Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
Here Robert M. Ellis continues his series of talks on archetypes, following his account of them as embodied meaning, and as separate from absolute beliefs, in earlier videos of this series. He discusses the nature of inspiration as something that keeps us motivated over time, and the significance of archetypes as sources of inspiration for human beings, given how distracted and conflicting we can be. He also discusses four types of inspiration, corresponding to four key functional archetypes that Jung highlighted: the hero, the shadow, the anima/animus, and the God archetypes.
This talk is the third of a series by Robert M Ellis for the Middle Way Network, which is a community of the Middle Way Society meeting on Zoom. Each talk is preceded by a short meditation (not recorded) and ends with a practice focus to carry over to the following event. This recording includes a talk of around 35 minutes, followed by questions, an introduction to the practice focus, and then further questions from the audience.
Here Robert M. Ellis continues his series of talks on archetypes, following his account of them as embodied meaning, and as separate from absolute beliefs, in earlier videos of this series. He discusses the nature of inspiration as something that keeps us motivated over time, and the significance of archetypes as sources of inspiration for human beings, given how distracted and conflicting we can be. He also discusses four types of inspiration, corresponding to four key functional archetypes that Jung highlighted: the hero, the shadow, the anima/animus, and the God archetypes.
This talk is the third of a series by Robert M Ellis for the Middle Way Network, which is a community of the Middle Way Society meeting on Zoom. Each talk is preceded by a short meditation (not recorded) and ends with a practice focus to carry over to the following event. This recording includes a talk of around 35 minutes, followed by questions, an introduction to the practice focus, and then further questions from the audience.
