The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy

The penultimate episode in this miniseries on Jung's Answer to Job asks the following questions of this text: Q. Why is there no "real" history, sociology, or political science in the Answer to Job and indeed in Jung’s work in general? Q. Are there other interpretations of the Answer to Job. Q. How unusual is Jung’s interpretation? Q. Does Jung speak of God in different ways? Q. Does the theory of...

Este es el penúltimo episodio de esta miniserie. Examinamos las dificultades y fortalezas del Respuesta a Job. Las dificultades incluyen: Su relevancia; su alejamiento de las demás disciplinas analíticas; ciertas inconsistencias que pueden confundir al lector; una contradicción - si el arquetipo del Self es la totalidad o un arquetipo específico; la dificultad inherente del texto. Algunas de sus f...

A resume is given of the episodes so far. Responses to the following questions are given: Q. Is God separate from us? Q. How can God be a personality as he mostly appears to be in the bible? Q. If the dualism of good and evil is contained in God then what is the point of the individuation process in human beings? Q. How can God be the archetype of the Self? Q. Jung speaks of the God in different w...

In this episode we arrive at the last part of the Answer to Job, chapters 15-20. Three of Jung’s arguments stand out. 1. The actual dangers of an apocalypse in our own time. 2. The importance of a uniting symbol such as that of a child-hero or the Virgin Mary that is an attempt to heal the opposites and their terrible danger to humanity. 3. Reflections on the nature of God.

En este episodio queremos responder a las siguientes preguntas ¿Por qué no hay historia 'real', sociología o ciencia política en el libro? ¿Qué explicación histórica podría ofrecerse para la literatura apocalíptica? ¿Por qué la interpretación de Jung es atípica? Como la teoría de la evolución cambia todos los estudios bíblicos, incluido la Respuesta a Job. ¿Cómo puede Dios ser la totalidad y al mi...

This episode covers chapters 11-14 of Answer to Job. Jung argues that the emergence of Christianity was an attempt to create a totally good God subsequent to the injury done to Job (i.e. mankind) by Yahweh. He focuses on the weakest part of the Christian argument, that which most reveals the dark side of god which cannot be repressed despite the best efforts of Christianity. This is the subject of...

Jung presenta el último libro de la biblia donde los cristianos presentan a su Dios con todas sus contradicciones. Detalla los eventos del Apocalipsis enfatizando el lado oscuro de Dios. Pero lo que perseguía a Jung era la posibilidad de un apocalipsis real. Jung pasó del Libro de Job al Apocalipsis y ahora avanza rápidamente a su propia época. Insinúa que la humanidad está pasando por un proceso...

Answer to Job has 20 chapters that formed a complex unity in Jung’s mind. This episode will summarize the first 10 of these. Themes include: Jung is indignant at the injustice done to Job. The unconscious creator needs conscious humanity so as to develop but, at the same time it opposes this. The incarnation of God into man through Christ is a world-shaking transformation or objectification of God...

Jung había vivido las guerras del siglo XX y fue testigo del inmenso impacto de Hitler en las civilizaciónes alemana y europea. Se dio cuenta muy claramente, que con la realidad de la bomba nuclear, la humanidad ahora tenía los medios para la autodestrucción. Para él este era un escenario apocalíptico,  el lado oscuro de Dios expresado a través de la psique humana. En última instancia, Dios no es...

Jung felt that God called on him personally to realise and experience God’s own dark side. And this was the only way that he could experience relief and grace – God’s blessing. The inspiration for writing the book was as if  he was composing the work of a Bach or Handel. There are a number of different voices that Jung adopts. He switches between them in a spontaneous intuitive manner in the flow...

This is the start of miniseries within the Spiritual Crisis of our Time in which I examine Jung’s Answer to Job, one of his most enigmatic and fascinating books, written in 1952 and which was clearly of enormous personal importance to him. This episode: # explores Jung’s own psychology, especially in his childhood, as a background to this work. # presents Jung’s account of his religious and theolo...

Dios quiere entrar en la humanidad pero este es un proceso contradictorio porque trae consigo su lado oscuro a pesar de todos los esfuerzos de la humanidad por limpiar su imagen y convertirlo en el dios de la justicia y el amor. Jung da más evidencia de un dios iracundo y destructivo de las visiones apocalípticas de Ezequiel, Daniel y Enoc del Antiguo Testamento, y el Libro de Revelaciones, el ult...

This episode explores the Book of Genesis, in particular the story of Adam and Eve: their existence in the Garden, the temptation to eat the apple from the Tree of Knowledge, and their banishment. It is interpreted as the movement into consciousness which inevitably is also into an awareness of death. A Gnostic and Jungian interpretation of this foundational myth of Western civilization is given....

En el ultimo episodio presentamos la experiencia de Jung en su juventud con el inconsciente, que más tarde lo predispuso a identificarse tan profundamente con Job. Experimentó el “otro lado de la psique”, el lado oscuro de Dios. Esto fue como un trauma infligido por Dios pero también fue la fuente de su gracia. En este episodio cubrimos los primeros 10 capítulos de Respuesta a Job que incluye: Pri...

This episode examines the Book of Genesis, the great Judaic creation myth which has been also been fundamental to Christianity. In particular the famous account of the fall and banishment of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden is presented. The Tree of Knowledge and the eating of apple is the movement into consciousness; the banishment from the garden is the expulsion from the primal unity (natur...

Having looked at the benevolent and terrible aspects of the Great Mother, and located this duality in the history of our consciousness, I now wish to explore the transition from the Great Mother to the Patriarchy, understood symbolically and mythologically. Three to six thousand years ago patriarchal religions replaced Great Mother worship. The masculine became opposed to nature, the realm of the...

En opinión de Jung, Yahvé, a pesar de toda su superioridad, no es consciente de los opuestos en sí mismo, pero Job sí lo es. Yahvé está obligado a cambiar y desarrollarse como resultado de su confrontación con Job. Así, Dios o el inconsciente necesitan de la conciencia para realizarse. Esto le da a la conciencia humana una inmensa importancia en el gran esquema de las cosas. En Respuesta a Job, Ju...

Nature, besides being benevolent, is also death-threatening and can appear malevolent. Survival demands aggression. Destructiveness and selfishness are vital parts of our animal and therefore human psyche. Our savagery is infamous. Thus, we have the opposites of nature, the good and the terrible, within ourselves. These opposites in our experience of nature, the two faces of the Great Mother, the...

En este episodio vamos a: # Explorar la propia psicología de Jung, especialmente en su infancia, como trasfondo del texto Respuesta a Job. # Presentar el relato de Jung sobre sus luchas religiosas e incluso teológicas en su juventud. # Dar un breve relato de la historia de Job como se presenta en la biblia. # Presentar la pregunta planteada por esta historia bíblica que Jung sintió que tenía que r...

This episode presents the early stage of the human psyche as it is immersed in nature and the realm of the Great Mother. The themes of fertility and power, applicable to all life forms, saturate the history of humanity, most evidently in this period stretching roughly from 40,000 years ago up to birth of modern civilizations.

This episode explores the emergence of the Higher Self within the evolution of the hominid species. For example, evidence of care of the sick and dying in the our hominid ancestors over half a million years ago; burial of the dead with symbolic objects over 100 thousand years ago; cave paintings, sculpted earth goddesses and the like from 30 thousand years ago. It is hypothesised that the higher s...

Seis procesos involucrados en la Gran Obra Alquímica - descrito por Anne Baring. Ellos son: Primero. El rescate del espíritu perdido escondido en la naturaleza y en nosotros mismos. Segundo. El proceso de transformación que implica este rescate. Tercero. La muerte de la vieja conciencia simbolizada por el Viejo Rey y la Reina. Cuarto. La formación de la nueva conciencia simbolizada por el Joven Re...

The first four components of our evolved human nature are outlined. These are: Animal inheritance which is not just our aggressive and sexual impulses (the id) but the inherited reservoir of evolved genetic intelligence. Emotional structure: as life evolved instincts evolved into emotion. As the primate brain expanded a far greater and more differentiated emotional structure developed. Ego conscio...

Dos poderosas corrientes de alquimia provinieron del antiguo Egipto y Babilonia por un lado y de Persa y la España islámica por el otro. Estos se unieron en el florecimiento de la alquimia en la Europa de la Edad Media. Después de la iluminación científica, la alquimia prácticamente desapareció. Carl Jung jugó un papel importante en el re descubrimiento de la alquimia. Fue llamado a este trabajo p...

While the precursors of our consciousness lie in our animal and hominid evolutionary past its origins are in the intelligence of life itself and beyond that in the intelligence of the cosmos. This viewpoint requires a paradigm shift away from a dead and mechanistic universe in which the emergence of life and consciousness are accidents. The alternative vision is that the cosmos is intelligence or...