The Secret of the Golden Flower

The Secret
of the Golden Flower

In which we read and comment on The Secret of the Golden Flower.

Part 1
In which Gwydion and Daenerys break the wheel.

Part 2
In which Edward reads Carl Jung's intro to The Secret of the Golden Flower.

Part 3
In which BT searches for the elixir of life but gets gunpowder instead.

Part 4
In which Gwydion visits Longhua Temple in Shanghai with Confucius.

Part 5
In which Edward finishes reading the introduction.

Part 6
In which BT knocks on the approximately 6.45 square centimeter door inside the approximately 9.29 square decimeter house.

Part 7
In which Gwydion gets a little silly.

Part 8
In which... something about not spilling yer seed

Part 9
In which BT's parasympathetic nervous system takes over.

Part 10
In which Gwydion makes a medicine out of his illness.

Part 11
In which Edward becomes a Dunning-Kruger meditation expert at the Tropicana.

Part 12
In which Frater BT returns to the well of goodness.

Part 13
In which Editor-Edward plays Super Mario Bros 2, and Gwydion circulates the light while driving.

Part 14
In which Edward falls over and comes under the domination of the impulses.

Part 15
In which BT explores the emptiness at the centre of the delusion.

Part 16
In which Gwydion weighs the pros and cons of no-nut November.

Part 17
In which the Buddhist Pharoah's ego survives death because he's not Chinese enough... or something.

Part 18
In which BT begins reading The Book of Consciousness and Life.

Part 19
In which Gwydion does the chicken dance.

Part 20
Cringe philosophy beyond the psychology of sinological philology.

Part 21
In which Carl Jung is a little irritating, but I think he means well.

Part 22
In which Carl Jung randomly decides to attack trans people for some reason.

Part 23
In which Edward learns to disagree.

Part 24
BT & the gang celebrate Chicken Philosophy's 200th episode!

Part 25
In which Carl Jung touches on Chicken Philosophy's original Mission Statement (in parenthesis).

Part 26
In which Carl Jung unites the two sexes within himself.

Part 27
In which Carl Jung, Edward Maitland, and Saint Hildegard of Bingen talk about spiritual transformation or whatever some shit.

Part 28
In which Gwydion becomes Time.

Part 29
In which Carl Jung thinks he shouldn't intellectualize so much.

Part 30
In which Carl Jung uses a very loose definition of "fact."

Part 31
In which Edward sings his mother's words in his father's voice.

Part 32
In which Xena's a Yankee & Napoleon's a Dodger.

Part 33
In which Carl Jung is a Savage Viking.

Part 34
In which Carl Jung DESTROYS the Protestant Cult of Consciousness, from within!

Part 35
In which Carl Jung uses an old sock to sop up all of his metaphysical psychologism (metaphorically speaking).

Part 36
In which BT tries

Part 37
In which Carl Jung shares ten of his infinity European Mandalas.