This episode explores the cost of being "normal" and how master-slave dynamics persist in the world of finance. The episode covers:- How the modern financial system mirrors the master-slave relationship- How currency debasement operates- The stark reality of national debt and what it means for your freedom- How housing affordability has fundamentally changed over 40 years- Why obsessing over metrics (money, status, income) becomes its own form of psychological inflation- The difference between genuine material freedom and the illusion of wealth- How every idea taken to its extreme becomes a caricature of itselfUsing examples from currency creation to the BBC's institutional drift, this episode shows how Power Positions inevitably corrupt their original purpose. Max shares sobering data on dollar devaluation since 1913 and UK housing price-to-earnings ratios that reveal the true cost of participating unconsciously in these systems.This is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com-------------------📚 Additional Resources:- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real🎧 Podcasts:- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs📱 Connect With Us:- Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/1682899242067996- Instagram: instagram.com/makeitconscious- X: x.com/makeitconscious
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The Modern Master-Slave Dynamic: Power vs. Freedom | Mapping the Shadow
This episode explores Hegel's Master-Slave dialectic and how these fundamental power dynamics manifest in modern life. It covers:- How Hegel's "Lord-Bondsman" dialectic applies in today's world- Why the 'master' ultimately fails to achieve true recognition and freedom- How 'slaves' develop self-consciousness through their labour- The unsustainable nature of power-based relationships- Why exchanging love for power creates oppressive hierarchies- How to identify if you're being pulled into a master-slave dynamic- The distinction between freedom and mere powerThis is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com-------------------📚 Additional Resources:- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real🎧 Podcasts:- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs📱 Connect With Us:- Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/1682899242067996- Instagram: instagram.com/makeitconscious- X: x.com/makeitconscious
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The Purpose of Suffering: Towards Self-Knowledge | Mapping The Shadow
This episode explores the vital role suffering plays in psychological development and transformation. Far from being unnecessary or a glitch in existence, suffering serves as an essential guardrail in the development of self-knowledge.In this episode, I cover:- Why suffering is not a glitch but an energetic necessity in existence- The dangers of trying to 'eliminate' suffering- The two kinds of pain: the pain of harm and the pain of release- Why spiritual bypassing and pharmaceutical approaches fail- How meaning transforms our relationship with suffering- The connection between suffering and freedomThis is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com-------------------📚 Additional Resources:- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real🎧 Podcasts:- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs📱 Connect With Us:- Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/1682899242067996- Instagram: instagram.com/makeitconscious- X: x.com/makeitconscious
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Evil's Self-Contradiction: The Dissonance Loop Explained | Mapping the Shadow
This episode continues our exploration of evil by examining its inherently self-contradictory nature. Despite appearing powerful, evil contains the seeds of its own destruction through flagrant contradiction at every level.In this episode:- Why evil is marked by profound internal dissonance- How Schelling described evil as "the self-consuming and always annihilating contradiction"- The concept of the Dissonance Loop and how it manifests in everyday life- Jung's insights into inflated consciousness that "dooms itself to calamities"- Why hypocrisy isn't just a symptom of evil but its fundamental characteristic- How evil attempts to "bend the absolute to the particular" and why this inevitably failsThis is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com-------------------📚 Additional Resources:- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real🎧 Podcasts:- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs📱 Connect With Us:- Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/1682899242067996- Instagram: instagram.com/makeitconscious- X: x.com/makeitconscious
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Understanding Evil & Morality: The Ultimate Aim of All Shadow Work | Mapping the Shadow
This episode explores the challenging but crucial topic of evil and morality within shadow work. Despite a cultural obliviousness to evil and what it is at core, we all have an archetypal understanding of it at the unconscious level.In this episode:- Why deeply understanding evil and morality is the natural endpoint of shadow work- How Jung's view that "everything that becomes too old becomes evil" applies to our psychological patterns- Schelling's profound insight that evil is the use of freedom to violate freedom- Why hypocrisy is the fundamental sin- The concept of the "Dissonance Loop" and how it manifests in everyday life- Why even our highest virtues contain the potential for evilThis is part of an ongoing series exploring Shadow Mapping™ and Shadow Dialectics - a comprehensive approach to understanding psychological dynamics and transformation.🎓 Go Deeper with Shadow Work:- Shadow Mapping Sessions: makeitconscious.com/step/shadow-mapping- The Dialectics of Shadow (Article): makeitconscious.com/the-dialectics-of-shadow/- Know Yourself Programme: knowyourself.makeitconscious.com-------------------📚 Additional Resources:- Tarot Birth Chart Reports: makeitconscious.com/step/tarot-birth-chart-reports- Seven Habits of Individuation Ebook: makeitconscious.com/sevenhabits- Why Divination is Real article series: makeitconscious.com/why-divination-is-real🎧 Podcasts:- MiC Podcast: open.spotify.com/show/6AxGzV3sa6kK2NKSKDyuJa- Inner Work Exercises: open.spotify.com/show/4OMC4T1PNsA951dvvHhYMs📱 Connect With Us:- Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/1682899242067996- Instagram: instagram.com/makeitconscious- X: x.com/makeitconscious
Welcome to Make it Conscious and join me, Max Chegwyn, in a discussion of all things self-knowledge. Calling on the insights of great thinkers from western philosophy and depth psychology, this is a show about freedom, duality, responsibility, self-hood, mystery, and what there is.