Psychology & The Cross

Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas   may be one of the most important reflections yet on artificial intelligence and the future of humanity. In this conversation, Jakob Lusensky and Sean McGrath explore the encyclical's central question: What does it mean to be human in an age of AI? Along the way they discuss Jung, technology, transhumanism, work, community, suffering, and why a human face that a...

This is a reading of the introduction to Magnifica - Humanitas - On Safeguarding the human person in the time of Artificial Intelligenc e, by Pope Leo XIV. For the full encyclical visit the following link. Join the live stream conversation with Sean McGrath about this text Wednesday 17th of June at 3:15 pm CES T on this link. The reading of the introduction is done by Emma Lovoli , Jungian analyst...

After our excursion along the currents of our collective dreams, we now turn our attention back to Psychology on the Cross . For this conversation, I invited Jungian scholar Ann Conrad Lammers to discuss Emma Jung: Dedicated to the Soul , a book she recently edited together with Thomas Fischer and Medea Hoch. It's a wonderful book that brings Emma out of Carl Jung's shadow, revealing the full rang...

In the final episode of the first wave of Was it just a dream?, the outside world folds inward, everything condensing toward a single point, triggering a shocking realization.   Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

Our last dream received some thoughtful commentary from listeners. We decided to put together some of these as extra material. Read the full dream here .  Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

In the sixth episode of Was it just a dream? , we find ourselves in a church, looking the other way.  Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

In the fifth episode of Was it just a dream? , we find ourselves at sea in the Middle Ages. A raven lands on deck and transforms. What is it asking of us? Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page. Reference to Albrecht Dürer's medieval engraving Knight, Death and the Devil. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Compan...

In this fourth episode of Was it just a dream? , we're discussing a dream we received as a response to previous dreams. It again involves cutting.  Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

In this third episode of Was it just a dream? , we are faced with catastrophe, and learn something about the creative response to it. The name “Edward” comes from an Anglo-Saxon name which literally means “guardian or protector of wealth”. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited...

In this second episode of Was it just a dream? , we’re invited to follow the symbol of the fish. We’re inviting the fish to remain a fish, to swim swiftly, hard to grasp a hold of, turn into a concept, as we ask what kind of consciousness it might ask the dreamer, and us as dreamers to develop. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page. Music: It was just a dream by Ra...

The first episode of our new podcast series, Was it just a Dream? , is titled “I Don’t Want to Hurt You.” Listen to the dream, and you will understand why. If you’d like to read the full dream or comment on it, go to our Substack page. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company. 

Have you had a dream that stayed with you — one that felt larger than your own life? This is an invitation to join Jungian analysts Cécile Buckenmeyer and Jakob Lusensky in the experiment of shaping a holding space for collective dreams. The new podcast Was it just a dream? is devoted to those big dreams that C.G. Jung described as “the common property of mankind” (CW 10 §33), the deep streams of...

In this episode, I speak with Sean McGrath about his new book The Lost Road - A Search for the Soul of the West , a spiritual autobiography and a philosophical meditation on the soul of the West. Moving between personal narrative and cultural diagnosis, McGrath traces how the ancient fusion of Greek contemplation and Jewish revelation formed the heart of Western spirituality, how that inheritance...

Audio clip from the film, "Matter of Heart," (1986) directed, edited, and produced by Mark Whitney, conceived and written by Suzanne Wagner, executive producer George Wagner. C.G. Jung: The world hangs on a thin thread, and that is the psyche of man. Nowadays we are not threatened by elementary catastrophes. There is no such thing [in nature] as an H-bomb; that is all man's doing. WE are the great...

Is psychoanalysis a path to salvation? I was invited to ponder this provocative question together with psychoanalyst Donald Carveth. This is our second Freudian/Jungian dialogue. For more psychoanalytic thinking visit Don's youtube page.

In the fourth and final season of Secular Christ, Sean McGrath introduces his ideas around everyday Christian Mysticism. 

In the fourth and final season of Secular Christ, Sean McGrath introduces his ideas around everyday Christian Mysticism. 

In the fourth and final season of Secular Christ, Sean McGrath introduces his ideas around everyday Christian Mysticism. 

In the fourth and final season of Secular Christ, Sean McGrath introduces his ideas around everyday Christian Mysticism. 

In this episode, I speak with Swedish psychotherapist and historian of ideas, Suzanne Gieser, who shares some of her recent research on the fascinating topic of Jung and psychedelics. She offers insights into Jung’s views on the therapeutic potential (and dangers) of these substances and sheds light on early Jungian pioneers in the field of psychedelic psychotherapy. Suzanne also shares some of he...

Jung on death. An audio clip from John Freeman's 'Face to Face' (BBC) interview at Jung's house at Küsnacht, in March 1959, two years before Jung's passing. Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0p1ITcGtKI

In this episode I speak to a dear friend and colleague, Luis Moris about his most recent book "Confronting Death". The conversation ambulate around Jung's writings on death and dying and the role of "the dead" in the process of individuation.  Luis Moris is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Zurich. He is the founder of Blue Salamandra Films. He has produced and directed several films includ...

In this episode, I speak to religious studies scholar Aaron French. We discuss Rudolf Steiner’s concept of the Doppelgänger and Jung’s concept of The Shadow, and explore what to learn when putting these two visionaries in the same room.  Aaron J. French is a post-doctoral researcher in Religious Studies at the University of Erfurt in Germany.  His main research focuses on the History of Esotericis...

I invited a few of scholars partaking in C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity to share a personal reflection after reading the book. Third out is Jungian analyst and scholar Murray Stein.  The music played in this episode is licensed under creativecommons.org: Siddharta Corsus - Constellations

I invited a few of scholars partaking in C.G Jung: Face to Face with Christianity to share a personal reflection after reading the book. Second out is Jungian scholar and Orthodox Christian Pia Chaudhari. Here is a link to an earlier conversation we had which is also to be found in edited form in the book. The music played in this episode is licensed under creativecommons.org: Siddharta Corsus - C...