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Episode 5 · Saturday · the descent

Waking in the dark wood: midlife, ego, and the descent.

A different kind of growth than the upward arc culture trains for.

Date Duration 17 min Format Saturday · the descent

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A Saturday Descent format episode on midlife, the ego's resistance to its own diminishment, and the work of descent as a different kind of growth than the upward arc most professional development culture trains for. Drawing on James Hollis, Carl Jung, and the long tradition of the second-half-of-life literature.

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