Sophia calls out in the streets and at the city gates. She is the Bible’s personification of Wisdom, and through a Jungian lens, a figure of the archetypal feminine. In this episode, Sean McGrath takes us from Sophia’s biblical roots to Jakob Böhme and Jung’s Answer to Job.

We explore Sophia as the mirror in which God comes to know himself, Lucifer’s refusal of relationship and ask what Sean means when he calls Sophia “the wildness of the tradition.”

Proverbs 8: Wisdom's Call

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Jakob Lusensky on the Hermitix podcast discussing the archetype of the puer aeternus, or eternal youth.

Drawing on Marie-Louise von Franz and James Hillman, they explore possibility and the difficulty of commitment, the relationship between youth and age, and the place of grief and imagination..

Originally published on Hermitix.

“I'm not a machine,” Jung insists in one of his last recorded interviews. What might his resistance tell us about our relationship to technology today?

An audio essay by Jakob Lusensky, featuring Jung’s original voice, on artificial intelligence, faith and the work of becoming psychologically mature.

From the upcoming essay Living from the Centre, exploring Jung’s religious attitude in an age of AI.

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References

Amodei, D. (2026, January). The adolescence of technology: Confronting and overcoming the risks of powerful AI. https://darioamodei.com/essay/the-adolescence-of-technology

Jung, C. G. (1970). The undiscovered self (present and future). In Civilization in transition (R. F. C. Hull, Trans., 2nd ed., Collected Works, Vol. 10, paras. 488–588). Princeton University Press. (Original work published 1957)

McLuhan, M. (1964). Understanding media: The extensions of man. McGraw-Hill.

Nordenstreng, K. (1961, February). Interview with Carl Gustav Jung [Audio recording]. Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle). https://sites.tuni.fi/kaarle/interview-with-carl-gustav-jung/