E50| Magic Portal, w/ Anderson Todd & Erick Godsey

Part I

• Setting intentions for the conversation
• Socio-alchemy, Jung, Joseph Campbell, the heroes journey
• Creating dramatic spaces for enacting archetypes
• Why do archetypal stories help us develop? – Connecting us to our instinct to growth
• The hacking of mythology
• The evolution of myths in our time
• Jung and developments in history
• The ego – Self relationship in Answer to Job
• Visions of new archetypal constellations and relations
• On when, for what, and why to confront and surrender in conversation
• The importance of playing many roles when co-weaving
• The difference between the rebel and the revolutionary

Part II

• Religion in our time: is it dead? is it needed?
• Religion, authority and science
• DnD and enactive role playing
• Shadow work in role playing games, bdsm, and ptsd
• Complexes, dethroning God, and romantic love
• The importance of friendship and distributed roles
• Recovering religion
• Religion as re-connecting and the limitations of science
• Experiences of divinity from a Jungian perspective
• The language of the psyche
• Concretising and the symbolic
• The transjective connection between dreams and reality
• The myth of Icarus and the middle path
• Inflation, enlightenment, and resistance to transformation
• The two ways we resist transformation – destroying self with false stories, or inflating above them. (Blocking / too many rules, and inflating)
• A critique of Jungian individuation as too individually focused
• Visionary experience and the Self
• Connecting back to community and the myth of the rainmaker

Keywords (Mostly AI Generated)

Sense; Feel; Point; Myths; Religion; Idea; Science; People; Archetype; Jung; Connect; Psyche; Relationship; Create; Experience; Story; Find; Ways

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/

Erick studies the myths that make us. Using Cognitive, Evolutionary, and Jungian Psychology, he helps people discover, articulate, and change the stories that rule their lives.

Website: https://www.erickgodsey.com

IG: https://www.instagram.com/erickgodsey/

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