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Stewart Alsop sits down with Daniel Freed, forty thousand words deep into a book that ties together consciousness, totalitarianism, archetypes, and religion, and the two spend the conversation tracing how those threads connect. They work through Jungian archetypes as behavioral blueprints embedded in stories across generations, unpacking the father, mother, and son roles and what they reveal about tradition, potential, and the individual. From there they get into Jordan Peterson's model of storytelling as a defense against totalitarian thinking, detour through Buddhism, Taoism, and the idea of the absolute, and Daniel walks through his own attempt to prove the limits...
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Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. This podcast is for you if you have an insane drive to find the truth of things. It's not the good answers that we seek, but the good questions. I interview a range of different guests from many different fields, all with the intention to uncover the simple truths that are hidden in plain sight. Most people don't want to go there. I go there. My guests go there,
and you benefit. Please let me know if you enjoy these episodes and as always, subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or wherever you listen to the podcasts. Welcome to the Crazy Wisdom Podcast. I've got Daniel Fried here and he has 40,000 words into writing a book on consciousness, totalitarianism, archetypes, and religion. Welcome to the show.
Thank you. So glad to be here. so archetypes have been coming up a lot for me recently particularly the shadow archetype uh that i think young invented actually do you know do you know young invented it is that yeah that is right yeah so uh what's going on with archetypes you also told me last time we talked you told
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