E45| The Alchemy Of Age Shifting, with Anderson Todd
A philosophical dialogue that seeks to break new ground on questions of collective emergence, via the portal of depth psychology, cognitive science, distributed cognition, and alchemy. Do Western esoteric and mystery traditions have something to offer our collective moment?
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The clearing we stand in, and a gesture towards an ark
Wizards and saints
Understanding archetypes as shared, evolving psychic structures
Naturalism, supernaturalism, and the collective unconscious
Psychedelic experience as a gateway to Jung
Ego, Consciousness, and Self
How to become who we are, in right relationship, as a response to the chaos and oppositional fracture of our collective moment
How can we come together and build an ark (or new archetypes)?
Exploring this question through the lens of Jungian theory and distributed cognition
Aion, the turning of our age, and the Glass Bead Game
Optimal collaboration in novel mediums of communication as a response to the meta-crisis
Burning Man, synoptic integration, and throwing a good house party
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Anderson is the Assistant Director of U of T’s Consciousness and Wisdom Studies Lab. He teaches in the Cognitive Science program and Interdisciplinary Courses on Jungian Theory program at the University of Toronto, on Consciousness and The Unconscious respectively. He also consults in private practice as a psychotherapist.
His YouTube channel, where he explores themes relating to Alchemy, Jung, Cog Sci, Consciousness, and more, can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6Hrwd_CHQ78oBocLCVUp2g
Find the Consciousness & Wisdom Studies lab at UofT here: https://cwsl.ca/
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