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04/12/2026

04/12/2026

04/12/2026

04/12/2026

It's Archetypal Friday and our symbol for this week is annihilation.

Annihilation was something once reserved for Gods, either in the form of apocalypse or natural disasters. Mankind and especially its most powerful nations have taken upon themselves the pursuit of creating and wielding weaponry that can truly annihilate in ways only previously known in the world of the imaginary. Whereas once we understood that annihilation came as divine punishment for sin or as a demonstration of the power of the divine, we see annihilation threatened as executed on the whims of powerful people for the purposes of accessing and hoarding resources, racist ideology, diversion from domestic strife, or jockeying for geopolitical dominance. Human beings have done terrible things to each other for time immemorial but where once the act of killing had to be done by a killer face to face with their victim, nations are now indiscriminately murdered by powerful technology by a faceless killer or an algorithm. Despite the increasing abstraction of the victim to the killer and the increasing abstraction of the reasons for that killing, the victims of this violence die the same terrible way that they always have. In our contemporary world, possessors of this enormous killing power have invented a new senselessness because, unlike the terrible floods, fires, and famine that have always beleaguered humanity, this mass death was caused by the choices of human beings.

Image: ARAS Record 7Ar.151
Chandi
ca. 18th century CE
Painting: pigment on paper?
Rajasthan, India

04/12/2026

🪫LOW ENERGY: Many people enter therapy because of a general sense that every day feels like wading through mud.

This week, the team is taking some time off, and we're reissuing our discussion of why we might feel lethargic and unmotivated in our lives.

In the episode we cover:

✅ Jung's concept of libido.
✅ Feeling paralyzed by too many choices, or by a set of choices that don't speak to us.
✅ How over aligning with cultural norms can cut off access to instinctive vitality
✅ Dreams, and how they can help us find the life energy we crave.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.