Glad you felt better when you were coming to Ireland. It's a magical place, I hope you get to come back someday.

Great Introduction. Need for Several Humane Loving Families. A Handy Modus Operandi

7:22 I find this rather wrong because you do not adress the elephant in the room the cause for watching adult content and circumstances. I do personally because my lover is away due to her strict parents who control her life even in middle 20s so I go through alcohol withdrawal and loneliness and the need for dooamine is imense so I give my brain what it needs so I can cure my alcoholism only to cure the other problems lately. I am an alcoholic needs to go first after that I can concentrate on binding more with my partner but the cravings need to subside.

As a guy who has a relation ship but still watches erotic content I can agree pornography is a big one of our society. We are neck deep in it

I have often interpreted my personal suffering as a necessary condition for spiritual liberation. I grew up in a family and community that was predominantly catholic. Until I studied Philosophy and World Religions in college, I was completely ignorant about looking at the world and interpreting my inner experience other than through that indoctrinated lens. Thank you for sharing your thoughts on suffering and spiritual awakening as they are challenging my beliefs. Be well!

I certainly agree that an esoteric interpretation is truer than an exoteric one when dealing with the righteous verses the wicked. As to whether or not it's possible to have enlightenment without a dark night of the soul, there is something to be said for the typical way redemption is generally understood in Christianity in that there almost seems to be a necessary fall from grace before salvation can be achieved, but I think this is a cultural limitation predicated on the way in which salvation is believed to happen according to the dominant interpretation of the work of Christ, and isn't necessitated by the scriptures themselves. Perhaps enlightenment can be taught without necessitating suffering in order to achieve it, but I think there's something to the notion that life necessarily leads to sorrow and suffering sooner or later, and what Simone Weil said I think is pertinent to the issue, that the significance of religion isn't that it finds a cure for suffering but a use for it.

Have you read any of the Kabbalistic literature available to us? If not, what religious scripture/concept, etc. would you like to see an esoteric interpretation of?

You’re not going to like where this rabbit hole leads

What did you read in the hour while studying with this video? Good job regardless of how many pages you got through. I had to read a book in my Honors undergrad program called "How to Read Slowly." So if you didn't get through many, well done.

Have you read Jung's "Answer to Job"? What do you think of his psychological profiling of both Job and the Hebrew god? Does god/source, etc. go through a process of individuation as well? I didn't think of it before, but I guess it might have some connection to process theology/Whitehead.

If I may ask, where's your Venus?

Perhaps a diplomat? If, without them, there wouldn't be harmonious social relationships. This types does remind me of my mother lolol.

I did in fact finish book #6 (after stopping the video, while cooking lunch/dinner). I think the wind might have died down, now that it is 6:15 pm, so I am going out on my balcony. :) I have about 50 pages of Jung's "Answer to Job" left. What are you currently reading?

What do you think would be a good example (career-wise/person known/philosopher) of the Extraverted Feeler?

Thanks so much to everyone who joined! I was so happy to get through more of the King, Warrior, Magician, Lover book as well as delve more into Jung's "Answer to Job," which is proving to be quite suspenseful. What did you get finished in the time?

Sorry I was gone so much for this one. I was trying to get through to pay a bill. When you just want to give people your money, lol.

That’s really interesting. I had a dream a week ago where I was in a gigantic barn that was in the early stages of development. I was walking up some stairs when I started to notice that some of the stairs were missing. The higher I climbed the more stairs were missing and the entire frame of the structure looked rickety. Perhaps Jung would suggest that my dream is telling me that what I want to achieve isn’t possible or that it’s not what I should be aiming for in the first place. A lofty goal indeed, pun intended.

I like your words so much it is break thought of me

I used to journal my dreams and I noticed that the frequency of my dreams became more than I could keep up with and they very extremely vivid. The most interesting thing I discovered was that my dreams were not standalone, when I read them one after the other it was a narrative and themes and items kept repeating. I dream a lot about weapons, but they don’t work. A gun in my dream will look deadly but on closer examination it’s useless, I pick up an axe and the handle will be rotted. The deadly looking weapons in my dreams represent the way I try to appear to others. The fact the only I know represents my insecurity in my own ability. I’m a paper tiger.

unconscious and *conscious (not conscience)

What did you read during this session? I read pp. 160-197 in Jung's Dreams. SO interesting. It is also in the Portable Jung, if you have that. Or in Vol. 12 of the collected works.

You yourself have clarity but it seems like some of your followers never check their spelling before sending - not good if you want to appear intelligent as I assume you do on this site -. Invigilators of old would have instantly given a Fail - perhaps I am being a little sever as I have always written my papers by hand in the past at school before the age of computers when every essay had to be perfect. I expect a little flak and to be called an old fogey!

Update: I have finished and I am pretty sure I am an extraverted intuitive. That is the one that sounds most like myself.

I have used it with my masters students as an exercise

I can send you a link

MTBI has been discredited

Thought I commented a few times on the live stream but can’t see that?

What did you read during this session?

At 44:59 - your question on types of communication make me think... Is it that Byung-Chul Han is saying that the relentless, restless, pursuit of the 'new' is itself an empty illusion? Chasing an emotion, not something real. For example, with a TV series that reworks tropes with emotional hooks and cliffhangers tricking one into ...just one more episode... when Shakespeare said so much in 2 or 3 hours total! The series feeds a compulsion, does not in any way deepen understanding but dulls the mind. So, your question on communication is very interesting, but perhaps a red herring? As you say in your video earlier, it's not the how but the what. Communication is a 'how' - which itself is neutral - can be used for good, and I'll give an example later, or ill. Is it that manipulative communication taps into emotion and 'hooks' to keep us addicted? Whereas true communication deepens connection, may be troubling or disturbing. May make us think, or reflect. Opening up the possibility of a journey into a deeper understanding of self and others. I recently saw, at the cinema in my City, a live cast of the National Theatre Live production of the stage play 'Nye'. The play based on the life of Nye Bevan, who created the National Health Service in the UK. This three hour experience was profound. At a time when our politics is so banal and at times corrupt, here was a story of real vision that made a huge difference to the lives of so many by providing free health care at the point of need for the whole population. And yet the story was not without its darkness, and struggle. But I walked away challenged and inspired. I had hope that things can change... Does this make sense in connection to your question?

‘Does anyone else read books and struggle over things?’ YES! I really appreciate your slow reading of this text. Your insights and connections. Your amplification of what you think the author means. Your humility in admitting when you don’t know, or are confused or stuck. Inspiring and refreshing. Just discovered your channel via the algorithms. And tho I’m highly ambivalent about them, on occasion, they make a great link. And your channel to me is a grace gift. Be encouraged in your work! - @joelafferty from Dundee Scotland

Probably introverted sensation type.