Webinar 3 recording Cosmic self series- Alchemise your cosmic self

Alchemize Your Cosmic Self — Self-Discovery Map

A deep look into the archetypes — beyond Jung, to the Taoist alchemy he was reading when his own thinking cracked open — and through the shadow expressions of each archetype. The spiritual path is not just about light, the cosmic self sees the shadow / distortion and the healing potential simultaneously. Learn to do shadow work with archetypal forces and you will always be in a state of transformation not regression, and empowerment not reaction.

This webinar is part of Jost’s cosmicization series which teaches how to create your life in alignment with your soul.

1. Discover the origins of ‘shadow work’ and your personal “operating system” — the archetype underneath your patterns
The deeper prototype your emotions and behaviour are built on. Jost traces this straight back to pre-Jungian Taoist thought (before Jung, not after!).

*Shadow work is widely credited to Carl Jung, but Jung himself drew on Taoist philosophy — specifically the concept of archetypes as ancient, cosmological forces (the Bagua) that predate his psychology by thousands of years

2. Meet the Alchemist and the Enchanter — the two forces running your family patterns
One teaches you to hold inherited pain without freezing (Mountain); the other teaches you to receive and transform it (Earth). Most people are stuck in the shadow version of one or both without knowing it.

3. Meet the Spellcaster and the Shaman — the two forces running your relationships
Why relationships need disruption to work (Thunder), and why the “got under my skin” feeling is a real, nameable force (Wind) — not just a phrase.

4. Your shadow isn’t something to fix — it’s your raw material
One of Jost’s most radical reframes: the shadow is unconverted power, not a flaw. “Inclusive refinement” means transmuting it, not rejecting it.

5. A diagnostic for spiritual bypassing
Jost defines spiritual bypassing as using stillness, solitude, or meditation to avoid feeling, relating, or acting — but presenting it as spiritual maturity. A confronting, useful mirror.

6. Which psychics and channels to trust most
Jost’s process – look for those who have a daily practice as this filters the source for what’s coming through to ensure it’t beneficial.

7. His past amphetamine addiction, reframed through the archetype of Thunder
A personal story — how a drug habit was really an unskilled relationship with a force, and how Tai Chi (not willpower) resolved it.

8. A different answer for burnout, especially in caregiving/service roles
Reframed not as “give less” but as reconnecting to the architecture that lets giving and rejuvenation happen simultaneously.

9. Four one-line teachings that double as daily meditations
Mountain learns to hold without freezing. Earth learns to receive without drowning. Thunder learns to wake without wrecking. Wind learns to enter without invading.

10. A practical 3-step method: Read, Hold, Convert
How to actually work with a difficult emotion in the moment — rooted in the martial arts concept of ting jin (listening energy) — rather than just naming or suppressing it.

11. Why talk therapy alone can’t heal some patterns
Jost’s thoughts on why some wounds need to be approached through the body and the archetype, not conversation.

12. Sets up the next webinar: The Grit of the Mystic
Ends on creation as the ultimate purpose of the whole cosmic self journey — and previews why having a good idea is never enough on its own.