Slender Threads: A Conversation with Jungian Analyst and author Robert A. Johnson

[@CamiDiscerns]

I Can't get over the connection I experienced while hearing him speak, every word has a purpose, and nothing spoken lacks essence, it's not just depth but accuracy... I've never heard another spell my reflections out, flawlessly to this degree, thoughts that I couldn't equate into any worth with my words. Genuinely a life-changing man. I'm so happy and grateful.

[@Melinabellisima]

Very well-written

[@don-eb3fj]

Same here, I couldn't relate more. We could all learn a lot from this man, and would do well for ourselves to do so and I wish I had become acquainted with him much sooner. I knew of Robert L. Johnson, the blues guitarist who "sold his soul to the Devil" at the crossroads (and that in itself is an intriguing symbolic synchronicity in my personal context), but I had never seen a photo or even heard of THIS Robert (A) Johnson; nevertheless this was inexplicably the man I had met eyes with at the foot of a stair in a dream the night before this video showed up in my feed. Call it an anticipatory or revelatory dream, a psychotic event, deja-vu, or a case of post-facto psychological transposition...choose your semantic framework, I WISH I could make something like this up. Either way, as syncronicity would have it, I found the teacher I need - "When the student is ready, the teacher will come". I wish I had met him in life, but I will settle for meeting him in his work...and perhaps again in dreams.

[@Ark_bleu]

27:48 “Alcoholics are very spiritual people- they just have the wrong spirits.” -CG Jung

[@robertforrester578]

I'll drink to that. Not! 29 years sober. -Philadelphia

[@kathleenfitzgerald50]

Carl Jung knew what us Alcoholics needed.. A spiritual awakening 🙏🙂✨

[@BushyHairedStranger]

I’ve lost two very close friends to Alcohol Addiction. Noah & Monty were deeply Spiritual and deeply loving friends. Noah died of liver failure-age 46, Monty died age 49, liver failure. Priests of the Ethereal…

[@suesjoy]

@@BushyHairedStrangerI considered myself spiritual whilst doing AA, but it took me ten years to finally turn my will over to the care of God. Now I am very secure in my sobriety. I am so sorry to hear about your friends. I’ve lost two beloved friends to alcoholism as well.

[@willcifur]

This man has acquired sacred knowledge .. there has been a transformation in him that can’t be transmitted with our current words. I think that might be one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard... Thank you for posting this .. 🖤

[@lizafield9002]

This is so well said. It's like it rang a temple bell in you that resonates with Dr Johnson & his noble devotee interviewer here. You have gotta be a kindred spirit of these good souls. Thank you.

[@andreafisherwriter]

Beautifully said… 🙏

[@guruaiyar796]

This is pure gold. Priceless. To my mind, after Buddha, it was Jung who has unveiled the human being. Robert Johnson is Jung's flagbearer. Unmatched brilliance.

[@krisscanlon4051]

Yes! This is exactly how I feel for these last few years of a 11 year journey of emotional sobriety

[@toscazraikat4924]

I love listening to Robert Johnson. He didn't write many books, but those he did are gems of Jungian wisdom interpreted through the mind of this wise, humble, sincere man. This is really a wonderful interview, in which R. Johnson tells more about his own experience than I have ever heard before. Thank you.

[@danielantunes1060]

I dont know if you know Barbara Hannah, one of Jungs closest co workers, shes brilliant, here is a video of her, the only one i know of kzbin.info/www/bejne/oILbiJiqarZqg6c.

[@robertforrester578]

@@danielantunes1060 My name is Robert from Philadelphia Area. The west coast Jungians have removed your link directing to a video with Barbara Hannah citing copy right issues. You know and I know and the West Coasters know that you were being kind and sharing your suggestion regarding Ms. Hannah. It makes one wonder what Barbara would have thought about such a legal exercise. Or Dr. Jung for that matter. Anyway, can you suggest another way to get to the video which you were suggesting. Thanks for your help.

[@reecemchale]

I have watched this interview several times and each time i walk away enriched. The interview reveals more to me as I evolve. Robert and his quiet wisdom is such a gift to the world.

[@heidikeller50]

True, studied psychologists have so much to give us. Wow ("Wow" being yet just another inadequate word). Also, this is someone who experienced the heights and depths of human experience; here, sent back to us by only a slender thread... Thank you.

[@scathatch]

Neither of them have ever given birth.....

[@therapistforsensitiveandgi5927]

Thank you for posting this. My soul has been blessed by this.

[@FightingCharlie]

This is a valuable and important talk. I will be revisiting again and again.

[@timelessperspective]

You might like my video of Robert A. Johnson then. It's called, touched by god.

[@advocate1563]

Jung was a f**king genius. The wisdom is like a boundless sea.

[@fezs9027]

I concur

[@JohnLoty]

Appreciation - yes I want to express my deep gratitude for the opportunity to listen and learn (so much) from both participants in this "conversation". Thank you for posting it and thank you, Robert A Johnson, and J. Pittman McGehee. This listening and learning (reflecting on what has been said), I hope, will help me play my assigned individual role in the world's evolving consciousness.

[@najbrzi28]

Absolutely , awesome and amazing....both of them ❤💯🙏😇!!!!

[@360fitgymdevinsherrington]

Absolutely stunning. I accidentally clicked on this, and watched 1 hour immediately without turning away, which is unnormal for me when viewing anything online. Simply spectacular. This deserves 1+ million views. Just finished it to the end, I'll definitely listen again.

[@aresmars2003]

I've never heard Robert Johnson talk before - what a great interview! I'm glad he was open to 3 hours!

[@mariajimenez8803]

Im watching this interview little by little for I don’t want it to end! I love looking at Robert Johnson’s beautiful face and expressions and the tempo of his word. I appreciate the slow rhythm of Q&A. Touching. Soothing.

[@dukepsota]

Thank you. Robert was a friend of a friend. And a video with this intimacy means a lot.

[@Me_ThatsWho]

Dr Johnson's humility is quite apparent. His wisdom is equally apparent. Makes me want to re-read every one of his books.

[@randysiegel8584]

Thank you! What. a gift to spend time with Robert and you.

[@robertomelgar758]

To who ever posted this... Thank you for your kindness God bless you your and love ones

[@GatticaKid]

I’ve watched this video again and again, this may be the most detailed conversation I’ve heard about Jungian psychology and the importance of the religious function.

[@rationalmystic5]

His voice and personality calm me down. Check out his lecture on the stages of life.

[@leilareginaleite3644]

So have I🙏

[@Striogiuks]

Same here 🙏

[@auggiemarsh8682]

@@rationalmystic5 I can’t find it on KZbin. Do you have a link?

[@fezs9027]

@@rationalmystic5 link ?

[@1kenneth1985]

Such a treat on so many levels. Many Thanks for making this available! Appreciate this conversation deeply and have shared the link/video with a good number of interested friends of like-minded hearts.

[@mrthirdeyeching]

Embodiment of the wise old man. Great writer. Great man. Thanks for sharing this intimate conversation with the world.

[@correioanacabral]

Darling man and tremendous contribution to the world.

[@elusiveeagle8597]

Robert was a wonderful person indeed, making intelligible Jung's ideas. However Jung himself had many spiritual blind spots, as do most of us. Fortunately, the real Work of self discovery is always available for those who need it.

[@Pilgrimsrummet]

@@elusiveeagle8597 Which spots you thinking of?

[@elusiveeagle8597]

@@Pilgrimsrummet he tried to reinvent the wheel, while at the same time there were wheels up and running.

[@Pilgrimsrummet]

@@elusiveeagle8597 What you thinking of particularly?

[@elusiveeagle8597]

@@Pilgrimsrummet some of the zen and sufi schools in the east.

[@knowsutrue]

This interview was my companion this weekend and had me reflecting and deeply considering my perspectives on love and religiosity. I forwarded it to my son. Really wonderful content. Thank you.

[@maritlebliss]

So much gratitude for this, just what I needed tonight.

[@yanbibiya]

I'm glad someones biography gave you a good feeling

[@danielantunes1060]

A new channel dedicated to Jung, happy to see that, i look forward to see what you come up with. Thank you!

[@danielantunes1060]

Thank you so so much, what a priviledge to watch and listen.

[@vermoidvermoid7124]

I have read ALL of Robert johnson books and I am not a reader. He is the only writer I have ever resonated with and I re read those books. Many thanks for posting this video. I have been longing to see Robert, not much out there. Thanks!

[@hawkarae]

Another Parsifal? I have a theory that the world will be made right when enough Parsifals realize themselves.

[@stewartwinfield7077]

Thank you very much for this conversation. Thank you.

[@allenlogsdon4712]

thank you sir for your thoughtful interview with Robert, you understand the pacing needed to allow Robert to speak in his own time at his own speed....I've seen other interviewers run right over him trying to fill in the words for him.pretty soon he barely has a chance to offer ,uh huh.then you miss Robert all together.....

[@rstallings69]

I love this man, what's funny is he has so much wisdom he looks 70 but he acts like he's 120, I read that we lost him a few years back. I wish he could have lived forever what a singular human being. truly inspiring

[@cahu4824]

Thank you so much for posting ! Such a deep and enriching conversation.

[@CaroleMora22]

Thanks so much for posting this interview.

[@KQKQKQKQKQKQ]

I found this video at the exact moment of my life when I needed to find it.

[@recipehacker9752]

Me too. Might save my life.

[@kathleenfitzgerald50]

I did too ✨

[@briellehunter7233]

Omg thank you so much for this video. This is the best analyst ever.

[@don-eb3fj]

1:56:07 " A dream is information you SHOULD have, but don't." 1:57:56 "The myth is to the collective as the dream is to the individual" ( citing C.G. Jung ) 1:58:10 "one is dreaming one's own myth, and it's extremely important to know one's myth. (it is)...as unique to one as one's own genetic structure is. The latter is accepted as scientific fact...and it's as important to know WHO one is, and that can best be described in mythological terms." What to do about the fall of Western civilization? Those few sentences provide a good starting point. I'm pleased and fortunate to have met you here Dr. Johnson, thank you sir, rest in peace.

[@Forrestlinan]

Thank you so much for posting this interview!!!

[@wendysager-evanson4036]

This interview is true nourishment...Golden... His pace of speaking allows for space... His reference to language and it's limits esp in Western world... I feel is critical for us to understand as we seem to get nowhere so often and misunderstandings the root of so much suffering and conflict .... His understandings and great width of view and perspective and compassion ease my heart and speak to my mind in a way longer for.

[@RebecaEigen]

Two great men speaking here. Listen. You will be delighted.

[@fernandobm4478]

Thank you for sharing this beautiful interview.

[@motadaymane3262]

"Things that we get from our myths or our sacred stories or fairy tales that when turned to the outer world is superstition when turned to the inner world is wisdom."

[@sonicdeviant]

This is excellent. Thank you for sharing.

[@tonybaker2968]

This is the first real interview I have ever witnessed. Thank you, gentlemen

[@brightermedia]

So useful to hear the discussions and stories directly from the humans of wisdom.

[@remy7228]

Thank you so much for sharing this

[@christopherrobbins9985]

Thanks for uploading. Robert Johnson RIP. A GREAT man.

[@andreafisherwriter]

We are so fortunate to see him speak- with his poetic wisdom and warm, inviting eyes. This is deeply moving and inspiring on so many levels.

[@victorcrago6454]

Thank you for posting this. Wonderful interview ... I have been very lucky to have three mentors who knew Robert closely guide me in my own inner process 🙏 what a gift

[@panayiotapanayiotis8669]

That was beautiful. Thankyou for posting.

[@lilyr.187]

This is an absolutely divine and priceless interview. I can not thank You enough for sharing this gift with me. Thank you.

[@zbigniewbielejewski7501]

While listening to the gentleman, I had a feeling of settling down at the bottom of the ocean.Was it just me or is there anybody else experiencing that feeling?

[@stephene.5247]

Yes- perfect description

[@encompass6857]

Very accurate!

[@gerardochavez-vh2bw]

His Krishnamurti impersonation was spot on

[@Rocio-wy2eg]

I honestly find it terrifying when he says that the Golden world is not an appropriate name because the experience has a really deep darkness to it, too. I've been getting more and more scared, as I keep progressing in my spiritual path. Deep existential terror that's being 'compensated' with the most profound peace I've ever known. I still doubt everything and my mind is trying to make sense what enlightenment really is. Is anybody else going through the same?

[@ВикторияИвашкина-я5в]

💕💕💕 ❤🦋💕

[@tamaratucker3399]

I started in the deep darkness to find the light, or the pearl, behind the sleeping dragon at the back of the cave furthest from the opening. 🙄😬🥵 Can't get out without losing the pearl. 😤🤬 Not the way I pictured it. 🙃 Have heart. Literally, in my case. It wasn't courage I needed more of, it was tears of loving sadness shared with my scared little girl. We needed one another more than anything or one else. That love. Is the light. It can stay small and true.

[@OnceTwice-12]

Thank you so much for posting.

[@leonahearted2585]

Thank you for posting this

[@lisaohehir1075]

Well this discussion just blew my mind...such wisdom yet recognition, we know so little we deny our inner wisdom...thanks for posting

[@vidhikataria1364]

1:35:00 onwards still he talks about sacrifice and symbolic death - goosebumps. He look deep into your soul through that camera

[@zenlokamaya]

A very beautiful conversation

[@LovetoPlayGuitars]

Thank you for posting this.

[@Bananafest-z7s]

Great video. Please post more.

[@Lessofloulou]

I love this interview- For me it is Medicinal to my Psyche/Soul❤️

[@pchabanowich]

Evidently 'My Dinner With Andre' has had a serious update; this is breathed, gracious with space to enjoy the ponder.💐

[@Carolleemakesthings]

Incredible transmission. My second time through hanging on every precious word.

[@wisdomoftheearlychristians2037]

Love this song as well; Sleepers Awake.

[@NovalisNoah]

Did I understand it right, that he lost a leg in that accident? Great man! Thanks for the upload.

[@victorcrago6454]

Yes this is true

[@Pilgrimsrummet]

I have no education in matters like this. But I drank this man's eloquent and still wisdom like drops of dew in the desert. How I miss this kind of expression on any given level of our civilisation these days. However, the cathars were not proponents of romanticism, quite the contrary, but it is correct they were contemporary to the troubadours.

[@kota4533]

No words... just precious. Thank you 🙏

[@krrankkustom9675]

This went deep. Thank you

[@katrussell6819]

Thank you, Robert, for your many gifts.

[@catherineswan2076]

Yet again, here is found another slender thread…..In great gratitude.

[@RSD85-p7u]

A lesson for a wiser life Thank you very much

[@whitehair8824]

Please upload More

[@Liisa3139]

Great anecdote of the new printing press of the Life magazine. It had 10 colors. They exhibited the printing result one by one and as the series came to the last one, which strictly speaking is not a color, but it is black. Only when black is added to the whole you get a depth of the image and the fullness of all the colors. 1:49:40

[@MrShadow_med]

There was a whole channel with Robert's lecture....shadow, active imagination, mahabharatha...and the whole channel is gone...does anyone know where to find them...the whole channel is pure gold...

[@dreamingdreamerdream]

Wow. I hope someone was able to save those lectures

[@SonicDruid1]

I love this. I just can’t understand why the videographer decided to zoom in on their heads so closely…it’s really intense 😂😂😂

[@sreetips]

I talked with a Methodist pastor and expressed the idea to her that all will be saved. She said she believed it too, but couldn’t offer that view to her congregation. Why?

[@Beederda]

I am absolutely awestruck….. i broke my arm pretty badly when i was about 11 years old had surgery to have pins put in and a half cast was applied when i woke up (a considerable amount of time had passed since my operation) i look to see my entire right side from my elbow down to the whole bed and my gown was soaked in red…. I jammed on the call button like a maniac in a panic mode when the nurses arrived to see the horror they were trying to sluff it off as not that bad i was put to sleep again to reapply a new cast after the healing was done and I could go get the cast off i found a giant scar formmed beside the inside pin (about 2 inches long pinky width) NOT STITCHED UP JUST LEFT A GAPPING WOUND FROM A FAILED DRILL ATTEMPT. Im pretty sure I almost died that night and if it was my left arm that broke this way I would have been a dead man no doubt but I can’t really confirm how close to death i was from bleeding out like that i now have this horrible scar to show for the incompetence of the surgeon at the time and only recently started analyzing myself and the synchronicity of his story and mine have me wondering if i was close to death under sedation and the many times my body has been taken over to take me outta a situation i was going to face imminent danger is kinda blowing my mind cause I recognize it happened now as something more than myself took over to protect me in some sense but i think that possession may have woke me outta near death bleeding out sedated state to call for help. Im not sure what to call it ether is it god or a seraph maybe a guardian of some sort? 🤔 is there an archetype for this possession we have take over our primary nervous system and pulls us from a car at the last second of it crushing me i have no control over it but it can take full control of me and it’s of benevolence cause it’s saved me a few times that i can frame it happen it seems it has more strength than me aswell as the time it saved me from being attacked by a much bigger stronger person pinning me to a wall and punching the wall beside my head activated it and my arm extended to his neck and the squeeze was very powerful of the left arm (my weak side) and i pushed him forward and slammed him to the stairs and pinned him there and uttered some words that shook him to the core so much that he never really tried to even tell me to do chores or anything he kept to himself after that night when i was freed from the control i was able to let go of his neck and i ran downstairs to my room scared of what happened.. today im not so afraid of if that possession would happen again but do try to understand why it’s there by trying to understand myself deeper

[@cutzymccall7675]

This is fascinating. Great information if you are writing fiction. Leads you to helpful understanding of gender archetypes and Jung’s theories. I read his books in my twenties (“He” “She”) and loved them. This is a welcomed tune-up. Thank you so much for posting. There is so little here that is truly intellectual. This dives deep. It’s also comforting to note that the best writers doubt themselves. Writing is a crapshoot. You will never know if you are “good” or not. All you can do is your best and if you get lucky it comes out “Robert Johnson” or sadly just your own bad writing.

[@wandajames143]

Fabulous!

[@TheNativoamericano]

what an extraordinary human being ¡¡¡

[@jenniferarnold-delgado3489]

Mr. Johnson , Your phrase " The Crypt at Midnight " is going to be my version of " Golden Heaven " - I really enjoyed this amazing conversation , I cannot believe that I get to go on youtube and listen to something like this . Thoughts , could it possibly that the plane that was safely landed on the Hudson River , saving the lives of 155 people , was the counter balance to the horrific event that occurred on 9/11 .

[@Liisa3139]

"It is very difficult for a western man to become an eastern man and vice versa...I think it is impossible. I ran into lots of westerners in India who were permanently affixed to ashram. I never saw one that I thought was living a viable life. They all clung to some sentimentality or some projection or some basically untenable life." 1:27:00

[@byalikkostyantyn1004]

Щира подяка 🎉 Це моя мрія,.

[@dignaperalta7805]

What a gift to humanity this video is thank you :)

[@robertbdavisii9801]

"I'd like to write a book on levels but we don't have the language for it..." David R. Hawkins works answer that desire I believe

[@annab13]

He found the internal world of infinite knowledge. I think Tesla knew, too

[@sambucus.nox93]

❤ thank you for this conversation. Every word was a pleasure.❤ Even if I understand that words can't be as accurate as we would like them to be. Like J.C. Lilly would probably say: to bad we are not dolphins 😉

[@jbmcgehee]

I am Pittman McGehee's son, and am looking to contact the owner of this channel "Jungian Spiritus". Apologies for the public post/comment, but there is no contact information associated with this account. Please reply to this comment if you are the owner or if you know of a way to get in touch with them. Thanks!

[@hutch2811]

Your father conducted one of the best interviews I have ever seen. Props to him

[@MrShadow_med]

I believe someone shadowbanned the whole channel with robert's lectures from 1980es

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Thank you thank you thank you very very very much ……..🌞

[@Ark_bleu]

27:27 “ I think most addictions come from someone trying to drown out that which is too good to stand.”

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

Beautiful……🌞

[@getoncourse4621]

I’ve watched this well over 100 times😂 I often fall asleep to it even

[@whitehair8824]

Thank you God for guiding me to another port in the storm

[@susanj5591]

Darling - bring that golden world within your body. Every cell within your body and your energy the field is waiting to welcome you fully into the golden world all you have to do is allow it, accept it. it is who you are. you don't have to wait. You are not alone. and you your true self and your body and this life be free.

[@Liisa3139]

2:28:30 "India portrayed god as the zero, as the unsayable. The mathematicians got hold of it and made use of it." Today we are making use of zeros and ones, but I'm afraid metaphorically we only believe in ones and do not get the true depth and value of the zeros.

[@carenkurdjinian5413]

You said so beautiful ….. with so much feminine Devine love …. 🌞

[@SYNKSENTURY]

lots of insight, thank you

[@brawlpups3517]

Three hours, i can hardly wait, what?

[@mayaparker6323]

What a clarity!!

[@Liisa3139]

2:24:50 St. Vincent de Paul Church (Los Angeles)