Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
TIMESTAMPS BELOW.
🎙️ Jung said that we could 'speak' with the Anima: but what did he really mean? More importantly, how do you actually do it? We discuss exactly this, showing what the process really looks like.
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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➡️ Shadow Integration Manual (free download)
Complete introductory guide the psychodynamics of the Shadow
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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
00:17 James’ experience with accessing the psyche has been filmed for the IPSA students
00:47 We can engage the Anima through PACING & LEADING, METAPHOR and LANGUAGE PATTERNING
01:12 The unconscious is CONSCIOUS
01:46 The power of metaphor, and how they work
02:26 The ego ‘hears’ the metaphor, but the unconscious ‘unpacks’ it (affect and intuition)
03:06 The feminine element can be introduced into the metaphor, to contact the Anima
03:38 The experience is only authentic when images, symbols etc arise from WITHIN (i.e. don’t go looking for it e.g. in active imagination)
04:26 It will likely ‘feel’ transpersonal; this means it’s a response directly from the unconscious
05:00 Demo clip from IPSA professional training, showing how simple this process ‘looks’
05:23 Jung said we can ‘talk with the Anima’ (what this really means)
05:46 Communicating with the Anima always takes place through altered superpositioning through the meta-qualia of consciousness (e.g. affect)
06:59 This style is VERY important (the experience is ‘sacred’ and shouldn’t be infected with ‘ideas’)
07:48 Remember, Jung’s Anima is not YOUR Anima
08:11 Cognitive approaches (e.g. CBT) are extremely limited for accessing the unconscious
08:58 The meaning of ‘After Dark’ is to allow an abasement of consciousness, to become more receptive to the unconscious (you can try this out now)
10:04 Platonic information can come through for you, in a way that IT chooses to represent itself
10:31 It’s the Anima, but not as an idea; it’s allowed its autonomy of representation
10:53 Jungians don’t understand natural altered states of consciousness; the Anima is an abstract ‘fantasy’ for them
11:22 We should go straight to the Jungian Self archetype (i.e. the Genomic Self) through engaging the unconscious in the ‘right’ way. i.e. homeostasis
TIMESTAMPS BELOW.
🎙️ Jung said that we could 'speak' with the Anima: but what did he really mean? More importantly, how do you actually do it? We discuss exactly this, showing what the process really looks like.
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
00:17 James’ experience with accessing the psyche has been filmed for the IPSA students
00:47 We can engage the Anima through PACING & LEADING, METAPHOR and LANGUAGE PATTERNING
01:12 The unconscious is CONSCIOUS
01:46 The power of metaphor, and how they work
02:26 The ego ‘hears’ the metaphor, but the unconscious ‘unpacks’ it (affect and intuition)
03:06 The feminine element can be introduced into the metaphor, to contact the Anima
03:38 The experience is only authentic when images, symbols etc arise from WITHIN (i.e. don’t go looking for it e.g. in active imagination)
04:26 It will likely ‘feel’ transpersonal; this means it’s a response directly from the unconscious
05:00 Demo clip from IPSA professional training, showing how simple this process ‘looks’
05:23 Jung said we can ‘talk with the Anima’ (what this really means)
05:46 Communicating with the Anima always takes place through altered superpositioning through the meta-qualia of consciousness (e.g. affect)
06:59 This style is VERY important (the experience is ‘sacred’ and shouldn’t be infected with ‘ideas’)
07:48 Remember, Jung’s Anima is not YOUR Anima
08:11 Cognitive approaches (e.g. CBT) are extremely limited for accessing the unconscious
08:58 The meaning of ‘After Dark’ is to allow an abasement of consciousness, to become more receptive to the unconscious (you can try this out now)
10:04 Platonic information can come through for you, in a way that IT chooses to represent itself
10:31 It’s the Anima, but not as an idea; it’s allowed its autonomy of representation
10:53 Jungians don’t understand natural altered states of consciousness; the Anima is an abstract ‘fantasy’ for them
11:22 We should go straight to the Jungian Self archetype (i.e. the Genomic Self) through engaging the unconscious in the ‘right’ way. i.e. homeostasis
