Podcast Episodes available on IPFS
What Nihilism Is Not
Fluidity - November 07, 2021 17:10 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis episode narrates the new pages “'Nihilism is OK' is not OK" and "The uncanny absence of nihil –ism". “Nihilism is inevitable, but not a problem.” This is mistaken: it makes you miserable and ineffective, and erodes social and cultural capacity. https://meaningness.com/nihilism-c...
Episode 187 - The Fiery Furnace of Ambition
This Jungian Life Podcast - November 04, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsAmbition is a fire whose flames first rise in the first half of life when hopes and dreams are fueled by possibilities in the external world. It takes creative audacity to seize a dream, develop a talent, or commit to a calling. Ambition can also be fueled by narcissism, power-seeking, or strivi...
The Nihilist Apocalypse
Fluidity - October 31, 2021 16:35 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsA world of total license: the catastrophe some fear if nihilistic views become widespread. https://meaningness.com/nihilist-apocalypse You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/m/fluidityaudiobooks If you like the...
Episode 186 - The Archetype of the Witch: Dangerous, Denied & Dishonored
This Jungian Life Podcast - October 28, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsIt’s witching season, the time when women of all ages embrace a mythical image of unfettered feminine power. The witch may cast spells, seek vengeance, or wreak creative havoc—as she pleases. Flying the night skies of psyche, the witch brings primordial realities into culture’s brittle convictio...
Nihilism Is Black Magic - and - Sexy Cynicism And Nihilist Elitism
Fluidity - October 24, 2021 17:08 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNihilism has a taboo allure of forbidden power—because everyone knows eternalism is wrong. https://meaningness.com/nihilism-black-magic Recognizing meaninglessness requires unusual intelligence, courage, and toughness. Nihilist elitism renders you stupid, cowardly, and helpless, though. ...
Episode 185 - Assessing Our Psychic Inheritance
This Jungian Life Podcast - October 21, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsJung said of the parent-child relationship: “Nothing exerts a stronger psychic effect upon the human environment, and especially upon children, than the life which the parents have not lived.” Jung understood that parents could unconsciously compel children to fulfill parental dreams or compensa...
The False Promise Of Nihilism - and - What Is It Like To Be A Nihilist?
Fluidity - October 17, 2021 14:57 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsNihilism promises you don’t have to care, because nothing means anything. But you do care—and you can’t escape that. https://meaningness.com/nihilism-promise The end-state of nihilism is not suicide, but catatonia. https://meaningness.com/accomplishing-nihilism You can suppo...
Bonus Metacast: Nihilism
Fluidity - October 14, 2021 11:36 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThis mid-week bonus episode is another interview with David Chapman, in which we discuss nihilism, both as a book section, and nihilism itself. Since the time that I started recording, he has since written six more episodes worth of chapters in the Nihilism section of Meaningness. I could move o...
Episode 184 - Does Analysis Work? A Conversation with Jonathan Shedler, PhD
This Jungian Life Podcast - October 14, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratings“Talk is powerful medicine.” Renowned researcher and clinician Jonathan Shedler, Ph.D., joins us to discuss the effectiveness of psychodynamic psychotherapy. While so-called evidence-based therapies—brief treatments conducted by instruction manuals—offer benefits for some, their status as the “g...
Recovery Conversation Cafés
Iriss.fm, Scotland's social services podcast - October 11, 2021 08:00 - 12 minutesThe Minister for Mental Wellbeing and Social Care, Kevin Stewart MSP, officially launched a recovery conversation cafe toolkit for organisations and services. Developed by the Scottish Recovery Network, the toolkit provides a guide and resources to help people engage in meaningful discussions...
Materialism
Fluidity - October 10, 2021 14:23 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMaterialism says that only mundane purposes like money, sex, and power count. It wrongly rejects higher purposes—but those too are not ultimate. https://meaningness.com/materialism Common critiques of materialism, from religion, political idealism, personal idealism, and nihilism. ...
Episode 183 - JUSTICE: The Struggle for Balance
This Jungian Life Podcast - October 07, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsPrinciples of fairness and justice have deep roots in the human psyche: we want to receive our fair share and a fair shake. When man injures man, we may protest, strive for redress, and measure wrong with morality—but what about godly misfortunes? Life, myth, and religion are rich with issues of...
Mission
Fluidity - October 03, 2021 16:04 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe delusion that you can find your true, unique personal life-purpose causes only suffering and failure. https://meaningness.com/mission-defects-obstacles Just discover your unique talent, follow your passion, and success is guaranteed—this is terrible advice! https://meaningness.com/do-w...
Episode 182 - Confronting Shadow: The Work of Self-Discovery
This Jungian Life Podcast - September 30, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsPsychotherapy is essentially the work of making shadow conscious—all that we have not discerned then disowned, or projected onto others. We seldom welcome shadow, for it is marked by emotions and motivations that deflate, disturb, and dethrone ego. From family scuffles to political hostilities a...
Purpose
Fluidity - September 28, 2021 15:21 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsDividing purposes into higher and mundane, mission pursues higher ends and rejects pragmatism; materialism seeks only selfish goals. Both are mistakes. https://meaningness.com/purpose It is attractive to think that we each have a unique, transcendent, ultimate purpose in life. Unfortunately,...
Episode 181 - Self-Reflection: What Was I Thinking?
This Jungian Life Podcast - September 23, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsJung says, “There is another instinct, different from the drive to activity and so far as we know specifically human, which might be called the reflective instinct.” Self-reflection is correlated with consciousness and is arguably humankind’s unique and essential competency: a meta-cognitive cap...
Human Rights Town
Iriss.fm, Scotland's social services podcast - September 21, 2021 11:00 - 15 minutesThe Scottish Commission for People with Learning Disabilities (SCLD) has launched an app, Human Rights Town, to help people with learning disabilities understand their human rights. The development of the app has been led by a group of people with learning disabilities who have been working...
Selfness
Fluidity - September 20, 2021 02:10 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsAbandoning selflessness and egoism equally, we can play with the ambiguous self/other boundary; supple, skillful selfing for successful, satisfying interaction. https://meaningness.com/self You can support the podcast and get episodes a week early, by supporting the Patreon: https://www.pa...
Episode 180 - INFLUENCE: Connection or Contagion?
This Jungian Life Podcast - September 16, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsWe have always been subject to the influence of others—it’s how we learn language, become socialized, cooperate and collaborate. It’s also how we exclude, denigrate, and assault others. Today, we are subject to unprecedented social influences. Multiplicities of media shape our ideas, identities,...
Unity and Diversity
Fluidity - September 13, 2021 02:51 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsStances concerning connection and separateness: monism, dualism, and participation. https://meaningness.com/monism-dualism-and-participation Monism and dualism are opposites. But because each is obviously wrong, each turns into the other when cornered. Sneaky! https://meaningne...
Lifelong Links
Iriss.fm, Scotland's social services podcast - September 08, 2021 12:00 - 31 minutesLifelong Links is a project led by Family Rights Group and delivered by local authorities. It supports children and young people in care to connect with and develop relationships with family members, and other people who care about the young person, so they can become part of a lasting support n...
Stabilizing The Complete Stance
Fluidity - September 06, 2021 00:43 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsGoing beyond resolutions of specific problems: consistently maintaining an accurate stance toward meaningness. https://meaningness.com/stabilize-complete-stance Since this episode ties together what we have learned so far, it references previous episodes. They are: Obstacles To The Comp...
Open-Ended Curiosity
Fluidity - August 29, 2021 11:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsOpen-ended curiosity gives you the freedom to interact with the world without metaphysical presuppositions. https://meaningness.com/curiosity Other works by David Chapman mentioned in this episode are: In The Cells Of The Eggplant is a book-length treatment of this episode, explaining the a...
Wonder
Fluidity - August 22, 2021 16:25 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsWonder at the vastness, beauty, and intricacy of the phenomenal world: a texture of the complete stance. https://meaningness.com/wonder Recordings mentioned in the episode include: “Deference, Humility, and Awe,” a lecture by Brian Cantwell Smith. Hoppípolla, “a song with qualities known ...
Coronavirus and people with learning disabilities
Iriss.fm, Scotland's social services podcast - August 17, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutesThe research project – Coronavirus and people with learning disabilities – is a UK wide study which has been exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with learning disabilities. In Scotland, the study is led by the University of Glasgow, with the support of the Scottish Commission...
Finding The Complete Stance - And, Textures Of The Complete Stance
Fluidity - August 15, 2021 20:07 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsThe fundamental method for resolving problems of meaning: by finding nebulosity, pattern, and their inseparable relationship. Wonder → curiosity → humor → play → enjoyment → creation. Patterns of thinking, feeling, and acting in the complete stance, which resolves problems of meaning. https:...
Episode 176 - The Wounded Healer
This Jungian Life Podcast - August 12, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsThere are three major models of healing: medical, shamanic, and psychoanalytic. In the first, the doctor does it to you; in the second, the intermediary does it for you; and in the third, Jung’s dialectical process, we work together to discover “the curative powers in the patient’s own nature.” ...
Peak Experiences - Plus, Obstacles To The Complete Stance
Fluidity - August 08, 2021 13:47 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsPeak experiences and the complete stance are similar in texture, but differ in intensity, conceptual content, and causes. Meaning and meaninglessness, pattern and nebulosity all obviously exist—yet we resist recognizing and admitting this. Why? https://meaningness.com/peak-experiences http...
Episode 175 - Tarot, Divination & the Symbolic Life
This Jungian Life Podcast - August 05, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsGuest T. Susan Chang is a writer, podcaster, and teacher of tarot, the most commonly recognized modern form of divination. The archetypal symbols in the tarot’s 78 card deck offer gateways to meaning and mystery. Jung says symbols act as transformers—life energy is converted from a lower to high...
The Complete Stance
Fluidity - August 04, 2021 03:43 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsMeaning is nebulous, yet patterned; meaningfulness and meaninglessness intermingle. Recognizing this frees us from metaphysical delusions. Resolving problems of meaning, by recognizing inseparable pattern and nebulosity, will improve your life. https://meaningness.com/meaningness https://mea...
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