The Lamb with Seven Eyes and Seven Horns (Bamberg Apocalypse Manuscript, c. 1000–1020)

Four Week Class Taught Online Via Zoom with Morbid Anatomy

Mondays, November 2 - November 23, 2026
7:00 - 9:00pm ET (NYC Time)
$160 Paid Patreon Members / $170 General Admission

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https://www.morbidanatomy.org/classes/p/dreaming-the-end-of-the-world-the-book-of-revelation-as-a-vision-of-cultural-dissolution-with-jungian-analyst-muriel-mcmahon

PLEASE NOTE: Classes will be recorded and archived for students who cannot make that time

The monsters of the Apocalypse are not coming— they appear whenever a culture forgets its soul.

For nearly two thousand years, the New Testament’s Book of Revelation has been read as prophecy—a terrifying script for the end of the world. Yet from a Jungian perspective, the Apocalypse is not a prediction of the future but a symbolic map of what happens when a civilization begins to dissolve.

Written in exile by the seer known as John of Patmos, Revelation erupts with archetypal images: beasts rising from the sea, a wounded lamb, a devouring dragon, the Whore of Babylon, and a radiant city descending from heaven. Drawing on the psychological insights of Carl Jung, this four-part seminar will present these strange and terrifying visions not as prophecy, but as revelations—literally “unveilings”—of the collective unconscious during times of cultural crisis. Our first session will consider the Vision on Patmos and apocalypse as a psychological event. Next, we’ll turns to the beasts and the shadow that possesses a culture. After this, we’II explore Babylon the Great and the seduction of a dying world In our final assign, we’ll ask what survives cultural collapse in the image of the New Jerusalem.

What appears monstrous in Revelation may in fact be diagnostic. The Apocalypse shows us what erupts when the symbolic center of a culture collapses—and what new forms of consciousness may emerge from the ruins.

Muriel McMahon is a Jungian analyst, writer, and teacher whose work explores the strange persistence of mythic imagination in modern life. Her teaching dwells in the borderlands where psychology, religion, folklore, and visionary literature meet—territories populated by witches, saints, beasts, prophets, and crones. These figures, long dismissed as relics of pre-modern imagination, continue to surface in dreams, stories, and sacred texts, revealing something essential about the hidden life of the psyche.

Working within the tradition of analytical psychology founded by Carl Jung, McMahon approaches myth and religious imagery as expressions of what Jung called the collective unconscious—the deep symbolic layer of the human psyche that speaks through archetypal images. From this perspective, the monstrous figures of folklore, the visionary landscapes of mystics, and the unsettling images of apocalyptic literature are not primitive fantasies but psychological revelations. They appear most powerfully during times when individuals or entire cultures stand at thresholds of transformation.

Images: The Lamb with Seven Eyes and Seven Horns (Bamberg Apocalypse Manuscript, c. 1000–1020)

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