Rebirth of the West

[@danielfarchione3076]

As a teacher, of the disciplines of English and Psychology, this will prove immensely useful to heal the culture of the West. The discussion on striving for true experience and becoming a polymath is extraordinary. To simply "do" and not be in a stasis of "thought" and Sisyphus-like waste is key. To learn! It reminds me of Ernest Rossi's emphasis on having a complete sense of "wonder" in the world. This channel deserves more subscribers and listeners. I say this with my heart, Steve - Pauline - James --- you deliver high quality content -- pure art! Getting used to the terminology and the ideas presented is really worth it. It seems that I always learn something, and others here, when you release a video. Your breadth of knowledge and tying into deep meaning, real deep resonance, is something that should spark pride in your eyes. You seem to set free your viewers -- I remember a fantastic quote you said one time in a video and I say this to my students -- "A bad father contains you, a good father sets you free."

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @danielfarchione3076, thank you so very much for your kind words. You have the most important job there is: preparing young people for life; and they are very lucky indeed, to have you as their guide. With our Kindest Regards, and Very Best Wishes, to You, Your Students, and Your Loved Ones. Steve & Pauline

[@kylebrady3651]

How do you detach from having a bad father ?

[@OwenRhoads612]

thank you

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings @owenroads612, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏

[@oddpersona22]

Thank you.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thank You, @oddpersona22, and thankl you too, for your support forr the channel, this past year. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@johnjackson7590]

Taking the right actions is the answer to neurosis because the right actions will give you the right feelings. A brilliant insight from another brilliant video. Thank you Steve, Pauline and James🙏

[@fionaparker]

Taking the right actions is the answer to neurosis because the right actions will give you the right feelings. This totally landed with me too.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @fionaparker, Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @johnjackson7590, thank you so very much for your comment, its really appreciated by all of us. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@kgharvey1]

Denisse my wife is on the individuation journey and very in touch with her instincts. We both watched this video together and not only thoroughly enjoyed it but it also evolved and strengthened our understanding further. As you go from strength to strength it is a real honour to have been one of the first trainees and still be learning from you now. James the video production is fantastic. Steve and Pauline thank you for this wonderful knowledge 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again @kgharvey1, blessings to Denisse and to you and the children, 'Fellow Labourers in the Vineyard, of the Human Soul'. Looking forward to speaking with you once again, very soon. Blessings, Steve & Pauline.

[@smugmonkey6147]

Polymathematical!!!

[@thyself8004]

Thank you for this fantastic conclusion to this profoundly important series of videos. It is so inspiring and humbling to know that there is an intelligence beyond the mind that can be accessed to transform ourselves and the sociocultural fields we inhabit. I, as ego consciousness, need only humble myself and be open to receive this intelligence. The creativity and positive action that results from it is natural and effortless. Thank you for teaching me that not only am I more than my ego, but I am ultimately more than my biology. I am the superpositioning of a transcendent creative process that seeks its own instantiation through me. Now that I have this knowledge, I will act as I must act.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @thyself8004, thank you so much, and if we may, we'd like to acknowledge your very hard work in personal development, which is at a professional level of engagement and competence, which we've been privileged to see. Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@thyself8004]

@@JungToLiveBy Thank you Steve and Pauline, I really appreciate your confirmation and support. I am very excited to be continuing my personal and professional development under your guidance in Cadre 6. Thanks for everything 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @thyself8004, Blessings and Respect, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@savoirfaire6181]

YES! Have been looking forward to this for weeks!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @savoirfaire6181, many thanks for your kind comemnt, and support for th channel. Respect & Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@baljithayre1252]

Thank you for this Confirmation..Stay Blessed 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thank You @baljithayre1252, Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline

[@mrmarten9385]

Awesome, actually a lot of awe :) For my story: I had dissociated a lot from the culture I live in, as a neuro-divergent person I really don't fit in with the culture I live in. Also makes sense why I don't want to contribute a lot to society, but want to humanity. The more I'm the authentic me, the better I can connect with other people, also those with different world views. Something that could never happen when people try to force me to be more like them, so I could 'connect'. I'm glad I stuck to my intuition, and even then the toxic environment nearly killed me by stress, but now I still have myself and I hope I can use my creativity in the right way. I believe human beings are sovereign by nature and we can use the will to power to create community beyond seemingly all encompassing (centralized) power structures and build communities based freedom and love. Freedom of speech and Freedom of thought are essential, if one cannot speak on cannot have a dialogue and if one does not have the freedom of thought on cannot authentically initiate action from intent. My story is just a single instance of us all, we're all being shit tested. I could call my own mind a torture chamber for putting me through al this, but I know my soul cares about me, and wants me to be strong (and caring). As such I could call nature cruel for shit testing, but nature wants us to be strong. I think its doing a great job, for billions of years actually, I'd say that's quite the feat. Through many hardships I believe humanity will reach (close to) our potential, one person at a time. In the darkest depths even the smallest light can shine blindingly bright. From Darkness bring me to Light. Immortality lies not in infinity (per se), but more so the action of now, something other animals instinctively know. I want to use my faculty of reasoning not for endless philosophical mimerings, but to take sensible action into the world (systematic), and my intuition to engender my animal (holistic) understanding (in being and doing) in the world. In diversity and understanding there lies unity (and community). Thank you Steve and Pauline for uploading such important videos. You helped me a lot in my self therapy :)

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings and Respect @mrmarten9385, thank you so very much for sharing your Individuation Journey, its exemplary for us all. With Our Kindest Regards, and Warmest Wishes, Steve & Pauline

[@mrmarten9385]

@@JungToLiveBy Blessings :)

[@95TurboSol]

This one is a bit over my head but thanks as always for putting so much effort into your content 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @95TurboSol, many thanks, and Blessings for You, and for Your Journey, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@smugmonkey6147]

around... the winds, only a sail can be used to ride them. With continued effort and respect, you are creating a vessel that can recieve any and all information. Warmest wishes..

[@redruby8529]

Fascinating and hopeful and reassuring! Thank you.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @redruby8529, thank you for your very kind comment! Blessings, Steve & Pauline.

[@nm-conceptfilms]

Thank you. Feels like I'm one of those, who have to.... Life is relentlessly steering me in this direction, and right now it's getting rather scary.... Old, more personal ways are breaking away, new ones are not yet fully formed.... For a long time it was politics or music (that's what's showing up in my life right now - thats what found me!). The only thing I wonder is, where will I be able to create more change - what suits me, what gives me the fire I need to get through it all? I guess it won't be politics. I won't be able to thrive with the politicians we have at the moment. somehow I know what needs to be changed, but the ways to apply that change are not there yet. I feel freedom and love, but my mind has to rebuild because it is not used to feeling this way and finds a thousand reasons why it can't be. But the feeling stays faithful.... I built my own happiness, I think, and that happened through my own personal myth and the dissolution of it. I don't want to sound like a broken record, but you are great people. You´re helping me a lot at this stage. 🍀🙏🏼 Thank you and all the best

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @baccharifilmproduktion, what great insights you share... Blessings and thanks, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@smugmonkey6147]

Thank you... What you have written here resonates well with my own experience. Cheers! 🙏

[@user-wf6cn7kc6b]

Fantastic video - great explanation and illustration of informational monism, and a very uplifting dialectic. Gives me a lot of hope for my own and the collective future.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @user-wf6cn7kc6b, thanks for your support for the channel, these past 2 years, its very much appreciated. Thanks too, for sharing your insight and understanding. The future belongs to you.... Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@theglimmerman]

Thanks again for the superb video. As someone born and bred in the west but with ancestral heritage in the east, I can see how I have always had this tension between ideas vs experience & action in the world. Looking back on my life thus far, when I have delved too far into ideas I don't feel like myself and lack a zest for life. But when I'm taking action in the world and gaining real life experience, my oh my life is beautiful and I feel like myself and a man who is making his ancestors proud.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings @theglimmerman, thank you for sharing your authentic journey, of individuation. You are a credit to your ancestors. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@VictorHundebll]

Great video. Thank you again for everything you do. I am so hopeful for the future

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @VictorHundebll, thank you, for your kind comment, and for manifesting the 'Field' in Your Life and in the Lives of others. Blessings, Steve & Pauline

[@XtimZ3]

As many others have said, a great and impactful video! James' visuals definitely help in visually/intuitively understanding the content. Near the end, Steve's note on the Western mind needing a layered understanding of the world, versus the Eastern mind needing right feeling and perception in the moment and acting in that context peaked my interest. Something I'll ponder over. As always, my gratitude for sharing these kinds of insights, they're priceless to me. Looking forward to Cadre 6! Cheers!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @XtimZ3, huge thanks, James graphics and narration, have really helped with what are very difficult concepts. Blessings and Respect, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@Yacobo_]

A fantastic finish to a very illuminating series! The discussions and accompanying visuals have been excellent. I resonate deeply with the inspiring vision of a Neo-Rennaissance, which would be vital for these times in which we live. I remember being bothered while studying for my university degree about the emphasis on niche specialization, and a lack of integrated cohesion between fields. So it only reaffirms the feeling that I'm in the right place with regards to my studies in IPSA, by encouraging the ideals of the polymath, creativity, and of the human spirit. Viva la Renaissance!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @Yacobo_, its an honour and privilege to share time and learning with you. Respect and KLindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@nathanwilliams-prince3127]

I've been watching the 1989 Peter Brooks' version of the Mahabharata, and there is a scene in the first episode, before the game of dice, where Krishna is speaking with Bhishma. At the very end of the scene, Krishna says to Bhishma, "let each one go to his limit". The wider context around that line and scene is very relevant, but that line that Krishna spoke stood out to me as being deeply meaningful. It feels as if it strikes the same chord as something Pauline touched on in this JTLB video. At the 30 minute mark, when Pauline talks about a 'katabasis'; when someone hits rock bottom, and that when working therapeutically with someone in that state, that that is a turning point for them, from where they can start to rebuild themselves. I feel that it is up to each of us, if we find ourselves at our limit, to turn towards the direction of life and growth and engage with it dynamically. And as Pauline says, there are also forces at work beyond the ego's limited understanding, that have already been and are continuously constellating, to bring about that healing change, which is hugely reassuring. I feel that there is much hope for the future, and that the healing change is underway, and we all have our own part to play. Thank you James, Steve and Pauline for another wonderful healing video, and for your dedication to humanity and life.

[@janik4684]

A very well-rounded and genuine comment. I felt to acknowledge that as a fellow laborer in the vineyard. While I am aware that this is based on your very personal experience you showcase in this comment your ability for understanding human potential in a very profound way, at least, that is what I resonated with. Thank you Nathan.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings @janik4684

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @nathanwilliams-prince3127, thanks for sharing your personal and professional development, you're on the path of individuation... Respect & Kindest Regaards, Steve & Pauline

[@nathanwilliams-prince3127]

@@janik4684 Thank you Janik, your comment is very touching. It's a privilege to have seen your development and to be along side you in this field.

[@adamandeve1712]

This is a phenomenal video! Beautifully executed James!Where you think you stand determines what you think you see.. once you unpack this , your way of ‘ processing & understanding energy & information opens up & doesn’t collapse!! True creativity is a healing balm for the soul .

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @adamandeve1712, thank you for your very kind comment. James did a great job in implementing the graphics, and in narrating our work. They really do help, in helping others. Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@rus7578]

I’m seeing some incredible changes here in my town. Love you all.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @russellq7578, All our Respect and Warmest Wishes, Steve & Pauline

[@Zach-wr6fw]

Plato seeks Darwin, Darwin conceals Plato The Soul transcends and unites them both I love the new formula!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @Zach-wr6fw. Let the Soul Transcend... Kindest Regards, Steve

[@smugmonkey6147]

Polymathematical!!!

[@ozzycrowley9421]

The visuals on this are great thanks

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @ozzycrowley942, thanks so very muchj, James generated them himself, out from his work in being mentored by us. He did indeed do a great job. watch out for more high level graphic and narration material from him, coming very soon. Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@ozzycrowley9421]

Cool to hear they’re damn impressive and engaging lol👍🏿

[@newcures7813]

Great video! Thank you all! Yes, I really appreciate what Pauline is saying around ~31:00. Very hopeful! And Steve’s attire reminds be a bit of Han Solo, which is fitting when it comes to galactic matters :) - Yes, yes - India has much to teach the West! Much respect to each of you. God bless and Namaste 🙏

[@fionaparker]

What Pauline said at 31.00, had me in floods of tears. The good kind of tears. Heart break, that breaks a heart OPEN.

[@newcures7813]

@@fionaparker - 🙏❤️☯️

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thank you so much @fionaparker, Blessings and Warmest Wishes, Pauline

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @newcures7813, thanks for your ongoing support for the chnnel and our work, and for the note on sartorial -in-elegence! Blessings and Namaste, from Steve & Pauline

[@newcures7813]

@@JungToLiveBy - haha - I always thought Han had a good style. And you both were obviously confirmed by “Jedi” “princesses” :) - You and your JTLB family are awesome! God bless 🙏

[@nuni6158]

1:15:05 I haven't thought about singularity in this way. So, being dropped in the middle of the split actually separates one from the position where one might act the right way, to feel the right way, in a meaningful relatedness to other people. ... ok, I think I've been fighting shadows, could somehow recognize the complex, but not let go - and once again, I feel like a fool (in a wholesome way). Thank you all very much.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @nuni6158, there’s much wisdom to unpack from what you’ve shared. Blessings and Respect, Steve & Pauline

[@nuni6158]

​@@JungToLiveBy 🙏🏻

[@smugmonkey6147]

@@JungToLiveBy The gravity can be felt.

[@darkeravocado6598]

Thank you for this discussion and series. You really are a beacon of light for those looking to act according to their fundamental nature, to the best of their abilities. Inspiring as always!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @darkeravocado6598, thank you so very much for your kind comment. Respect to You, and for Your Journey, Steve & Pauline

[@juicebox2780]

I remember a period of my life where I often would let my neurosis decide over me. One day during that time I was gonna attend a certain event and I did not want to go because of this neurosis. Then from nowhere a thought entered my head. Do it for Darwin. haha. If I could ''beat'' this neurosis, humanity would be one tiny bit stronger. I went to the event at it went really well. At that time I looked at neurosis in the same way as having a broken leg or whatever. So i look at it differently now that I know more about why neuroses exist. But It still made a mark on me. One of the subjects discussed in this video reminded me very much about that. A powerful message. A huge thanks to all of you for the great content you share.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi, @juicebox2780, thanks for sharing your hard earned insights, they'll be of benefit to us all. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@paulmessis1094]

Same thing happened to me.... when I reluctantly left my house I first met my now wife.

[@iHomer0007]

Incredible, deeply informative video and a great conclusion to this series. James' talent for presenting and communicating the IPSA model, its concepts and the dynamics between them was shining throughout this series. The original visualizations really brought them to life and made the following dialectic more readily accessible. This series has been paced wonderfully, allowing the viewer to go through the process of acquiring understanding by facing this challenging and pressing topic and putting in the work to unpack the depth hidden in every minute. The first half has been very hard-hitting, it was not easy to face and digest but certainly necessary, shocking the ego into awareness of the seriousness of the situation. When the second half came around, the energy noticably shifted towards the more generative and creative, joyful side. Arriving at the final episode five months later felt like completing a journey, arriving home where everything comes together. It almost felt like rehearsing, on an individual level, what we are going through as a culture collectively. Many thanks and deepest gratitude, it's truly a pleasure to be able to learn from IPSA. 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @iHomer0007, James has done a brilliant job in animated graphics and narration. Thank you for sharing, you're part of that future that is taking its shape in the present. This world needs good, people... Kindest Regards, and Warmest Wishes, Steve & Pauline

[@thegreatgriff]

I absolutely loved this, all of it. I have deeply resonated with this entire series; thanks again JTLB team!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @thegreatgriff, thanks so very much for your feedback, it really helps motivate the team. Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@chowchebi]

Didn't expect to see a 2001 reference in the thumbnail. Excited to watch. My body is ready 🤙

[@smugmonkey6147]

The meaning!!! The meaning is intense...

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @smugmonkey6147, Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again @chowchebi, a rebirth of that magnitude symbolizes the enatiodromia that must come. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@janik4684]

Thank you. There is a lot of meaning in this. As a student to this day, a lot of concepts and ideas have not been new to me, some I was familiar with even before that. While certain realisation were gifted to me earlier in time, as well, what is important is that those realisation resurfaced again, as they have been lost, and now made consious again to my reflective ego. It speaks to the fact that there are many ways to Rome, or I guess Athens, Kalkuta or New Dehli, figuratively speaking. In all of this trust in the field, yourself and in the relation thereof and the people you share it with, is what really matters though. As emphasized in this dialectic, I certainly agree that creativity can take many forms, and that every individual person has the potential to do so (according to their capacity), if an indidvual allows it, that is. Personally, I find this quite liberating to know. That being said, to convey such depth in a video and to project enough space for others, so they can draw their own conclusion certainly speaks for your experience, insights, and your humanistic values you live by. Thank you Steve, Pauline & James for sharing that here on this platform.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @janik4684, its been our privilege to watch you on your individuation journey. Respect and Kindest regards, Steve & Pauline

[@jamesmchugh9943]

I have been checking nearly every day for this. This channel has an almost uncanny understanding. I think it was Harold Bloom that said to read Tolstoy is to find out way back home, I think JTLB is of the same ilk . …. Basically it’s it’s very good 😊 Thank you James

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thanks you, @jamesmchugh9943, that's very kind of you to comment, Respect & Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@robertc-w2027]

This was wonderful to watch, a very fitting conclusion to an incredible series of videos. May the Renaissance of today bring light to those seeing only darkness, unite in the warmth of love those feeling alone and invisible, and fill the lungs of the world with the clean air of new life. Let's keep living.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Thank You, @robertc-w2027, we look forward to meeting with you again, very soon. Blessings, Steve & Pauline

[@savoirfaire6181]

Epic! Wow what a sublime production. All three of you did such an amazing job on this piece of pure human communication and art! It was worth the wait. I was waiting this whole month knowing you would do something like this next and I was glowing the entire time I watched it and now afterwards like a child on Christmas morning. Besides the big picture perspective which was so helpful as a tie together, I particularly enjoyed the discussion about art, creativity and how that creates an underlying rapport and influence with others who are looking for these answers. The type of big picture thinking which you are giving here is substantial comfort which can undergird the work of allowing those who are tapping into their creativity to reach out to others and bringing rapport to them so that as many stray lives as possible coalesce into the rebirth of the Neo-Renaissance. I will speak of it as something going to happen because I for one would give my life to it and for it and many others must also feel the same!! For I and the land are one!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again @savoirfaire618, thank you so very much for your detailed and informative comment. Fellow labourer, in the Vineyard of the Human Soul, Respect & Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@michaelchan9874]

Thanks for this insightful wrap-up episode. It's given me a much needed kick to get on with finishing my personal animated short film. ACTION allied with the field is key. In my own life it has been the case many times that what I needed to do to move forward was to STOP THINKING and JUST DO IT. The body knows what is good, but oh, what a fight the mind will put up at times! Speaking of compensatory creativity being the solution, your Lilith novel and its drama (got myself a hard copy) has been pivotal to helping me help my friend reconnect with his own meta-instincts who was struggling as the "Adam" in his own life. The way it played out was almost TOO synchronistic in that he came to me with the exact same problem your Adam character had so soon after I had myself just finished the novel! The line between mythology and reality is indeed very thin sometimes, which makes sense, given that the most enduring mythologies are simultaneously the most "real". Cheers and keep up the good work. Would love to see an episode on your thoughts on Hinduism if that is something you're inclined to do. :)

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @michaelchan9874, thank yo uso very much for your kind and thoughtful comment, and also for reading 'Lilith'. Its good to know that its helping people, through the insight and humanity of someone like yourself. We have a huge respect for the Hundu Dharma and civilization, and its certainly something we should do soemthing about on the channel. Namaste, Steve & Pauline

[@lbzorz]

Wow- just wow. I dont even know what to say. This is the most genuinely insigtful and profound video I have ever watched. (I have been following you guys for years and James since the days with boyo)

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @lbzorz, thank you for sharing your very kind comment, and for your long-time support of the channel. James has come a long way, and it shows, what dedication, hard work and true calling can achieve. Blessings and Respect, with our Warmest Wishes, Steve & Pauline

[@yanihariche5822]

This is not to suggest that the videos & discussions that will follow from this one will be of lesser quality or anything of the kind, but this could easily be the Magnum Opus of Jung To Live By. At least it felt like it for me during the whole interaction. I mean even Steve pulled up a shiny outfit for the occasion XD. I cannot thank you enough for all your work, at least verbally. So I guess the only way is through living fully. By action. It is an honor to have crossed your way. Hope we can all meet someday. My kindest regards for all the team 🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @yanihariche5822, thank you so very much for your kind and heartfelt comment. You are a 'Fellow Labourer, in the Vineyard, of the Human Soul.' Respect & Warmest Wishes, Steve & Pauline

[@Hanipingo]

I can say the same thing. I had to stop the video on the middle because it was so inspiring that I went to do important stuff. I even watched some Sheldrake's videos to add more context and understanding. I came back to watch the other half just now

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @Hanipingo, your motivation is itself inspiring, Respect & Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@marcco44]

this is very good...... it will take me multiple viewings to fully digest this💥💫🙏

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @marcco44, thanks for your support and very kind comment, Our Warmest Wishes to you, Pauline & Steve

[@marcco44]

@@JungToLiveBy no THANK YOU, for providing a great service to humanity, and for helping all of us seekers out here!!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings & Respect, for You and For Your Journey, Kindest Regaards, Steve & Pauline

[@tuwheratiaihaka2744]

Beautiful way to conclude this series but lead on to the new renaissance period that we’re entering into. The history behind the Mycenaeans Bronze Age leading to Greek Athens and the Hellenistic Period. To the Dark Ages leading to the Renaissance period. We’re hopefully walking out of The Great Wars from WW1 and WW2, COVID-19, Russia and Ukraine to hopefully the start of a new period that has personally inspired to help my creative works and life so far. A lot of interesting things involving Peter Brooks: Mahabharata about Action-In-The-World talked about. And with the Darwin and Plato equation. Many respects again team ❤️

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings @tuwheratiaihaka2744, you're studying all the right things, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@truesovereignself]

I really feel you three have some of the best content out there. May I make a request that you do some live events in the U.K., I would love to be in the energy of these conversations.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @truesovereignself. thank yo usoe very much for your kind comment, and suhggestion. I'm sure that we can arrange something alomg those lines. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@truesovereignself]

@@JungToLiveBy I'm only in Cheshire so we’re practical neighbourhood (ish). I feel a move towards a Renaissance period would require people to gather in the flesh. ✨

[@franksveg328]

I've been watching JTLB for some time now and I really resonate with the things they say. This week I've been searching to find a way to put into words my own feelings towards this narrative of decline and collapse that are being pushed by mainstream and alternative media, my freinds and so on go on about the doom. I have been rejecting this doom narrative in myself and couldn't quite put my finger on why, why dosent it sit well with me, who or what does this story of the death of western culture serve? Well this video gives voice to the feeling I have that I need to reject the catabolism and live in a positive feild form. Thank you for the hard work you've put in to make these ideas into something understandable.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @franksveg328, thank you so much for sharing your insight, its very helpful for us all, to ponder and reflect upon. With Our Kindest Regards, and Warmest Wishes, Steve & Pauline

[@Παθεια_Γνωστικα]

Btw, there is series «Mahabharat» (2013), that might be useful and more accessible to people. Also, I want to share another thing about Indian culture, that also may be in handy. Recently I've watched some Indian films and I've found out that they are more positive, than modern Western cinema. There is a hope there and even more accessible to people, than reading ancient texts, that some may hard to do. And even such films teach something, not going into nihilistic area or with that feeling of doom and gloom. Even characters transform throughout the films, even some that was deluded or tainted with the «dark side». In the Western cinema it would be depicted as something different and without that transformation. And probably I'd say that I've felt more often warmth from such films, that is lacking in the Western cinema. Also, historically, there have been already two waves of Indian influence. One was with the translating of Mahabharat, the second - during 60s (Prabhupada, Osho, etc; even the word «karma» today is a common thing, so as «charkas», which is kinda interesting). I suspect the Indian cinema might be the third way of influencing, because it is quite accessible (especially today) and requires less attention (anecdotally I'd say that you may find yourself forgetting about time, while watching this). Plus, there is hope therein and light, which is rarely/not often found in the Western cinema with its nihilistic tendencies. The other point is that they embrace their culture, not saying «it's toxic» or something else. And new tendencies of the Western world are either nonexistent or have less recognition at all, which means they are closer to nature and further from artificiality. Here was also mentioned «The Fisher King». I remember there was a film by Terry Gilliam, which had the same name. I remember even that the character portrayed by Robin Williams has something archaic (?), those old expressions and words. I don't know, but what if it is a crude depiction of the «king without a kingdom» (because in the film there was something about it, as far as I remember). I don't remember vividly, but it is an interesting reference in the media to that legend.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again @penumbrumobscurum1970, many thanks for your post and your suggestion re that other version of the Mahabarata. I'm very familiar wioth Peter Brooks version, and have had it on VHS since 1990, and am very pleased to see that its viewable these days on KZbin. The zeitgeist in Western cinema is catabolic, which in the long run is uinsustainable to itself. Let's see what the artists make of these times, the changes will appear in their work, and indeed so will the catabolic attempts at preventing that change. Kindest Regards, Steve

[@Παθεια_Γνωστικα]

@@JungToLiveBy Hello! Thanks for the reference, it will be interesting to see. Haven't heard about that film. I think it's not only unsustainable, but more self-destructing and enjoying this process. Smells like «metaphysical masochism». The changes are inevitable, I presume. And I'm quite positive it will be in the right direction, because obviously lost of people are «fed up» with that decline. Thanks for your reply! Hope you're doing well!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @penumbrumobscurum1970, thanks for sharing your considered and thoughtful response. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@smugmonkey6147]

Awareness of the creativity that we, as a part of our shared human experience, is a wonderful gift, and it is clear that this is what you all at Jung to Live by wish for the culture at large. Encouraging examination of self/experience is and will be an example to meet, and with any luck, surpass, for all of us. To give what you have given to so many, according to our own potential and achievement of relating. Cheers again! 🙏 P.S. Best of wishes to you all. May the organization continue to grow and become even more resilent against the apparent tides. 💗

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @smugmonkey6147, thank you so much for your kind words, the whole teams send their best wishes, Kindest Regaatrds, Steve & Pauline

[@brandis3309]

This is beautiful. Thank you all again.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @brandis3309, thank you for your kind words, Warmest Wishes, Pauline and Steve

[@神キラー]

I would love a video exploring which levels of the stack are being hit during different levels of concentration and awareness in meditation. For example, zazen vs vipassana vs just baseline contemplation.

[@JungToLiveBy]

That’s be an interesting video to do, thank you for the suggestion, Kindest Regards, Steve and Pauline 🙏🙏

[@c.stoddard313]

Just as excellent as the others from this series - awesome and very inspirational work, guys. 48:10 "You and the land are one." From personal experience on my own path, this could very well be interpreted as the individuals perception of their outside world. An empowered perception leads to empowered action.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again @c.stoddard313, thanks so very much for your kind comment, and continuing support for the channel these past five months. They're really apprciated, Warmest Wishes, Pauline & Steve

[@derauserwahlte8004]

@@JungToLiveBy When will the renessaince happen? When will times change?

[@traceywright7790]

I am curious what the team makes of the militant anti abortion movement taking place in the USA? One group even calling for the death penalty for women who get an abortion. A reaction to falling birth rate?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @traceywright7790, thankl you so much for your comment. Its a topic we really should address, as soon as we can, in a future video. Warmest Wishes, Pauline & Steve

[@qendrimsyla6495]

1:15:00- beautiful

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @qendrimsyla6495, Blessings, and thanks, Steve & Pauline

[@NoahC-r8s]

Hey team, thank you for the excellent dialectic. Steve mentioned an author for Mahabharata that I wasn’t able to successfully find. Peter brore? I was hoping the team could clarify that for me. Thank you again, may we never underestimate the strength of true human potential.

[@JungToLiveBy]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/fHvalYCqatOgg7c. 👍🙏

[@IanBrink-zk1nj]

That was beautiful, thanks guys. Hope everyone is doing well. I felt “right” while listening, and often felt a resonance that very simply just felt good. I feel that the chaos on the outside can certainly amplify/agitate what is happening inside. But listening there cuts very nicely through the noise and brings you back to that space which is deep and reliable.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings, @IanBrink-zk1nj, great to hear from you. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@aryanz66]

Can you talk about the east too? Let me explain. The crises that are happening in the west, are also happening here. The young generations here, have the same problems, and they are driven by the same aspirations. The only difference is that the older generations (50 and above, the boomers) are not as flexible as the older generations in the west, they're more rigid and older, and most of them haven't even reached the typical post-modern aspirations of the west. Now this makes for a peculiar situation, whereby the difference between generations is quite in your face. Do you have anything to say about this topic?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @aryanthenongamer3693. homeostasis, and the challenges it brings at a cultural 'field' level, are world-wide. This continuous turn-over is the energetic and informational drive-state of the human species, set aginst the demands of a Darwinian evolutionary dynamic, that is itself nested within a wider ontological field. In that sense, things are as they must be, and its up to indioviduals and then to the cultures themselves, to rise to the challenge. Kindest Regards, Steve

[@dwifred472]

Transcend polarity through action. Powerful.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @dwifred472, its the 'way of adaptation' Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@okay8202]

Dear complexes, I know you well enough to not know you. Thank you!

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @okay8202, Blessings and Respect, to You, and for Your Journey. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@oliverhill84]

Hi James from 2:00 - 4:00 I find this material quite complicated. Is there anywhere I could get a head start on this or is there a certain format in your videos where I should start from to get a better understanding?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @oliverhill84, thanks for your support for the channel, this past year. If you look over the last six videos, the 'Terminal Lucidity' and 'Rebirth' combined series, there's a lot in there, but much of the material is covered in our Discord Server, as well as in the work of others who have contributed through their own research or clinical experience. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline.

[@user-kw9hg9o]

In the context of us not having an effect on the OWF, is whatever ends up happening inevitable, then? Does the answer depend on the level of analysis? I read a comment from Steve on the discord, where he says the choices individuals make potentially influence the ultimate fate of the field of the world. Which sounds like a polarity, if you'd like. Nice video, by the way.

[@JungToLiveBy]

We do have an effect on the Objective Wave Form. However, the collapse of the Objective Wave Form into personal reflexive consciousness, which is the Subjective Wave Form (SWF) does not reduce or otherwise change the OWF, other than superposition that part of the OWF that has collapsed from the OWF, into simultaneous representation in both the OWF and the SWF. Action by individual subjective consciousness, does contribute to the OWF, which is the totality of the informational field. As explained in the video, the Wave ‘Form’ is not the Wave ‘Function’ of quantum mechanics. A well known celebrity psychologist in conversation with someone about quantum mechanics, suddenly started to use the term Wave-Form instead of Wave-Function, despite being corrected. It seems he had picked up the notion of the Wave-Form from somewhere, and then repeatedly parapraxed it out of context despite contextual correction.

[@smugmonkey6147]

@@JungToLiveBy That... is... wonderfull

[@lislelisle5453]

Thank you for your channel 🙏🏼 😊

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @lislelisle5453, and thank you, in return, for your kind comment and support. Blessings, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏

[@marcelobellotti3640]

This has been a great series of videos, I waited this one eagerly. Im from the global south, west but not necessarily civlizationally west. I kind of see "history" happening and resolving arround there, as we are like a perifery watching and following the shifts en the center to some extent. I kind of get your social commentary, but without examples given (for obvious reasons) i feel i dont quite get it, trully, deeply. I agree with steve, hindu philosophy is the most ?enjoyable profund? And clear world and consciousness vision and study i have encounter, the bhagavd guita being for me paramount (a great summary maybe). I also keep an eye on mordern "spiritual teachers", recently on Eckhart Tolle, and i get the feel that he points to the same thing you are trying to point with the "going deeper method" of meta instincts, incticts, and the platonic world. On the topic of the planc scale i had a hard time understanding its role your model, until a few days i recalled the 9th I-Ching Hexagram, "The taming power of the small". I would really appreciate if you could comment on that or point me tosome resources. Lastly, I've got to say, every time the face of Nicolas Cage between Steve and Pauline surprises, amuses and distracts me for a little while 😂. Thank you for all you are, do and share

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @marcelobellotti3640, thank you for sharing your profound and very helpful insights, they'll be an important help to many. Thank you too for the suggestion re the I-Ching, which coincidentally, was where I first encountered Jung's work, in the foreword to the Richard Wilhelm translation, back in 1973. With Our Kindest Regards, and Warmest Wishes, Steve & Pauline

[@ejenkins4711]

I often wonder if einstine was the beginning of the end of the christian era?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @ejenkins471, he was certainly the end of the 'Newtonian' era in science, albeit that his work built upon Newton, rather than replaced it, completely. Thank you for your comment, its very much appreciated, Kindest Regards, Steve

[@Spectre2434]

❤❤❤

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @Spectre2434, thanks for your support for the channel and our work these past 3 years. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@rabidL3M0NS]

What are meta-instincts? Do you happen to have a video on the subject?

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @rabil4MONS, we will have a video coming out in Meta-Instincts in a few weeks. Meanwhile our new video on “Complexes Explained” contains some graphics and narration that you may find useful. Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@rabidL3M0NS]

@@JungToLiveBy Ah brilliant! Thank you Steve!

[@ozzycrowley9421]

🙏🏿🙏🏿✍🏿

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings @ozzycrowley9421Kindest Regatrds, Steve & Pauline

[@c.stoddard313]

Any chance of these more recent videos being put up in audio format via podcast streaming platforms (Spotify, Google, etc.)?

[@JungToLiveBy]

We could, but they’d lose a lot without the graphics. I’ll ask James.

[@prometheus-lt9lo]

I'm curious if you read peter kingsley's catafalque. did you already talk about it in a video? (I couldn't find anything)

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @prometheus-lt9lo, many thanks for the suggestion, I haven't read it, but will put it on a list to do so. Kindest regards, Steve

[@timothypotts3913]

I would love to hear the commentary on the latest Tik Tok trend of women asking their partners how often they think about the Roman empire.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi, @timothypotts3913, thanks for your continuing support for the channel these past two years, its very much appreciated. Regarding the Roman Empire, 25 years ago, Pauline and I were making the 'prediction' that the collective-West, would very likely go the way of the Western Roman Empire, in the 4th and 5th centuries AD, unless an 'enantiodromia' were to set in. Not a difficult prediction, if you're informed by Jungian Depth Psychology, and an appropriate understanding of history. This current Tik Tok trend, will have a generating dynamic outside of the 'collective-consciousness' of those that manifest it. The 'superpositioning' of 'consciousness' extends beyond the Ego, even the 'collective' Ego, as it originates at the level of the collective-field, of the human genome - that is: it is a species-wide, field-resonant phenomenon; subject to 'testing' at the Darwinian register, of 'homeostasis'. Its surface manifestation, locally collapsed into Tik Tok, is orchestrated by a specific part of the dynamic principle of homeostasis - that which is reified (personified) as 'The Trickster'. The opportunity for self-correction, at the individual and collective level, is that which the Trickster conceals within parody, irony, and the invitation to self-delete, at all (scale invariant) individual and cultural levels of resolution. Like in the analysis of Botticelli's Venus, Primavera and Athena-Pallas, art,, what you get, is far more than what you see. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@timothypotts3913]

@@JungToLiveBy Thank you so much for that detailed response, so much insight in there!

[@JungToLiveBy]

@timothypotts3913 - Blessings and Respect to You, and for Your Journey, Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline

[@Wholly_Fool]

Love it. It would be cool if you guys did a vid on animal symbolism in dreams... and start with the rooster! 😉

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi again, @LexicontraArtist, thanks for the suggestion, I'll mention it to the team. Kindest Regards, Steve

[@mrpedv]

Thank you for this, very insightful. So there is always the objective waveform operating in the individual, which experiences the world through the collapsed subjective waveform. And you say it is important to restore the platonic field, which lies in the shadow of the evolutionary drives of Darwin. And as I understand it, the collapse into the subjective waveform can vary depending on the individual, but it can rever be restored completely right? because of our ego consciousness and its +\- 7 chunks. I think we can expand our experience by being very engaged with what is happening, either through movement or meditation, paying attention to the stillness. But this platonic field, im guessing, cannot be experienced? I can, by understanding it theoretically and then by trying to observe the cultural forces around me, as well as the forces leading up till now in my life, try to consciously align myself to what I understand as my genomic potential. not inflating, but elevating consciously with homeostasis. not only by paying attention to my instinctual drives, but also working through my complexes and how they have evolved relation to my social environment and culture. by really doing this, I can see how that will change my direction in life, and I can act more as a mature man in this world. It's like my complexes are friction trying to contract my existence both psychologically and physically through my breath and muscles, by holding on through tension. And so many forces around me wants me to keep misdirecting my instincts, blocking them, so no wonder why most people are not on this path. If I do this work (which Im doing) Im guessing my subjective waveform will not uncollapse so that I experience the whole objective waveform (cause this cannot be possible?), but rather by understanding the full context and all the forces involved, my conscious limited self can attempt to align with my genomic self, find sturdy ground in my masculine essence, and relate better to myself and the world. What is the relationship between the objective waveform and the unconscious? I think my biggest obstacle is internal projections. these very subtle reactions in my mind, that I can get caught up in. I see them. And from wedding my anima and looking into my through-line, I think I understand why I "made" them, but I find it challenging to really let them go completely. They feel automatic. I wonder if not being able to let go of them is a result of me not understanding my complexes enough, or if it is more about my attention in the present. But im aware that this is a process and progressive understanding and patience is needed, picking up one piece at the time. So is the genome playing a trick on the culture with the goal of homeostasis? Is it like an experiential riddle where the bravest and most intelligent will survive? Does it want everybody to get the "trick" it is playing on us or is the goal to reduce the population? Let's say everybody really became conscious of this and aligned with their instincts and we created a culture where the masculine and the feminine could exist in harmony in the context for each other, would that be a good thing? or would the genome flip the script and then get at us in a more subtle way. Im not a biologist but it looks like the earth overall has lost homeostasis, with humans as the mob. Is the genome aware of the culture? maybe it is not aware of it in the sense of understanding our cultural content through language and so on, but instead aware of the abstract tidal forces within the fields. so that it does not know about the idea of cancel culture for example but blindly senses the frustration and disconnection from the masculine\feminine ground. I feel like in the essence of all this is a battle between intelligence or instinct and the intellect and cognition. We invest so much into ignoranse and exploitation of attention that even if all the theory is understood, there is still a challenge grounding it in experience. Keep it up.

[@firstandlastnme9226]

As for political therapists, are you by chance referring to the "daily wire man"

[@JungToLiveBy]

No, it refers to the way that the mainstream in Jungian analysis, has become largely politically polarized in accordance with a contemporary catabolic dynamic. Jung would have recognised the collective pychological infection that has beset his legacy. Kindest Regards, Steve

[@smugmonkey6147]

@@JungToLiveBy Jung, As well as Henri Ellenberger.

[@aryanz66]

You guys would love John Vervaeke 👍

[@JungToLiveBy]

I understand that he’s familiar with our work Kindest Regards, Steve🙏

[@homo-sapein8091]

Great insights overall, but one thing (towards the end of the show) that I think can be misleading is the part that anyone can be a POLYMATH. I think the universe (Platonic Field) splits itself down the stream into different ‘entities’ (Instincts/Genes/Egos) for a reason and in splitting itself generates the variety of ‘talents’ we experience as different Personalities. As such not everyone then can be Creative polymath. Being a polymath has its limitations, Otherwise rich parents would nurture their kids into polymaths, except no matter how they try, many rich kids don’t become polymaths even when the resources and encouragement is there. I don’t think the genes are interested in making everyone a creative. Some people need to be and play the role of being practical/pragmatic, others compassionate, etc.

[@JungToLiveBy]

Hi @homo-sapein8091, if being a 'polymath' is modelled as being a (statistical) elitism, but if its about optimizing a bandwidth of potential beyond that which a given environment has fostered, or indeed has inhibited, then the aspiration to 'Individuate' in the Jungian sense, will give the best opportunity to develop as someone who is 'educated' (in the broadest sense) across the whole bandwidth of that potential. As a 44 year experienced psychotherapist, and as the parent of a special-needs daughter, I've seen 'polymaths' at many registers of attainment, and seen it as measured against Jung's ideal of 'Individuation' as being isomorphically correspondent. Individuation isn't 'elite', in that statistical sense, so beloved of academics, and neither is the drive and aspiration to become a polymath in our own context. Thank you for your comment. Kindest Regards, Steve

[@Jazzyu24153]

What a fantastic video. The statement “ we should all be polymaths and autodidacts” is such a freeing expression. It seems if people follow this path, they will be free from the polarization and constraints of trying to fit others ideas and molds and live a more authentic life which benefits the field as a whole Thank you for making this videos guys. And PS great question and inquiry James 🤟🫡

[@JungToLiveBy]

Blessings @Jazzyu24153, thanks for your comment and support for the channel. Kindest Regards, Steve & Pauline 🙏🙏