James Hollis | Bernardo Kastrup: A life of meaning

What happens when a world leading idealist philosopher meets a leading Jungian analysts to ask:

What is a life of meaning? 

In this dialogue, Bernardo explores how idealism – the view that reality is fundamentally mental – can transform our understanding of suffering, vocation and purpose, while James Hollis brings Jung’s insights on archetypes, shadow and individuation to show how that worldview lands in the texture of an actual human life. 

Together they’ll ask how seeing the world as psyche, rather than dead matter, might change the way we face midlife, relationships, anxiety and the call to become who we are.

Due to James' age, he will be present just for the 1st hour of this event, followed by a Q&A with Bernardo Kastrup. 

About James Hollis

James Hollis, PhD, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading Jungian analysts and interpreters of Jung’s legacy in our time. Zurich-trained at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zürich, he is a Jungian analyst in private practice in Washington, DC, after an earlier career teaching humanities and the history of ideas for 26 years. 

He has held major leadership roles in the Jungian world, including Executive Director of the Jung Educational Center in Houston, Executive Director of the Jung Society of Washington, founding Director of Training at the Philadelphia Jung Institute, Senior Training Analyst for the Inter-Regional Society of Jungian Analysts, and Vice-President Emeritus of the Philemon Foundation. 

Hollis is the author of more than seventeen influential books on depth psychology and the challenges of modern soul-making, among them The Middle Passage, Swamplands of the Soul, The Eden Project, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Living an Examined Life, Living Between Worlds and A Life of Meaning, which have become touchstones for readers navigating midlife, meaning and the demands of the unconscious.

About Bernardo Kastrup

Photo by Pedro Henrique Casarin

Bernardo Kastrup's work has been leading the modern renaissance of the philosophical position, ‘metaphysical idealism’ that reality is essentially mental, an appearance in ‘mind.’  Bernardo has a Ph.D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph.D. in computer engineering (reconfigurable computing, artificial intelligence). As a scientist, Bernardo has worked for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) and the Philips Research Laboratories (where the 'Casimir Effect' of Quantum Field Theory was discovered). Formulated in detail in many academic papers and books, his ideas have been featured on Scientific American, the Institute of Art and Ideas, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association and Big Think, among others. Bernardo's most recent book is The Idea of the World: A multi-disciplinary argument for the mental nature of reality. For more information, freely downloadable papers, videos, etc., please visit www.bernardokastrup.com.

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