The Soul in Conflict: Polytheism & Monotheism in the Western Psyche

In today's episode, Rick shares a paper he wrote called The Soul in Conflict, which uses archetypal psychology to look at the pagan / Christian divide that tends to unconsciously exist in the Western psyche.

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Intro Music: Royals, by Vitamin String Quartet

Outro Music: I am, by Satsang

Sources used in today's show:

Eknath, Easwaran. The Bhagavad Gita. Nilgiri Press, 2019.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Stanley Appelbaum. Self-Reliance, and Other Essays. DoverPublications, 2016. 

Frantz, Alison. From Paganism to Christianity in the Temples of Athens. 

Hillman, James. Re-Visioning Psychology. HarperCollins, 1975. 

Hillman, James. Mythic Figures. Spring Publications, 2021. 

History Today. “The Dream of Constantine.” History Today, Volume 69 Issue 3 March 2019

www.historytoday.com/archive/foundations/dream-constantine.  

López-Pedraza, Rafael. Cultural Anxiety. Daimon Verlag, 1994. 

Paris, Ginette, and Gwendolyn Moore. Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia. Spring Publications, 1991.

 

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