About This Podcast
The Great Individuation podcast explores two urgent and interwoven questions:
1. How can depth psychology evolve into a more complete understanding of the mind and individuation—becoming who we truly are?
2. How can this understanding remedy egocentrism, the core species flaw responsible for war, suffering, and the loss of deep purpose?
A mind trapped in egocentrism is an unhealthy mind. A nation-state ruled by egocentrism is ruthless, self-serving, and destructive to the planet. But egocentrism is not an unchangeable fate—it can be understood, confronted, and ultimately transcended. True individuation, fully realized, dissolves egocentrism at its root and opens the door to a life of wisdom, meaning, and deep connection.
What Makes This Podcast Different?
We bring together Jungian depth psychology and Dzogchen mind science psychology—two profound but often disconnected traditions. Each has what the other is missing, and together they illuminate the deepest path to individuation.
*Jungian Depth Psychology is the only psychological tradition fully dedicated to individuation—the lifelong journey of becoming who one truly is in time. As Murray Stein has written, “The demanding requirement for individuation is to return to one’s nature, to one’s true being.”
*Dzogchen is the pinnacle of contemplative mind science, unveiling the mind’s deepest nature in the direct, nondual experience of the Self. It offers an atemporal path—one that reveals that our truest nature is already complete, beyond time itself. As Jim Manganiello explains, “When the mind becomes conscious of its timeless nature, it can relax into a life that can be well-lived, loved, and understood—in time.”
Why Does This Matter?
By exploring these two perspectives as interdependent we go beyond psychology as we know it—beyond the limits of intellectual understanding—into a direct, lived experience of transformation. Into a healthy mind with an ego conscious of its source and guided by this awareness. This podcast is for those who sense that something deeper is possible—that individuation, when fully realized, holds the key to overcoming egocentrism and reclaiming the wisdom, conviction, and inspiration our world so desperately needs. Join us as we explore the next frontier of psychology—one that doesn’t just explain the mind, but liberates it.
"The work we must do to return to our essential nature, to our true being is BOTH— “in time” and “beyond time.”
Jim Manganiello
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Series 1 #1: The Human Problem Of Egocentricity
In this conversation, Jim and Murray discuss the major psychological issue of our time and of all time, the human problem of egocentricity.
Series 1 #2: The Danger Posed To Individuation
In this conversation, they discuss the danger posed to individuation by groups, tribes, nations, institutions, organizations, large and small.
Series 1 #3: The Experience Of The Self
In this conversation, they consider the possibility of attaining to the great individuation, the experience of the Self with a capital S.
The Podcasters
This series of podcasts are brought to you by...
Jim Manganiello
Jim Manganiello is an award-winning depth psychologist, professor, and author, pioneering the integration of depth psychology and Dzogchen mind science to illuminate and remedy the root problem of egocentrism.
Murray Stein
Murray Stein is a renowned Jungian psychoanalyst, clinical supervisor, teacher, and author whose masterful work illumines the interdependence of psychology and spirituality as essential to the process of individuation.
