From ancient alchemical texts to the depths of the collective unconscious, Carl Jung uncovered a profound connection that will change forever how you see Western spirituality. In this video essay, I explore Jung's revolutionary insight that Christ and the Philosopher's Stone are parallel symbols of psychological transformation.
Jung watched as historians dismissed alchemy as primitive proto-chemistry, while theologians guarded Christ's uniqueness against any comparisons to pagan symbols. Yet neither group recognized what Jung saw clearly—that there is a pattern of psychological development that manifests consistently across cultures and epochs beyond context and doctrine.
Through Jung's penetrating analysis in his book "Psychology and Alchemy," we'll explore how medieval alchemists recognized Christ in their stone, how they understood their chemical processes as parallel to Christian mysteries, and how their work compensated psychologically for what conventional Christianity had left incomplete.
This journey will take us through the twilight realm where religion, psychology, spirit, matter, conscious ideals, and unconscious shadows converge in an unexpected harmony. We'll discover how Jung excavated these forgotten connections to reveal a path toward psychological wholeness that remains vital for modern consciousness.
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👁️ Timestamps:
00:00 Prelude
04:29 The Lapis-Christ Parallel
14:30 The Problem Of Opposites
23:48 The Imitation Of Christ
32:27 Redemption
40:40 The Self
52:34 The Filius Macrocosmi
01:01:53 The Stone That The Builders Rejected
01:09:03 The Psychological Meaning Of Alchemy
01:15:17 The Squaring Of The Circle
01:21:06 Conclusion
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