I introduce the term "Monologic Communologue" to mean, a community dialogue held by one person, talking to himself... which is what this podcast is... but is that even possible?

Then I confess that I was saved by something other than the traditional Christian mode of salvation. Although my conversion was just as intense as that of any Christian, the force which saved me came from my encounter with Joseph Campbell, and the philosophy behind it is found in Star Wars, and in Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alchemy, and Gnosticism. I talk about how the Spirit Mercurius stands as an alternative savior in the alchemical tradition, and how it's probably related to what happened to me.

In the first section, I describe how my mystical experiences overruled my life, to the extent that I feel different from, say, your average Jungian analyst, and how I've had to discover in books that which I couldn't find in living people. I describe how the journey to embracing my own personal sense of right and wrong was a Herculean labor.

In the next section, I talk about how Goethe's Faust can be considered the first great work of Depth Mysticism, and describe why it's needed. We moderns are "up in the air" due to our technology and society, and the old religions were not created to deal with this, which is why Star Wars, for example, can be more appealing than Christianity.

I explain why I think the best way for me to integrate into society is by calling myself a Depth Mystic and making this podcast, that I'm so different that it's almost impossible for me to do it any other way...

In the second half, I talk about the influence of Japanese culture on my way of viewing the world, how I'd rather be like a Jedi than like Jesus. The theme song for this podcast was originally composed for a video game.

We address Carl Jung's fear of his psychology becoming another "-ism", and why we're okay about it regarding "Depth Mysticism".

We go further in terms of what Depth Mysticism is. We mention Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, and Jung's Red Book, and how there needs to be something like a new religion to accommodate modern times.

This impulse has been hindered by what I call the Rooster Religions.

New terms for this episode: Ism-ism, Rooster Religions.

We start with a confession as to why it's called a Community Podcast.

Then we begin exploring the term Depth Mystic, also called Jungian Depth Mystic.

Depth Mysticism is akin to Depth Psychology, except that it foregoes the pretense of being totally objective, since all psychology is by definition at least somewhat mystical, since you have to use the mind to study the mind.

Then we comment on the show's theme song, which evokes Rebirth and Resurrection. Depth Mysticism espouses an alternative form of Resurrection different from standard Christianity.