Crazy Wisdom
The individual is actually a group effort - Norland Tellez, PhD.
- religion
- Collective
- Mayan
- jung
- freud
- Individualism
- Jungian
- individual
About this episode
Norland Tellez is an artist and teacher, with a degree in film animation from Cal Arts, and a student of mythology and mythological history with a master’s and a doctorate degree in mythology from Pacifica Institute. In this episode, we discuss the Jungian idea of individuation, the nature of the individual, the two-ness of nonduality, and much more. You can reach Norland on Twitter @mythistorian or via his website: norlandtellez.com
(3:47) Asking “who am I?” is a narrow approach to self-discovery; a better trail of inquiry as suggested by Norland.
(5:10) Are the worldwide instabilities and widespread crises of meaning that are occurring in today’s world a sign that the religious and philosophical movements that were inspired in the axial age are coming to an end? If so, what attitudes should we take in response? Does the Popol Vuh say anything about this?
(11:25) An interesting breakdown of the term ‘image,’ in the context of the religious idea (found across a variety of religions; not just Christianity) that “God/the gods attempted to make man in their own image”
(13:12) What Carl Jung failed to see about the human psyche and why his psychological worldview is incomplete.
(15:49) What exactly is Western Civilization? What is it and is it really behind the ‘hyper-individualistic’ psyche that dominates the majority of human society in today’s world? That said, are we just cogs in society’s machine? Or are we individuals with free will? Or is it both?
(28:10) Individualism is a relational concept; an individual is a collective process.
(31:50) How the concept of twinship, from the Popol Vuh, correlates with the structure of consciousness; the primordial archetype of ‘two-ness’; why the ‘One’ is actually a ‘twinship.’
(47:45) How we can deal with ideological traps.
Episode transcript
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. So you might have noticed that the world has gone a little bit insane. And to get through this in a way that is sustainable and maybe even joyous, we are going to have to find some crazy wisdom, which is why I named the podcast Crazy Wisdom. And I try to find guests who are both contrarian and right, as well as people who can help us to understand how we can get through this period of both acceleration as technology accelerates, and maybe even a little bit of darkness, as well as some of you may have been noticing, really crazy stuff is happening right now. So my goal with this show is to empower you with crazy wisdom and give you the tools to figure out how to do it on yourself, because we can't rely on too much these days. So with that being said, if you like what I'm offering with this show, I'm on Twitter, Ewart Allsop. I, I, I. My DMs are open. I'd love to hear from you about how this show has affected you. Thanks. Have a great day.
Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. My guest today is Norland, Tez and Norlin. This is actually the second time I've had Norland on and the last. If you're listening to this one and you don't really know what we're about to talk about, then go back and listen to the other one where we kind of introduced the Popol Vuh and what we're about to talk about. So welcome to the show, Norland.
Hello. Well, it's a pleasure to be here and once again revisiting and contributing to the annals of crazy wisdom, because it is a crazy world that we're living in, and we have to learn to manage ourselves through the craziness and, and not think we can, you know, easily avoid it or, or glide above it or transcend it, you know, without going right through it.
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