This episode explores Death Potential which is not a psychological trait but a mythological and metaphysical category. Moreover, it is archetypal and universal and therefore is not unique to capitalism but exists within our consciousness across its whole history. The immense technological powers of capitalism constellate this Death Potential in the most intense form yet experienced by our species. This distinguishes it from Freud’s notion of the death instinct. I do not believe such an instinct exists in the human psyche but I do believe that mankind has a tremendous fear of death which is repressed, becomes intolerable and is then projected outwards. I also believe that the whole perinatal period, (that is the period around birth: in the womb, actual birth, and immediate post-birth) can be an intimate, dramatic, sometimes traumatic, encounter with the forces of death that can deeply shape human character. In other words our entrance into consciousness is through the gates of potential death. This is projected onto nature,other human beings, and the world. This is our greatest danger.
S2 Ep96. The Origins of Evil Part 3. The destructiveness in the human psyche.
S2 Ep95. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 9. Climate tipping point reached. Red alert.
S2 Ep94. The Ecological Catastrophe Part 8.The green climate agenda is in reverse.
S2 Ep93.The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 7. Psychiatric diagnosis of business civilization.
S2 Ep92. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 6. Too little, too late.
S2 Ep91. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 5. Cop 28 shows a world unable to avoid climate catastrophe
S2 Ep90. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 4. Prepare for survival in a degraded world
S2 Ep89.The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 3. The wider elements of the ecological crisis aside from climate
S2 Ep89. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 3 - to be published October 1st 2023
S3 Ep37. Últimas visiones y pensamiento de Carl Jung. Spanish Language.
S2 Ep88. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 2. Climate change - one of the most powerful influences in human history.
S2 Ep87. The Ecological Catastrophe. Part 1. The rise in Green House Gas emissions and the impact on global warming
S3 Ep36. El símbolo de Cristo - interpretación de Jung
S2 Ep86. The Light of Higher Consciousness
S3 Ep35. Jung y El Libro Tibetano de Los Muertos
S2 Ep85. Origins of Evil. Part 2
S3 Ep34 Elementos básicos de la enseñanza budista y la metafísica tibetana. Spanish Language Series
S2 Ep84. Origins of Evil. Part 1
S2 Ep83. Tibetan Buddhism. Light in the Darkness.
S3 Ep33. Jung y El Libro Tibetano de la Gran Liberación. Spanish Language Series
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