S2 Ep36. The Crisis of our Times. Part 10. World Crisis and the Search for Soul

The Quest: Vision in an age of Crisis. Economic & Financial Crisis. Jungian Psychotherapy

I am a psychotherapist with an interest not only in the individual psyche but also that of the collective. The malaise of civilization has become increasingly my focus in these podcasts; the evolving multidimensional crises of the 21st century is my backdrop; the ten horseman (or crises) of the apocalypse are the drivers of my argument. These are the economic, political, climatic, military, technological, spiritual, clash of ideas, pandemic, financial, and social.

I have suggested a road map of the evolving crises: 1. Approaching storm; 2. Storm hits; 3. Policy response; 4 Economic and financial chaos; 5. Great Global Depression; 6 Civil disturbance, political radicalism, dangers of war; 7 Fallout and emergence in a radically changed world.

We are now passing from stage 3 to 4. Immense money creation and government intervention can postpone the crisis but only intensify it later.

Yet visionary responses are possible. These begin with a reorientation of consciousness outside the ego. The poem The Sower and the Seed is presented as an example. Its subject is the formulation of a creation mythology which is always the foundation of a radical paradigm change, in this case from a materialist to a spiritual cosmic view, which is the essence of the pilgrim's quest.