In the genre of spiritual entertainment, A Thousand Names For God is a podcast for those that seek. Listen to lectures, interviews, and philosophical musings from Rick Alexander, as he explores the intersection of comparative mythology and depth psychology. Rick Alexander is an author, speaker, psychedelic practitioner, and one-on-one coach.
Episodes
Monday Mar 18, 2024
Monday Mar 18, 2024
In today's episode, I am releasing a recording of my talk at the 2024 South by Southwest Conference and Festival called Psychedelics and the Soul. Drawing on Jungian psychology I explore the need for a psychology that accounts for the soul as a reality when working with the psychedelic experience.
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Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
In today's episode, Rick shares a paper he wrote called The Soul in Conflict, which uses archetypal psychology to look at the pagan / Christian divide that tends to unconsciously exist in the Western psyche.
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Intro Music: Royals, by Vitamin String Quartet
Outro Music: I am, by Satsang
Sources used in today's show:
Eknath, Easwaran. The Bhagavad Gita. Nilgiri Press, 2019.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, and Stanley Appelbaum. Self-Reliance, and Other Essays. DoverPublications, 2016.
Frantz, Alison. From Paganism to Christianity in the Temples of Athens.
Hillman, James. Re-Visioning Psychology. HarperCollins, 1975.
Hillman, James. Mythic Figures. Spring Publications, 2021.
History Today. “The Dream of Constantine.” History Today, Volume 69 Issue 3 March 2019
www.historytoday.com/archive/foundations/dream-constantine.
López-Pedraza, Rafael. Cultural Anxiety. Daimon Verlag, 1994.
Paris, Ginette, and Gwendolyn Moore. Pagan Meditations: The Worlds of Aphrodite, Artemis, and Hestia. Spring Publications, 1991.
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
Saturday Jul 29, 2023
In today's episode, Rick Alexander shares a paper he presented at the 2023 Mythologium Conference called Tantra and the Erotic Heart of Individuation.
In 1932, C.G. Jung first put depth psychology in dialogue with the Tantric worldview through his lectures on Kundalini Yoga. This paper is an attempt to dream that project forward, asking essential questions about how taking Tantra seriously might inform our ideas about how we relate to the soul, the body, and ultimately, the path of individuation.
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Sources:
Roche, Lorin. The Radiance Sutras: 112 Gateways to The Yoga of Wonder & Delight. 2014.
Jung, C. G. The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga. Princeton University Press, 1996.
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Today's show is about exploring the archaic worldview. When the ancient way of seeing is recovered, the sacred is made visible.
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Sources mentioned in today's show:
Hatab, Lawrence J. Myth and Philosophy: A Contest of Truths. Open Court, 1992.
Homer, Iliad. Translated by Robert Fagles, Penguin Classics, 2nd edition, 1998.
Krell, David Farrell. “Martin Heidegger the Anaximander Fragment.” Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, vol. 1, no. 4, 1973, pp. 576–626
Leland, John. “How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 20 Apr. 2022.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, et al. The Birth of Tragedy, and Other Writings. Cambridge, University Press, 2019.
Vervaeke, John. Awakening from the Meaning Crisis, YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY.
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
In today's show, I feature another Deep End episode with Dr. Danielle McGinnis, where she and I talk about the psychology and spirituality of Pornography and porn addiction.
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Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
In today's Deep End episode, Danielle McGinnis and I discuss our views of embodiment on the psychological and spiritual path.
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Wednesday Jul 06, 2022
Today's episode is another Deep End Podcast with Dr. Danielle McGinnis. In this show, we talk about the relational dynamics that result when only one person in the relationship is committed to 'inner-work'.
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Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
In today's Deep End episode with Dr. Danielle McGinnis, we discuss themes around Memorial Day and how to make sense of our experience with the holiday through a psychological lens.
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Thursday May 19, 2022
Thursday May 19, 2022
Today's episode is another 'Deep End Podcast' with myself and Dr. Danielle McGinnis where we discuss the nature of the psychic complex and the way it impacts our ability to love.
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Sunday Apr 17, 2022
Today's episode features another 'Deep End' podcast with Dr. Danielle McGinnis where we discuss some of the mythic motifs surrounding the Easter story.
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