listening to a Jungian analysis of the trickster tales.
trickster:
brings change,
turns over the status quo
uses a sense of humour in doing so
has fun doing it.
it occurred to me that the Harris/Walz campaign is tapping trickster energy, definitely turning over the MAGA status quo in order to initiate change in politics.
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jungianthology-radio/id912158581
another talk on trickster: the sacred boundary crosser.
making a distinction.
"very much in the news is a former president who the pundits have called out as being Trickster in chief.
And I just wondered if you had any thoughts about that?
I do. So several things to say. One is the ancient mythology says that
YOU DO NOT put this character in the center of your world."
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jungianthology-radio/id912158581
to understand how Biden's ritual self-sacrifice opened the latent psychic energies now widespread in the Harris/Walz campaign
Robert Moore discusses how the ritual containment of grandiose energies in indigenous and traditional cultures surpasses contemporary means.
the crucial importance of making conscious sacrifice in relationship to the collective unconscious.
The Archetype of Sacrifice and
the Regulation of Archetypal Energy with Robert Moore, Sep 27, 2021
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jungianthology-radio/id912158581
“How aware am I of what sacrificial interactions are going on with me right now between me and the Archetypal Self?
Because if I am not aware of what is going on between me and the Archetypal Self right now,
I am walking in a cloud. So if you are a therapist or if you are a person interested in that, listen to those lectures on Archetype, Compulsion and Healing.”
“As you get out into the world, you run into the fact that not everybody sees you as God. Some people do, and that's not all that's cracked up to be, right?
Because if they see you as God, they want to control you.”
From Jungianthology Radio: Institute Archive | The Archetype of Sacrifice and the Regulation of Archetypal Energy with Robert Moore, Sep 27, 2021
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jungianthology-radio/id912158581
“Or, I can get nervous and become a fundamentalist, and
I can think that I am really being humble.
But what I've really done is to create a franchise of the sacred energies that I think I run. I am the McDonald's of sacred energy, which is a hidden inflation.”
From Jungianthology Radio: Institute Archive | The Archetype of Sacrifice and the Regulation of Archetypal Energy with Robert Moore, Sep 27, 2021
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/jungianthology-radio/id912158581
“What does it require to relate to it?
the Jungian point of view
this is not just primitive superstition. Becoming modern won't make this go away.
People that engage in sacrificial process are not just those primitives over there. It's everybody. Everybody engages in sacrificial process.
The only distinction is not whether you do it. It's how conscious are you about what your sacrificial process is.
And if you became conscious of it, what would you want to change about it?”
"so the real question now is whether or not we can cultivate a kind of spiritual and psychological maturity in which people increasingly, rather than just getting into their doomsday fantasy, their resignation fantasy.
That is, fundamentalism is essentially a retreat into a kind of an alienated, fearful rigidity that is resigned to the Holocaust. That there's going to be a big conflagration and then we'll have the new world, the brave new world that will come out of it."
"But boy, that's, in my view, that's a recipe for disaster and it's really growing.”
The biggest, most scary thing right now is all the resignation fantasies that the horse is out of the barn. There's nothing we can do, you know, and that's where the fundamentalists go. Well, they want to see it all, they want to pull the chain, see it all flush so the new world can come.”
“So Jung built a whole edifice of the individuation process, not on becoming archetypal, not on romanticizing archetypal experience,
but in getting clear about how much of our experience is archetypal, impersonal, transpersonal, and
trying to support the human being as the human being tries to emerge out of the archetypal matrix.
Individuation is emerging out of the archetypal matrix as a person. And so that, according to Jung and all classical Jungians, requires becoming more conscious.”