Seeking Certainty: The Seduction of Conspiracy Theories

This Jungian Life Podcast · Sep 3, 2020 · 1h 3m

DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠In times of uncertainty truth is hard to discern, collective cohesion frays, and social factions become embattled. Unmediated shadow then seeks expression through the archetypal realm and takes on extra-ordinary attributes. Persecutory mythologies arise, for big psychic situations need big stories to compensate for big feelings of anxiety, powerlessness, and marginalization.

Insecurities are projected onto the outer-world as clandestine enemies of mythic proportions: alien rulers, government cabals, and other images of secret…