Speaker 1: Let's talk about something that no one wants to admit.
Speaker 1: But you feel it. You felt at more times than
Speaker 1: you're willing to confess. That exact moment when you wake
Speaker 1: up for no reason in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: and for a few seconds you don't understand why you're
Speaker 1: still breathing. It's not sadness, it's not tiredness. It's something deeper, older.
Speaker 1: It's a crack in the soul, something broke a long
Speaker 1: time ago, and even though you try to ignore it,
Speaker 1: it's still there, invisible to others, but you know it.
Speaker 1: It's inside, like a wound that never fully closed. And
Speaker 1: the curious thing is no one notices. You can keep smiling,
Speaker 1: doing what's expected of you, playing every role, but there's
Speaker 1: a part of you that no longer believes in anything,
Speaker 1: that sits in silence at the back of your mind
Speaker 1: and watches, watches how you fake it, watches how you survive,
Speaker 1: and wonders how much longer you'll hold on. Now, look
Speaker 1: at yourself. You're here searching for answers in a video,
Speaker 1: hoping someone says what you don't dare even think. Do
Speaker 1: you want me to tell you the truth? What consumes
Speaker 1: you inside? Doesn't have a simple name. It's not depression,
Speaker 1: nor stress, nor a bad streak. Its emptiness, pure and deep,
Speaker 1: a black hole in the center of your existence. And
Speaker 1: do you know what the most messed up thing is.
Speaker 1: You don't know where it comes from. You just know
Speaker 1: that it's there always, And that's why you cover it
Speaker 1: up with distractions, with habits you can't let go of,
Speaker 1: with addictions that don't seem so serious until you realize
Speaker 1: you no longer control anything. But what if I told
Speaker 1: you that that addiction you're ashamed of isn't a mistake.
Speaker 1: What if that behavior you've been trying to hide for
Speaker 1: years isn't a curse but a clue. What if that
Speaker 1: uncontrollable impulse that drags you towards the same thing over
Speaker 1: and over again is actually a message, one that doesn't
Speaker 1: come from the outside, but from deep inside you. Carl
Speaker 1: Jung didn't see addiction as a failure. He didn't condemn
Speaker 1: it as a simple bad habit. To him, it was
Speaker 1: a call, a search disguised as self destruction, a desperate
Speaker 1: manifestation of a soul that has gotten lost along the
Speaker 1: way and lacking answers, it tries to manufacture comfort, even
Speaker 1: if it's temporary, even if it's false. Most will tell
Speaker 1: you that you're weak, that you need will power, that
Speaker 1: the problem is you. But what if the problem is
Speaker 1: that you're trying to heal a soul pain with solutions
Speaker 1: that don't touch the soul. What if you're trying to
Speaker 1: fill an existential gap with substances, routines, people, or screens
Speaker 1: that only worsen the silence when everything shuts off. Addiction
Speaker 1: isn't an external enemy. It's an echo. It's a signal.
Speaker 1: It's the way your unconscious screams something is missing. And
Speaker 1: if you don't listen to that scream, the psycle repeats stronger, darker,
Speaker 1: more unbearable. The question is are you brave enough to listen?
Speaker 1: Because what we're going to explore today is not comfortable.
Speaker 1: It's not superficial. It's not for those who want easy solutions.
Speaker 1: We're going to enter the core of the psyche. We're
Speaker 1: going to open doors you've kept closed for years. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about the true meaning of emptiness, about
Speaker 1: that pain you can't name, about that absence no one fills.
Speaker 1: And yes, we're going to talk about addiction, but not
Speaker 1: the way others do not from guilt, not from judgment.
Speaker 1: We're going to talk from the symbol, from the invisible,
Speaker 1: from what Jung called the hunger for the sacred. Prepare
Speaker 1: yourself because nothing you thought about yourself will remain untouched
Speaker 1: after this. This is not a video to entertain you.
Speaker 1: It's a mirror, and like every honest mirror, it doesn't forgive,
Speaker 1: but it can also show you something you've been avoiding
Speaker 1: for too long, the truth, and the truth, even though
Speaker 1: it hurts, sets you free. So breathe and listen. This
Speaker 1: is not about defeating addiction. It's about understanding it, because
Speaker 1: only what is understood can be transformed. You've come this
Speaker 1: far that already says something. It says that there's a
Speaker 1: part of you that intuits that the answer isn't in
Speaker 1: stopping consumption, but in discovering why you need it. But
Speaker 1: let's go further, much further, because there's something almost when
Speaker 1: no one talks about when addiction is discussed, the loss
Speaker 1: of the symbolic, the collapse of meaning, the break between
Speaker 1: humans and what gave meaning to their existence. And you
Speaker 1: know what happens when the symbolic disappears. The literal invades everything,
Speaker 1: The immediate, the chemical, what works now, even if it
Speaker 1: destroys you later. We live in an era where the
Speaker 1: sacred has been replaced by the useful, where we no
Speaker 1: longer look inward but toward the storefronts, where we no
Speaker 1: longer seek a transcendent experience, but fleeting validation. And that's
Speaker 1: the real trap. Jung knew this. He sensed it with
Speaker 1: a clarity that to day seems almost prophetic. The human
Speaker 1: soul needs ritual, needs symbol, needs a real connection with
Speaker 1: the invisible. When that is lost, the human doesn't find peace.
Speaker 1: It despairs, and in that despair it seeks substitutes, substances, stimuli, escapes,
Speaker 1: compulsive behaviors that crudely imitate what was once only found
Speaker 1: in the spiritual. Because what you call addiction might deep
Speaker 1: down be a distorted ritual, a repeated ceremony without knowing why,
Speaker 1: an unconscious attempt to return to a state of communion
Speaker 1: with something greater than you. But the problem is the
Speaker 1: channel is broken, the sacred has diluted, and in its
Speaker 1: place only the reflection remains, the artificial, the empty. Do
Speaker 1: you want an uncomfortable truth? Many of those who are
Speaker 1: labeled as addicts today are nothing but spiritual seekers whom
Speaker 1: no one taught how to seek. People with extraordinary sensitivity,
Speaker 1: condemned to live in a world world that no longer
Speaker 1: offers depth, Beings who feel more intensely, but having found
Speaker 1: no guide to the symbolic end, uptrapped in the chemistry
Speaker 1: of escape, and then judgment falls on them. They're called weak, sick, incapable,
Speaker 1: But no one asks why their wounds hurt more, why
Speaker 1: their hunger is so fierce, why even after consumption they
Speaker 1: don't find lasting relief. Jung said that what is not
Speaker 1: made conscious manifests in life as destiny. Do you know
Speaker 1: what that means? That if you don't make your wound conscious,
Speaker 1: your pain will drag you again and again to the
Speaker 1: same abyss until you decide to look inside. Because the
Speaker 1: soul doesn't give up. The soul insists, and if you
Speaker 1: don't listen to it in dreams, it will scream at
Speaker 1: you in symptoms. If you don't attend to it in silence,
Speaker 1: it will speak to you through chaos, And if you
Speaker 1: keep ignoring it, it will push you into a life
Speaker 1: you don't recognize as your own, but from which you
Speaker 1: can't escape. Addiction is not the enemy. The enemy is disconnection,
Speaker 1: disconnection from the symbolic, from the spiritual, from the deep,
Speaker 1: disconnection from yourself. That's why, as long as you keep
Speaker 1: trying to heal the visible without attending to the invisible,
Speaker 1: you'll only be masking the symptom, covering up the whole.
Speaker 1: And the hole doesn't disappear by covering it, It just
Speaker 1: gets deeper. So what do you do? How do you
Speaker 1: return to the symbolic in a world where everything is immediate.
Speaker 1: This is where the journey gets truly serious, because it's
Speaker 1: not about finding answers outside. It's about rebuilding the bridge,
Speaker 1: that broken bridge between you and your own soul. It's
Speaker 1: about listening to what you've been ignoring, about accepting that
Speaker 1: you're not just a body with impulses, but a consciousness
Speaker 1: with a story, with an origin, with a shadow that
Speaker 1: doesn't want to destroy you, but to integrate itself. And
Speaker 1: do you know what's in that shadow? Everything you've rejected
Speaker 1: in yourself, Everything you've repressed, everything your environment forced you
Speaker 1: to hide, the emotions you weren't allowed to express, the
Speaker 1: desires you were taught to deny, the fears that never left,
Speaker 1: because no one taught you how to face them. All
Speaker 1: of that is still there, waiting, and as long as
Speaker 1: you deny it, it will keep finding ways to manifest
Speaker 1: itself in your anxiety, in your dependence, in your impulses,
Speaker 1: in that constant need to fill something you don't know
Speaker 1: what it is, but that hurts as if you've known
Speaker 1: it forever. What Jung proposed wasn't easy, but it was real.
Speaker 1: He spoke of such a deep inner transformation that it
Speaker 1: can't be faked, a symbolic death of the false self
Speaker 1: so that a more authentic self can be borne, a
Speaker 1: self that doesn't flee from its pain, but uses it
Speaker 1: as a compass, a self that dares to look inside
Speaker 1: and say, this too is me, This wound too belongs
Speaker 1: to me. Because only when you stop fighting with your
Speaker 1: shadow can you start walking with it. And at that moment,
Speaker 1: a diction loses strength because you no longer need to escape,
Speaker 1: you no longer need to numb yourself. You've found something
Speaker 1: stronger than temporary relief. Meaning. But that meaning can't be bought.
Speaker 1: It's not found in tutorials or motivational quotes. It's discovered,
Speaker 1: it's cultivated, it's suffered, and it's honored. It's the result
Speaker 1: of a descent, a dark night of the soul in
Speaker 1: which you realize that nothing external will save you. And
Speaker 1: maybe that's the best thing that could have happened to you,
Speaker 1: because only when everything falls apart can you start building
Speaker 1: something real. So ask yourself this question now while you
Speaker 1: listen to me, are you willing to go down to
Speaker 1: look into the abyss without trembling? Because what you're going
Speaker 1: to find down there isn't the end. It's the beginning,
Speaker 1: the beginning of a transformation with no turning back. It's
Speaker 1: not about quitting a substance. It's about stopping running from yourself,
Speaker 1: and for that you first have to dare to meet yourself.
Speaker 1: Will you or will you keep running toward the same thing,
Speaker 1: hoping that this time it will save you. Many believe
Speaker 1: that addiction is a battle against a substance, against a bottle,
Speaker 1: a pill, a device, a habit. But the true battle
Speaker 1: is against forgetfulness, against the forgetting of oneself, against the
Speaker 1: spiritual amnesia in which we have been immersed since the
Speaker 1: day we were taught to distrust our inner world. Jung
Speaker 1: didn't just talk about healing behaviors. He talked about remembering,
Speaker 1: remembering who you were before the noise, before the mask,
Speaker 1: before the wounds that started to define you. Because addiction
Speaker 1: doesn't come from nowhere. It's the consequence of a soul
Speaker 1: that was forced to silence its truth for too long,
Speaker 1: and there's something profoundly tragic and revealing in this. Many times,
Speaker 1: addiction is the only thing that keeps the connection with
Speaker 1: that original pain alive. It's as twisted as it seems,
Speaker 1: a crooked bridge back to what you lost. That's why
Speaker 1: leaving addiction without doing the internal work can feel like
Speaker 1: betraying yourself, like turning off the only voice that still
Speaker 1: remembered that something inside is wrong. The solution isn't to
Speaker 1: break that link by force, but to understand it, to
Speaker 1: look at it without judgment. Because when you understand what
Speaker 1: addiction has been trying to tell you all this time,
Speaker 1: you stop fighting against it and start dialoguing with the wound.
Speaker 1: And here comes another element that no one wants to touch. Childhood,
Speaker 1: not from the obvious perspective, not from the cliche narrative
Speaker 1: of something bad happened to you, but from the symbolic
Speaker 1: from what was missing, from what you couldn't integrate. Young
Speaker 1: insisted that many wounds of addiction are born when the
Speaker 1: inner child is forced to abandon its truth to survive,
Speaker 1: to adapt, to fit in. And that child doesn't die,
Speaker 1: It hides, It transforms into a shadow, into hunger, into
Speaker 1: that uncontrollable desire that reappears as anxiety, compulsion, ere your
Speaker 1: rational need. You're not crazy, you're fragmented. Parts of you
Speaker 1: got stuck in the early stages of your life, and
Speaker 1: now decades later they're screaming to be recognized. The problem
Speaker 1: is that no one taught us to care for our psyche.
Speaker 1: We were taught to polish the surface, to collect achievements,
Speaker 1: to be functional. But what good is being functional when
Speaker 1: your soul is falling apart? Jung said that the opposite
Speaker 1: of wholeness is not failure, its adaptation without consciousness, being
Speaker 1: someone who works within the system but inside is dying
Speaker 1: from symbolic hunger. That's addiction, an unconscious rebellion against life
Speaker 1: without a soul, against emptiness, decorated with fake smiles. And
Speaker 1: this is where another brutally powerful concept Jung introduced comes
Speaker 1: in the archetype of the wounded healer. Do you know it?
Speaker 1: It's the idea that only those who have been deeply
Speaker 1: wounded can become true healers, and not necessarily of others,
Speaker 1: but of themselves. Do you understand now that addiction you
Speaker 1: carry isn't the end of your story. It's the entrance,
Speaker 1: the beginning of the descent into the psychological underworld, where
Speaker 1: if you dare to walk, you can find the key
Speaker 1: to turn your wound into power, into transformation, into meaning.
Speaker 1: But this journey isn't walked with brute force, nor with denial.
Speaker 1: It's walked with humility, with a radical willingness to look
Speaker 1: at yourself like never before, and above all, with a
Speaker 1: massive capacity to embrace pain without immediately seeking an escape.
Speaker 1: Because it's right there, in that moment of uncomfortable stillness,
Speaker 1: that the truth begins to reveal itself, where the mask falls,
Speaker 1: where the symbolic reappears. Because maybe you don't need another
Speaker 1: strategy to stop consuming. Maybe what you need is a ritual,
Speaker 1: an act of reconnection with who you were before fragmentation,
Speaker 1: a new language to speak with your lost parts, a
Speaker 1: way to surrender not to the substance but to the
Speaker 1: need to pretend you're fine when you're not. Current culture
Speaker 1: promotes escape. It tells us if it hurts, distract yourself.
Speaker 1: If you're empty, buy something if you're bored, go on
Speaker 1: a social network. If you're alone, find company even if
Speaker 1: it's empty. But Jung would go in the opposite direction.
Speaker 1: He would say, if it hurts, enter the pain. If
Speaker 1: you're empty, sit in the emptiness and listen. If you're alone,
Speaker 1: make it a ritual. Because there in that uncomfortable territory
Speaker 1: is the door to yourself. And there's another, even more
Speaker 1: unsettling aspect that very few consider. The ego, not the
Speaker 1: superficial ego that everyone points to, but the ego as
Speaker 1: a barrier against the unconscious, the ego that fears losing control,
Speaker 1: the one that clings to addiction because it fears what's
Speaker 1: on the other side of abstinence, because the unknown, though promising,
Speaker 1: is scary. Because being clean doesn't mean being free, it
Speaker 1: means being naked, exposed, and the ego hates that. That's
Speaker 1: why many relapse, not from desire but from fear, fear
Speaker 1: of discovering themselves. And what about the body. The body
Speaker 1: isn't just a vehicle suffering the consequences of consumption. The
Speaker 1: body is a living archive, a container of unspoken memories.
Speaker 1: Every tremor, every anxiety, Every irrational impulse has a bodily echo.
Speaker 1: Young didn't address it directly, but his idea of the
Speaker 1: extended psyche suggests that there's no real separation between mind
Speaker 1: and body, that your addiction also lives in your back,
Speaker 1: in your stomach, in your breath. And healing the mind
Speaker 1: involves inhabiting the body as a temple, not as an enemy,
Speaker 1: as a sacred place, not a battlefield. Do you realize
Speaker 1: the magnitude of this. We're not talking about quitting a
Speaker 1: bad habit. We're talking about an internal revolution, about rebuilding
Speaker 1: the bridge between your conscious world and your unconscious, about
Speaker 1: allowing yourself to descend into the depths of your being
Speaker 1: and return not clean, but whole. And that's much braver
Speaker 1: than any superficial will power. So now you know what
Speaker 1: you've called addiction all this time might not be your
Speaker 1: curse but your map, an encrypted map drawn with pain, yes,
Speaker 1: but also with intention, a path to yourself. And the
Speaker 1: big question, the one that changes everything, is will you
Speaker 1: continue to deny that signal or will you start to
Speaker 1: follow it? No one listens to the soul, the shadow,
Speaker 1: the deep pain without secretly facing their own abyss, and
Speaker 1: that even though it doesn't seem like it is a sign,
Speaker 1: because maybe right now something inside you is waking up,
Speaker 1: something that doesn't understand words, but recognizes the truth when
Speaker 1: it hears it. And that truth isn't always bright. Sometimes,
Speaker 1: like now, it's brutal, uncomfortable, undeniable, but it's yours, and
Speaker 1: for the first time in a long time, maybe you're
Speaker 1: looking at it straight on. Now. We're going to close
Speaker 1: this journey, but not with answers, not with packaged solutions
Speaker 1: to reassure you. We're going to close it with the
Speaker 1: one thing that can truly change something, a revelation, and
Speaker 1: it's this Addiction isn't your enemy. It's your language, a
Speaker 1: primitive language with which your psyche has been speaking to
Speaker 1: you for years, not to destroy you, but to make
Speaker 1: you listen, not to punish you, but to make you
Speaker 1: wake up. Every relapse, every impulse, every moment when you
Speaker 1: felt you hit rock bottom, was your unconscious screaming that
Speaker 1: you weren't on the right path, that you were living
Speaker 1: from the surface, from appearances, from what others expected, but
Speaker 1: not from your deepest truth. Because no one becomes addicted
Speaker 1: to something external if they're already whole inside and here's
Speaker 1: the final twist. You're not broken, you never were. What's
Speaker 1: happening is that you're divided, separated from essential parts of
Speaker 1: you that you forgot, rejected, or were never allowed to integrate.
Speaker 1: But there's still there waiting for you to call them
Speaker 1: by their name, to return their place, to tell them
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid to look at you. That's the first step,
Speaker 1: not the only one, but the one that changes everything.
Speaker 1: And if you dare to take it, then addiction starts
Speaker 1: to transform. It doesn't disappear overnight, but it softens, It
Speaker 1: loses strength because it no longer needs to scream, It
Speaker 1: no longer has to drag you because finally, after all
Speaker 1: this time, someone you is listening. So here we end,
Speaker 1: but not how you expected, not with empty promises, not
Speaker 1: with self help solutions. We end with a brutal invitation.
Speaker 1: Stop running, stop numbing, stop looking for answers outside, and begin,
Speaker 1: even if little by little, to rebuild that bridge to
Speaker 1: what Jung called the self, that indestructible core in the
Speaker 1: center of your soul. It's there, despite everything, despite you.
Speaker 1: And if this stirred something inside you, if something clicked
Speaker 1: in your mind or in your chest, then I ask
Speaker 1: you only one thing. Comment below the phrase it's not
Speaker 1: the substance, it's the soul. Don't do it for me,
Speaker 1: do it for you, because writing it down is a
Speaker 1: symbolic act. It's the first stone of something new. And
Speaker 1: if you want to keep exploring these kinds of ideas,
Speaker 1: if you feel you need more of this and less
Speaker 1: of the usual noise, subscribe to the channel. Not to
Speaker 1: accumulate another number, but to build together a space where
Speaker 1: the invisible has a voice, where pain is understood, not hidden,
Speaker 1: where the search for the soul is sacred again. And
Speaker 1: now goodbye, but not with a farewell, but with a whisper.
Speaker 1: You'll only understand if you've realiz been there. The hell
Speaker 1: isn't the punishment. The hell is the distance between you
Speaker 1: and what you could have been. See you in the
Speaker 1: next descent or in the next awakening, wherever it may be,
Speaker 1: just not on the surface.