ML184 James Hollis on Creating The Life You Want, Lessons from Jung and Understanding Your Mind
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- James Hollis is Jungian analyst and author of 16 books, including his latest work Prisms and Living Between Worlds. In this episode we cover:
- How to deal with competing desires and create the life you want to live
- The meaning of Jung’s big ideas like the shadow and what they mean for you
- How James has written a book every two years for the last 3 decades
This was a wide ranging, deep conversation that will give you a fresh perspective on how to live a meaningful life.
It’s always a pleasure to hear James Hollis interviewed; one of our great Wise Men from whom so many can learn and be inspired by. Nasos has done a particularly good job in preparing excellent questions and drawing out the best of what Dr Hollis has to offer. Excellent work, Nasos!
As a mid-lifer, I have benefitted so much from reading James Hollis' books and listening to podcasts that he has guested in. Thank you for uploading this interview. Kind regards from the Philippines.
My pleasure @Sydney Carton - great to hear you enjoyed the conversation with James!
So much wisdom there ✊🏾🤌🏽🛐
Thank you for this marvelous interview. Dr. Hollis will always call those souls who love to show up and serve the needs of the psyche. He is a man for all seasons.
Thanks for this excellent interview, Nasos. One of the best interviews with James Hollis. I wish he knew how much his work helps others, even (as he mentioned), it could not help his family of origin. I gave his books to many of my friends whose lives he changed. Great ask on your part re the third, integrative way. I am reminded of a line from the "Mysterium Coniunctionis" -- Jung says: "Life never goes forward except to the place where it has come to a standstill (page 225)". Apparently a paradox, the way I see this is that until the opposites are ripe (until they are separated and understood fully), the logjam cannot be resolved. The role of the “stuck-ness” is to help ripen the opposites though utter discomfort. But once the blockage is resolved (and integrated), life moves forward again.
Indeed, and not surprisingly there will be more than one logjam for many of us.
Really great lecture. I appreciate this talk particularly since l am a 84 yr old 😢and in all this knowledge to continue to grow and love the world with all is warts. J, 37:03
Hollis, your choices made you hugely larger for sure! Thanks for your books and efforts. Greetings from Brazil.
Thank you MetaL for your thoughtfully and respectfully conducted, along with your meaningful questions, interview with James Hollis. Always a treat to spend some time with JH - either via his books or an interview or lecture. Much appreciated. and Well Done!
Thanks for watching Kenneth, I'm pleased you enjoyed this. Any part of the conversation in particular that stood out for you?
5 years removed from receiving my degree in psychology, I’m learning more and more how little I was taught. I truly appreciate both of your perspectives
LIFE in itself is the REAL university ! The MULTIVERSITY !!
Great interview Nasos, I’ve been devouring Jim’s work and interviews and your questions and interview style was my favourite. Another happy subscriber!
Wow, excellent quick tour through the thoughts of modern-day sage James Hollis. His references to Emily Dickinson, William Blake, and Nikos Kazantzakis were a treat.
Thank you @regather59
Brilliant!!! Knowledge, experience; life-long learning, spirituality, integrated wisdom and teaching. 👏👏👏
I love that book, Herman Hesse
Good interview with well thought out questions, makes me want to explore James's work and Carl Jung's too.
I quite agree with Dr. Hollis about the limitations of psychology [and, indeed psychiatry] - and attribute those overlooked and persistent shortcomings to the specific limitations of the labeled pathological objectives inherent in identifying the mind-process. Target recognition changes the game because the players don't understand how to get to the authentic complexity of that moving first base. The extant intellectual artifact is one of chasing fixed [left brain] labels, in contradistinction to the authentic process, the process-arrest of chasing labels and appearances [seeing the Dickenson needle] - because they don't conceptualize what they/we can't see - it's out of the frame of diagnostic and treatment references. Inadequate target identification [that overlooks the reality of Time], drives the system off course. As Korzybski said: "The map is not the territory." Excellent discussion, thanks, guys!
Absolutely fascinating. What an inspirational man and what fantastic questions. Thank you so much 🙏
A great pleasure to listen to the podcast.Thanks.
Thank you so much! Great questions :)
Thank you for this material, friend.
You're welcome Brad - pleased you enjoyed the conversation.
God bless both of you
Really great talk....
9:50 very important questions!
Enjoyed the interview. Check out your transcript at paragraph 57.26. It should read "DEPTH" psychology not "DEAF" psychology.
9:34 where do you think your mother was stuck in her personal development / where was your father stuck emotionally
13:02 artist is more universal than historian greater impact on human understanding
17:28 woman asking to be restrained, the burden of having to make choice was so frightening being confined felt better 🥹
🤲👑🤲
34:34 wow.
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I noticed that this interviewer frequently interrupts and redirects what Dr. Mate’ is trying to communicate
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