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Howling about Louis Brawley's time with anti-guru UG Krishnamurti and that other Krishnamurti (Jiddu)
Hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
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Louis Brawley met UG Krishnamurti in 2002 and spent the following five years travelling with him in the USA, India and Europe keeping a record of this remarkable non-teacher and documenting his own inner struggles as his ideas about life, love and Enlightenment were constantly tossed around and demolished. Louis fell into the role of foil and sidekick to UG’s bizarre interactions with his friends and audience and, as UG’s health deteriorated, he became his informal caregiver.
Louis works as an artist, photographer and freelance art handler worldwide—occupations which fund his travels around the world writing and recording accounts and impressions from friends of the “Raging Sage.”
Louis' website (for now) https://louisbrawley.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/louisbrawley
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Howling about James Hillman, Carl Jung, Henry Corbin, cosmology, phenomenology & psychedelics with writer, poet and rogue scholar Tom Cheetham.
Hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com
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Tom Cheetham is the author of five books on the imagination in the sciences, psychology, religion and the arts, and one book of poems. He is co-editor of the recently released Uniform Edition of James Hillman's ON MELANCHOLY & DEPRESSION, published by Spring Publications (which I highly recommend!)
Tom's website: https://www.tomcheetham.com
James Hillman Uniform Editions https://www.springpublications.com/ue.html
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Eksik bölüm mü var?
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Howling about love, marriage, alchemy & soul-making with 90-year-old Susan Tiberghien, a Jungian writer and teacher who has been married to her lover Pierre for 66 years.
HITW is hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com
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Susan Tiberghien, an American writer living in Geneva, Switzerland, holds a degree in Literature and Philosophy and did graduate work at Grenoble University, France and the CG Jung Institute, Kusnacht, Switzerland.
She has published four memoirs: Looking for Gold, A Year in Jungian Analysis; Circling to the Center, Invitation to Silent Prayer; Side by Side, Writing Your Love Story; Footsteps, In Love with a Frenchman, and two writing handbooks: One Year to a Writing Life, Twelve Lessons to Deepen Every Writer’s Art and Craft; and most recently Writing Toward Wholeness, Lessons Inspired by CG Jung, along with numerous essays in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Tiberghien has been teaching Jungian informed writing workshops for over twenty-five years at CG Jung Societies, at the International Women’s Writing Guild, and at writers’ centers and conferences in the States and in Europe. Recently she has recorded courses for the Jung Society of Washington DC, for Soul at Play, and for the Jung Platform.
She is an active member of International Pen, a founding member of the International Writers’ Residence at Lavigny, Switzerland, the founder and past director of the Geneva Writers’ Group, an association of over 240 English-language writers.
Mother of six children, grandmother of fifteen grandchildren, and great-grandmother of three great- grandchildren, she lives with her French husband in Geneva, Switzerland, a city whose dedication to peace and justice she fully endorses.
Susan's website: https://www.susantiberghien.com
Seasons of Love: https://chironpublications.com/shop/seasons-of-love-a-lasting-marriage
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HITW is hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com
Catherine Liu (born 1964) is an American cultural theorist and author whose areas of research include Sinophone cinema, French literature, critical theory, identity politics, and visual arts. She is known for her critique of the professional–managerial class.
Her research and teaching focuses on the intellectual history and formation of cultural criticism, the history of the professional-managerial class, psychoanalytic theory, the political economy of cultural revolutions, and the work of the Frankfurt School and Walter Benjamin. She has also published on various topics in art criticism, museum history, and cultural politics.
Her most recent book published in 2021, Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class, is a polemical call to reject making a virtue out of taste and consumption habits.
Catherine’s Substack: cliuanon.substack.com
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HITW is hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com
Erik Davis was born during the Summer of Love within a stone’s throw of San Francisco. He grew up in North County, north of San Diego, and spent a decade on the East Coast, where he studied literature and philosophy at Yale and spent six years in the freelance trenches of Brooklyn and Manhattan before moving to San Francisco, where he currently resides.
He is the author of five books: High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the 70s (MIT Press/Strange Attractor Press); Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica (Yeti, 2010); The Visionary State: A Journey through California’s Spiritual Landscape (Chronicle, 2006), with photographs by Michael Rauner; and the 33 1/3 volume Led Zeppelin IV (Continuum, 2005).
His first and best-known book remains TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information (Crown, 1998), a cult classic of visionary media studies that has been translated into five languages and most recently republished by North Atlantic Press.He currently writes the Substack publication Burning Shore.
https://techgnosis.com
https://www.burningshore.com
Previous episodes with Erik:
HITW 125 Is GenX Still Relevant? https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw-125-erik-is-92906404
On his book High Weirdness https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-high-with-32872409
On psychedelics and spiritual practice https://www.patreon.com/posts/01-12-and-with-34272619
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Howling about A.I., technology, psychedelics and the death of the counterculture with Douglas Rushkoff.
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Brian James Depth Counselling, Men's Work & Resources: http://brianjames.ca
IG: http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork
Named one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT, Douglas Rushkoff is an author and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the just-published Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, as well as the recent Team Human, based on his podcast. His latest book is a new edition of his bestselling Program or Be Programmed.
Douglas' website: https://rushkoff.com/
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A deep dive into Ridley Scott's space horror masterpiece with Jungian and archetypal psychologist Glen Slater. We dig into the complex archetypal ideas underlying what is a pretty straightforward horror story: the history and role of the monster in fiction, the evolution of the alien in our culture, Jung's theory about UFOs, the devouring mother, AI and the soul, Trump as monster, and lots more!
Glen studied psychology and comparative religion at The University of Sydney before coming to the United States in 1992 for doctoral work in clinical psychology. He has been teaching at Pacifica for over twenty years and is currently the Associate Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies specialization. He also teaches in the Mythological Studies program.
EPISODE REFERENCES:
HITW ep.133 with Glen Slater on his book Jung vs. Borg: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw-133-jung-vs-98191973
Does A.I. Dream of Electric Sheep? https://thevale.substack.com/p/does-ai-dream-of-electric-sheep
A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence by Ipek S. Burnett
The Making of Alien by J.W. Rinzler
SHOW LINKS:
http://brianjames.ca
http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork
http://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness
http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul
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Episode Description:
On this episode I welcome Brian Falk on the podcast to speak about the way his practice of Chinese Medicine has been informed by his study of depth psychology, particularly the archetypal and imaginal approach of James Hillman.
In the second half of the episode we talk about his recent book entitled Circling the Drain, which explores how the late comedian George Carlin and renegade psychologist James Hillman critiqued modern culture through a creative use of language and incisive humour.
Brian Falk holds a Master's Degree in Chinese Medicine from Five Branches University in Santa Cruz. Brian also earned a PhD in Depth Psychology with an emphasis in Somatic Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Brian lectures and teaches on topics such as vision improvement, food as medicine, and using acupuncture and massage for chronic pain. Brian maintains a clinical practice in Ventura, California.
Brian's website: https://www.unifiedmedicine.com
Circling the Drain book: https://www.springpublications.com/falk.html
Topics: chinese medicine, taoism, depth psychology, james hillman, george carlin
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On this episode I welcome author and psychologist Ian Edwards to the podcast to speak about his new book A Druid in Psychologist’s Clothing: E. Graham Howe’s Secret Druidic Doctrine, published in 2023 by Anathema.
E. Graham Howe is the epitome of the kind of renegade spirit that we celebrate on this podcast. He was born in 1896 and was one of the founding members of the famous Tavistock Clinic in London. Although Howe’s work was initially well received by the burgeoning English psychoanalytic community, he soon began to ruffle some feathers with his eclectic and non-conforming ideas that incorporated concepts derived from Eastern spiritual practice.
Howe published 12 books on a number of topics, and his writing stands out in the field for his straightforward and clear style, and conscious avoidance of psychological jargon.
Through his books and lectures E. Graham Howe influenced well-known intellectuals and fellow renegades such as R.D. Laing, Alan Watts and Henry Miller. While Howe travelled to India and studied Eastern spirituality and practice, he found a home for his ideas in the images and concepts of the ancient Druids, who he referred to as “masters of the art of living.” He outlined this druidic approach to a spiritual psychology in the posthumously published book The Mind of the Druid.
In our conversation, Ian and I speak in depth about E. Graham Howe’s life and work, his place within the psychological milieu of the early 20th century among contemporaries such as CG Jung, and how revisiting his once-radical ideas could serve to revive secular psychology that has run out of ideas by finally incorporating spirituality and metaphysics into it’s theory and practice.
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Author page at Anathema: https://anathemapublishing.com/ian-c-edwards
Topics: psychology, spirituality, zen, druidry, carl jung
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A few days ago I saw that John was going to be offering a couple new seminars online, so I reached out to him and asked if he’d like to workshop his ideas with me beforehand and release it as a podcast.
He agreed, and what you’re going to hear is a raw and unedited conversation between the two of us, exploring the subjects of his two upcoming seminars.
The first one is called The Odyssey Of Aging: Transitioning from Hero to Elder and explores the question “How do men and women let go of outward driven goals and the pursuits of youth and live the second half of life as Elders, mentors and guides?”
The second conversation is on Creativity, Addiction and Passivity and explores the differences between creativity and addiction, and how addiction blocks creativity and stifles emotional maturation.
As usual, I really enjoyed speaking with John and value him as a mentor and elder. I hope you enjoy listening in on our discussion, and if you’re listening to this before September 30, 2023 and are interested in checking out the live seminars, you can go to higherthoughtinstitute.com or check the link in the description. For you counselors and therapists, these seminars are approved for continuing education credits.
Even if you’re not in the helping professions, John’s very practical and down-to-earth approach will make this information accessible and useful for anyone to get the benefit.
Links:
http://johnleebooks.com
https://higherthoughtinstitute.com/product/september-30-2023-john-lee-ma-webinar/
References:
Allen Chinen, Beyond the Hero: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/beyond-the-hero_allan-b-chinen/825131Rilke poem: https://dailypoetry.me/rilke/somewhere-to-the-east-theres-a-church/Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-rag-and-bone-shop-of-the-heart-a-poetry-anthology_henry-david-thoreau_robert-frost/258285Things to Think, Robert Bly
Think in ways you've never thought before.
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you've ever heard,
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.
Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake, and he's carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you've never seen.
When someone knocks on the door, think that he's about
To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.
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A few days ago I saw that John was going to be offering a couple new seminars online, so I reached out to him and asked if he’d like to workshop his ideas with me beforehand and release it as a podcast.
He agreed, and what you’re going to hear is a raw and unedited conversation between the two of us, exploring the subjects of his two upcoming seminars.
The first one is called The Odyssey Of Aging: Transitioning from Hero to Elder and explores the question “How do men and women let go of outward driven goals and the pursuits of youth and live the second half of life as Elders, mentors and guides?”
The second conversation is on Creativity, Addiction and Passivity and explores the differences between creativity and addiction, and how addiction blocks creativity and stifles emotional maturation.
As usual, I really enjoyed speaking with John and value him as a mentor and elder. I hope you enjoy listening in on our discussion, and if you’re listening to this before September 30, 2023 and are interested in checking out the live seminars, you can go to higherthoughtinstitute.com or check the link in the description. For you counselors and therapists, these seminars are approved for continuing education credits.
Even if you’re not in the helping professions, John’s very practical and down-to-earth approach will make this information accessible and useful for anyone to get the benefit.
Links:
http://johnleebooks.com
https://higherthoughtinstitute.com/product/september-30-2023-john-lee-ma-webinar/
References:
Allen Chinen, Beyond the Hero: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/beyond-the-hero_allan-b-chinen/825131Rilke poem: https://dailypoetry.me/rilke/somewhere-to-the-east-theres-a-church/Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-rag-and-bone-shop-of-the-heart-a-poetry-anthology_henry-david-thoreau_robert-frost/258285Things to Think, Robert Bly
Think in ways you've never thought before.
If the phone rings, think of it as carrying a message
Larger than anything you've ever heard,
Vaster than a hundred lines of Yeats.
Think that someone may bring a bear to your door,
Maybe wounded and deranged; or think that a moose
Has risen out of the lake, and he's carrying on his antlers
A child of your own whom you've never seen.
When someone knocks on the door, think that he's about
To give you something large: tell you you're forgiven,
Or that it's not necessary to work all the time, or that it's
Been decided that if you lie down no one will die.
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On this episode I speak with Anya Foxen, an Associate Professor of Religious Studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Her research focuses on the intersection of South Asian yogic and tantric traditions with Western esotericism and metaphysical spiritualities. Her special areas of interest include gender and embodiment, as well as the interplay of religion and science. She is the author of three books including Is This Yoga? with Christa Kuberry and Inhaling Spirit (Oxford University Press, 2020).
This turned out to be a fun and loose conversation between two longtime yoga practitioners, where we talk about the roots of modern yoga in America and the influence of Western Esotericism on contemporary yoga theory and practice.
Howl in the Wilderness features deep and insightful conversations with renegade artists, philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers who are working on the edge of dominant culture to recover and revive soul in people and the planet.
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Links:
https://www.anyafoxen.com
http://brianjames.ca
http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork
http://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness
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Howl in the Wilderness (formerly Medicine Path with Brian James) features deep and insightful conversations with renegade artists, philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers who are working on the edge of dominant culture to recover and revive soul in people and the planet.
On this episode I speak with David Solomon about his time with renegade philosopher and anti-guru UG Krishnamurti.
Learn more about UG: https://www.ugkrishnamurti.net
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Thanks for listening! Awwwoooo!
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On this episode I welcome back Thomas Moore to talk about his new book The Eloquence of Silence.
While modern culture tends to avoid emptiness as much as possible, in The Eloquence of Silence: Surprising Wisdom in Tales of Emptiness, New York Times bestselling author Thomas Moore makes a compelling case for an easier, lighter way of moving through life by embracing the peace, calm, and spaciousness that emptiness offers.
The Eloquence of Silence offers a collection of traditional stories and ideas about emptiness that explore the value of silence, empty space, and letting go.
The Eloquence of Silence is ultimately about simplifying our way of living and being in the world with transparency. Tom encourages readers to consider that the habit of constant multitasking, like listening to a podcast while taking a walk or constantly being distracted by our phones, often means missing the heart and soul of what is happening around us. And the daily recognition of quiet spaciousness is not a retreat from reality, but a rich and full opportunity to experience all that is most meaningful and real.
Tom's Website: http://thomasmooresoul.com
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Sound collage: "Invocation" by Brian James
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How did things get so f*cked up?
Like a true elder, Stephen hears my troubled plea and hangs with me as we traverse great swathes of time and geography, tracking the catholic project to convert the world to Christianity that began with Paul the Apostle, through to Columbus opening the door for colonization of the so-called New World by the Puritans, up to the modern era of residential schools, globalization, AI and the revival of Christian conservatism.
It's not an easy ride. Over the course of our conversation the range of emotions and responses is as broad as the story of How We Got Here. Grief, sorrow, bewilderment, joy and praise all make an appearance.
By the end, I'm mentally and emotionally spent and confess, "I can't take any more!" Stephen laughs and says, "I'm not sure I can take any more either." As Stephen says repeatedly, there are no answers, no way to fix things. But perhaps by wondering How We Got Here, we start to get a glimpse of How Things Could Be Otherwise and along the way, uncover a few hints on how to proceed like an ancestor worthy of being claimed.
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➤ GUEST BIO
Culture activist, worker, author Stephen Jenkinson teaches internationally and is the creator and principal instructor of the Orphan Wisdom School, co-founded the school with his wife Nathalie Roy in 2010, convening semi-annually in Deacon, Ontario, and in northern Europe.
Website: http://orphanwisdom.com
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Note: This is a rebroadcast of episode 70, recorded April 21 2021 with improved audio levels. This conversation was too good to let bad audio potentially get in the way of you enjoying it.
Martin Shaw is widely regarded as one of the most exciting teachers of the mythic imagination. He is the author of the award winning A Branch From The Lightning Tree, Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (2016), Courting the Wild Twin (2020), and the upcoming Smokehole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass (2021). He is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK, and devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University.
In our conversation we touch on many topics close to my heart: storytelling, mythology, honouring our teachers and mentors, cultivating a sense of belonging and serving the spirit of the land in the place we claim as home.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don’t go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don’t go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don’t go back to sleep.
— Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
Martin's websites:
https://drmartinshaw.com
https://schoolofmyth.com
Names invoked:
Robert Bly, Michael Meade, James Hillman, Martín Prechtel, Malidoma Somé, Federico García Lorca, Arshile Gorky, Willem De Kooning, Rumi
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In this episode, occult scholar Ronnie Pontiac shares some great stories about his late mentor Manly P. Hall and some of the forgotten founders of America, many of whom were not, as we're led to believe, puritan Christians, but rather were an eclectic mix of neo-Platonists, alchemists and esotericists.
Ronnie Pontiac worked as Manly P. Hall’s research assistant and designated substitute lecturer for seven years. As well as being a writer and occult researcher, he is a musician and has produced award-winning documentaries including films on the Cuban revolutionary hip-hop group Los Aldeano and the Seattle grunge band The Gits, whose singer Mia Zapata was tragically raped and murdered in 1993. Ronnie lives in Los Angeles with his wife and frequent collaborator Tamra Spivey.
His recent book American Metaphysical Religion is an exploration of American occult and spiritual history, from Colonial-Era Alchemists to 20th-Century teachers. Most Americans believe the United States was founded by pious Christians. However, as Ronnie Pontiac reveals, from the beginning, America was a vibrant blend of beliefs from all four corners of the world.
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On this episode I speak with Adam Aronovich, who I met six years ago when I arrived at an ayahuasca retreat centre in the Peruvian Amazon to teach yoga for a few months. Adam lived and worked there for four years, facilitating retreats and performing research on healing outcomes among the Western participants.
Since that time, we’ve been keeping an eye on each others work and have found ourselves arriving at similar viewpoints about the problems and limitations of what he calls healing culture.
The catalyst for this conversation are the two recent articles I’ve published outlining my critique of what I’ve termed Traumadelic Culture, which is in my view, the result of the assimilation and capture of psychedelic culture by therapies that are obsessively focused on childhood trauma and perpetuate a victim narrative that disempowers and depoliticizes individuals. In my critique, I draw the work of post-Jungian psychologist James Hillman, as well as my study of yoga and other indigenous healing systems.
As a doctoral candidate in Anthropology and Communications focusing on Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry, as well as years of on-the-ground experience, Adam brings an acute awareness of the cultural and political impacts that spiritual tourism and the exportation of Western ideals and prejudices have on indigenous healing systems and local cultures.
And through his popular Instagram account @HealingFromHealing which is full of darkly funny and acerbic critiques of healing culture, he lends a bit of much-needed catharsis and levity to the conversation.
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Adam's website: http://healingfromhealing.com
The Rise of Traumadelic Culture & The Capture of Psychedelics: https://medicinepath.me/journal/traumadelic-culture
Beyond Trauma: Re-Visioning Trauma Therapy: https://medicinepath.me/journal/beyondtrauma
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“If men's tales are about men, they are also for women: for wives, mothers, daughters, lovers, and co-workers, bewildered and infuriated by the men around them.”
— Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul
NOTE: Initially we were experiencing some connection issues — both technical and otherwise — until an interruption (by the Trickster?) about 20 minutes in. We restarted and found a nice rhythm and flow, so please stick with it. There's some great stuff in this conversation!
Allan B. Chinen, MD is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco and Clinical Professor Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. He has lectured extensively and presented numerous workshops on the role of myths, fairy tales and legends on our life stories.
In our conversation we mainly focus on his 1993 book Beyond the Hero: Classic Stories of Men in Search of Soul which offers a vision of the post-heroic journey that is relevant not just to men struggling with the transition into middle age, but also to the sons, daughters and spouses who care for them.
Through a retelling and analysis of classic stories that portray a part of the male psyche that is normally buried under conventional male roles, heroic ideals, and patriarchal ambitions, the post-heroic journey dramatically breaks with traditional Western masculine values and typical stereotypes, by making a case for the Trickster as the guiding archetype of the midlife passage.
Topics: myth, fairy tales, archetypes, men, midlife, trickster, shaman, mentor
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In this episode I speak with Carl Abrahamsson about his latest book Source Magic: The Origin of Art, Science & Culture.
The main theme that emerged during our conversation is about the relationship between Carl Jung's idea of individuation and the practice of magic, a topic Carl explores in an essay entitled The Magic of Individuation from his book.
Carl Abrahamsson is a writer, publisher, magico-anthropologist, filmmaker, and photographer. Since the mid-1980s he has been active in the international magical community, integrating “occulture” as a way of life and lecturing about his findings and speculations. He is the author of numerous books on art and the occult as well as the editor and publisher of the annual anthology of occulture, The Fenris Wolf, he lives in Småland, Sweden.
You can learn more about Carl’s work at his website carlabrahamsson.com
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