Central banks have spent decades flooding the global economy with newly created money. We are told this policy, or what is called a monetary inflation, is needed to stimulate economic growth and to keep unemployment low, but like so many of the justifications that politicians and bureaucrats offer for their actions, this one is a [] The post The Uncensored Truth about Inflation How Inflation Enriches Politicians and the 1% first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Feb 28, 2023•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast There are just as many people who become neurotic because they are merely normal, as there are people who are neurotic because they cannot become normal. That it should enter anyones head to educate them to normality is a nightmare for the former, because their deepest need is really to be able to lead abnormal [] The post Why are so Many People Neurotic? Carl Jung as Therapist first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jan 31, 2023•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast not increase of consciousness is the goal, but enhancement of power. Nietzsche, The Will to Power In the quest to live a good life, each of us, consciously or implicitly, chooses an ultimate value around which to orient our life. For many this value is wealth, for others it may be status, social-acceptance, happiness, [] The post Why You Should Seek Power, Not Happiness Nietzsches Guide to Greatness first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Dec 08, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1888, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: What I relate is the history of the next two centuries. I describe what is coming, what can no longer come differently: the advent of nihilism. Nietzsche, The Will to Power Nihilism is the conviction that there is no meaning to life, that the world is inhospitable to [] The post Nietzsche and Nihilism A Warning to the West first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Nov 10, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Either we have no dreams or our dreams are interesting. We should learn to arrange our waking life the same way: nothing or interesting. Nietzsche, The Gay Science The chance of living a good life is increased by attaining success in two main areas. Firstly, we need to make money, as poverty is limiting and [] The post How to Quit Your Boring Job Turn a Passion into a Career first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Oct 26, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast if inflation is not eliminated very soon, all our technological and scientific improvements will not prevent us from a tremendous financial catastrophe that will destroy practically all that civilization has created in the last several hundred years. Ludwig von Mises, Ludwig von Mises on Money and Inflation The philosopher George Santayana stated that Those [] The post How Inflation Precipitates Societal Collapse first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Oct 10, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast I see in you all the characteristic stigma of decay. I can prove to you that your atheism and your pessimism and your cynicism, your immorality, your broken-down marriageswere characteristic marks of the dying ages of ancient States. Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West Are we living in an age of civilizational collapse? In [] The post Will Civilization Collapse? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Sep 19, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast This is precisely the risk modern man runs: he may wake up one day to find that he has missed half his life. Carl Jung, Practice of Psychotherapy Psychotropic drugs have become one of the most common forms of treatment for anxiety disorders and depression. But these drugs are not very good at curing [] The post How to Stop Wasting Your Life Carl Jung as Therapist first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Aug 21, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Humanity is arming itself, in dread and fascinated horror, for a stupendous crime. Carl Jung, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious While we cannot create a heaven on earth, we can create a hell and history is full of examples. Many of these man-made hells are the result of war and conquest, but many others are [] The post Scapegoating and the Road to Political Persecution first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jul 14, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast The discipline of suffering, of great suffering do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Suffering is inevitable. It is an essential component of the human condition, and the sources of suffering are many. Some have gone as far [] The post Why Suffering can Promote Strength and Health first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jun 14, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it. Carl Jung, Practice of Psychotherapy We live in a world consumed by an endless series of crises. But of all the crises we face the one that may be of the greatest concern, is one [] The post Why the Lack of Religion Breeds Mental Illness first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
May 05, 2022•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast Attention is not just another cognitive function. Attention is how our world comes into being for us. The altered nature of attention can appear to abolish parts of the world, collapse time and space [and] eviscerate emotion. . .It is a profoundly moral act. Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things As was explored in [] The post Anxiety and Depression A Retreat into a Constricted World first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Apr 11, 2022•8 min•Transcript available on Metacast Is the modern world caught in the grip of a fear psychosis and has a cult of safety entrenched itself the West? In this video, we are going to explore these questions. Quite an experience, to live in fear, isnt it? Thats what it is to be a slave. Blade Runner Today we live longer [] The post Fear Psychosis and the Cult of Safety Why are People so Afraid? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Apr 02, 2022•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast Anxiously we look round for collective measures, thereby reinforcing the very mass-mindedness we want to fight against. Theres only one remedy for the leveling effect of all collective measures, and this is to emphasize and increase the value of the individual. Carl Jung, Civilization in Transition We live in an age where two visions [] The post Is Humanity Doomed? Carl Jung on Healing a Sick Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Mar 22, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The real question is whether the brighter future is always so distant. What if it has been here for a long time already and only our own blindness and weakness have prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it. Vaclav Havel, The Power of the Powerless [] The post The Parallel Society vs Totalitarianism | How to Create a Free World first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Feb 26, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Authoritarianism in religion and science, let alone politics, is becoming increasingly accepted, not particularly because so many people explicitly believe in it but because they feel themselves individually powerless and anxious. So what else can one doexcept follow the mass political leaderor follow the authority of customs, public opinion, and social expectations? Rollo May, Mans [] The post Why are Most People Cowards? | Obedience and the Rise of Authoritarianism first appeared on Academy of...
Jan 26, 2022•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The State takes the place of Godthe socialist dictatorships are religions and State slavery is a form of worship. Carl Jung, The Undiscovered Self Since the birth of totalitarianism in the 20th century much has been written about this form of rule and millions have read George Orwells depiction of it in the classic novel [] The post Is Government the New God? The Religion of Totalitarianism first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Dec 28, 2021•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast I rejoice that horses and steers have to be broken before they can be made the slaves of men, and that men themselves have some wild oats still left to sow before they become submissive members of society. Henry David Thoreau, Walking If this claim of Henry David Thoreaus is true that we must [] The post Is the Mainstream Media a Threat to Freedom and Sanity? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Nov 27, 2021•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood. Alice Miller, Breaking Down the Wall of Silence In the Buddhists conception of the universe, the wheel of life revolves through 6 realms, each representing a different [] The post The Crisis of Addiction Childhood Trauma and a Corrupt Culture first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Nov 09, 2021•14 min•Transcript available on Metacast In the book The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt describes the rudimentary mass surveillance system used by the secret police force of the Russian Empire. Every suspect was noted on a large card in the center of which his name was surrounded by a red circle; his political friends were designated by smaller red circles [] The post Smartphones and Social Media: A Mass Surveillance Dystopia first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Oct 30, 2021•11 min•Transcript available on Metacast WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT? These were the first words sent over the newly invented electric telegraph machine in May 1844. This message proved to be prophetic. For the communication technologies that followed in the wake of the telegraph, from the telephone, to the radio, to TV, computers, the internet, and now smart phones and social [] The post Social Media Why it Sickens the Self and Divides Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Oct 16, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast And the lie has, in fact, led us so far away from a normal society that you cannot even orient yourself any longer; in its dense, gray fog not even one pillar can be seen. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago Lying has always been used for political purposes. Lies cover up corruption, past mistakes and [] The post The Big Lie How to Enslave the World first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Sep 30, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,reflecting on the Soviet Unions descent intototalitarianrulein the mid-20thcentury,and all thethings that could have been done to preventit,wrote the following: Ifif We didnt love freedom enough. And even more we had no awareness of the real situation.. .we hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that [] The post How to Escape from a Sick Society first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Sep 07, 2021•13 min•Transcript available on Metacast In 1940 George Orwell wrote: Almost certainly we are moving into an age of totalitarian dictatorships an age in which freedom of thought will be at first a deadly sin andlater ona meaningless abstraction. The autonomous individual is going to be stamped out of existence. George Orwell, Inside the Whale George Orwells dystopian novel [] The post Is 1984 Becoming a Reality? George Orwells Warning to the World first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Aug 07, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In his 1958book Brave New World Revisited, Aldous Huxley wrote the following: If the first half of the twentieth century was the era of the technical engineers, the second half may well be the era of the social engineers and the twenty-first century, I suppose, will be the era of World Controllers, the scientific [] The post Do We Live in a Brave New World? Aldous Huxleys Warning to the World first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jun 28, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Referring to the individual who descends into the depths of the mind, Nietzsche wrote: He enters alabyrinth, andmultiplies a thousandfold the dangers that life in itself brings with it of which not the least is that nobody can see how and where he loses his way, becomes solitary, and is torn to pieces by [] The post What Happened to Nietzsche? Madness and the Divine Mania first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
Jun 17, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast In January of 1889, the great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche went mad.One year later, Nietzsches friend Peter Gast visited him in a mental asylum in Jena. He wrote the following: He did not look very illI believe Nietzsche would be just about as grateful to his rescuers as somebody who has jumped into the water [] The post Nietzsche and Madness A Descent into the Depths first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
May 29, 2021•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast . . .when all is said and done, our own existence is an experiment of nature, an attempt at a new synthesis. Carl Jung, Structure & Dynamics of the Psyche WhileCarl Jungis best known for his ideas on the unconscious, be it his theory of the archetypes or his writings on the shadow side [] The post Carl Jungs Method of Self-Development The Path of Individuation first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
May 19, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. Gustav Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the [] The post The Manufacturing of a Mass Psychosis Can Sanity Return to an Insane World? first appeared on Academy of Ideas ....
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