We Can’t Breathe: Facing the Pain of Racism

This Jungian Life Podcast · Jun 11, 2020 · 1h 11m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Racial injustice takes one’s breath away. It reaches back to the psychic asphyxiations of the Middle Passage, slavery, and Jim Crow—cut-offs from home, family, freedom and justice. Racism persists in systemic inequities and ongoing instances of police violence. The death of George Floyd, handcuffed, pleading, and unable to breathe, has inspired a collective rising in protest against current brutality and historic inhumanity. Breath as essence, consciousness and soul gives voice to lamentation and outrage. We cry out for the clean…