Category: The Meaty Part
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Title: The Threefold Self: Speaker, Listener, Witness
Every thought you have is not just a fleeting internal whisper. It is a dialogue—and more importantly, a triologue. In every conscious moment, there are three roles simultaneously at play within you: the speaker, the listener, and the witness. Understanding these internal presences can transform how you relate to your mind, your decisions, and ultimately,…
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Why Do Liberals Lose So Goddamn Always?
A Progressive Critique of Political Messaging, Economic Misunderstanding, and Voter Psychology A rerun of sorts, I know. I have posted on this subject often but that’s because this is a subject that is on my mind a lot. Now, 100+ days into trump’s second term I find myself wondering yet again why have democrats and…
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American Political Alchemy: A Jungian Analysis of Republican and Democratic Transformations
Can the political shifts of the past 60 years in the United States mirror the transformative journey of the psyche described by Edward Edinger in Anatomy of the Psyche? Edinger’s work, grounded in Jungian alchemy, maps psychological development through symbolic stages of transformation such as calcinatio, solutio, coagulatio, and mortificatio. Though originally applied to individual psychological processes, these alchemical stages…
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The Alchemical Shadow of Trump’s 2025 Presidency: A Jungian Critique of Spiritual Dissonance in American Politics
and because we live in the world we live in, let’s see what AI had to say on the subject of the current administration Keywords: Jungian psychology, Trump 2025 policies, Christian nationalism, political shadow, alchemy and politics, immigration policy, anti-Christian policies, spiritual hypocrisy, American collective unconscious In the unfolding narrative of American politics, President Donald…
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The Nation in Mortificatio: Signs of Collective Disintegration
I remember when trump was elected the first time a snippet of a documentary I had seen years ago occurred to me. It was an interview with Marie Louise von Franz (one of Jung’s famous students). The interviewer asked what Ms. von Franz thought had happen in Germany prior to WWII. Her response was simply…
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Do not let them win
You earned all you have Don’t know if this will work, I’m still a little light on how things work here but I saw this on the gram and had to share it. Apparently companies are deleting female accomplishments to comply with the clown in chief’s desire…..
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The Problem With Not Studying History
You might forget that every revolution throughout the documented history of humankind started when a downtrodden and hopeless segment of the population grew to such a size and such a level of frustration and rage that they rose up and killed the elites. The peasants rose up against the nobility. The poor rose up against…
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Random thought of the day
In the late 1960’s and into the early 1970’s Ronald Reagan was the governor of California. While in office he began the experiments he later brought to the entire country in the 1980’s. One of those experiments was to reduce the funding given to “public” schools, colleges, and universities. The goal of this experiment was…
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Projection of Shadow Materials
I think I will bypass the topics of my aging canine companions and the political hellscape we find ourselves in and post something a little closer to my heart–Jungian Psychology and treating patients. This post/blurb/essay/whatever started out as a response to a question I received by a contact on LinkedIn. I don’t know that he…
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The Problem with Writing
I remember when I was at UC Davis working on my bachelors (was that really almost 20 years ago????) I took an English class. I took many English classes but this was the first I took at Davis after transferring from the community college. I remember being very excited to be in the class. It…