Integrate Your SHADOW: The Most Advanced Lecture on YouTube (2020)

[@JungToLiveBy]

If the link within the email to get the Shadow Manual doesnt work, simply reply to the email and I'll send it to you manually! Cheers guys :)

[@RapPowah]

Can you give straight link? I try get it to my 2 gmails and it doesn't work. I don't get any email from you :/

[@JungToLiveBy]

Have you checked your spam folder?

[@lastround1747]

Are you still sending the manual? It hasn't come through on my end. Could you please send it. Great video by the way.

[@libraryofthemind]

@1:45:00 funniest quote: "The acceptance of being a whole generation of incels, if that acceptance occurs, is Thanatos"...

[@jasonloll2344]

A wonderful distraction from the insanity that is going on right now in the world

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks Jason.

[@RebelPrintMedia]

3 years on from this comment and distractions still needed 😅

[@Miss_Elaine_]

From three years in the future, still true.

[@loridunstan1129]

I'm only a third of the way through and am absolutely loving the wisdom and dynamic of these two! This is so enlightening!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @loridunstan1129, thank you very much for your very kind comment 🙏 I remember learning a huge amount from Steve in this dialogue (one of the very first videos we did together!). Really glad you've found this video useful 🙏 All the best, James

[@jasonmitchell5219]

A great episode packed with meaningful content and explanations/interpretations. I think I'll download the pdf and watch it again. A lot to think about. What a privilege to be able to access quality content like this for free. My kindest regards.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks Jason Mitchell, your support for our work is hugely appreciated. Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@paulmessis1985]

I had a past life regression around 9 years ago, was a mind-blowing experience, it felt like a psychic cobweb was cleared and I felt happy and clear minded for months, it was a somatic experience for sure.

[@paulmessis1985]

Interesting to know the results of No Fap, is Steve implying that by forcing oneself to follow this, you're essentially creating a new dogma which could destroy you in other ways?

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

@@paulmessis1985 Hi Paul, the best way in a broadly Jungian sense is always to apply the following linear progression for consideration: Instincts - Archetypes - Complexes - Collective. In other words, what instincts need to be considered (actions,drives, frustrations) then what archetypes (lifespan development, frustration of archetypal intent etc) then personal complexes (associated learning - ego-identified, ego-aligned, ego-unaligned, alter-ego etc) then, what socio-cultural factors. If you start with instincts, you get a base-line or default-setting, perspective about what drives or innate patterns are at work (eg. Instinctive pressures). Then work through. At each level, apply the question, and see what answer you get. In effect you'll get a time-line of adaptation or maladptationm and see what compensations may be at work in your overall homeostasis.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Glad you had a positive experience of that. We'll be doing some podcasts on the subject in relation to hypnosis.

[@CJS1986]

Great video, you boyos are feckin killin it....

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks Boyo of Ulster, much appreciated.

[@darlene-MamaD]

The amount of wisdom being shared in this video is quite astounding. Thank you !

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, Darlene, thank you for your comment. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@caninecaregroomer8030]

I'm not sure if people on here are of a psychological background, actually found this off the back of a post on a Jordan Peterson inspired, Archetype dream analysis board. I am not of such background - but oh my goodness, I can't believe I am getting such education for free! It's amazing! Learning so much new knowledge, which is going to help me for sure.. Thank you!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Jess K, thanks so much for your kind comment. I hope that you continue to find the material we post of use. Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@johnlunadarwin]

You INTP's are an absolute joy to listen to for an ENTP. It's like you lay out all the things that flash into my mind and end up in disjointed notes and organize it into a coherent lecture. Please keep this content up; you're both doing the lords work lol

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks John, INTP and ENTP are very close in style, and sometimes, the preference scores can shift over so they morph into one another. Cheers, we intend to keep up a steady stream, and fulfill the promise made to Franz Jung.

[@mylom6636]

I feel like the shadow's responsibility, in an extremely simplistic sense, is to tell us of "how the current event can screw us over" in an instinctual sense.

[@oleghrozman4172]

Hello! Nice to see you again!

[@JungToLiveBy]

You too!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Right back at you, Olegh.

[@georgekondov4001]

God bless you 🙏🏻 keep it up! Big fan!!!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks George, all blessings to you.

[@goldenteech3436]

So well done, I love the dynamic between you two here. It's very inspiring and a great reminder to live and become myself. Thank you

[@jimmysmith736]

Bloody hell you’ve changed a lot in 2 years

[@conort7054]

These videos are amazing man. You've done a great service!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Cheers Conor Toolan, that’s very much appreciated. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Cheers, Conor Toolan, Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏

[@conort7054]

@@JungToLiveBy if any of you guys are ever in Florida hit me up! I would love to link up with you guys!

[@1496tyler]

This is INTP heaven 🙏🏻❤️

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Nachoflo, many thanks! You could try our Discord, lots of INTPs debating each other there! Many thanks again, Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@robin-vt1qj]

Yes

[@alecweitl2477]

Das me

[@robin-vt1qj]

Oh wait I'm INFJ :s

[@JoglosemarFoodie]

Infp here

[@redruby8529]

Just watched again! Especially liked the part on thanatos and these current times. Also would love an entire talk on the trickster.

[@tatobridges]

I think that Peterson's "flag of bearing suffering" was his desperate way to encourge his doughter to live and also his way to cope with that situation.

[@kmold0033]

Biological Entropy. Dark concept, but fascinating.

[@dirkheeres1265]

Great stuff guys, thanks so much!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks Dirk, we'll be doing as much as we can to get more material out.

[@tracik1277]

Steve: the hippies were too untidy Giving away his Mod roots there! Oi oi!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Traci K, ah ya got me there 😎. Although if your from the UK I was a ‘Bovver Boy’. Pauline was into long hair, flares, velvet jackets, Led Zeppelin, Queen and the like 🙏

[@tracik1277]

Steven T Richards Hehe! Yes I’m in the U.K. Sadly I missed the first time round and then too young to join in with the 1979 revival.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi again @@tracik1277 those were the days..... Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@andresilva1431]

This is gold :) Thank you for this.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks Andre, glad you enjoyed it, we'll be producing as much material as we can.

[@far-away-so-close4540]

A very high-quality and wide-ranging discussion. Although I am in a technical profession, I have always sought out the arts and humanities to have a more balanced life and personal development, with the amateur study of psychology as a part of that. A significant part of personal development is finding those personalities in your own personal life, and in the broader culture that can influence you for the better, to interact with and help you grow in directions that you need to. So I am glad to have discovered this site. Thank you for the time and effort to create it.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, and thanks for your contribution and support. Respect to You for Your Journey, Steve🙏

[@adamandeve1712]

Thank you loving this!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Steven T Richards Cheers, Adam & Eve, we're working on more, and hope it's just as useful.

[@MariekeStolp]

Absolutely loved this once again, thank you!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Cheers Marieke. much obliged there's one on creativity, therapy and personal development due out tomorow.

[@KingMother-p2b]

I am enjoying this channel! I really love the work you guys are doing.

[@BradleydeLucia]

"leggo my ego"™

[@calvincase52]

Hey

[@Lioness_of_Gaia]

Thank you, both! I agree and appreciate the nuance and explanations. ✨💚✨

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @Lioness_of_Gaia, Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏

[@applejuice3562]

This is the most awesome video I've ever seen

[@captainblimp4133]

Thanks for the download looks really good the cover looks mythical,haven't read it yet though,will do soon.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks E Azami, best, Steve,

[@mgdkns6678]

Awesome video and awesome channel! Thank you for your efforts, much appreciated !

[@marvinbane1943]

Would be great to hear James personal story to discovering his personal myth, unless it’s already been covered in another video. Great video, on my second watch and trying to understand the shadow not only from a psychological level but a psychobiological level.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @marvinbane1943, thanks so much for your kind feedback on the video. I've spoken on aspects of my personal myth across the years in various videos, but I could certainly consider making something more standalone - I'll discuss with Steve and Pauline 🙏 All the best, James

[@thischannelhasanameright1954]

This was really interesting, especially stuff about Thanatos and Collective Shadow. Also, you were right on the money about Jordan Peterson.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thanks, @thischannelhasanameright1954, glad that you enjopyed it. We have a lot more on the Shadow on the channel. Kindest Regards, Steve

[@slatanek]

Thanks a lot guys! This is incredibly useful to me and highly appreciated. Especially nowadays that all mainstream psychology seems empty and soulless. Keep it up and good luck with your endeavors!

[@JP-kg6wn]

Thank you very much, for all of your work very helpful. 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thanks J P, very much appreciated, Kindest Regards, Steve and Pauline 🙏🙏

[@GodOfSpices]

Hey, great show gentlemen, I really enjoyed it. In particular the thanatos part is fancinating. You can check out prof. Liantinis lecture about death.More philosophical than psychological.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thank you for the recommendation, and I'm glad you liked it!

[@redruby8529]

Thank you! Very interesting, very helpful.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thank you Joy, Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏

[@onlyrealstuff9704]

I'm so grateful for this video! Thank you!

[@annhere]

Highly recommend.

[@Android-jass]

I really appreciate this video

[@JungToLiveBy]

Cheers, Android, Kindest Regards, Steve and Pauline 🙏🙏

[@williamnord1115]

Thank You Gentlemen

[@silhouetta37]

Really intrigued by the section on Possession by another’s personality. Growing up evangelical, I was taught from infancy to systematically subject myself to possession by Christ - that is, by the concept of a dead guy as presented by preachers and books and my own imagination - and utterly crush my own will. I did this for 23 years. 14 years later, I’m still trying to untangle the epic mess that made of my ego. The quest continues, but I connected a few dots listening to this. Thanks.

[@Lozzadrew]

Amazing content, thank you greatly :)

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thanks Lawrence Drew, hope you enjoy the rest of our work too. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@OZCONSCIOUS]

This channel is very interesting. I've developed an interest in this type of Psychology after I realized that "enlightenment" is a real thing, but it's something that is quite earth shattering, permanent and life changing... an experience I don't feel at this point in my life, I am ready to handle yet. I realized I must get my life and psyche optimized as much as possible before "enlightenment/individuation/satori/moksha/liberation" occurs. That being said, I am enjoying the content of this channel. I find it a tad too jargony and overly scientific at times for my naturally artistic INFP personality :P, but I'm getting the hang of it and I feel things resonating! I've watched the videos and read the manual about Shadow Integration, and I like the concept illustrated there... but I still don't really understand WHAT and HOW to integrate it, as it is described there. Maybe I missed that in the manual and in the videos? Some further clarification would be great! Also, I would love your opinions and reactions to a man known as UG Krishnamurti. (Not Jiddu Krishnamurti... UG Krishnamurti... there are MANY hours of him talking on KZbin). He's someone who went through the enlightenment experience I mentioned earlier... but his description of it is WAY different than the "bliss, oneness, cosmic consciousness' woowoo quite often spouted by new age gurus and spiritual prophets. I think you would dig him, and would enjoy his purely BIOLOGICAL and PHYSICAL explanation of his psychological state and the experience of enlightenment he went through (or 'calamity'... as he calls it). Cheers!

[@avelina8317]

I love this channel! I started Jungian analysis and find this channel a nice compliment to my journey. My question is will you be doing a segment on the Animus? If not, can you please, please do a segment on the Animus?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thank you! Animus is the next video!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

There's a planned three parter on the Animus, V Lina.

[@leahrame5094]

it's a massive amount of work out there. Good job!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Blessings Leah Rame, Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@vin608]

Great video. Keep up the great work! Can you guys make a video explaining the Animus? Would love to understand it more clearly.

[@john1107]

I wonder what the collective shadow reveals itself to be in a time like now.

[@OGMizen]

The Joker movie

[@johnb0nat3r]

I had this idea that in "decadent cultures" to use a Nietzschean phrase, the collective shadow will be projected onto one's own nation or even species. Here in the states (where we aren't perfect) there's this new collectivist movement amongst badly adjusted young people that tends to blame our particular country on all the world's woes (which is evolutionarily absurd). I believe this drive and projection is a form of self condemnation from a generation who is full of unaddressed complexes.

[@paulofurtado4925]

Fighting for toilet paper, and we dont even have chaos yet, survival hasnt kicked in properly as far as i can tell, at least not mine.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

@@johnb0nat3r Agreed.

[@ASMRGRATITUDE]

@@paulofurtado4925 my first thought was literally flinging turds at each other and fighting about toilet paper after I read the OP comment. Then as I scrolled down and read your comment I burst out laughing..

[@CB19087]

Very interesting, thank you. CBT does work, but is not a fix all solution. Different tools for different difficulties at different stages of healing/development... this information is definitely going in my tool box! Looking forward to hearing more...

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thanks Cari B, please check out our latest video for context on CBT. Kindest Regards, Steve

[@CB19087]

@@JungToLiveBy thanks Steve, Perhaps I should have worded my response as - CBT worked for me during a certain point in my development. .. I'm currently studying integral theory and shadow work, but I'll be sure to check it out should I want to revisit it. Thanks again for your videos, very helpful and insightful 👍

[@lincolnellis8205]

Hi James, Richard, and Pauline, Before I say anything further, I just want to say, I have been following your videos and texts for a while and couldn’t be more thankful. Thank you for guiding the way when I needed a helping “hand”. I am commenting on this video for a reason as I have just watched a movie and it hit hard and deep. The name of the film is “Tales From Earthsea”. I know you have a public forum of which you reply to these things, but in chance you have not seen this film, I thought I would try bring it to your attention as it is a beautiful film and involves the shadow (not shy about it either). I would highly encourage you to take the time to watch it. It is a Studio Ghibli film and has not come at a better time in my study. Please, by all means, keep up the Great Work. It has helped me immensely! Kind regards, Lincoln.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thanks Lincoln for your very kind words and the suggestion. Kindest Regards, Steve and Pauline🙏

[@SelfImageStylist]

"You can't individuate, if you simply replicate" JTLB bumper sticker, please 😅

[@split_jcgg9613]

This is earth shattering news to me

[@simonevega7928]

James mentioned age of aquarius and erasment of consciousness which can be very painful experience and extremely dangerous one too , but isn't it the whole idea behind alchemical transformation, and when it comes to self reflection and understanding Jung's works, it only becomes possible if one has experienced it on himself. Correct me if I'm wrong but Even jung himself was transferred to a mental at some point during his life.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Simone, Jung wasn't ever 'institutionalized' although he did go through a process of deep structure confrontation with the unconscious. With alchemy, I think it'll depend on where someone is on their journey, and, the approach they take to understanding what they regard as alchemy. I've seen people go through that process and not know how it was conceived of, as being 'alchemy' it was just a natural process. For me, the process comes first and then the modelling of it as a theory, after. It's like the difference between natural individuation which happens 'naturally' at its own pace, and then the more 'artificial' process which is accelerated by following a specific path. Best, Steve.

[@130598st]

Could you do a video where you deeply elaborate upon the concept of the personal myth? I think i understand the gist, but im having trouble understanding how much weight is put on the past, and for that matter, the personal vs the collective past. Would also like an elaboration on the shortcomings of CBT

[@JungToLiveBy]

Yes, we will be focusing heavily on this in the coming next 2 weeks, including a full guide to accompany it.

[@aidanocp]

James and Steve, will there be an anima relating manual?!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Skin-encapsulated ego, yes, there will be.

[@aidanocp]

Steven T Richards Fantastic Steve!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

@@aidanocp thanks, we'll be doing one of personal mythology' and then probably the Anima/Animus.

[@8JFTW]

Great video guys and thank you so much for the amount of free content you’re putting out. This is the first time I’ve found any meaningful teaching of Jung in terms I can understand. I noticed a couple of times you talked about the ego fracturing etc - do you have any plans to make a video on psychosis? I would be very interested! Thanks again

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Joe Khalique-Brown, it gets discussed briefly in a video posted today:19th April 2020. We can and certainly should go into more detail about this. There's the standard psychiatric/biomedical viewpoint, and then the Jungian/psychodynamic position, which has some overlap but some differences. Thanks for the suggestion, Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@johnjosephmartinez2786]

RE: Shadow manual link: 1) when entering email address for free maunual download, the field box inserts a after the @ sign, requiring correction (no big deal, just saying); and after 2 attempts, no email drop whatsoever and yes, checked spam folder; in fact looked at all mail in gmail. Other than that, this video here is a big leap in a practical understanding of 'shadow' as compared to just reading Jung's works. Good ol' Carl used superflous jargon (!) in his writings which make for LOTS of re-reads of his texts. Still, his writings are somehow compelling enough to warrant a hunger for more of such. I got caught up in Jungian concepts from the mid-2000's due to seeking Freudian concepts to self-behaviors, and find Jungian concepts more sophisticated and yet more palatable than his former mentor/colleague Freud. Anyhow, I will look into making contact in order to receive the manual, please and thanks! J_

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi John, please email [e-mail] and we'll send you the manual Cheers, James

[@johnjosephmartinez2786]

@@JungToLiveBy I did just that sir. Thank you for replying. Looking forward to receiving it. Great channel by the way. Appreciate what you are doing here. Cheers, J_

[@darktrooper-ub6eo]

The shadow of humanity; oh no, dark souls content again

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi again darktrooper104 627, 'dark to light' my friend....

[@slatanek]

Praise the Sun

[@rebekah1216]

Forget the shadow, I have to figure out how to integrate my mother n law. Ugggh.

[@gurjeetbara7192]

I would love to hear more about Thanatos at the societal level, which you guys just touched on at the end

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi Gurjeet, many thanks, we have covered this in some videos on the channel if you check out ‘Nihilism the carrier wave of Thanatos’ for example. We will revisit it as a topic. Kindest Regards, Steve 🙏

[@logoimotions]

This is awesome stuff

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks Logos, much appreciated, Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@spectranwolfinfusion]

Thank you so much for this information. I really do think I've developed a Guilt Complex even before looking into the concept of the Shadow. Is there any advice or help you could offer me? Ive been teetering on contacting a therapist

[@Own3dRunescaper]

I have some feedback regarding the audio. It's mismatched between you two, so as I'm listening on headphones while in the bus, I turn it up manually to listen to Steve, then James freaks me out when he starts talking. If you could balance it out that'd be awesome. Thank you for this by the way! - RK

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi, many thanks for the feedback. This video was one of our first. More recent videos have this issue fixed. Cheers, James

[@genarofontanez]

Brother, I've watched the first 20 seconds and I'm like "oh shit, this is gonna be a good one". Let me finish it now and post a quality comment after😂

[@genarofontanez]

Okay, I'm gonna need at least 2 days to soak this all in 💀😂

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi, Genaro, hope you enjoyed it 😇. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@francescomarzotto]

1:35:13 When you talked about the Collective Shadow I couldn't help but think about the current situation in the USA, especially the riots and the looting that manifest in contrast to a movement characterized by the vocal rejection of injustice and abuse.

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Thanks for your comment Francesco Marzotto,, it’s certainly a pivotal moment in world history. Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@dwifred472]

Dang, watching this makes me think that Jordan Peterson has gotten Jung quite wrong. I like Dr. Peterson, he seems like a good man. But these are dangerous ideas to get wrong. Especially with how much influence he has.

[@jgarciajr82]

This is so crazy. A lot of the spiritual community is trying to be enlightened. I really think they're going the wrong way. It seems we don't need enlightenment but we need to grow up. Growing up towards wisdom and not towards bull💩

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, Sunyata, thanks for sharing, Mindset Regards, Steve🙏

[@infooverdose9390]

what is the moral complex again ? and what is its purpose ?

[@lionsroarsifu]

Info Overdose it’s explained in the free pdf download 👍

[@outsiderofficialmusic]

manual download is not working for me :(

[@JonValdivia]

James, regarding your discussion around past lives and DNA storing information, I don't know if you have checked the book "The Cosmic Serpent". Easy, fast, fascinating read. Would love your take on DNA and shamanic experiences based on that book. Happy to chat about it :)

[@KleptomaniacKid]

Alchemical gold

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi again, KleptomaniocKid, many thanks! Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@stuartmartin7259]

At 1:33:30 you're talking about the Morphic Resonance?... Battery chickens responding to a rubber hawk. Morphic Resonance and other consciousness experiments investigated by Rupert Sheldrake I believe old boy...splendid show.

[@JungToLiveBy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4eQpGOtpMlnbqc

[@OdinComposer]

What are the forces that JBP channeled?

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Compensation from the Collective Unconscious, for the present zeitgeist. Perhaps, as an advance signal of a coming 'enantiodromia'.

[@jakemchardy8785]

Is there a reason why this causes someone to be sacrificed? Is it inevitable that eventually someone will have to channel this force and cause the change?

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

@@jakemchardy8785 It's happened enough times in history to suggest its reasonable to factor in the possibility. Given the way power constellates, someone will have to 'head-up' the force for change. The extent to which they are a 'loner' and an 'original' will definitely affect the strength of the tidal psychological forces (which are collective) that they 'channel'. Founders of religions, and political movements are usually buffered by the structures that arise around them. Loners are the most vulnerable, and being a loner can mean simply having more followers than compatriots. That said, even political leaders are not immune - Mikhail Gorbachev was 'scarified' politically, after the fall of the Soviet block, as was Winston Churchill in the 1945 UK General Election. Sacrifice comes in many forms. Loners stand the most to lose as their entire personality (their individual, limited, Ego personality) is on the line in the face of immense forces from the Collective Unconscious.

[@jakemchardy8785]

Very interesting stuff, thanks for the reply.

[@aleksandarangelovski1999]

Could you please do a video about procrastination, a lot of my time is spent in my head overthinking and never actually doing the things I need to do. The complex feels like it's own thing that takes control and loves ruminating, or escaping what needs to be done. Even tho I'm aware of it, i can't do anything about it. What would a pragmatic jungian solution be?

[@JungToLiveBy]

We'll do this, and a video on OCD too, as both are very similar as psychic mechanisms. Its anima related though - your 'relationship' to the path is skewed (anima is the relating factor). Ask yourself - do I enjoy my work? And take it from there.

[@aleksandarangelovski1999]

@@JungToLiveBy thanks for the notice, I suspected it was anima related. As for the enjoyment, when I'm doing it I'm enjoying it, but the next day again it goes back to rumination, and it's a struggle to not procrastinate. I get the excitement from thinking of doing the thing but the doing doesn't happen. it's like a thing on its own that tries to keep me safe from something (failure or success), even by writing this comment I feel like it's procrastinating and by watching a 2 hour video lol. Enjoying your content BTW :), and can't wait for the future videos!

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

@@aleksandarangelovski1999 thanks, yes, we'll definitely so something on this, thanks again for the feedback,.

[@luis1856]

In my opinion, because you are frequently trying to be productive, you tend to repress the lazy and unproductive side of yourself, which enters in conflict with your productive side. I guess it has to do with a research I saw a couple of months ago that related productivity with letting positive and negative feelings flow. I think what you could to do is find the part in your work/studies that directly speaks with stuff you like, removing the bad appearences from it. I should mention as well that you should also seek some medical assistance if the problem persists, like taking Adderal or a stimulant, altough I have no idea if that could cause a psychological imbalance. (and sorry for any typos or grammar mistakes)

[@MichaelGodding]

Your immune system may be fucked. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2HHkpWYeKyNZtk

[@_VISION.]

I thought the shadow was not the whole of the unconscious but similar to how a boat float on the ocean of the unconscious?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi VISION if you download the free Shadow Integration Manual, it’s explained in there.?Kindest Regards, Steve. 🙏

[@StormKillzone]

Very awesome stuff. even though I am new to this I am definitely going to watch more of your vids! btw I was wondering.. what's your type in jungian typology?? or MBTI lol

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Storm's Killzone, many thanks. James and I are both INTP, Pauline is ESFJ. Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@StormKillzone]

@@jungtolivebyafterdark wow haha I really didn't expect you are an INTP for some reason xD. that's cool though!!

[@StormKillzone]

@@jungtolivebyafterdark wow haha I really didn't expect you are an INTP for some reason xD. that's cool though!!

[@garrettcorich1063]

What happened with uberboyos? Just curious?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Things happen. The path calls elsewhere.

[@garrettcorich1063]

Jung To Live By Wish the best to both of you. Love you both, thank you for everything

[@williamerickson520]

You mentioned Hitler in regards to an improper individuation. Would it not be more accurate to say that he was consumed by his Shadow?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi William. Many thanks, no, I would not. He was a psychopath (as diagnosed by Jung), and so in terms of a simple polarity model of the Shadow, his would be the opposite of his innate and manifest personality - that is, it’d be highly social in a positive and gregarious sense, kind, loving, forgiving and generous. He had an innate predisposition to becoming what he became, and in that sense he ‘Individuated’ as he acted out that potential in full, including his mythopoetic inflation and identification with ‘collective representations’ within his native culture, what Jungians fancifully call ‘archetypes’. He was someone who opportunistically met with the zeitgeist of the age and through corrupted instinct and the power-drive to manifest them fulfilled the progression ‘Freud seeks Adler, Adler conceals Freud, Jung, inflates, and falls victim to both’. These describe the pathologies that in him, expressed the aetiology of his psychopathy. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@clive_creative]

A hypothesis, raised in response to your enquiry around past life regression and the capacity for a psyche to transmigrate across lives using a non-genomic pathway. Steve, to paraphrase, you have mentioned that psychology that does not inform itself with biology, or from a biological base is incomplete. To what degree do you think that might be true of physics informing a biological psychology. While we can ascertain, on a material level, the location of certain conscious functions that appear as the products of physiology, the question of precisely what consciousness remains unanswered. If physical models exist to suggest that our physical expression in three dimensions is the product of a far more complex reality that is operating across multiple dimensions we cannot perceive then it seems plausible that a migration of consciousness beyond death could be facilitated, at some level, on some frequency, that is beyond our capacity to perceive in this physical dimension. That possibly, what we perceive as DNA is only the three-dimensional manifestation of multi- dimensional process. It seems fair to assume that as biology has a foundation in physic that it might be there that we look as a next step? I'm not sure of the practical applications of this at this point in our evolution however. Also, it is a level of abstraction into a realm that would be impossible to measure objectively so it really is little more than a thought experiment. That said it might offer something of a suggestion towards a model that could explain some people's experiences of migrating 'between' lives, or even phenomena such as accessing the Akashic records (Although I plead ignorance in these areas). Really appreciating your collective perspectives. Also, where might I find information on where you teach/practice? if there is a way to message please let me know.

[@TS-00]

Notre bene. Breadcrumbs. 👁️☯️👁️

[@adelehall5313]

Every time they say eh-go I hear "waffle" (Eggo)

[@adelehall5313]

Also, this is AMAZING my head is reeling, can't believe this is free

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings and Kindest Regards, Steve🙏,

[@deepun9091]

What to,advise for a person whose unconscious attacks his body with severe pain to stop him moving towards his goals for a girlfriend/career Life purpose? He hired 3 coaches to help with his goals and each time he gets really ill, eg shoulder out of socket, morphine damaged his organs.... 2nd coach, something "went" in hand...3rd coach (starting tomro), flu 3 days, aches and pains for first time with flu, headaches, ankle is now swollen due to lack of walking, difficult to walk, low apptitie, no energy to do anything...is this shadow his enemy, by attacking his body? The 1st 2 coaches weren't any good, so illness was unnecessary. The goal of the shadow is to prevent him from seeing coaches to help towards his goals...

[@JungToLiveBy]

Ensure that you have approriate medical advice, and following that, consider choosing an experienced psychotherapist.

[@aaronwillingham5003]

Tried to obtain the pdf but I wasn't able to. Is there any way to get a direct link? Regardless wonderful content!

[@vargaszilard2425]

1:32:00 just look at all the cat videos with the cucumber, they think its s snake.

[@inigo7776]

1:17:33 he's a ninja

[@okay8202]

Should you relate from the genomic self to your ego, I swear a lot of comedians became aware of their ego being soo vulnerable in the way it goes about things and then they find a way of expressing it through humor...awareness from the genome of the ego expressed, becomes humor?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, okay. The Trickster, is a relational homeostatic function, that serves to mediate between Ego and Genome/Genomic Self. As you say, comedians are in special relationship to it. So long as they don’t lose their ‘personal’ Ego, it usually serves them well. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@okay8202]

@@JungToLiveBy Thank you Steve

[@IamINERT]

I had a very bad dream. I immediately knew it was my shadow. I need to pay more attention to this.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings🙏

[@jamesevansart]

Fantastic stuff here and thank you for it James. I want to do some one on one work with a Jungian analyst, but there aren't any where I live. Anyone think it's worth it to do it online or would the missing in-person element be problematic?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hey James! Thank you! It depends on the depth you think you'd benefit from. Steve and Pauline are offering a consultation over on the Patreon; to be clear, they arent Jungian analysts, but instead more 'updated' depth psychologists and deliberately so, as classic Jungian analysts take many years to drill into individual complexes. The option to chat with them is there, if you'd like to :)

[@jamesevansart]

@@JungToLiveBy Thank you! I will look into that!

[@michaelhicks4196]

Did I hear some Camille Paglia there at 1:45:00? Barbarians at the gates?

[@alexdakid222]

How to integrate a devious shadow? Is it even possible?

[@JungToLiveBy]

The ‘ Shadow’ ’ and Trickster often get confused. Know what your dealing with

[@ammi9660]

Hi steve, Does alter-ego has a bandwidth too?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi Ammi, it does but it’s potential range is wider as it acts to filter everything that is en-route to the Ego from the the unconscious and has access to the whole of the personal unconscious. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@outsiderofficialmusic]

So I am confused about the part where Steve says... If you try and force yourself to be too good then you will inevitably be balanced out by something bad urges... And vice versa... Wouldn't this be contrary to the message of Christ.. Not trying to nit pick but that part really confused me... Is there examples of humans so evil that they balanced out by good urges?

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi Outsider, I'm not attempting place this in the context of Christ or his message. And of course I understand that you're not nit picking. Following Jung, you will get the phenomena of evil people (Hitler) being 'nice' to children and animals, but given that Jung 'diagnosed' Hitler as a psychopath, then, in common with the extreme end of psychopathy, the compensation will be minimal as there's a fundamental difference in capacity that prevents normal compensation dynamics. That said, manifestations of bad occur in good people and the opposite in bad. The example of some (sadly) religious people being industrial level pedophiles, shows how being one-sidedly good, can manifest in a degrading evil.

[@wenmyster]

@@jungtolivebyafterdark If I am understanding you correctly, even if one does the hard work of understanding personal dreams, using active imagination, drawing mandalas..etc in an attempt to integrate unconscious material, there will be more shadow contents filling up again. So one might ask, what is the end goal of achieving wholeness?

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Hi @@wenmyster thanks for your question. The relation to the process changes, so although the underlying structures and dynamics remain the same, the position of the ego is different. Integration and understanding of the dynamic reduces shadow-pressure, as such integration aids homeostasis within the personality as a whole. Also, the cumulative benefit of integration far outweighs the ego's unawareness of the compensatory dynamics. The goal however, is elusive, and technically only ends with the end of life. Where 'individuation' is natural, rather than consciously sought, it settles at the ceiling of the individual, which says nothing about the actual level of consciousness attained. Consciously directed individuation is a process that will end, at death, or, as in natural individuation, the ceiling of potential is achieved. In this sense individuation as a conscious goal is a grail of impossible attainment. It ends with life or with your natural limitations. Some can see further than they can attain, and that has to be accepted, rather than regretted. Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@wenmyster]

@@jungtolivebyafterdark So if one consciously individuates vs letting nature take its course automatically, will the former's ceiling be higher than the latter in other words, will the one who consciously individuate be more whole?

[@jungtolivebyafterdark]

Great question @@wenmyster thank you. As potential is personal, then as an outcome, it would only matter that someone achieved it. You raise a very important question, as in my understanding, the only reason to consciously individuate over a natural process, is if you are compelled to, from within. This compulsion is proportionate to your innate potential, and, will inevitably mean that you suffer more than the average, for it. Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@LOGICZOMBIE]

OBRA MAESTRA

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @logiczombie4537, Blessings and Respect to You, Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@LOGICZOMBIE]

very impressive, have you seen the vid for tom macdonald's song "best rapper ever" ? i think it does a great job of illustrating the idea of "integrating the shadow" - i'd post a link to the youtube vid, but it seems like every time i try to post a link to something it gets auto-screened@@JungToLiveBy

[@edgreen8140]

Im getting an education because the grad school i went to did psychoanalytic and the various school but no jungian. But read the dream interpretation.? How come you guys never mention projective identification? Ive heard lectures of people acting like dr. Jeckyl mr. Hyde- i see the splitting and borderline personality organization -kernberg. The narcissist in rage is showing the shadow. I assume people with personality disorders cannot integrate the ego.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thanks Ed Green, for your kind comments. We do mention all the basic psychodynamics across thd channel as a whole. Hope that you enjoy the other videos as much as this one. Kindest Regards, Steve.

[@baljithayre1252]

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[@garf222]

I have tried the link to get the shadow manual several times and I never get the email, checked spam folder also. Anyway to get this?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi, please send an email to [e-mail] and I'll send it manually. Cheers, James

[@jpemery11]

You do great work James. Honestly I preferred the dynamic you had with the Irishman.

[@SelfImageStylist]

Steve: Napoleon mobilized the entire country to do ridiculous things like invade Russia in the winter. Today's headlines: "Stand-off between US and Russia over Ukraine." Yep, in winter.

[@TS-00]

Welcome to entanglement 👁️☯️👁️

[@anakein]

Why do you say entanglement?