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If you're lucky enough to have found this channel, you'll know that Steve and Pauline's generosity is matched by their depth of insight and willingness to communicate what they have learnt, personally and clinically over many years, to a new generation. Thanks also to James and Yuliya for your genuine commitment to helping others grow and deepen. I've been lucky enough to receive many hours of training from the whole team and my life has benefited greatly from it. If you are serious about your own development and growing your own clinical skills, there is no better or more genuine place to learn, other than life itself. Blessings indeed, to a dynamic and spirited team.
Blessings @jamesdrew6024, given your integrity of spirit, and long and deep life experience, that means a lot to us all, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Herculean effort put into this video, it will take a long while to digest it all. The parts I've watched so far have been excellent and full of wisdom as always :)
Hi again, @user-wf6cn7kc6b, thank you so much, for your support for the channel these past three years, and thank you too for your very kind comment, which we all appreciate. Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline🙏🙏
2 hours in. Wow. That creativity chapter was.. transportative. Thank you Steve for sharing some of your own personal experience with the topics discussed. Working through things slow and steady. There is a lot here to feel into and learn..and.. remember 😇🙏
Hi again, @zero-tension3180, thanks once more for your kind comment and support for the channel. We'll be continuing with this series, but with more regular releases. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Thank you James, Steve and Pauline for making this. I'm about half way though so far and have resonated deeply with what has been spoken about, particularly the beginning on the platonic mother which I have found a great resource within myself for my own personal development and developing/healing my own relating for the now and into the future. 🙏
Blessings @jakeford8916, the difference between the 'Platonic Form' of the 'mother' and the 'personal mother' or caregiver(s) is hugely important to appreciate. Bowlby's work with orphans (as cited by Anthony Stevens) shows the importance of relating, in the immediacy of early attachment. Our work includes this, and all other subsequent expressions of the 'Relating-Function' and its developed 'Relating-System' (terms coined by IPSA) and also, the a-priori (to biology) 'Platonic anticipation' of the absolute necessity of 'relating' at every superpositioned level of the telic and ontological informational-field, of 'being and becoming'. Our two previous videos in this current series (more to come) and the collective message of the 200 plus videos before them, all support and develop an understanding of these vital fundamentals. Thank you for your commitment to the work. both in your self-development, and as a professional. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Hi @timbeck6726, huge thanks to you for your continuing support for the channel, and our very Best Wishes to You, for your ongoing Journey. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
This is pleasant syncronicity as a few days ago I finally understood(at least I believe so) the Relating Function and how it exists in every single corner of reality. It came to me rather overwhelmingly while I was in a park, as something I can best describe as a highly charged mixture of affect + cognition which lead to a deep sense of understanding and meaning that felt like I understood the whole universe and then after a while it dissipated and now just stays with me as part of my understanding but without much affective charge. I must also add that anyone who hasn't purchased and read "Lilith: The Last Temptation Of Adam" should do it immediatelly. I believe the way Steve wrote it, the ideas and concept of the Relating Funciton get embedded in the reader's psyche almost as a zip-file and it starts to unzip itself over time and unfolds it's meaning little by little in the psyche.
I found that, with many things around JTLB videos or Steve's books, that with further life experience or "distance" from it, further things are revealed when re visiting it. Oxfords Blues is also very potent I found. I never finished Lilith, due to it being a PDF, but I got the physical copy which is massive and so I'll give a shot once I'm done with Oxfords blues
Hi @Ico132, that's a very keen insight, and should serve you well as you continue with your ongoing journey. The qualia of consciousness, serve efficiently, when we let them, and free up time for both outer adaptation and inner experience. Thanks too for your very kind remarks about my Lilith novel. Blessings & Respect, Steve 🙏
Hi again, @chowchebi, thanks for sharing that distillation of experience through reflexive insight. Thanks too, for reading my work, its very much appreciated. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏
This has been fantastic so far. I remember when I first was having experiences and contact with that ancestral/genomic side of our nature, just how meaningful it was, and continues to be for me. That contact and knowing through experience that there's something else beyond the ego and its complexes in itself resolved some long held struggles I had been dealing with at the time. But because I didn't have a means of understanding it, secondary issues were created through my complexes and attempts of cognitively understanding what I had experienced, including some unhelpful Jungian based introjects. So for that, I just want to express a deep thank you for your work in developing and sharing with the world a grounded model for understanding all of this, because that helped resolve those mentioned secondary issues, as well as providing the tools to work through much more. Excited to dig into the rest!
Cheers @Yacobo_, thanks so very much, for your comment, and also here's acknowledging your ongoing development as a clinical professional. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
That opening sequence is deeply profound and moves so much feeling in me. Understanding the anima as a way to relate to others and myself has been a life changing revelation and I’m excited but scared of what the future holds for me. Thank you all for your work.
What an opening to an amazing dialectic! If one can unpack Freud Adler Jung equation, they are well on their way . Relating is key , what is within so too is without! Every angle is considered & addressed in this epic video, thank you 🙏
Hello there, I had just been wondering about JTLB a couple of hours ago and here it is, a new behemoth of a video, with 6+ hours… Can’t wait to watch it all! Thank you!
These videos are such incredible resources, your hard work is very much appreciated 🙏 Watching and working through them is more akin to reading a chapter in a book in terms of depth but it's more accessible and alive, it's a privilege to have content of this quality out there freely accessible at any time.
Hi again, @iHomer0007, thanks so much for your very kind comment, its hugely appreciated by us all, and of course, thank you too, for supporting the channel these past three years. Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline🙏 🙏
This has to be the longest video that I've watched on UA-cam, and I'm here for it! On another note, the intro floored me. The simplicity and yet the power of it - it definitely set the tone. That relating is not just all fancy and up in the air. It's as 'real' as can be. I also had a lot of resonance with the intro quote: "How easily you've forgotten it, but it shall not forget you.", with the suggestion that even if I as in the ego forgot where I came from, that place still remembers and can help me remember. And as I kept watching, more and more started to piece itself together in my mind, and I felt the impetus to work through a representation that I had of a mother, and turn it into something that is more uplifting and confirming. What I uncovered was that even if you as in the ego feel like you lost your way, like you're stuck in the circumstances you're in, and you forgot what things could be like, how things could go, another part of you NEVER forgets. And that there is always a way back 'home' - you just have to listen. If you find a tree in the plains and follow it, you'll eventually come upon a forest. Thanks for making the video. There's a lot more to understand and incorporate for me on my individuation journey.
Five years ago, I've went to different sources in hopes to understand Jungian theory, including Anima and Animus. I started with Murray Stein and ended up in a rabbithole, somewhere on UA-cam. It was very frustrating because most of the Jungian theory never really resonated and I would usually suggest to myself that I'm simply not smart enough to understand it. Until I found JTLB. This video is one of many examples of theory that is applicable in real life as it pushes you towards action in the world and relating, instead of just trapping you in your own head. I recently developed a somewhat deeper understanding of the Field. Every time I engage with this material, myself and the world in a proper way, things start happening. I would get infected by my complexes and would stray from relating and development, where I would lose many months, just staying stuck in my own head, without realizing it. I would negatively contribute to the Field, and not be aware of it. I would be stuck with my own complexes, thinking that my catabolic tendencies won't affect anyone or anything, colapssing into my Ego, forgetting that I am a part of the wider Field. Realizing that, I understood my responsibility but at the same time I feel a huge relief. As I was typing this a 'synchronicity' occurred, in the background, that contained a sentence "It is a field.". Be kind to yourself and others. Be open to the Field and things will get regulated in a healthy way. Thank you Steve, Pauline and James for all the hard work you've done and contributions you've made to the world. 🙏
Blessings, @FiorDiBattaglia, synchronicities, as your own experience tells you, always arrange when the 'field' is actively configuring for a move forward. Thank you for your kind words, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Thanks guys for making this video, this is probably one of my all time Jung to live by favourites. I'm only half way through, but it has been such a joy watching and listening to this. I'm excited to watch the other half later.
Really looking forward to diving into this 🙏🏼 it seems only fitting that something as essential as the relating function deserves such an extensive, thorough video. Thank you IPSA for what is clearly a very important, significant tool, and, declaration to the field🌻🙏🏼
I might add as an aside that being single in my mid-forties after a very long relationship I've been dealing with a sense of guilt that I'm attracted to women young enough to be my daughter (and curiously I find younger women flirting reciprocally in a way they never did when I was their age)- but framed by biology I understand, perhaps too late, that I do actually want to start a family. Interestingly though, I've noticed a new possible timed release opening up, in that I also find myself increasingly attracted to women in their fifties and early 60s who would have been erotically invisible to me a few short years ago, preparing me for a different kind of companionship which perhaps my ancestors wouldn't have lived long enough to enjoy.
Hi @broommovies, there's a great deal of distilled wisdom and insight in your comment. its an interesting point about having a life-span, that our ancestors didn't live long enough to enjoy. The potential for that increase, was 'there' and anticipated, hence the ancestral psyche, experiences its own telic unfolding, in the ancestors descendants, and in particular, imminently, within the consciousness, of this by the descendants. Thus, is the 'formal' cause of the telic anticipation, progressively realized, with each individual contributing to the goal that was present, at the beginning. Your insight adds to the collective field, and honours whence we all came. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
I can’t tell you how glad I am to have found your channel if I had never found it I worry how much nonsense I would be spouting again thank you for all your work I’m gonna enjoy watching this waking up and restarting it till it’s ingrained in me Like it’s was Instinct 😂
Thanks so much @chowchebi - this video has been designed for those who are truly serious about depth psychology, such as your good self - really appreciate your comment 🙏 All the best, James
Holy cannoli. I took a break from the Jungian stuff to just be and do and whatnot, but this is a treasure! Diving back in for another turn up the spiral. 😄
Less than 5 minutes in...4:58 I can relate to what Pauline is saying; I had an experience of having a gun pointed on my forehead. I was then 22 years old. I remember telling myself: "I'm sorry Mother, I'm not coming home." She would've been my last thought had I died that night on the hands of a robber. But I found out it was a peaceful experience to be in the cusp of death. It was the first time I noticed the Thinker stopped thinking. This epic vid will be my study for the next seven days. I learn so much from you. Thank you for your generosity. Sincerely, Aurora
Hi again, @HomewithAurora, what a deeply moving account of your experience! Thank you for your kind words. With all our very Best Wishes for You and Your continuing Journey, Pauline & Steve 🙏🙏
First time through, about midway currently, and I found the discussion surrounding relationships between older men and young girls to be an interesting dynamic. I still require a re watch to clarify some things, but in my experience I have seen this within my peer group. My one friend from high school knew a girl (his now wife), when he was 19 and she was 17 and there was no real concern from others, from what I could tell. A few weeks ago though, a friend who is younger than us (28 years of age) made a moral comment surrounding what was mentioned in the video (where the guy was 21 and the girl was 17) and how it was wrong. Context matters in this situation of course, but I did find the comment made of instincts pushing at times where cultural pressure or beliefs would suppress an individuals unfolding (regarding innate releasing mechanisms) at ages that are problematic. Edit: Think I should of wrote out a manuscript of my thoughts (in a single comment later on) as there's so much of value here. So much encouragement and spirit shown in Chapter 5 of the task at hand regarding relating and passing the torch to the future.
Hi again @chowchebi, thanks for raising this very important topic, given the way that it is motivationally weaponised in parts of the contemporary Western culture. As you know, Pauline and I started our relationship when she was 16 and I was 21 (we got engaged when she was 16 and married when she was 19) We've been together now for 46 years. We know of plenty of others from our youth, that did the same thing, and their relationships have lasted. It'd be good to open this out for deeper discussion, on the Discord Server, as there is a catabolic cultural dynamic (driven by a selective biological force) superpositioned between both biological sexes, that is seeking to forestall or even destroy the potential for lasting relationships.
To me, 6 and a half hours of effortless, packed discussion of NEW ideas I’ve never heard, nothing repeated, unique ways of demonstrating the feelings behind the ideas, is…astonishing. There’s something very special about this…Jungian life, it has inspired me to really dive back into philosophical experiments on my own channel, which I started with. Active Imagination isn’t just a self-help technique, it’s more like falling in love. I can imagine what Jung must have felt, disillusioned somewhat by his strict religious upbringing, to discover a source of God within, a source of the mother within, his deep love, the child, that can talk back, and say these very words to you in your time of need. I mean, I literally laid next to an altar with my anima for 15 minutes the other day, as though it were me with my closest loved one, not a hallucination, but just some kind of quality time. The unconscious is so dynamic. Then all of a sudden I’m ejaculating a lizard with a top hat onto the plant at the center of the altar, saying goodbye to anima and flying around with wings as though I’m actually feeling it, like a waking dream. What the F??? It was awesome, and I wrote it down and had all these strange insights and clear statements of truth to not only ponder, but to imbue Eros into my ideas. Jung’s mission to fuse spirituality with science was better achieved than by anyone else I can think of, William James close second. You all are where I started, shout-out to the Boyo too, and I can already tell one lifetime won’t be enough.
Thanks @TeamFriendship, James has long ago moved on from his ‘Boyo’ days. He’s matured into a very fine professional who has earned the progress he’s made with 24/7 365 hard work, for several years now. ‘That Jungian Life’ has no correlation with what we do. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
6 hrs? Np. This is my third time around & probably won’t be my last. I look forward to unpacking this personally, professionally & on the course. Thank you, Steve, Pauline & James 🙏🏼
SYNCHRONICITY! Was thinking about an hour ago about, random thought, how its been a while since a new video from JTLB. And then, BOOM, out it comes! Thanks guys, will give a more in-depth comment after I've watched the video! :)
Steve, Pauline, James thank you for another video that will be one I'll be staying with for quite some time. Something I have noticed and I would appreciate your opinion on. The current world events and looking back on history. Napoleonic wars, American Civil war. WW1 and WW2. Is technology tied into this. It seems with every major advance to a certain critical point an unstable and a kind of reality check takes place as if to reign that in . The industrial revolution led to the first great war in the Napoleonic times. William Blake captures that the best in his great poetry. The kind of threat it had to the spirit and as you would say genomic intelligence. It was the same with the advances that helped fuel the American civil war and it was most prominent in the lead up to the First world war. The period between 1918 and 1939 were another incredible advance in our technological abilities. WW2 would never have been the horror it was without that. Since then there has been unbridled advances and for the all the good it has done it has also done incredible harm which you have highlighted in many posts. I know you've called it a shit test at present. But it also is corrective as well. And a response to the hubris and atrophy this brings in consciousness. As after a kind of cataclysm there is a period of growth and social reordering as well. Just a thought.
Hi again, @ZarathustraMG42-qo7oj, yes, I'd say that technology plays a huge part. If you check out our 'Terminal Lucidity' and 'Rebirth' series, plus the one on AI, Intuition & Plato, you'll see definite parallels with your line of reasoning. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏🙏
In your view, what would be the value of writing down early thoughts, just after waking up?I read about it in a PDF by Rossi (Creative Dialogue With Our Genes)
Alright, perfect timing lol. Hey guys, I have a question regarding how one should approach their personal development. It is often suggested that one should start with Freud, Adler, and then Jung. I'm wondering what is meant by this? Does it refer to understanding their theories and trying to apply them in your life, or in a context? From a biopsychosocial model, Freud is biology, Adler is the social aspect, and Jung is the spiritual. Would it be that we look at all three in these different contexts? The clarification would really help me a lot! Thanks! 🙏
Hi @Angel-ih4wo, yes, take it from a biopsychosocial perspective all three interact simultaneously (Freud, Adler, Jung). If approached properly, success at one level allows for success at the others (proceeding from Freud upwards). If we don't sort them out, in their running order, then we carry a representation of the 'pathology' of each into the domain of the next. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏
I'm not familiar enough with the philosophy. despite my enthusiasm, but is there a similarity between the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Informational Monism? Perhaps this is also outside of your specialty and if so, sorry for the question, but I am curious. I really think it's intriguing how you have blended Jungian psychology up into platonism and metaphysics via Sheldrake and others. It seems quite natural. When I first approached Jung I wondered what he'd say the distinction was between an archetype and a form, in the platonic sense and you have definitely given a good answer to that question! It seems John Vervaeke is also working on a modernized Platonism and is always talking about it. It's a very good and needed project. In the West the loss of Platonism in the middle ages seems to have lead to a deep meaning crisis through nominalism carried out through Protestant Christianity and the aftermath into the various philosophical and political splits. The capacity to build a worldview from the human psyche on up rather than starting in the clouds is extremely healing in my recent experience with following your work and applying it. A lot of what you're instructing can be experienced first hand as one enters the process of hypnotherapy and experiences the healing and deep meaning that can result. Slowly making my way through the current video here.
Hi again, @savoirfaire6181, thanks so very much for your ongoing support for the channel, this past year. Thanks too for your very comprehensive comment. These are areas that are in a state of constant flux, as different perspectives form, integrate, dissolve and reform. Being primarily clinical empiricists, rather than academics, we see the psyche as the living laboratory of its own ontology, including the representational psychodynamics of that ontology, a priori to its (the psyche) immediate biological substrate, right back to its 'Platonic' origins. In our clinical experience, an important consideration, is in resolving Sheldrake with Plato; uniting both with Darwin, and then up through Freud, Adler and Jung, as the metaphorical 'Three Turnings of The Wheel' of Depth Psychology. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
@@JungToLiveBy Thanks for your reply. That's beautiful to my ears. The fact that I understood what you just said makes me smile now. "the psyche as the living laboratory of its own ontology," You approach the questions through relating directly to real people's lives as individuals rather than just to shifting philosophical ideas in the larger culture. It has seemed to me as I've grown in this path that this turns out to be a living experience of oneself and the world around as integrated into one whole of unfolding meaning. It's been an experience of constant synchronicity and decoding one's experience and inner affect (in response to experience) into an ever refining growth path towards creative relating. This has to be the basis for evolution. That which brings further order out of relative chaos rather than only that which brings chaos out of order, which we also see working. I question how much chaos is even a thing as I continue. I guess this question has become important to me because the whole world feels like it's in chaos and the more ordered I become the more I feel its confrontation and that it is knocking at my door, asking me to order myself all the more in response. Where will all our stories go and when they go there will be ready to accept them? I guess that's the limit of my present maturity right now, to ask that question and seek for the answer to be "yes." Thanks for what you do! - Ben
@@JungToLiveBy It's hard for me to overstate the value in what you've created here and what it's done for me personally.. It's been a guiding light over the last 3 years, synchronistitically weaving with my own deeply affective mythopoetic life narrative and maturing my understanding enough to keep my feet on the ground as it all came apart. For that I'm eternally grateful to you my friend, along with Steve and Pauline! 🙏 Cheers
This video was a real treat! James asked fantastic questions throughout, which was incredibly helpful in shaping my own understanding of what was discussed. The concept of totems or superstitious objects having subliminal influence was particularly intriguing. I'd love to see future videos delve deeper into how continued exposure to certain objects or environments might impact people over time. Additionally, I'm curious about how Jung should have approached his infidelity. Here are two questions I have: 1. How can one consistently connect with resonant states like the one described with Freya Lund? 2. While I feel mentally confident, I experience a significant physical disconnect (to my body) in social settings, such as excessive sweating in my armpits. Is this a complex/trauma that needs healing, or could it be something else?
Hi again @moons_mind, thank you for your kind comment, the team, as always very much appreciate it. In answer to your two questions: 1; to get outside of the Ego's normal adaptive range, but without compromising its role and purpose, we need firstly a proper boundary that defines who and what we are (as an Ego identity) and also some metaphorical 'firm ground' beneath our feet, from which the Ego can take its next steps. Without these, the Ego is permeable to suggestion, including to that of 'fantasy' which if it becomes a stand-in holding space for actualizing our real potential, or worse still, if it replaces it altogether, then the Ego will have no way of understanding what it is, or what it is not. This makes relating to reality, including the reality of contact with the Psycho-Systems Analysis modelling of the so-called 'un'-conscious, and in reality, the 'Non-Ego Conscious', of the Extended Mind, and all other states that consciousness can occupy, beyond a collapse into psychology - so therefore, biological, material, 'field-coherent' states of 'Superpositioned' consciousness, not defined by, or limited to, a representation of itself, to itself, as a 'psychologism', alone. In short, contact with the Platonic-Field of Meta-Instinctual representations (images and intentionality) cannot happen. The utilization of images, as 'representations', is an economical way of collapsing the very wide bandwidth of 'information' latent in such images. The key here is differentiating between what may be 'projected' onto someone who 'represents' something, and what may be 'emitted' through the image of someone. The former is standard 19th century and early 20th century psychodynamics. The latter, represents and therefore ultimately arises, from more of a truly Platonic understanding of the power of imagos. Plato's 'Forms' and even the Orthodox Christian understanding of Icons, and the Tantric Hindu and Buddhist understanding (rather than the Jungian) of Mandalas, Yantras etc., reveals how 'Form' and 'representational image', work together. In relationship to people, we must understand and appreciate that when then 'field' - 'chooses' to emit a representation, through a person, then the person is neither responsible for this, or is even conscious of it. The intentionality, is external to them. Where there is a coherence between people, then the field between them is contiguous, and we can talk of a 'relationship' in everyday terms. Its only by being open to the Non-Ego Consciousness, of the 'field' that the Ego can better develop a relationship to that field. 2. It could be as you describe, in which case, at its most basic, it will likely be to do with issues of acceptance by others (psychosocially) regarding perceived rank and status. Adlerian compensations can come in, so that when we reject our own potential, our 'complex' seeks to confirm this by signalling 'sub-dominance' or 'non-competence' to others. We may be more aware of our physiological reactions, but we will despite our attention to physical representations, also be giving of a field that actively (non-consciously) seeks to cause others to confirm our inner state. This is how a neurosis acts to superposition itself, as a field resonant phenomenon. So, the way to sort this all out, is to own your own Ego and its proper boundary and functions, and 'emit' your own Platonic potential, by allowing it to come through. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏
really incredible information, many thanks for all your work and dedication to bring us this content. I love these videos and the insight and framework provided. Interestingly within the first 15 mins of the video the subject matter very much reminded me of this particular song called 'Mummy forever' attempting to convey this deep topic - ua-cam.com/video/mjnrxTqbyA4/v-deo.html -genuinely not self promotion, rather an astonishment at how much the first 15 mins resonated..... best wishes
Amazing work you put into this video 👍 5:46:44 Could you explain how to find our complexes in simpler terms? I subliminally foci-attracted myself a stroke trying to understand that.
Hi @user-pv4zp6gg4b there are a lot of ways of doing this, we prefer that people understand the bigger picture, before working in the right way to uncover and deal with complexes. It may seem like a lot to understand but you'll make much more progress, quicker, by becoming 'quicker by being slower' in that you can avoid pitfalls that would otherwise be explained by understanding the whole ecology of them (complexes). Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏 ua-cam.com/video/IXv41RuluCc/v-deo.html
What would you say the esoteric meaning for Jung to live by is? Is it to change the course of mankind? What would be the goal of the channel and your research? In other words, how Christianity teaches these stories but underlying them is an esoteric meaning, I’m not sure if I’ve phrased my question the right way but hopefully you understand my question. Thank you!
Hi again @gus8310, as a clinically derived model, our focus is entirely on working with people, anything else is secondary to that. The experience, and the privilege, of helping people overcome often crippling suffering, existential crises, and severe life-span development issues, was and is, a calling. The esoteric meaning in people’s lives is found within their Individuation journey. It’s right for young people to test themselves in this regard. When people have more future than a personal past, then the challenge is to meet that future with the limits of your potential. How we take shape, during this process, is trial and error set against the drive-pressure, of that potential. If you have a calling, it’ll never leave you. You’ll distil your true character out, from the daily challenge of becoming who you must be. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏,
It’s the correct Latin pronunciation. As per Reverend Don Cupitt, Jungian Scholar , author of ‘The Sea of Faith’ and Dean of Emanuel College in Cambridge. Also, Professor Mark Solms, editor of the New Standard Edition of Freud’s Collected Work - as two examples
Hi again, @oddpersona22, it can, but it depends of what resolution of scale that you are considering. Sheldrakian field effects (from the work of Dr Rupert Sheldrake) operate at the 'behavioural field' level within and between groups, which can be separated across any points in physical space. The 'information' propagates through a non-material field of shared resonance. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏
Hi @oswurth8774, yes, the transgenerational influence of the 'feminine' down the paternal line, is often overlooked. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
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If you're lucky enough to have found this channel, you'll know that Steve and Pauline's generosity is matched by their depth of insight and willingness to communicate what they have learnt, personally and clinically over many years, to a new generation. Thanks also to James and Yuliya for your genuine commitment to helping others grow and deepen. I've been lucky enough to receive many hours of training from the whole team and my life has benefited greatly from it. If you are serious about your own development and growing your own clinical skills, there is no better or more genuine place to learn, other than life itself. Blessings indeed, to a dynamic and spirited team.
Blessings @jamesdrew6024, given your integrity of spirit, and long and deep life experience, that means a lot to us all, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
What a fantastic feast! Many thanks to Steve, Pauline, and James for this smorgasbord.
Herculean effort put into this video, it will take a long while to digest it all. The parts I've watched so far have been excellent and full of wisdom as always :)
Hi again, @user-wf6cn7kc6b, thank you so much, for your support for the channel these past three years, and thank you too for your very kind comment, which we all appreciate. Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline🙏🙏
Excellent video, as per usual - thank you very much for it. Your videos are always quite therapeutic. 🙏
Hi again, @Navioli , many thanks once more, for your continued support, and kind comment. Respect and Best Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Awesome, can't wait to get into this.
Thanks so much @thegreatgriff - genuinely appreciated 🙏 All the best, James
2 hours in. Wow. That creativity chapter was.. transportative. Thank you Steve for sharing some of your own personal experience with the topics discussed. Working through things slow and steady. There is a lot here to feel into and learn..and.. remember 😇🙏
Hi again, @zero-tension3180, thanks once more for your kind comment and support for the channel. We'll be continuing with this series, but with more regular releases. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
yep going to have to watch this 100 times, and enjoy every second of it!! 🙌👍🙏
Hi again @000DAAN000, Blessings and Thanks, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Thank you James, Steve and Pauline for making this. I'm about half way though so far and have resonated deeply with what has been spoken about, particularly the beginning on the platonic mother which I have found a great resource within myself for my own personal development and developing/healing my own relating for the now and into the future. 🙏
Blessings @jakeford8916, the difference between the 'Platonic Form' of the 'mother' and the 'personal mother' or caregiver(s) is hugely important to appreciate. Bowlby's work with orphans (as cited by Anthony Stevens) shows the importance of relating, in the immediacy of early attachment. Our work includes this, and all other subsequent expressions of the 'Relating-Function' and its developed 'Relating-System' (terms coined by IPSA) and also, the a-priori (to biology) 'Platonic anticipation' of the absolute necessity of 'relating' at every superpositioned level of the telic and ontological informational-field, of 'being and becoming'. Our two previous videos in this current series (more to come) and the collective message of the 200 plus videos before them, all support and develop an understanding of these vital fundamentals. Thank you for your commitment to the work. both in your self-development, and as a professional. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
A simple but profound WOW! Thank You for this incredible insight and education.
Hi @timbeck6726, huge thanks to you for your continuing support for the channel, and our very Best Wishes to You, for your ongoing Journey. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
This is pleasant syncronicity as a few days ago I finally understood(at least I believe so) the Relating Function and how it exists in every single corner of reality. It came to me rather overwhelmingly while I was in a park, as something I can best describe as a highly charged mixture of affect + cognition which lead to a deep sense of understanding and meaning that felt like I understood the whole universe and then after a while it dissipated and now just stays with me as part of my understanding but without much affective charge.
I must also add that anyone who hasn't purchased and read "Lilith: The Last Temptation Of Adam" should do it immediatelly. I believe the way Steve wrote it, the ideas and concept of the Relating Funciton get embedded in the reader's psyche almost as a zip-file and it starts to unzip itself over time and unfolds it's meaning little by little in the psyche.
I found that, with many things around JTLB videos or Steve's books, that with further life experience or "distance" from it, further things are revealed when re visiting it. Oxfords Blues is also very potent I found. I never finished Lilith, due to it being a PDF, but I got the physical copy which is massive and so I'll give a shot once I'm done with Oxfords blues
Hi @Ico132, that's a very keen insight, and should serve you well as you continue with your ongoing journey. The qualia of consciousness, serve efficiently, when we let them, and free up time for both outer adaptation and inner experience. Thanks too for your very kind remarks about my Lilith novel. Blessings & Respect, Steve 🙏
Hi again, @chowchebi, thanks for sharing that distillation of experience through reflexive insight. Thanks too, for reading my work, its very much appreciated. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏
Awesome! Been looking forward to this. Thanks guys
Cheers @benhart2973! Thanks so much for your comment 🙏 All the best, James
This has been fantastic so far. I remember when I first was having experiences and contact with that ancestral/genomic side of our nature, just how meaningful it was, and continues to be for me. That contact and knowing through experience that there's something else beyond the ego and its complexes in itself resolved some long held struggles I had been dealing with at the time. But because I didn't have a means of understanding it, secondary issues were created through my complexes and attempts of cognitively understanding what I had experienced, including some unhelpful Jungian based introjects. So for that, I just want to express a deep thank you for your work in developing and sharing with the world a grounded model for understanding all of this, because that helped resolve those mentioned secondary issues, as well as providing the tools to work through much more.
Excited to dig into the rest!
Cheers @Yacobo_, thanks so very much, for your comment, and also here's acknowledging your ongoing development as a clinical professional. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Thank you for sharing this for free. Will need some time to digest
Hi @cryptzzz1188, Blessings, and thanks for your kind words, they're very much appreciated: Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
That opening sequence is deeply profound and moves so much feeling in me. Understanding the anima as a way to relate to others and myself has been a life changing revelation and I’m excited but scared of what the future holds for me. Thank you all for your work.
Blessings @lemoniceymo, thanks so very much for sharing your insights and experience. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
What an opening to an amazing dialectic! If one can unpack Freud Adler Jung equation, they are well on their way . Relating is key , what is within so too is without! Every angle is considered & addressed in this epic video, thank you 🙏
Blessings @adamandeve1722, much wisdom in your observations. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Thank you very much again Steve, Pauline, James and the rest of the IPSA team. This is absolutely amazing content and will take a long time to digest
Hi @VictorHundebll, huge thanks to you, with our Blessings & Respect, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Hello there,
I had just been wondering about JTLB a couple of hours ago and here it is, a new behemoth of a video, with 6+ hours…
Can’t wait to watch it all!
Thank you!
Hi again, @miguelramiro1281, Synchronicity! Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
This is an incredible gift . Thank you both deeply.
Hi again, @ernestberry5226, thank you in return, for your continuing support for the channel. Blessings: Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
This was such a pleasure to listen to and ponder on while I tended the garden!
Thanks so much!!
Hi again, @Lioness_of_Gaia, Blessings to You and for your good work, with Mother Earth. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
@@JungToLiveBy I'm so grateful for this gem!
I am listening, Again and again!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
🙏🌲🌎
These videos are such incredible resources, your hard work is very much appreciated 🙏 Watching and working through them is more akin to reading a chapter in a book in terms of depth but it's more accessible and alive, it's a privilege to have content of this quality out there freely accessible at any time.
Hi again, @iHomer0007, thanks so much for your very kind comment, its hugely appreciated by us all, and of course, thank you too, for supporting the channel these past three years. Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline🙏 🙏
This has to be the longest video that I've watched on UA-cam, and I'm here for it!
On another note, the intro floored me. The simplicity and yet the power of it - it definitely set the tone. That relating is not just all fancy and up in the air. It's as 'real' as can be.
I also had a lot of resonance with the intro quote: "How easily you've forgotten it, but it shall not forget you.", with the suggestion that even if I as in the ego forgot where I came from, that place still remembers and can help me remember. And as I kept watching, more and more started to piece itself together in my mind, and I felt the impetus to work through a representation that I had of a mother, and turn it into something that is more uplifting and confirming.
What I uncovered was that even if you as in the ego feel like you lost your way, like you're stuck in the circumstances you're in, and you forgot what things could be like, how things could go, another part of you NEVER forgets. And that there is always a way back 'home' - you just have to listen. If you find a tree in the plains and follow it, you'll eventually come upon a forest.
Thanks for making the video. There's a lot more to understand and incorporate for me on my individuation journey.
Hi again, @rohithperla9536, Blessings to You and for Your Creativity. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Thank you! Steve, Pauline, James and Eric!
Blessings, @michaelericsson6926, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Five years ago, I've went to different sources in hopes to understand Jungian theory, including Anima and Animus. I started with Murray Stein and ended up in a rabbithole, somewhere on UA-cam. It was very frustrating because most of the Jungian theory never really resonated and I would usually suggest to myself that I'm simply not smart enough to understand it. Until I found JTLB. This video is one of many examples of theory that is applicable in real life as it pushes you towards action in the world and relating, instead of just trapping you in your own head.
I recently developed a somewhat deeper understanding of the Field. Every time I engage with this material, myself and the world in a proper way, things start happening. I would get infected by my complexes and would stray from relating and development, where I would lose many months, just staying stuck in my own head, without realizing it. I would negatively contribute to the Field, and not be aware of it. I would be stuck with my own complexes, thinking that my catabolic tendencies won't affect anyone or anything, colapssing into my Ego, forgetting that I am a part of the wider Field. Realizing that, I understood my responsibility but at the same time I feel a huge relief.
As I was typing this a 'synchronicity' occurred, in the background, that contained a sentence "It is a field.".
Be kind to yourself and others. Be open to the Field and things will get regulated in a healthy way.
Thank you Steve, Pauline and James for all the hard work you've done and contributions you've made to the world. 🙏
Blessings, @FiorDiBattaglia, synchronicities, as your own experience tells you, always arrange when the 'field' is actively configuring for a move forward. Thank you for your kind words, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Thanks guys for making this video, this is probably one of my all time Jung to live by favourites. I'm only half way through, but it has been such a joy watching and listening to this. I'm excited to watch the other half later.
Hi @itsmenerdi, thanks so very much for your kind comment, we really hope that you enjoy the rest of the video. Blessings: Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Very powerful opening. Was incredibly moved emotionally. Mumma Nature Is A Rocker 🤘
Cheers, @tuwheratiaihaka2744, thanks so much for your comment, and yes 'Mama Nature is a Rocker!' Blessings, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Really looking forward to diving into this 🙏🏼 it seems only fitting that something as essential as the relating function deserves such an extensive, thorough video. Thank you IPSA for what is clearly a very important, significant tool, and, declaration to the field🌻🙏🏼
Hi again, @alexrollinson-salter399, Blessings & Respect to You, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Excited for a long watch
Blessings Foster, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
I might add as an aside that being single in my mid-forties after a very long relationship I've been dealing with a sense of guilt that I'm attracted to women young enough to be my daughter (and curiously I find younger women flirting reciprocally in a way they never did when I was their age)- but framed by biology I understand, perhaps too late, that I do actually want to start a family. Interestingly though, I've noticed a new possible timed release opening up, in that I also find myself increasingly attracted to women in their fifties and early 60s who would have been erotically invisible to me a few short years ago, preparing me for a different kind of companionship which perhaps my ancestors wouldn't have lived long enough to enjoy.
Hi @broommovies, there's a great deal of distilled wisdom and insight in your comment. its an interesting point about having a life-span, that our ancestors didn't live long enough to enjoy. The potential for that increase, was 'there' and anticipated, hence the ancestral psyche, experiences its own telic unfolding, in the ancestors descendants, and in particular, imminently, within the consciousness, of this by the descendants. Thus, is the 'formal' cause of the telic anticipation, progressively realized, with each individual contributing to the goal that was present, at the beginning. Your insight adds to the collective field, and honours whence we all came. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
6hrs long? Epic!
Really looking forward to watching this! 👌👍
Thanks so much @HoundsofHowgate, that's really kind of you to say 🙏 Really hope you enjoy - All the best, James
I can’t tell you how glad I am to have found your channel if I had never found it I worry how much nonsense I would be spouting again thank you for all your work I’m gonna enjoy watching this waking up and restarting it till it’s ingrained in me
Like it’s was
Instinct 😂
Hi @Laudansdeum, thanks for sharing your insights and experience, and for your very kind words, Blessings: Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Looking forward to this. 6 hours is quite the amount of content and study.
Thanks so much @chowchebi - this video has been designed for those who are truly serious about depth psychology, such as your good self - really appreciate your comment 🙏 All the best, James
Holy cannoli. I took a break from the Jungian stuff to just be and do and whatnot, but this is a treasure! Diving back in for another turn up the spiral. 😄
Welcome back @JiveTurkey1618, Our Kindest Regards and Best Wishes, Steve & Pauline🙏🙏
Love you!
Less than 5 minutes in...4:58 I can relate to what Pauline is saying; I had an experience of having a gun pointed on my forehead. I was then 22 years old. I remember telling myself: "I'm sorry Mother, I'm not coming home." She would've been my last thought had I died that night on the hands of a robber. But I found out it was a peaceful experience to be in the cusp of death. It was the first time I noticed the Thinker stopped thinking.
This epic vid will be my study for the next seven days. I learn so much from you. Thank you for your generosity.
Sincerely, Aurora
Hi again, @HomewithAurora, what a deeply moving account of your experience! Thank you for your kind words. With all our very Best Wishes for You and Your continuing Journey, Pauline & Steve 🙏🙏
I just started listening to the 4 hour archetypes video! So this one will have to wait a while 😆
Blessings @imogen.magenta , thanks for your ongoing support for our work, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Superb stuff.
Thanks so much for your comment @afribeanner - really hope you enjoy the video 🙏 All the best, James
This life we each get is one beautiful Journey, full of mystery and understanding, if only we seek it. Thank you for being so Kind.
~ry
Blessings, @smugmonkey6147, thanks for your continuing support for the channel. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Wonderful beginning.
Hi again, @Julian.Goldstein , Blessings & Respect, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
First time through, about midway currently, and I found the discussion surrounding relationships between older men and young girls to be an interesting dynamic. I still require a re watch to clarify some things, but in my experience I have seen this within my peer group. My one friend from high school knew a girl (his now wife), when he was 19 and she was 17 and there was no real concern from others, from what I could tell. A few weeks ago though, a friend who is younger than us (28 years of age) made a moral comment surrounding what was mentioned in the video (where the guy was 21 and the girl was 17) and how it was wrong. Context matters in this situation of course, but I did find the comment made of instincts pushing at times where cultural pressure or beliefs would suppress an individuals unfolding (regarding innate releasing mechanisms) at ages that are problematic. Edit: Think I should of wrote out a manuscript of my thoughts (in a single comment later on) as there's so much of value here. So much encouragement and spirit shown in Chapter 5 of the task at hand regarding relating and passing the torch to the future.
Hi again @chowchebi, thanks for raising this very important topic, given the way that it is motivationally weaponised in parts of the contemporary Western culture. As you know, Pauline and I started our relationship when she was 16 and I was 21 (we got engaged when she was 16 and married when she was 19) We've been together now for 46 years. We know of plenty of others from our youth, that did the same thing, and their relationships have lasted. It'd be good to open this out for deeper discussion, on the Discord Server, as there is a catabolic cultural dynamic (driven by a selective biological force) superpositioned between both biological sexes, that is seeking to forestall or even destroy the potential for lasting relationships.
This is just pure gold.
Hi @kr31415 , thanks so very much for your kind comment, our Respect for You and for Your Journey, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
To me, 6 and a half hours of effortless, packed discussion of NEW ideas I’ve never heard, nothing repeated, unique ways of demonstrating the feelings behind the ideas, is…astonishing. There’s something very special about this…Jungian life, it has inspired me to really dive back into philosophical experiments on my own channel, which I started with. Active Imagination isn’t just a self-help technique, it’s more like falling in love. I can imagine what Jung must have felt, disillusioned somewhat by his strict religious upbringing, to discover a source of God within, a source of the mother within, his deep love, the child, that can talk back, and say these very words to you in your time of need. I mean, I literally laid next to an altar with my anima for 15 minutes the other day, as though it were me with my closest loved one, not a hallucination, but just some kind of quality time. The unconscious is so dynamic. Then all of a sudden I’m ejaculating a lizard with a top hat onto the plant at the center of the altar, saying goodbye to anima and flying around with wings as though I’m actually feeling it, like a waking dream. What the F??? It was awesome, and I wrote it down and had all these strange insights and clear statements of truth to not only ponder, but to imbue Eros into my ideas. Jung’s mission to fuse spirituality with science was better achieved than by anyone else I can think of, William James close second. You all are where I started, shout-out to the Boyo too, and I can already tell one lifetime won’t be enough.
Thanks @TeamFriendship, James has long ago moved on from his ‘Boyo’ days. He’s matured into a very fine professional who has earned the progress he’s made with 24/7 365 hard work, for several years now. ‘That Jungian Life’ has no correlation with what we do. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
First 15:00 in and I already got goosebumps multiple times 👏👏👏
Hi @amar.numanovic, thanks for your kind feedback, Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Outstanding work.
Hi again, @Quiex13, Blessings and Thanks, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Yes! It's here!
Thanks so much @melomateus_m.r - really hope you enjoy the video 🙏 All the best, James
6 hrs? Np. This is my third time around & probably won’t be my last. I look forward to unpacking this personally, professionally & on the course. Thank you, Steve, Pauline & James 🙏🏼
Hi again, @SelfImageStylist, thanks so much, as ever, for your kind comment, and professional commitment to the work. Blessings, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
SYNCHRONICITY!
Was thinking about an hour ago about, random thought, how its been a while since a new video from JTLB. And then, BOOM, out it comes!
Thanks guys, will give a more in-depth comment after I've watched the video! :)
Hi again, @Avalon_Silver, a true synchronicity indeed! Blessings and Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Holy moly 6 and half hours! This will keep me busy 😮
Hi @andrewchristie3139, hope you enjoy it, there's a huge amount of material there to get stuck into. Blessings and Respect: Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Steve, Pauline, James thank you for another video that will be one I'll be staying with for quite some time. Something I have noticed and I would appreciate your opinion on. The current world events and looking back on history. Napoleonic wars, American Civil war. WW1 and WW2. Is technology tied into this. It seems with every major advance to a certain critical point an unstable and a kind of reality check takes place as if to reign that in . The industrial revolution led to the first great war in the Napoleonic times. William Blake captures that the best in his great poetry. The kind of threat it had to the spirit and as you would say genomic intelligence. It was the same with the advances that helped fuel the American civil war and it was most prominent in the lead up to the First world war. The period between 1918 and 1939 were another incredible advance in our technological abilities. WW2 would never have been the horror it was without that. Since then there has been unbridled advances and for the all the good it has done it has also done incredible harm which you have highlighted in many posts. I know you've called it a shit test at present. But it also is corrective as well. And a response to the hubris and atrophy this brings in consciousness. As after a kind of cataclysm there is a period of growth and social reordering as well. Just a thought.
Hi again, @ZarathustraMG42-qo7oj, yes, I'd say that technology plays a huge part. If you check out our 'Terminal Lucidity' and 'Rebirth' series, plus the one on AI, Intuition & Plato, you'll see definite parallels with your line of reasoning. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏🙏
Let’s goooo! 😂 war babyyyy it’s time to figure this out 💪🏽
Thanks so much for your comment @briandelacruz9630 - really appreciated 🙏 All the best, James
Here we go!
Thanks so much for your comment @zero-tension3180 - really hope you enjoy the video 🙏 All the best, James
Brilliant guys
Hi again, @paulmessis1094, thanks for your kind words, they're very much appreciated. Blessings: Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
I’m turning 40 in less than 5 hours… time to do the last research 😊
Hi @seamr05, Our Very Best Birthday Wishes for You, and for Your Continuing Journey, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Happy Birthday!!!
@@JungToLiveBy Thank you very much for your Birthday wishes and your phenomenal content here on YT. It’s a gift that jeeps on giving 🥰
@@Lioness_of_Gaia Thank you :)
Blessings @seamr05 🙏🙏
In your view, what would be the value of writing down early thoughts, just after waking up?I read about it in a PDF by Rossi (Creative Dialogue With Our Genes)
Hi again, @cryptzzz1188, its likely to be well worth trying, if you're studying Rossi's work. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Alright, perfect timing lol.
Hey guys, I have a question regarding how one should approach their personal development. It is often suggested that one should start with Freud, Adler, and then Jung. I'm wondering what is meant by this? Does it refer to understanding their theories and trying to apply them in your life, or in a context?
From a biopsychosocial model, Freud is biology, Adler is the social aspect, and Jung is the spiritual. Would it be that we look at all three in these different contexts? The clarification would really help me a lot!
Thanks! 🙏
Hi @Angel-ih4wo, yes, take it from a biopsychosocial perspective all three interact simultaneously (Freud, Adler, Jung). If approached properly, success at one level allows for success at the others (proceeding from Freud upwards). If we don't sort them out, in their running order, then we carry a representation of the 'pathology' of each into the domain of the next. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏
@@JungToLiveBy thank you!!!
Blessings🙏
YES!!
Blessings @savoirfaire6181, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline
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Thank you♥️
Blessings, @eemeliahtimaa1786, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
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I'm not familiar enough with the philosophy. despite my enthusiasm, but is there a similarity between the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Informational Monism? Perhaps this is also outside of your specialty and if so, sorry for the question, but I am curious. I really think it's intriguing how you have blended Jungian psychology up into platonism and metaphysics via Sheldrake and others. It seems quite natural. When I first approached Jung I wondered what he'd say the distinction was between an archetype and a form, in the platonic sense and you have definitely given a good answer to that question! It seems John Vervaeke is also working on a modernized Platonism and is always talking about it. It's a very good and needed project. In the West the loss of Platonism in the middle ages seems to have lead to a deep meaning crisis through nominalism carried out through Protestant Christianity and the aftermath into the various philosophical and political splits. The capacity to build a worldview from the human psyche on up rather than starting in the clouds is extremely healing in my recent experience with following your work and applying it. A lot of what you're instructing can be experienced first hand as one enters the process of hypnotherapy and experiences the healing and deep meaning that can result. Slowly making my way through the current video here.
Hi again, @savoirfaire6181, thanks so very much for your ongoing support for the channel, this past year. Thanks too for your very comprehensive comment. These are areas that are in a state of constant flux, as different perspectives form, integrate, dissolve and reform. Being primarily clinical empiricists, rather than academics, we see the psyche as the living laboratory of its own ontology, including the representational psychodynamics of that ontology, a priori to its (the psyche) immediate biological substrate, right back to its 'Platonic' origins. In our clinical experience, an important consideration, is in resolving Sheldrake with Plato; uniting both with Darwin, and then up through Freud, Adler and Jung, as the metaphorical 'Three Turnings of The Wheel' of Depth Psychology. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
@@JungToLiveBy Thanks for your reply. That's beautiful to my ears. The fact that I understood what you just said makes me smile now. "the psyche as the living laboratory of its own ontology," You approach the questions through relating directly to real people's lives as individuals rather than just to shifting philosophical ideas in the larger culture. It has seemed to me as I've grown in this path that this turns out to be a living experience of oneself and the world around as integrated into one whole of unfolding meaning. It's been an experience of constant synchronicity and decoding one's experience and inner affect (in response to experience) into an ever refining growth path towards creative relating. This has to be the basis for evolution. That which brings further order out of relative chaos rather than only that which brings chaos out of order, which we also see working. I question how much chaos is even a thing as I continue. I guess this question has become important to me because the whole world feels like it's in chaos and the more ordered I become the more I feel its confrontation and that it is knocking at my door, asking me to order myself all the more in response. Where will all our stories go and when they go there will be ready to accept them? I guess that's the limit of my present maturity right now, to ask that question and seek for the answer to be "yes." Thanks for what you do! - Ben
Hi Ben, @savoirfaire618, you are well on your way, along this journey's road. Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
@@JungToLiveBy Thank-you. You've helped me a lot. - Ben
I was just wondering what you folks were up to? 😉
Thanks so much for your comment @robertdabob8939, and for your support of the channel these past 3 years 🙏 All the very best, James
Same here!
@@JungToLiveBy It's hard for me to overstate the value in what you've created here and what it's done for me personally.. It's been a guiding light over the last 3 years, synchronistitically weaving with my own deeply affective mythopoetic life narrative and maturing my understanding enough to keep my feet on the ground as it all came apart. For that I'm eternally grateful to you my friend, along with Steve and Pauline! 🙏 Cheers
Good content. Audio kinda muffled makes it difficult to understand. Thank you.
Hi @latentsea, thanks for your comment, we'll look into what kind of audio issues may have happened for you. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Oh boyo 😅
Hi @GThomas-qq6mp, the 'boyo' has very much grown, into being a 'mano', Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏
Wow
Blessings @isma3il2005, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
so for Ego, are we going with egg'o instead of eego, or is this a new term all together?
It’s the correct Latin pronunciation
@@JungToLiveBy Which one, and where, which country or language
Egg’o, in Latin.
This video was a real treat! James asked fantastic questions throughout, which was incredibly helpful in shaping my own understanding of what was discussed.
The concept of totems or superstitious objects having subliminal influence was particularly intriguing. I'd love to see future videos delve deeper into how continued exposure to certain objects or environments might impact people over time. Additionally, I'm curious about how Jung should have approached his infidelity.
Here are two questions I have:
1. How can one consistently connect with resonant states like the one described with Freya Lund?
2. While I feel mentally confident, I experience a significant physical disconnect (to my body) in social settings, such as excessive sweating in my armpits. Is this a complex/trauma that needs healing, or could it be something else?
Hi again @moons_mind, thank you for your kind comment, the team, as always very much appreciate it. In answer to your two questions: 1; to get outside of the Ego's normal adaptive range, but without compromising its role and purpose, we need firstly a proper boundary that defines who and what we are (as an Ego identity) and also some metaphorical 'firm ground' beneath our feet, from which the Ego can take its next steps. Without these, the Ego is permeable to suggestion, including to that of 'fantasy' which if it becomes a stand-in holding space for actualizing our real potential, or worse still, if it replaces it altogether, then the Ego will have no way of understanding what it is, or what it is not. This makes relating to reality, including the reality of contact with the Psycho-Systems Analysis modelling of the so-called 'un'-conscious, and in reality, the 'Non-Ego Conscious', of the Extended Mind, and all other states that consciousness can occupy, beyond a collapse into psychology - so therefore, biological, material, 'field-coherent' states of 'Superpositioned' consciousness, not defined by, or limited to, a representation of itself, to itself, as a 'psychologism', alone. In short, contact with the Platonic-Field of Meta-Instinctual representations (images and intentionality) cannot happen. The utilization of images, as 'representations', is an economical way of collapsing the very wide bandwidth of 'information' latent in such images. The key here is differentiating between what may be 'projected' onto someone who 'represents' something, and what may be 'emitted' through the image of someone. The former is standard 19th century and early 20th century psychodynamics. The latter, represents and therefore ultimately arises, from more of a truly Platonic understanding of the power of imagos. Plato's 'Forms' and even the Orthodox Christian understanding of Icons, and the Tantric Hindu and Buddhist understanding (rather than the Jungian) of Mandalas, Yantras etc., reveals how 'Form' and 'representational image', work together. In relationship to people, we must understand and appreciate that when then 'field' - 'chooses' to emit a representation, through a person, then the person is neither responsible for this, or is even conscious of it. The intentionality, is external to them. Where there is a coherence between people, then the field between them is contiguous, and we can talk of a 'relationship' in everyday terms. Its only by being open to the Non-Ego Consciousness, of the 'field' that the Ego can better develop a relationship to that field. 2. It could be as you describe, in which case, at its most basic, it will likely be to do with issues of acceptance by others (psychosocially) regarding perceived rank and status. Adlerian compensations can come in, so that when we reject our own potential, our 'complex' seeks to confirm this by signalling 'sub-dominance' or 'non-competence' to others. We may be more aware of our physiological reactions, but we will despite our attention to physical representations, also be giving of a field that actively (non-consciously) seeks to cause others to confirm our inner state. This is how a neurosis acts to superposition itself, as a field resonant phenomenon. So, the way to sort this all out, is to own your own Ego and its proper boundary and functions, and 'emit' your own Platonic potential, by allowing it to come through. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏
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6 hours omg
Happy viewing 😇
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damn😵💫6 hours.
Hi again, @oddpersona22 . nearly 6.5 hrs 😎 Thanks for your support for the channel these past two years, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
really incredible information, many thanks for all your work and dedication to bring us this content. I love these videos and the insight and framework provided. Interestingly within the first 15 mins of the video the subject matter very much reminded me of this particular song called 'Mummy forever' attempting to convey this deep topic - ua-cam.com/video/mjnrxTqbyA4/v-deo.html -genuinely not self promotion, rather an astonishment at how much the first 15 mins resonated..... best wishes
Thank you so much, @WUWEISTORIES, with our very best wishes to you, for your continuing journey. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
Amazing work you put into this video 👍
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Could you explain how to find our complexes in simpler terms?
I subliminally foci-attracted myself a stroke trying to understand that.
Hi @user-pv4zp6gg4b there are a lot of ways of doing this, we prefer that people understand the bigger picture, before working in the right way to uncover and deal with complexes. It may seem like a lot to understand but you'll make much more progress, quicker, by becoming 'quicker by being slower' in that you can avoid pitfalls that would otherwise be explained by understanding the whole ecology of them (complexes). Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏 ua-cam.com/video/IXv41RuluCc/v-deo.html
What would you say the esoteric meaning for Jung to live by is? Is it to change the course of mankind? What would be the goal of the channel and your research? In other words, how Christianity teaches these stories but underlying them is an esoteric meaning, I’m not sure if I’ve phrased my question the right way but hopefully you understand my question. Thank you!
Hi again @gus8310, as a clinically derived model, our focus is entirely on working with people, anything else is secondary to that. The experience, and the privilege, of helping people overcome often crippling suffering, existential crises, and severe life-span development issues, was and is, a calling. The esoteric meaning in people’s lives is found within their Individuation journey. It’s right for young people to test themselves in this regard. When people have more future than a personal past, then the challenge is to meet that future with the limits of your potential. How we take shape, during this process, is trial and error set against the drive-pressure, of that potential. If you have a calling, it’ll never leave you. You’ll distil your true character out, from the daily challenge of becoming who you must be. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏,
Why do you call it an eggo instead of an ego? 🤔
It’s the correct Latin pronunciation. As per Reverend Don Cupitt, Jungian Scholar , author of ‘The Sea of Faith’ and Dean of Emanuel College in Cambridge. Also, Professor Mark Solms, editor of the New Standard Edition of Freud’s Collected Work - as two examples
Because it’s the correct Latin pronunciation.
I've heard it differentiated, before. Maybe on this channel, maybe on "third eye drops" channel.
Fascinating...
I listened to about 85%, understood about 5%, but finished. Does the "Field" mean the collective consciousness of a certain group, in a certain area?
Hi again, @oddpersona22, it can, but it depends of what resolution of scale that you are considering. Sheldrakian field effects (from the work of Dr Rupert Sheldrake) operate at the 'behavioural field' level within and between groups, which can be separated across any points in physical space. The 'information' propagates through a non-material field of shared resonance. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏
"How his father related to the feminine and his relation with his anima"
food for thought
Hi @oswurth8774, yes, the transgenerational influence of the 'feminine' down the paternal line, is often overlooked. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏
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