Becca Tarnas | Journey To The Imaginal Realm: Archetypes In The Lord Of The Rings

Becca Tarnas is the author of Journey To The Imaginal Realm: A Reader's Guide To J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. As a PHD scholar of philosophy and religion, Becca guides us through the deep symbolic archive and wisdom of Tolkien's great works. In this episode we explore the source of human imagination, the Atlantis mystery in Middle-Earth, the parallels between Carl Jung and Tolkien, and the mechanism by which great stories are able to immerse us in an enchanted other-world.In the Plus+ Extension, we look at Tolkien's use of Venusian symbolism, the archetype of the syzygy (union of sun and moon), Tolkien's critique of industrialization, the enigmatic character of Tom Bombadil, and much more.JOIN INNERVERSE PLUS+ FOR EXTENDED EPISODES!https://www.patreon.com/posts/34548350FIND BECCA TARNAS ONLINEBecca Tarnas Website Journey To The Imaginal Realm (Book)Archetypal Prism Astrological CounselingArchai: The Journal of Archetypal CosmologyInstagram @becca.tarnasWE TALKED ABOUT…How Becca got swept up into the world of Middle-EarthNumerology symbolism in The Lord of the Rings taleThe Matrix and the esoteric meaning of the One RingTolkien's dream-visions of Atlantis and how it appears in his fiction"The Inklings" Tolkien's club with other authors of his timeUnfinished stories like The Lost Road, The Notion Club PapersHow Tolkien predicted England's Great Flood of 1987Ancestral memory and inherited traumaSynchronistic parallels between Carl Jung and JRR TolkienThe Music of the Ainur, a cosmogony of Middle-Earth (Creation Myth)Samuel Coleridge, Idealism, the primary imagination and sub-creation, the mechanism used by artistsEnchantment - being immersed in a believable world of fantasyWitnessing to co-create with the divine imagination instead of trying to be the God of creation ONLY IN PLUS+ (Subscribe!)The etymological roots of "invention"Discovering one's sense of awe and wonderAlchemical as above so below mysteries of stars, water, and languageThe story of Eärendil the Mariner, the first and most prevalent character in Tolkien's sagaFrodo's star-glass and Venusian archetypal symbolismA Jungian perspective on the archetype of the syzygy, uniting solar and lunar qualities to individuate as the Higher SelfUnderstanding the difference between gender and polarity and seeking the balance betweenMordor and Saruman as symbols of the consequences of industrialization and scientific reductionismThe tree-people known as Ents and Tolkien's perspective on nature as a conscious entitySolving our problematic effects on the environment with personal responsibility and communityTom Bombadil, the most anomalous character in Lord of the Rings, and the self-realized individual in relation to natureThe curious incident in the barrow downs and consciousness time-travelThat awesome moment where the Lady Eowyn shanks the Witch King of the NazgulSUPPORT INNERVERSE WITH SECRET ENERGY POWER-UPSBlessed Herbs Colon Cleanse Kit Shilajit - "The Destroyer of Weakness"Become a Secret Energy affiliate and generate Karma Free wealth - Link To Spiritech Specialist ProgramMUSIC IN THIS EPISODEIntro: "Foggy Dreams" by Wisdom TradersOutro: "Incandescent EP" by MioWnize Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.