Carl Jung believed the most dangerous mask is the one you forget you're wearing. This video covers the persona: why you need one, how it slowly replaces the person underneath, and why ripping it off can be worse than keeping it on. It draws on Jung's Two Essays on Analytical Psychology and Memories, Dreams, Reflections, including his strange years building a stone village by Lake Zurich after his break with Freud.

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Philophecy explores philosophy, psychology, existentialism, and the strange questions that come with being human.

Why do we think the way we do? What gives life meaning? Do we really have free will? And how much of what we believe is actually our own?

If you enjoy questioning reality, overthinking existence, and falling down philosophical rabbit holes, you're in the right place.

New ideas. Old questions. No easy answers.