The Way of Kabbalah: ancient map of the psyche
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2022
- Kabbalah is an ancient Jewish mystical tradition that has captured the imaginations of people from widely diverse backgrounds, including Jung himself. Three weeks after his heart attack in 1944, Jung had an ecstatic vision, “…Everything around me also seemed enchanted…I myself was in Pardes-Rimonim, in the pomegranate garden where Tiferet and Malchut married. I also imagined myself as Rabi Shimon ben Yochai, whose mystical marriage was celebrated now. It looked exactly as the Kabbalists portrayed it. I cannot tell you how amazing it was…” Though Jung did not live long enough to explore the Kabbalah fully, his psyche was deeply affected by the images and philosophies which played an important role in his life during this crisis.
Like analysis, Kabbalistic methods cultivate an extraordinary receptivity to Self that illuminates the inner dimensions of the human soul, its unexplored potential, and our relationship to the divine. Its first written fragments surfaced in the 13th century, but the oral tradition reaches back millennia. Its primary symbol, the Tree of Life, reflects a rich cosmology that maps the progression of archetypal forces in the outer and inner world. It helps us track the flow of psychic energy as it descends from its animating source to archetypal image, thought, and finally to action. Like all images of the Self, it invokes the transcendental ordering principle that heals and facilitates individuation.
Here’s the dream we analyze:
“I’m in Putin’s inner circle. It’s attached to some other business place that I’m working in. I’m wearing a suit. He’s got an office, like in a 1920s socialist apartment building with tall ceilings. It’s not particularly high security, and I’m in it. The place is a bit messy. Putin is thin; he looks like the younger Putin, not the rounder face. One we see on TV. He’s getting medication out of boxes, and I see their statins, and I figure he’s got heart trouble. I take a seat on a sofa, and we’re talking; I’m thinking about how vulnerable he looks like a nice man; actually, I’m sensing that he trusts me, we have a good easy rapport. I’m wondering whether he knows I’m queer and what he would make of that; given the state of LGBTQ rights in Russia, I figure out that there are two pollutants, this real one behind the scenes and the one on TV. The one on TV has a body double, but the rest of the world doesn’t know that. I wonder how I’m going to keep this from the world and whether it will ever come out that I know him and how I would justify that to the media. I go to the bathroom off his office, and Putin’s bath is running. I gather that he is going to have a bath. I go back into the office, smoke a cigarette on the sofa, and we talk some more, and then I leave. I go to another room or to my friends are out of affection. I kiss my friend A repeatedly on the face, whose name I get wrong. She tells me her name is something else. It’s the first time I’ve heard her tell me the name that she says she is hers. I know her by at least two other names. I accidentally kiss her on the lips. The other friend B is there too, and then I realized that I have kissed B, not A. B asks me whether I’ve been smoking cannabis because there is a really strong smell on my breath. I think about the cigarette I smoked in Putin’s office and wonder how it could have left such a strong smell, and for context, she says the future feels unclear.”
REFERENCES:
Dion Fortune. The Mystical Qabalah. www.amazon.com/dp/157863752X/...
Erich Neumann. The Essays of Erich Neumann, Volume 3: The Place of Creation. www.amazon.com/dp/0691603871/...
Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan. Meditation and Kabbalah. www.amazon.com/dp/0877286167/...
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you guys are wonderful, thank you for this and every episode
Thank you Joseph for your vulnerability and wisdom. Your work has helped me tremendously.
Thanks John - Joseph
Thank you for these wonderful Podcasts, they are enlightening, entertaining, and educational.
Such a great episode. I'll be listening again.
Thank you for this. I have ordered the books. I don't know why...I DO know why, but I found this podcast very moving. If you knew my ancestry, and the complexity around this, you might not be surprised. I feel that other modalities and support have fallen away to make way for this. Grateful.
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode, had no prior knowledge of the Kaballah before this but I'm intrigued. Also, nice to hear some of Joseph's backstory - deep respect JRL
Love, love, love this podcast! I am an INFJ and there are so few places where I feel like I am in the company of my soul tribe. Joseph, I find your story and your weaving together of the elements into whole-making very moving. Thank you for a wonderful experience!
Glad to have stopped by I have not for some time been busy , I like Jospeh also learned the Kabbalah from my old Jewish teacher wise old man , it also saved my life and has also assisted me in ordering quite a complex psychology I have been destined with, without it I do not think I would be here today .
Very intense thanks josef🙏
Very timely for me thank you guys!
I am circling the quaballah for the 3rd time, feel I need to take a deep dive this time. Tarot also.
One of the quaballistic editions I gave away sadly, was called "in the garden of pomegranates"
Thank you Joseph for sharing your knowledge of Kabbalah. On that topic I recommend Mario Saban for those who understand Spanish as he is easily available on You Tube He's a brilliant cabalista now founding schools and offering conferences that follow the psychological analysis of the sephirah.
So inspiring
You can find a different view, from Kabbalah to Analytical Psychology in Sanford Drob´s book "New Kabbalah". A must read!
Thoroughly enjoyed listening to you two discuss this topic. The Mystical Qabalah was also the first book I read on the subject. I'm curious to know why some of Joseph's peers frown on the tarot correspondences. That was an interesting comment.
I am so interested in the Kabbala but I don’t know that much about it so I found this to be enlightening in many ways. I just joined the Dream group and had to miss the event of Lisa’s because I had to take my partner to get an emergency tooth problem fixed. I looked to see if zi could watch a recording but could not find one. I did find one of Joseph’s though and watched until I got sleepy. I discovered he and I both grew up in New York - I in Manhatten and we both had interesting childhoods with similar experiences. Slowly I will get to know your wonderful on line dream university. Thank you!
Nice to meet you!
Very cool episode. We learned much of this in Freemasonry and especially Scottish Rite. Mystics Unite!
Amen!! this world needs help!!
Would the theory or belief in the "Law of Karma" have any relevance in Jungian Depth Psychology" and would it be an apt subject for one of your podcasts?
I’m wondering if Jung will return as a mystical Rabbi?. That is to complete what was begun.
There's a 6 hour long excellent video on You Tube. The Kabbalah revealed with Tony Kosinec the Full Course . But most of what I found is not really authentic spirituality
Joseph gotta use your head voice so people can discern your words.
Yes, it seemed as though his mic had too much bass or something. I had on headphones and still had some difficulty hearing some of what he said. (I had to re-listen so I didn't miss anything.)
Message received!
The way of Kabbalah? This is simply the way of Jungianism much more than it is Kabbalism per se. There might be a convergence between Jung and Kabbalah in some respects; but the dominant categories here are Jungian.
Indeed. This was just a little touch of the work in a Jungian frame. ~ Joseph
@@thisjungianlife I think I was expecting more Kabbalah than Jungianism but it was an interesting discussion nonetheless. I've been in Jungian psychotherapy for the last 6 years, so I'm by no means hostile to Jung.