Can Angels Survive in Our Disenchanted World?

That's an incredibly comforting idea that there is some transpersonal entity out there that is watching over you. I mean, the union analyst, James Hillman, likens the Ardaemon, which we've talked about, to a guardian angel that they're that we each have a kind of transpersonal counterpart that's has some responsibility for us. Welcome to this union life. Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marciano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. I'm Lisa Marciano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst on Cape Cod. Today, we're going to talk about angels from a historic perspective but with a Jungian lens. They are ubiquitous. They show up in people's dreams. They show up in religious texts. They show up in art all over the place. But angels from a purely Jungian standpoint are symbolic figures that transmit unconscious content into consciousness. They're often mediators when meaning has to cross a boundary that the ego can't cross by itself. Their wings and luminosity express Psyche's experience of thought and spirit as mobile, autonomous, and transpersonal. They belong to a psychic polarity rather than a kind of moral idealization, which often they fall into in our ideas. So they are necessary counterforces, and they confront consciousness with what must be faced no matter how uncanny. So let's grab our own angels, such as they are, and wade into the divine waters. I love that. And, and for those of you who are on Instagram, Joseph, you mentioned angels in art. I, I, took the Liberty of collecting many angel images on a recent trip that I took, and I, welcome you to check out that post. I think I posted 16 or 17 angel images. And Oh my goodness. If you wanna take a guess about where any of those were taken, I'd I'll entertain your, your guesses. It was more than one place in the same city though. So Fun. But, but yes, I mean, and of course, angels are very, cross cultural. They're we think about them in the Christian context, but in fact, and and Joseph, you can weigh in more here, but they, they actually kind of come to us through Hebrew scripture and, through other cultures as well through, the Semitic religions. So they're very, very ancient. And in fact, you don't find them much in the early books of the new, of the old Testament. It's more, it's only in the later books of the old Testament that they start coming forward. And of course now in, in the Christian iconography, they're, they're kind of ubiquitous. But but they they've they sort of seeped in, didn't they, through these other cultures? Yes. They got their due. On Sunday, January 18, we are hosting a special free seminar …