

Psychology & The Cross
Jungian Analyst Jakob Lusensky
Jungian Analyst Jakob Lusensky engages in dialogues and research at the intersection of depth psychology, and Christianity for the purpose of individual and cultural transformation.
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Episodes
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Mar 28, 2026 • 24min
Was it just a Dream? | The spirit in the cloud
In the final episode of the first wave of Was it just a dream?, the outside world folds inward, everything condensing toward a single point, triggering a shocking realization. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Mar 17, 2026 • 7min
Was it just a Dream? | Collective commentary
Our last dream received some thoughtful commentary from listeners. We decided to put together some of these as extra material. Read the full dream here. Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Mar 8, 2026 • 16min
Was it just a Dream? | Looking the other way
In the sixth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves in a church, looking the other way. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Feb 14, 2026 • 22min
Was it just a Dream? | The Raven
In the fifth episode of Was it just a dream?, we find ourselves at sea in the Middle Ages. A raven lands on deck and transforms. What is it asking of us?Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Reference to Albrecht Dürer's medieval engraving Knight, Death and the Devil.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Jan 30, 2026 • 23min
Was it just a Dream? | I want to help
In this fourth episode of Was it just a dream?, we're discussing a dream we received as a response to previous dreams. It again involves cutting. Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Jan 17, 2026 • 24min
Was it just a Dream? | How can this be done unto me?
In this third episode of Was it just a dream?, we are faced with catastrophe, and learn something about the creative response to it.The name “Edward” comes from an Anglo-Saxon name which literally means “guardian or protector of wealth”.Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Jan 3, 2026 • 23min
Was it just a Dream? | The Fish
In this second episode of Was it just a dream?, we’re invited to follow the symbol of the fish.We’re inviting the fish to remain a fish, to swim swiftly, hard to grasp a hold of, turn into a concept, as we ask what kind of consciousness it might ask the dreamer, and us as dreamers to develop.Share your own commentary and read the full dream on our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Dec 21, 2025 • 25min
Was it just a Dream? | I don't want to hurt you
The first episode of our new podcast series, Was it just a Dream?, is titled “I Don’t Want to Hurt You.” Listen to the dream, and you will understand why. If you’d like to read the full dream or comment on it, go to our Substack page.Music: It was just a dream by Rafael Krux. Courtesy of the Krux Music Publishing Limited Company.

Dec 17, 2025 • 12min
New podcast | Was it just a dream?
Have you had a dream that stayed with you — one that felt larger than your own life?This is an invitation to join Jungian analysts Cécile Buckenmeyer and Jakob Lusensky in the experiment of shaping a holding space for collective dreams. The new podcast Was it just a dream? is devoted to those big dreams that C.G. Jung described as “the common property of mankind” (CW 10 §33), the deep streams of the delta that is the unconscious.By gathering these dreams, we may glimpse what our culture is dreaming beneath the surface, the myths that are forming us, and the ones asking to be born.Co-create our new podcast by submitting your dream before December 31st.Credits:---Artwork: Iraq (Babylonia). Euphrates River, fisherman throwing net, sunset scene Music: It was just a dream by Rafael KruxLiterature: The Third Reich of Dreams by Charlotte Beradt

Dec 12, 2025 • 48min
E26 The Lost Road with Sean McGrath
In this episode, I speak with Sean McGrath about his new book The Lost Road - A Search for the Soul of the West, a spiritual autobiography and a philosophical meditation on the soul of the West. Moving between personal narrative and cultural diagnosis, McGrath traces how the ancient fusion of Greek contemplation and Jewish revelation formed the heart of Western spirituality, how that inheritance fractured into secular modernity, and why consumerism has become our age’s dominant, and destructive, false religion. I hope you will enjoy this conversation as much as I did!The book is available as e-book and paperback on the publisher Collective Inks website.


