Cinderella, the Tao, and Ecopsychology

In 2 hours and 10 minutes I present the “secret sauce” of what James Hollis likes to call “Old Zurich” Jungian psychology. We formed study groups to practice interpreting fairytales so we could pass the 6-hour final examine at the original Jung institute in Zurich interpreting a fairytale we had not seen before: that is how we learned to work archetypically and symbolically with dreams and cultural phenomena like films. I illustrate the process with an in-depth analysis of the Grimm’s version of Cinderella, one of the most important fairytales on the planet because it deals with powerful universal themes—love, abandonment, narcissism, and despair.

The total program includes a long Q & A and lasts for 3 hours 11 minutes. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kB-uxXDfpM

Jung's New Age Will Have an Ecological Framework

Carl Jung foresaw a paradigm shift in 1940 he called a “New Age” and “Age of Aquarius” which we now realize must have an ecological framework. Ecopsychology examines our dysfunctional relationship with the environment and how we can deepen our connection with nature and Jung is the prototypical ecopsychologist: his entire system is based on an ecological sense of how the human psyche is part of nature. The green economists have much to contribute towards a paradigm shift especially when archetypically framed by the I Ching’s hexagram 42—Increase.

This is the latest version of my Jung and the environment seminar as presented to the Phoenix Friends of C. G. Jung in December 2024. It includes the survey on the very depressed and anxious state the youth have about their environmental future. I responded to a question about what happened to the youth environmental movement of the sixties and the subsequent lack of meaningful change and a question about the relevance in our current culture of Jung’s attempt to revitalize the Christian myth. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfnJs8lRYjM