The Spirit of the Times & The Spirit of the Depths - Ep. 3

In this episode, Satya Doyle Byock & Carol Ferris explore C.G. Jung's Red Book in three more early chapters, discussing Jungian Psychology and Astrology, and the power of creative response and engagement with the Unconscious. The discussions explore the social relevance of Jung's psychology and what is has to offer individuals in these times.

In this episode, they weave-in Elizabeth Gilbert's thoughts on Genius and a further exploration of "the Spirit of the Times", "Te Spirit of the Depths," Active Imagination and more as they accompany Jung into "The Desert."

Chapters: "The Desert," Experiences in the Desert," & "Descent into Hell in the Future."

Learn More:

Salome Institute: SalomeInstitute.com

Carol: CarolFerrisAstrology.com

Satya: satyabyock.com

Satya's book: Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood

Astrological Horoscopes for Episode 3

• Jung: Desert Descent into Hell

Recorded April 5, 2020

Thank you for elaborating

The discussion is a very interesting from multiple point of view. I enjoyed listening to the point of astrology. I would like to make a suggestion to Carol. Your voice is very loud and sharp, please stand back from the microphone. It hurts my ears. The other ladies have a warm, rounded voice whenever you talk I have to turn down the volume. And no this coming does not come from a male and it’s not about patriarchy, it’s about knowing how to speak into a microphone without overwhelming/overpowering. Once again, ladies, thank you for taking the time to discuss this difficult topic.

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Unfortunately these presentations are suffering from the very ailment that they are speaking of responding to, mainly bringing to consciousness the patriarchal, Yang energy that has dominated human culture for the past two millennia, so that we may move beyond it and transmute the energy of human existence to be more inclusive and receptive, more Yin. Unfortunately, they utilize reductive, analytic analysis of text from the brilliant work of Carl Jung. This approach is the very foundation of the system they are supposedly proposing we move beyond. Moreover, they are embracing a psychological/astrological dialect that is attempting to analyze, understand and replicate what was, in the end, one man’s individual experience of transformation within the transcendent matrix of unconscious/archetypal symbols. And although this matrix can be approached with awareness of it’s symbolic offerings and potentials to assist the individual experience therein, an overemphasis on the discovery of one individual location of transcendence as a formulation of cause and effect is the very same patriarchal scientific model that assumes replication of formulation as the main motive of inquiry and discovery. These women are quite intelligent, unfortunately they fail in avoiding the pitfall that they are trying to encourage others to move beyond, mainly an approach to understanding that approaches the vast, ultimately unknowable matrix of cosmic being in a reductive manner that hopes for analytic understanding and replication.