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- The Terminator: An Archetypal Analysis
- The Terminator Movies: An Archetypal Analysis Part 1
- The Trouble of Interpretation
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- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 5
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 4
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 3
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 2
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 1
- Archetypology, Volume 1 Now Available
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 4
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 3
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 2
- The Interminable Land War
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 1
- New Book Cover
- USAIDS
- Approaching Herd Immunity?
- One More Fix
- Oedipus at Colonus
- The WEMP
- Once more on Zombification
- Governed by Zombies
- Introducing Archetypology
- A Xmas Gift
- The Power of Archetypes: Raygun Edition
- The Games People Play
- Australia’s “let them eat cake” moment?
- Children of anti-nature
- What happens when your government’s a junkie?
- ChatWTF
- It’s the vegetables, stupid
- The American Comedy Rolls On
- Neoliberalism Must Die
- On hiatus (sort of)
- Midwife’s Advice
- The Uninvited Guest
- Trump and Luther: Unlikely Bedfellows
- The Key
- The Hitler Complex strikes again
- The Archetypal Human
- An Update
- The Presidential Myth
- Power and the Esoteric
- Livin’ in the Past
- Zero Sum Mythology
- The Three Pillars of Enabling
- The Trump Comedy
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 8: The Modern West as Cultural Holon
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 7: A Quadrant Analysis of Corona
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 6: Quadrant Fundamentalism
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 5: Wilber’s Quadrants
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 4: Wholes and Fields
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 3: Organisms and Civilisations
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 2: The Levels of Being
- The Archetypal Calculus Part 1: Introduction
- Patrick White’s “The Vivisector”
- From Alma Mater to Edax Mater
- Taking a Break
- The Universal State of America: Book Now Available
- The Universal State of America Part 5: Once more on pseudomorphosis
- The Universal State of America Part 4: Trade Wars and Psychic Battles
- The Universal State of America Part 3: The Civilisational Oedipus Complex
- The Universal State of America Part 2: The Unity of Microcosm and Macrocosm
- The Universal State of America Part 1: Coming Soon
- Tabula rasa squared
- A little bit of history repeating
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 2: The Hidden Fortress
- Monstrosities R Us
- Intellect vs Will
- Life Lessons from Kurosawa Films Part 1: Sanjuro
- Welcome to the Machine
- The Religious Crisis of the Modern West
- The Encounter with the Soul
- The Hyper-Masculine
- King Lear’s Soul
- No post this week
- Shakespeare and the Archetypes
- Hamlet: The Tragedy of the Orphan
- To Lawn or not to Lawn
- Once More on the Esoteric
- The Great Levelling
- Can we afford that?
- A Theory of Everything
- The Intellectual Proletariat
- Exchanging Value
- Govern me harder, mommy
- On Solar and Lunar Knowledge
- Sabotage
- Get behind me, Technocracy
- Imperialism 3.0
- Play it again, Sam
- Christian Existentialism Part 6: The Rise of the Irrational
- Christian Existentialism Part 5: From Luther to Feynman
- Christian Existentialism Part 4: The Boiling Point of Water
- Christian Existentialism Part 3: Necessity vs Faith
- Christian Existentialism Part 2: The Worship of Idols
- Christian Existentialism Part 1: The Confrontation with Nothingness
- The Devouring Mother 2.0
Hi Simon, Downloaded your podcast, and will have a listen tomorrow! I’ll be interested to see where you take this…
Tom – good question. I can’t remember why I didn’t get around to that. I might think about returning to…
Hi there. Excellent analysis. Where is part 2? Thank you very much.
Sandra – the Orphan Story is particularly common in science fiction, which is really our modern mythology, and therefore functions…
Hi Simon, After reading your analysis I have realised that the science fiction book that I am currently reading is…
Chris – yeah, the first two are classics. Too bad they couldn’t leave them alone. Makes me wonder, has there…
Hi Simon, How good were the first two instalments of that film franchise? The original film left me with nightmares…
Chris – the interesting thing about Jesus healing the sick and even bringing people back from the dead is that…
Hi Simon, At no earlier time in my (short) recollection, can I recall society heading in such uncertain directions as…
Yes. Add internet memes and viral news stories to the list. These are slightly different in that they emerge from…
Same thing should be kept in mind about movies, ads and mass media in general. The real author is the…
Well, that’s another thing to bear in mind. For a lot of “folk stories”, there was no single author and…
Hah! Separated from vision all men bow before truth and despair.
Good point. Stories have a force that impinge on our lives as palpably as gravity. The composers of the ancient…
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Chris – hah! As somebody who always gets fever dreams when I come down with the flu, I can see…