In this episode, we go through a list of ways in which community might have formed in the life of Depth Mystic Zach Tollen, and in modern life in general, but how it often fails to do so. Some of the topics we cover: Family, School, Religion, Art, Hobbies, Philosophy, Politics, and the Mental Health System.

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Host Zach Tollen and Jungian Depth Mystic Zach Tollen discuss the concept of Alpha and Omega, firstly in its biblical context, then in its reference to social status, and then in reference to internal cognitive capacity.

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In this episode, we discover a new way of doing the show. I made a two episodes worth of content this week, but I packed it into one long episode. If you like this format, or if you have criticisms, leave a comment in one of these two discussion groups:

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Episode has 2 Parts. Part 1 talks about the absence of Romantic Love, the absence of finding the perfect partner, as expressed in the They Might Be Giants song, Ana Ng.

Part 2 images Zach as a spiritual teacher, and also as a student, asking him a question. The question? "You say you had a big mystic vision. So what's the deal with that? What does that mean?" I try to give the best answer regarding what any vision similar to my own means in our day and age, and the current state of our civilization.

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12 is the number of months in the year, and therefore of signs in the Zodiac. In this episode, I talk about my video game, and how I use Carl Jung's notion of the transition of the astrological Great Ages—in our case from the Age of Pisces to the Age of Aquarius—in the fictional world of my game. But since that world has its own star system, they have a different Zodiac altogether. Yet they still deal with one of the same issues we do, namely, how they can integrate tremendous advances in technology, rather than be destroyed by them.

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Shifting gears. An explanation for my absence, and why I might need to be a little less polished going forward. Yin and Yang.

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I talk about the idea of Going Viral in the Internet Age. Then I link that idea to the alchemical "Emblem of Avicenna" that I use as cover art. The Eagle in that picture represents the urge to go Viral, whereas the Toad is where the "golden house" of alchemy is to be built. I also quote Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay Self-Reliance in relation to these images.

It's a good episode!

Cover art emblem by Michael Maier, colored version Copyright Adam McLean, taken from: https://www.alchemywebsite.com/prints_series_maier_symbola.html

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While the major part of my Mystic Vision ended in 2018, its contents remain scalding hot to this day, and almost impossible to present systematically. But what could be so powerful and intense that even I still can't handle it directly? I give my best explanation, invoking Carl Jung's discussion in his book Aion of the precession of the equinoxes, how the Christian era is connected with the astrological Age of Pisces how we are moving into the Age of Aquarius. I contend that it's better to believe in astrology than in traditional religious ideas about the Apocalypse and the End of the World.

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