Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
TIMESTAMPS BELOW.
🎙️ In this episode, we break down three axioms that redefine a living experience of the unconscious:
1️⃣ Affect (emotion) is the carrier wave of instinct
2️⃣ Instinct is the emissary of its master, the genome
3️⃣ Meta-instincts are the dreams of the genome
This isn’t theory - it’s direct access to meaning, without ego interference. No fantasy. Just real depth psychology.
We break down:
➡️ Advanced hypnosis
➡️ Working directly with spontaneous emotion
➡️ Accessing the 'image' that always lies behind emotion
and much more.
Just like you, we value real tools over fluff - we'll always deliver nothing less.
🔎 Want a deeper technical breakdown? This video on our second channel studies representational psychodynamics in significant detail:
youtube.com/watch?v=RPoObgAB82E
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Hosted by Steve and Pauline Richards and James P Dowling.
Intro/Outro created by Gareth Richards
Jung To Live By, presented by the Institute for Psycho-Systems Analysis, is creating videos and podcasts on Jungian-based Depth Psychology for personal development, study, and clinical practice.
Psycho-Systems Analysis, founded by Steve and Pauline Richards in 1988, is the New Paradigm, 21st-century evolution of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychophysiology. As the original and ground-breaking fusion of Scientific Systems-Based Medical Holism with Jungian-based Depth Psychology, Respiratory Psychophysiology, and Hypnotherapy, it offers a dynamic, non-'psycho-reductive' approach to psychotherapy. Crafted to address real-world challenges, not abstract theory, the model stands firmly aligned with the emerging frontier of Neuropsychoanalysis.
🌐 Visit our website:
jungtoliveby.com
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✨ Take your journey further:
➡️ Shadow Integration Manual (free download)
Complete introductory guide the psychodynamics of the Shadow
jungtoliveby.com/shadow-integration-manual
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Instant access to our Personal Development/Deep Study server, with thousands of posts by Steve Richards & a community of peers
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🌠 Discover your Personal Myth
Become Who You Are, & "Know Thyself"
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🌍 International Society of Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis:
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🕑 Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to After Dark!
00:20 The Three Axioms (important)
AXIOM 1: AFFECT IS THE CARRIER WAVE OF INSTINCT
01:18 Getting into the psyche quickly
02:15 Meaning-laden emotion
03:02 Does all affect come from instinct?
03:42 Affect can be ‘transpersonal’ – amplitude matters
04:02 Affect vs Drive State vs Meaning
04:58 SEEKING and RAGE (Panksepp)
05:15 Complexes hijack affect
05:52 Instinct-affect is more intense than complex-affect
06:48 There’s always an ‘image’ behind affect
07:19 Complexes distort this image
08:07 Recognizing when a complex hijacks instinct
09:01 How to do this in real-time
11:23 IPSA’s advanced dissociative hypnosis
✔️ Dissociation from cognition & complexes
✔️ Accessing symbolic representations from meta-instincts
✔️ Accessing intuition
(All taught in IPSA Year 1: jungtoliveby.com/professional-training/)
19:03 This happens even in everyday conversation
20:25 Unpacking meaning unconsciously over time
22:04 James’ example of unconscious ‘responding’
23:34 Avoid turning complexes into internal mythology
25:23 Instincts SPIKE if misinterpreted (don’t fear it, use it)
28:03 Complexes defend themselves (‘ego-defence mechanisms’)
30:23 What dissociating from complexes feels like
34:09 Instincts and affect are not the same
AXIOM 2: INSTINCT IS THE EMISSARY OF ITS MASTER, THE GENOME
35:29 Instinct is conserved in the genome
36:39 Pankseppian Instincts
37:53 Complexes modify instinct
38:56 Positive complexes mediate between Meta-Instincts & environment
40:51 Meta-Instincts rehearse in childhood/adolescence
41:30 Meta-Instincts manifest as AFFECT SPIKES
42:26 You can ‘hang onto’ the experience via cognition
42:53 After feeling affect, follow it into the unconscious
AXIOM 3: META-INSTINCTS ARE THE DREAMS OF THE GENOME
43:55 Dreams = lifespan anticipations
44:21 The genome’s ‘dreams’ (meta-instincts) anticipate your life
46:18 In altered states, your goal is to receive meaning
46:58 Then adapt, fully informed from within
48:04 Once accessed, Meta-Instincts become easier to reach
49:14 The process is quick (if you avoid fantasizing)
49:41 Each emotion connects you to your genome and ancestral line
52:05 Feeling better precedes thinking better
52:23 See you soon!
TIMESTAMPS BELOW.
🎙️ In this episode, we break down three axioms that redefine a living experience of the unconscious:
1️⃣ Affect (emotion) is the carrier wave of instinct
2️⃣ Instinct is the emissary of its master, the genome
3️⃣ Meta-instincts are the dreams of the genome
This isn’t theory - it’s direct access to meaning, without ego interference. No fantasy. Just real depth psychology.
We break down:
➡️ Advanced hypnosis
➡️ Working directly with spontaneous emotion
➡️ Accessing the 'image' that always lies behind emotion
and much more.
Just like you, we value real tools over fluff - we'll always deliver nothing less.
🔎 Want a deeper technical breakdown? This video on our second channel studies representational psychodynamics in significant detail:
youtube.com/watch?v=RPoObgAB82E
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hosted by Steve and Pauline Richards and James P Dowling.
Intro/Outro created by Gareth Richards
Jung To Live By, presented by the Institute for Psycho-Systems Analysis, is creating videos and podcasts on Jungian-based Depth Psychology for personal development, study, and clinical practice.
Psycho-Systems Analysis, founded by Steve and Pauline Richards in 1988, is the New Paradigm, 21st-century evolution of Psychotherapy and Clinical Psychophysiology. As the original and ground-breaking fusion of Scientific Systems-Based Medical Holism with Jungian-based Depth Psychology, Respiratory Psychophysiology, and Hypnotherapy, it offers a dynamic, non-'psycho-reductive' approach to psychotherapy. Crafted to address real-world challenges, not abstract theory, the model stands firmly aligned with the emerging frontier of Neuropsychoanalysis.
🌐 Visit our website:
jungtoliveby.com
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
✨ Take your journey further:
➡️ Shadow Integration Manual (free download)
Complete introductory guide the psychodynamics of the Shadow
jungtoliveby.com/shadow-integration-manual
💬 Discord Server
Instant access to our Personal Development/Deep Study server, with thousands of posts by Steve Richards & a community of peers
jungtoliveby.com/product/jung-to-live-by-discord-membership
🏛️ Professional Training
Online, directly under the direct tutorage of Steve & Pauline Richards
jungtoliveby.com/professional-training
🌠 Discover your Personal Myth
Become Who You Are, & "Know Thyself"
jungtoliveby.com/discover-your-personal-myth
🌍 International Society of Jungian Neuropsychoanalysis:
isjn.cc
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
🕑 Timestamps
00:00 Welcome to After Dark!
00:20 The Three Axioms (important)
AXIOM 1: AFFECT IS THE CARRIER WAVE OF INSTINCT
01:18 Getting into the psyche quickly
02:15 Meaning-laden emotion
03:02 Does all affect come from instinct?
03:42 Affect can be ‘transpersonal’ – amplitude matters
04:02 Affect vs Drive State vs Meaning
04:58 SEEKING and RAGE (Panksepp)
05:15 Complexes hijack affect
05:52 Instinct-affect is more intense than complex-affect
06:48 There’s always an ‘image’ behind affect
07:19 Complexes distort this image
08:07 Recognizing when a complex hijacks instinct
09:01 How to do this in real-time
11:23 IPSA’s advanced dissociative hypnosis
✔️ Dissociation from cognition & complexes
✔️ Accessing symbolic representations from meta-instincts
✔️ Accessing intuition
(All taught in IPSA Year 1: jungtoliveby.com/professional-training/)
19:03 This happens even in everyday conversation
20:25 Unpacking meaning unconsciously over time
22:04 James’ example of unconscious ‘responding’
23:34 Avoid turning complexes into internal mythology
25:23 Instincts SPIKE if misinterpreted (don’t fear it, use it)
28:03 Complexes defend themselves (‘ego-defence mechanisms’)
30:23 What dissociating from complexes feels like
34:09 Instincts and affect are not the same
AXIOM 2: INSTINCT IS THE EMISSARY OF ITS MASTER, THE GENOME
35:29 Instinct is conserved in the genome
36:39 Pankseppian Instincts
37:53 Complexes modify instinct
38:56 Positive complexes mediate between Meta-Instincts & environment
40:51 Meta-Instincts rehearse in childhood/adolescence
41:30 Meta-Instincts manifest as AFFECT SPIKES
42:26 You can ‘hang onto’ the experience via cognition
42:53 After feeling affect, follow it into the unconscious
AXIOM 3: META-INSTINCTS ARE THE DREAMS OF THE GENOME
43:55 Dreams = lifespan anticipations
44:21 The genome’s ‘dreams’ (meta-instincts) anticipate your life
46:18 In altered states, your goal is to receive meaning
46:58 Then adapt, fully informed from within
48:04 Once accessed, Meta-Instincts become easier to reach
49:14 The process is quick (if you avoid fantasizing)
49:41 Each emotion connects you to your genome and ancestral line
52:05 Feeling better precedes thinking better
52:23 See you soon!
