E45| The Alchemy Of Age Shifting, with Anderson Todd (Part 2)

Do Western esoteric and mystery traditions have something to offer our collective moment? This two-part philosophical dialogue seeks to shed new light on the conditions for archetypal emergence in our time.

Conversation Waypoints

• Criticising and appreciating Carl Jung’s letters on mescaline and psychedelics
• The wild west of integration settings
• Considering the right relation of integrating indigenous models of integrating psychedelic experiences
• How can alchemy aid this process
• Alchemy as cooking with being
• Altering the self, altering the world, and the way the world alters the self
• Alchemy and projection
• The alchemy of DnD – from chemicals to characters
• Solve et coagula and cognitive science
• Deep play, inner and outer alignment,
• The creation of games enabling of transformation of our time
• The archetype of Mercurius, between the Self and polarity
• Serious play and transformation
• Safeguarding the relationship of serious play from the perspective of dark mercurius
• Trickster figures, what to watch out for
• Conditions of game-making and the Self
• Love, power, humour
• Friendship and hilaritas
• The unus mundus, psychoid, philosopher’s stone
• Speculations on synchronicity

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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