The Two Tongues Podcast

S2E44 - Jung’s Greatest Pupil Part 5 - Parting the World Parents

In this episode Chris dives back into Erich Neumann's "The Origins and History of Consciousness" where we learn about the Separation of the World Parents and the division of the world into opposites. Neumann let's us in on the psychological meaning of these myths and how they tie to the myth of the hero, the Biblical fall of man and original sin. 

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S2E43 - Schrodinger’s Satan

In this episode Chris and Kyle talk about the fracturing of the division of power in the U.S. government and debate the existence of evil, the idea of the Devil and whether there are powers in the world that influence us against our will. We ask what our will even is and how it relates to the will of God...an odd question for those who believe we are God. 

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S2E42 - Bernardo Kastrup and Idealism

In this episode Chris carves another face onto his intellectual Mount Rushmore. Welcome aboard Bernardo! We cover Bernardo Kastrup's interview with Nick Jikomes of the Mind & Matter podcast and it does not disappoint. They talk mystical unity, the Oneness of Being understood as pure mind, the veil of perception, Jung, World Religions and...psychedelic experience. If I were a bingo board, this conversation would be corner-to-corner X's!

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S2E41 - Depopulation and Christianity

In this episode Kyle and Chris get controversial. We talk population control, Margaret Sanger, and global government. We touch on the Georgia Guidestones, Confederate monuments and the Jewish identity. Through in a little bit of the trans debate and the fact that George Washington didn't know about dinosaurs...and there you have it.

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S2E39 - Gandalf the Red Part 6 - How to Kill the Devil

In this episode we enter the second half of Carl Jung's Red Book. And it does not disappoint. The first image Jung encounters here is "The Red One," who he strongly suspects is the Devil himself. His interaction with The Red One lead to an interesting examination of completeness. Jung suggests that there is something critical missing from the Pagan path that Christianity offers and something missing from the Christian path that Paganism offers. The solution is to join them to find completeness. To integrate them, just as we integrate the unconscious in ourselves. But this is not without its dangers...

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S2E40 - Kyle’s Pull Toward Orthodox Christianity

In this episode we explore Kyle's interest in Orthodox Christianity.  Chris psychologizes this and connects it to Kyle's interest in Paganism. We swiftly move to devil worship, religious imagery and Powers and Principalities. We butcher Roman history along the way.

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S2E38 - Feedback, Fractals and the Fingerprint of God

In this episode Chris explores a documentary titled "Secret Life of Chaos" narrated by Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey. We explore the scientific creation narrative and find the core of the mystery of reality resting on three mathematical principles...Self-organization, Feedback and Fractal geometry. We then take the scientific story and lay it over the mythological one to see how they match up. Spoiler alert...more than you could ever have imagined.

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S2E37 - The Great Eddie and Roe v Wade

In this episode we talk to the Great Eddie, a friend from Kyle and Chris' past. Matt joins as well to tell the story of the times in which our lives crossed over the years. We talk Roe v Wade, the morality of abortion and propose alternatives. A little bit of God sprinkled in and there you have it.

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S2E36 - Jung’s Greatest Pupil Part 4 - The Hole in Our Selves

This episode picks up where we left off with Louis von Franz. We jump head first into fairytales from Siberia, Germany and indigenous America. We see snakes crawling out of king's mouths while they're sleeping and the homes of long dead relatives beneath a brook in the forest. We encounter holes and wells and the end of the world...all of which reveal themselves to be portals from this world into the Unconscious world. We fall into it like you might into a well, by sinking deep within ourselves. There we find the underworld of the Unconscious, where dangers lie, but great treasure too--both equally unknown.

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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.