Three Jungians on Psychedelics: Is Tripping a Valid Path of Self-Discovery?

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

🗓️ 4 January 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Summary

How can combining psychedelics and Jungian psychology enhance our understanding of psyche?

Psychedelics may help us access deep layers of the unconscious, revealing aspects of psyche that are often inaccessible through traditional psychoanalytic methods alone. Jungian analysis, with its focus on archetypes and the collective unconscious, provides a framework for interpreting and integrating the complex, symbolic experiences often encountered in psychedelic states. The combination of psychedelics and analysis could facilitate a more profound and holistic healing process, addressing not only individual psychological issues but also connecting with broader, universal aspects of human experience. This integrated approach could accelerate the therapeutic process, allowing for quicker breakthroughs and more profound insights than can be achieved through either method independently.

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Prepare to discover which of the TJL hosts tripped their balls off in their twenties, whether psychedelics can guarantee illumination, when we should be cautious about ayahuasca, why psychedelics may facilitate psychological change, what kind of attitude we should cultivate when approaching psilocybin, how to interpret hallucinations brought on by plant medicine, who should avoid cannabis, where miraculous claims are exaggerated and so much more…

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0:00.0	Hi listeners I want to take just a minute to let you know about something really special that's going to be happening soon.
0:05.4	Well actually two things.
0:06.8	First of all my new book The Vital Spark, Reclaim your Outlaw Energies and Find Your Feminine Fire is being published on February 6th and you can
0:15.7	pre-order it wherever you get your books and to celebrate the release of the book we
0:21.9	are finally doing something that I've wanted us to do for a long time. We're going to have a live podcast.
0:27.0	So you can sign up, you can get free tickets to come, it'll be on Zoom. It's going to be February 10th at 3 PM New York time.
0:37.0	And we will be discussing my book, we will take questions, and we'll also take a dream from someone who's present at the live
0:49.2	recording. So you'll have a chance to submit your dream that day and we'll just pick from one of those and do it.
0:58.0	So I hope you'll join us for this really special event and just check out the link and get your tickets.
1:06.0	Okay, see you soon.
1:09.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
1:11.0	Three good friends and Jungian analysts,
1:14.5	Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee
1:17.4	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation
1:21.2	that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
1:25.0	I'm Lisa Marchiano and I'm a youngian analyst in Philadelphia.
1:31.0	I'm Joseph Lee and I'm a youngian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
1:35.6	I'm Deborah Stewart, a youngian analyst on Cape Cod. Hello everybody. Today on this union life we're going to be talking about
1:50.5	youngians on psychedelics and I'll let you know that some of us have had first
1:56.4	hand experiences around this early in our misspent youth we're going to be talking about the growing interest in
2:05.4	psychedelics psychotherapeutically but from a youngian standpoint it's
2:10.2	particularly important because sometimes psychosyllic substances allow people's egos to enter into
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