The Two Tongues Podcast

S2E35 - Jung’s Greatest Pupil Part 3 - Maga Mater

In this episode we follow Erich Neumann from the primordial symbol of the self-created Uroboros to the primeval Great Mother. This journey is a perilous one! Consciousness has to find a way to tear itself free of the place of its birth--The Great Mother. But once it's succeeded, it finds itself at the mercy of fate and fear. The "Self," once achieved, finds itself in the Unknown...submerged, struggling and terrified. Neumann then shows us this same story, our story, through the minds and times of bygone peoples. In deepest antiquity as in the modern day, we acknowledge the Great Mother as Mother Earth, as the Universe, as the Goddess of life and death. We imagine her holding her new born son, like Horus, Marduk or the Christ child. She is the cosmos swaddling the new God. She is comfort and sustenance and peace...and yet we must wean! We suffer, yes, but wean we must in order to be.

S2E34 - Gandalf the Red Part 5 - Redemption

This episode concludes the first part--Liber Primus--of Jung's Red Book. Shit is getting thick, as Jung encounters the force of consciousness in the form of the Prophet Elijah and the force of unconsciousness in the form of Salome. We descend together into the underworld over and over and see many wild and strange things. We shrink to miniscule size Alice in Wonderland style; we see images of the future come to fruition in the Second World War and the image of God as a child gestating in each and every one of us. Together we become One, Christ and the new God born from the corpse of the old.

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S2E33 - Order Mitosis

In this episode Kyle and Chris talk about the immediate effects of cutting pornography out of your life. Chris talks out an idea that he's been developing in the form of an image. Kyle explains why women are too emotional to be taken seriously and accuses every Disney movie ever made of being progressive propaganda, Chris pumps the brakes. Jordan Peterson and his very rare terrible takes are called out while addressing how pointless everything Matthew McConaughey said about gun control was. Kyle then closes out the episode all by his lonesome, rambling about nothing in particular because he's not used to doing the podcast by himself. 

 

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S2E32 - Jung’s Greatest Pupil Part 2 - von Franz, the Indefinite Place and the Moon

In this first installment of Jung's Greatest Pupil, we discussed Erich Neumann and the symbol of the Uroboros. In Part 2 we pit Neumann against Marie-Louise von Franz. von Franz takes us on a journey through various fairytales from around the world and reveals the psychological symbolism in them. Much like Jordan Peterson did with his Biblical lectures, von Franz does with humanity's oldest stories...our fairytales. Let's take a "trip" together (some pun intended) to the Moon, to ancestral realm, deep within ourselves.

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S2E31 - Ok, Coomer

In this episode we talk music, manipulation, politics and porn. We cover Kyle's reluctant transformation from Anarchist to right-wing-ishness, the process of psychological maturity (and the disturbing fact that many people never do). A little sex-ritual orgy, inspiration and motivation to top things off.

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S2E30 - Jung’s Greatest Pupil - Neumann’s Uroboros

In this episode we examine the opening chapter of Erich Neumann's great book The Origin and History of Consciousness...the book that Jung said he'd wished he'd written. We cover the stories we tell about the birth of the cosmos--our creation myths--and learn how they are really covert stories about the birth of consciousness. These stories center around the symbol of the Uroboros, the snake eating its own tail, the union of opposites. Neumann helps us to make sense of this and for that we say, thank you.

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S2E29 - Return to Politics

This was a spicy one! Chris and Kyle return to politics. We cover Showtime's series--Billions--, Jordan Peterson, manipulation of the masses, Capitalism and much, much more. 

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S2E28 - Gandalf the Red Part 4 - The God that Imitates Itself

In this episode we return to Carl Jung's Red Book. We go back into Jung's psyche to discourse with the Spirit of the Depths and with Jung's Soul. We find ourselves in civil war; a place where death is inevitable. It is this inevitability, however, which guarantees immortality, because death always begets life. We struggle with paradox, fear and ambiguity and find on the other side an image of ourselves that is also an image of God. Next we see that same spirit in others and in the world around us. Ever closer we come to the secret, to the truth of what God is. Look within, find God there and it will seize you. Do you want it to seize you? 

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S2E27 - Everything But Monkey Pox

On this episode we pretend to know about guns and have an interesting exchange about marijuana and Catholicism. We discuss the power of ritual and the ways of seeing the magic in the world. Jordan Peterson comes up, of course, and a few negative remarks about the British. Covered everything except for Monkey Pox.

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S2E26 - Last Days of a Philosopher Part 3 - Time, Change, Progress

This episode is the exciting conclusion of our 3-part series on Sir Humphry Davy's book "Last Days of a Philosopher." In this installment we get to know "The Unknown," the unnamed and mysterious stranger we introduced in the last episode. We question time, recoil at the knowledge that everything is complicit in death, decay, decomposition and entropy. The good news, we learn, is the promise that by understanding and obeying change we can learn to command it. When we do, we will be as gods, wielding the power of nature and transforming the cosmos and ourselves as we desire. Gene editing, terraforming...this is only the beginning. 

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