The real war is within
Laura and Bernard talk to astrologer, psychotherapist, and author Mark Jones about Spiritual Psychology and Evolutionary Astrology and why we need a more holistic psychos-spiritual approach in self-work and the therapy space. Mark talks about the pitfalls of dogmatic traditional astrology when not combined with psycho-spiritual work, the trap on working on the false self, the issue with mainstream self-help and generic coaching, PsychoSynthesis, the shadow side and future of astrology, and more. Mark’s website: https://markjonesastrology.com
Show Notes Part 1:
- The limitation of using astrology without psycho-spiritual work
- Mark’s journey and how he got into spiritual psychology and evolutionary astrology
- The limitation of classic psycho-analysis
- Mark’s experience of studying with David Hawkins and what he learned
- The map of consciousness and how people live out specific states of consciousness
- The importance of the will and willingness
- The will in spiritual work is different than the will of the ego
- The issue with mainstream self-help (Tony Robbins, etc) and generic coaching
- The trap of working on the wrong/false self
- Personality vs Essence
- Quality vs. Quantity
- Astrology and the potential for Psycho-Spiritual work
- Mistaking gathering intellectual information for the work and understanding
- Mark’s experience with Gurdjieff’s work
- Mark’s take on Pluto in Aquarius and the splitting of humanity
- Assigioli and PsychoSynthesis
- The necessity for psychological work AND spiritual work
- The necessity to aspire to the Divine
- The real war is within
In Part 2 (only for members), we go deeper into:
- Mark’s experience of studying Evolutionary Astrology with the founder, Jeffrey Wolf-Green
- The uniqueness of evolutionary astrology in the context of soul evolution and Pluto transits
- Mark’s approach to evolutionary astrology
- Collective evolution, history, and the planetary nodes
- A person’s birth chart becomes “alive” by the level of consciousness it is lived out
- The issue with traditional “black and white” astrology and predictive astrology
- The space-time moment of a birth chart
- Astrology and Cosmic Paranoia
- When astrologers take the birth chart too seriously with their black-and-white literal interpretations
- Embracing the Unknown
- The danger of astrology when in the hands of an incompetent “overconfident” astrologer
- The shadow side of astrology
- The necessity of combining astrology with PsychoSpiritual work
- The level of being of the astrologer determines the quality of the reading
- The limitation of taking any one modality/teaching as the sole foundation
- Truth is a pathless land
- The future of astrology
- Information and stimulation overload, the loss of creativity, and the way out
Go HERE to listen to Part 2 if you’re a member or REGISTER to become a member to access the membership section (including the membership forum.)
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