploring this as a topic.

So I want to dive in with the famous story that I think everybody has heard of, which is

...