About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of technology on the human psyche and the importance of maintaining a conscious connection to our humanity amidst industrial and post-industrial disruptions.

Are we living through a tech-driven collapse of the ecology of mind? In his new book, Jung vs. Borg, author, psychologist and Jungian scholar GLEN SLATER Ph.D suggests that industrial disruption of the outer world is now being followed by a post-industrial disruption of the inner world. Yet, there is hope. Much depends on our capacity to remain conscious of the effect each stage of innovation has on the psyche and on the social and cultural changes that will follow. Becoming conscious of the non-neutral operation of algorithms and big tech’s focus on profit over people is crucial, for example. We can also look to Jungian psychology for a countercultural turn toward the deeply human and the sacred. We can seek out connection to spirit and place, to counteract life in a world that can feel mostly transactional and exploitative. What’s required is a “guerrilla operation” to redirect the technological juggernaut, by maintaining a symbolic life, working with our dreams and honoring art, history and culture, not just science and technology. Glen Slater, Ph.D. is the author of Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age. For the past 25 years he has taught in the areas of…

People in this episode

Hosts: Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Guest: GLEN SLATER Ph.D

Topics covered

• technology and psychology
• impact of AI
• Jungian psychology
• cultural changes
• human connection
• symbolic life

Keywords

• AI
• Jungian psychology
• technology
• mental ecology
• cultural changes
• symbolic life
• human connection

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Pacifica Graduate Institute

Books & works: Jung vs. Borg, Senex and Puer, Varieties of Mythic Experience

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