Alan Mulhern
The Quest: Vision in an Age of Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy
Season Two - The Quest. With special focus on the evolving crises of the 21st century. The search for vision in our times. Season One - Psychotherapy: Jungian Approach to Healing. Season Three - En Español: La Psicología Junguiana y la Crisis de Nuestro Tiempo
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Jun 30, 2026
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S3 Ep21. Jung y Alquimia Part 1. El Transfondo. Spanish Language podcast. 31.12.2021 28:17
¨Las experiencias de los alquimistas eran mis experiencias y su mundo era mi mundo. Este fue, por supuesto, un descubrimiento trascendental: me había topado con la contraparte histórica de mi psicología del inconsciente. La posibilidad de una comparación con la alquimia, y la cadena intelectual ininterrumpida de regreso al gnosticismo, dieron sustancia a mi psicología. Cuando examiné detenidamente...
S2 Ep64. The Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 7. Creation Myths and Science. 28.12.2021 23:56
The astronomer’s lens, peering out to the creation of our universe, is human consciousness, like a mirror to its deep centre, forever examining its origins, birth, and even the pre-conditions of its existence. But ultimate knowledge forever vanishes beyond our scope. In the moment of dating the universe we realise there must be others preceding it; that the cosmos must be infinite and eternal as G...
S2 Ep63. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 6. The Elephant in the Room. 15.12.2021 26:37
The three most significant events in the history of life on earth are discussed: the emergence of life, consciousness, and self-consciousness. Science has no explanation of how these came into being. This appears to be an enormous problem which no amount of evasion can explain away. The crisis of the Self is at the centre of the crisis of modern times.
S3 Ep20. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 4. La situación en China. 30.11.2021 32:24
Este episodio examina al menos 15 puntos muy similares entre el taoísmo y la psicología junguiana, por ejemplo: Para los taoístas la "acción por non-acción" es para el psicólogo profundo occidental la liberación interna del dominio cognitivo; la importancia de lo femenino en ambas tradiciones; la “circulación de la luz” le recordó a Jung el camino circular hacia el centro, el camino hacia el ser s...
S2 Ep62. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 5. The Influence of Taoism in the West and its Fate in China 16.11.2021 29:41
We begin by examining the impact of Taoism, especially with respect to the influence of the Taoist book the Secret of the Golden Flower upon Carl Jung and his school of Analytical Psychology. We continue by considering modern China with a focus on Taoism which is one of its indigenous religions. What happens in this country is of immense importance not only for its size (over 1/6th of the world po...
S3 Ep19. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 3. El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Spanish Language Podcast 31.10.2021 28:26
El texto de El Secreto de la Flor de Oro dice que “solo a través de la contemplación y la tranquilidad surge la verdadera intuición: por eso el método de retroceso es necesario … al concentrar los pensamientos a través de la circulación de la luz, se puede volar; al concentrar los deseos, uno cae … el cuerpo como la madera seca, el corazón como las cenizas enfriadas". El texto refiere al proceso d...
S2 Ep61. The Spiritual Crisis of our Time. Part 4. The Emergence of Science and the Challenge to Religion. 22.10.2021 31:09
We examine in chronological order: 1. The difficulties with the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages; 2. The Renaissance and its spiritual and imaginative possibilities; 3. Protestantism, religious wars, vast colonial conquest; 4. The rise of the Scientific Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Capitalism has demanded considerable freedoms in order to function including freedom from Church an...
S2 Ep60. The Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 3. Separation of Church and State 01.10.2021 26:57
The decline of religion and magical ways of thinking is often attributed to the scientific enlightenment but the battle between Church and State was fought for many centuries in the Middle Ages prior to the scientific enlightenment, in which the role of the Church was diminished and that of the State was augmented. This dramatic history, sometimes bloody and treacherous, was played out in many co...
S3 Ep18. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 2. El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Spanish Language Podcast 30.09.2021 32:43
La intención de El Secreto de la Flor de Oro es describir la experiencia central de la meditación: El método al que se aspira es el mantenimiento del “centro entre las condiciones y la circulación de la luz que reside en la frente, entre los ojos”. Es un movimiento de retroceso, es decir, un retorno al Ser alejado de las externalizaciones que son las ataduras del mundo. Sólo en la quietud absoluta...
S2 Ep59 The Spiritual Crises of our Times. Part 2. Command economies; Laissez Faire capitalism; their impact on spirituality and religion 10.09.2021 32:00
This episode examines the two major economic paradigms of Laissez Faire capitalism on the one hand and the command economy on the other typified by the early communist experiments in Russia and China. It will point to the dangers of extreme Laissez Faire capitalism and also to the central reasons why a communist command cannot work. It will also explore the decline of religion and spirituality und...
S3 Ep17. La Influencia del Taoísmo en la Psicología Junguiana. Part 1. El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Spanish Language Podcast 31.08.2021 28:02
Parte 1 comienza con el trasfondo, la metafísica, la visión de la condición humana en El Secreto de la Flor de Oro. Exploramos cómo entró este texto en Occidente. Cuales fueran las influencias que El Secreto de la Flor de Oro tuvo. "La Flor de Oro, es la Luz, y la Luz del Cielo es el Tao. Allí se encuentra la vesícula germinal donde esencia y vida son todavía una unidad. El nacimiento del proceso...
S2 Ep58. Spiritual Crisis of our Times. Part 1. Collective and individual dimensions of this crisis 21.08.2021 28:49
First in a series on the contemporary spiritual crisis, this episode outlines the collective and individual dimensions of this crisis. It explains the metaphysical position and personal experiences underlying this series. It ends with a poem from The Sower and the Seed entitled The Goal of Humankind.
S3 Ep16 Gnosticismo: una fuerza viviente en nuestro tiempo. Parte E. Spanish Language Podcast 31.07.2021 34:50:00
La experiencia gnóstica que tan profundamente influyó a Carl Jung está disponible en las profundidades de la psique para toda la humanidad. Este ultimo episodio de Gnosticismo es en parte sobre mi experiencia personal. Me vienen a la mente las palabras de William Blake en su libro El matrimonio del cielo y el infierno que dice lo siguiente: “Si las puertas de la percepción fueran depuradas, todo a...
S2 Ep57. Contemporary views on the economic, financial, pandemic, and climatic crises 22.07.2021 25:44
Five articles and reports from very traditional and respected sources are examined. They all point to the extreme seriousness of the economic, financial, pandemic, and climatic crises that are upon us. These articles are: Ruchir Sharma, “The two big reasons to doubt the global boom”. FT. 19th July 2021 Tuomas Malinen: “Inflation is here to stay, and it should worry everyone”. GNS blog: 15 July 20...
S3 Ep15. La Psicología Analítica y su deuda a Gnosticismo. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte D. Spanish Language Podcast 30.06.2021 27:17
Jung explico como muchos conceptos de gnósticos prefiguraron la Psicología Analítica. Por ejemplo, que tenían un concepto como el inconsciente, que se puede acceder lo a través del arte, que tenían símbolos de integración, y muchos mas. La confrontación creativa de Jung con el inconsciente entre 1913-1917 combinó el ritual de descenso y renacimiento de las religiones de misterio con la búsqueda de...
S2 Ep56. Technology as system of creation and destruction. The Crisis of our Times. Part 29. Technology and Consciousness. Part F. 30.06.2021 30:56
The double-edged nature of technology is presented as well as its intense dialectic with human nature. In conclusion to this mini-series on technology a mythological image comes to mind of the Nataraja, the dancing Shiva of Hindu mythology, who in an iconic statue is poised in a Yoga position with one hand holding the drum bringing creation into existence and the other the fire that destroys it....
S2 Ep55. The Transhumanist Agenda. The Crisis of our Times. Part 28. Technology and Consciousness. Part E. 04.06.2021 33:56
Precursors of Transhumanism in mythologies and religions, especially Christianity, are outlined. The dangers of technology and its impact on a profoundly altered human nature are given in numerous novels, sci-fi films, books, and articles. The dangers of humans being replaced altogether (the singularity) are mentioned. The Transhumanist agenda is explained. "What a piece of work is a man! How nob...
S3 Ep14. La gran relevancia del gnosticismo en la psicología junguiana. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte C. Spanish Language Podcast. 31.05.2021 28:00
Jung se identificó con los gnósticos por varias razones. En primer lugar, tenían un intenso sentido espiritual de alienación; en segundo lugar, ofrecían una crítica radical del judaísmo y del cristianismo oficial; y tercero, encontraron una ruta hacia el dios desconocido, su redención que, para Jung, se convertiría en el arquetipo del Self. Por todas estas razones, el gnosticismo y la psicología j...
S2 Ep54. Traditional, Modern, Postmodern, and Jung‘s view of technology. The Crisis of our Times. Part 27. Technology and Consciousness. Part D. 14.05.2021 29:28
Firstly this episode explores the broad phases in social and cultural epochs emphasizing the critical determining role of technology and economic structures. Those most mentioned by social theorists are: Traditional, Modern, Post-modern to which is added the Post-human - the period we are now potentially entering. Secondly it examines various viewpoints of Carl Jung expressed in Memories, Dreams,...
S3 Ep13. Los Siete Semones a los Muertos. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte B. Spanish Language Podcast 30.04.2021 32:52
En este episodio vamos a enfatizar el impacto personal del gnosticismo sobre Jung. Lo haremos a través de su escrito llamado: los Siete Sermones a los Muertos. Es este un texto sumamente personal y esotérico. Nuestro argumento es el siguiente: Jung experimentó una iniciación en su confrontación con el inconsciente; fue el espíritu gnóstico y la voz gnóstica lo que lo poseyó en su descenso durante...
S2 Ep53. The thoughts of two major thinkers - McLuhan and Mcgilchrist. The Crisis of our Times. Part 26. Technology and Consciousness. Part C. 29.04.2021 28:47
This episode outlines the thoughts of two major thinker on the subject of Technology and Consciousness. Firstly, Marshall McLuhan, a prophet of technology of the 1960s. who argues that technologies profoundly change our consciousness. Secondly, Iain Mcgilchrist, the author of The Master and his Emissary. An account of the different hemispheres of the brain is given and their impact on the changing...
S2 Ep 52. The role of evolution and historical change. The Crisis of our Times. Part 25. Technology and Consciousness. Part B. 11.04.2021 29:38
This episode considers our emergence as a species and the deep entanglement with technology from the beginning especially its interaction with the changing genetic structure and therefore with developing consciousness of the homo genus or lineage. Technologies also alter human identity by deeply influencing the psychology of distinct periods of the history of civilizations.
S3 Ep12. Jung y Gnosticismo. Parte A. Spanish Language Podcast. 31.03.2021 34:47
Jung dijo que el origen de todo su trabajo radica en los años en que persiguió las imágenes internas, cuando el inconsciente lo inundó y amenazó con quebrarlo. Lo que descubrió en su descenso al inconsciente fueron los gnósticos. Este espíritu fue el que habló a través de él. El siguiente grupo de episodios explorará cómo los gnosticos son componentes de la fundacion de la escuela de psicología de...
S2 Ep51.Deep history and our entwinement with technology. The Crisis of our Times. Part 24. Technology and Consciousness. Part A. 26.03.2021 27:06
Of the ten horsemen of the apocalypse, the pandemic, the financial and economic crises have been described. The technological crisis is now examined, in particular the relationship between technology and our consciousness, a matter of enormous importance to our own age. This will take more than one episode. This episode will have a nDeep history and our entwinement with technologyumber of items...
S2 Ep50. The Financial Crisis part B. The Crisis of our Times. Part 23. 08.03.2021 28:52
Financial collapses have been at the heart of all major economic crises of capitalism and examples from the 1890s and 1990s are given, observing that they are growing in intensity and frequency. Examples from early presidents of the United States, Jefferson and Jackson, are given, both of whom spoke loudly against banking interests believing that they were inimical to democracy. It is argued that...
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