Nigredo: Finding Light in Our Darkness

This Jungian Life Podcast · Apr 16, 2020 · 1h 5m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The alchemical term nigredo means black or blackening, and is associated with decomposition and putrefaction. As a psychological state, nigredo is “the great suffering and grief” which the detached forces of nature inflict on the soul. We realize in sorrow that what we thought were truths were illusory. Individuals may have taken pride in their virtues, talents or good fortune; societies may have touted their cultural superiority, military prowess, or wealth. When we are stripped of easy beliefs, we have no defense against the…