What if we have “the gods” all wrong? What if they’re not bygone superstitions of ancient cultures, but living archetypes that are endemic to the human psyche?

Mythopoetic thinkers like psychiatrist, Carl Jung argued just that.

But there’s one archetype that Jung and many others were (and are) particularly interested in. The Greeks called him Hermes, the Romans, Mercury.

What is about this figure that captivates the curiosity of so many great minds? What does the archetype really symbolize? Why does Hermes stay in the zeitgeist? Why is he associated with the phenomenon of synchronicity? Why did Jung place him at the center of both alchemical process and individuation?

In this transmission, we’ll explore all of the above and more!


Chapters:
00:00 What if we're wrong about the "gods"
01:23 A more useful way to think about gods and myth
02:30 Archetypes and the collective unconscious
04:13 Carl Jung's fascination with Hermes Mercury and Alchemy
06:06 Hermes' mythological origin story
10:15 The hidden archetypal wisdom in this Hermes myth
10:57 Additional roles of the hermes mercury archetype
11:45 How the collective unconscious ties all of this together
12:30 The mind blowing link between Hermes mercury, alchemy and Jung
15:05 The relationship between hermes mercury and synchronicity
18:09 Why thinking mythologically is important and practical