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InnerVerse • 2021

Tolkien & the Myth of Our Time

Loralee Scaife | Return of the King Within, Tolkien, and the Guiding Myth of Our Time

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Loralee Scaife is an astrologer who uses Jungian techniques to analyze mythology, using stories to map the collective unconscious. She's created a video series using The Lord of the Rings films and books as a mystical mythic lens through which we can better understand our troubled times. In our discussion on Tolkien's tales, we analyze the nature of evil and our responsibility to stand up as the good folk of the world, in defense of the Life Force itself.

In the Plus+ Extension, we talk about Tolkien's cosmology, the universal creative purpose of tragedy, lies, and sorrow, the light and shadow of the King archetype, cymatics and the secrets of sound & light, ancestors living in our language, the Age of Aquarius, and the myth of Prometheus. A jam packed extension if there ever was one!

ChaptersInside the full 2h 31m episode24 chapters
0:00Welcome and the Return to Middle-Earth
6:01Her Road to Tolkien After 2001
10:47Amplification: Reading Myth Like a Dream
16:16Myth as a Culture's Operating Manual
21:08Chance on America's Transplanted Mythology
26:50Saturn, Pluto, and the Shadow Cycle
32:34The Ring as Circle, Torus, and Symbol
39:28Arwen's Jewel and the Elfstone
45:40Aragorn Crowned and the New Age of Men
49:05Evil, and Our Naivete About It
54:18White Hats, Gandalf, and Projection
58:59Personal Responsibility and Inner Kingship
1:06:04Tolkien's Cosmology and the Music of the Ainur
1:09:49Melkor's Dissonance and the Question of Evil
1:20:24Domination as Vampirism: Melkor and Sauron
1:22:37The Benevolent King Versus the Shadow King
1:27:08Aragorn Learns to Trust Gandalf
1:29:47The Lover Archetype and Being Present
1:41:17Ancestry and the Societal Wound
1:50:18Is Democracy Opposed to Conscious Kingship?
1:53:29The Fellowship as a Model for Small Groups
2:00:50Prometheus, Aquarius, and Galadriel's Light
2:11:18Hobbits Carry the Torch of Goodness
2:17:49Tolkien at the End of Time Article
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Astrologer and Jungian mythologist

Loralee Scaife is an astrologer who uses Jungian techniques to analyze mythology, particularly Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, as a lens for understanding the collective unconscious and archetypal themes like the 'King within.'

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