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Howling about the Greek titan Prometheus, technology, Carl Jung and the religious function with depth psychologist, writer and teacher Glen Slater

“An honest admission of modernity means voluntarily declaring oneself bankrupt, taking the vows of poverty and chastity in a new sense, and-what is still more painful-renouncing the halo of sanctity which history bestows. To be “unhistorical” is the Promethean sin, and in this sense the modern man is sinful. A higher level of consciousness is like a burden of guilt.”

— C.G. Jung, The Spiritual Problem of Modern Man

Glen Slater, Ph.D. was born and grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. After studying psychology and comparative religion at the University of Sydney, he moved to the United States for doctoral studies in clinical psychology. For the past 25 years he has taught in the areas of depth psychology and mythological studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute, near Santa Barbara, California, most recently chairing Pacifica’s Jungian and Archetypal Psychology Program. 

Glen is the author of Jung vs Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age (2024), editor of the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer (2005), and co-editor of the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience (2007). He has written a number of articles and book chapters for Jungian publications. His research and writing interests concern Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology.

References:

• https://www.glenslater.com

• Glen’s 1997 essay “Resink the Titanic: https://www.glenslater.com/s/Slater-ResinktheTitanic-Final.pdf

• HITW 172 James Hillman & Archetypal Psychology 101 w/ Glen Slater https://www.patreon.com/howlinthewilderness/posts/video-james-101-124500990
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Tags: carl jung, james hillman, archetype, prometheus, psychology, podcast

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Howling about Greek goddess Artemis with archetypal astrologer, writer and mythologist Safron Rossi

“Never, believe me, never do the gods appear alone.” 

— Friedrich Schiller, quoted in James Hillman’s essay A Note on Hermes Inflation, UE 6

Safron Rossi, PhD has spent her life steeped in literature, religion and mythology, fields in which she holds her degrees. Her writing and scholarly studies focus on archetypal psychology, astrology, alchemy, goddess traditions, and Greek myth. 

She is a member of the core faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, teaching mainly in the Jungian and Archetypal Studies program. 

For many years she was the curator of the Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, and Marija Gimbutas manuscript  collections at Opus Archives & Research Center.

Safron is faculty at Astrology University and at the Centre for Astrology, Myth and Symbol (CAMS) and regularly lectures at MISPA. Her studies in Jungian and archetypal psychology, myth and alchemy informs her astrological work.  

Safron is author of The Kore Goddess: A Mythology & Psychology (2021), editor of Joseph Campbell's Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine (2013), and co-editor of Jung on Astrology (2017). She has published articles in Jungian, archetypal, and astrological journals, and lectures across the US and internationally in Europe, South America and Australia.

Safron and her husband Glen Slater are founders of Winter Press, an imprint of Spring Journal. They also serve on the editorial board of Spring Journal. 

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References:

• https://www.thearchetypaleye.com

• https://thearchetypaleye.substack.com

• https://www.winterpresspublishers.com

• Ginette Paris, Pagan Meditations

• “Lava”, Danusha Laméris: https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/26895-lava

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Howling with Justine Toms about New Dimensions Radio, her late husband Michael Toms, the power of deep listening, and the life changing meetings with remarkable people she’s had over the past 50 years.

Since 1973, Justine Willis Toms has been exploring personal, social, and spiritual transformation through her work as an electronic journalist, editor, and writer. She is the Co-founder, Managing Producer, and Host of New Dimensions Radio/Media.  New Dimensions is an internationally syndicated radio series, featuring dialogues addressing “the history of the future” with the world’s most visionary wisdom leaders. 

She has also hosted the radio series In Her Company: Deep Dialogues with Women of Wisdom, and has produced many award-winning radio series, including Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, and Bioneers: Revolution From the Heart of Nature. Besides her radio work, she leads workshops on Finding Grace in a Chaotic World. She is coauthor with Michael Toms of True Work: Doing What You Love and Loving What You Do, and author of Small Pleasures: Finding Grace in a Chaotic World. She, along with Michael Toms, was selected for induction to the 2011 Broadcasters Hall of Fame.

References:

• https://newdimensions.org

• NDR Fundraiser: https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-692-rare-recordings-before-theyre-lost-skm3h

A few of my favourite Michael Toms interviews:

• Robert Bly on Shame https://programs.newdimensions.org/products/the-power-of-shame-with-robert-bly

• A Society Of Siblings with Robert Bly https://programs.newdimensions.org/products/a-society-of-siblings-with-robert-bly

• Into The Deep: Male Mysteries with Robert Bly https://programs.newdimensions.org/products/into-the-deep-male-mysteries-with-robert-bly

• Revisioning Psychotherapy with James Hillman & Michael Ventura https://programs.newdimensions.org/products/revisioning-psychotherapy-with-james-hillman-michael-ventura

• Shedding Light On The Dark Goddess with Marion Woodman https://programs.newdimensions.org/products/shedding-light-on-the-dark-goddess-with-marion-woodman

• The Wisdom of Joseph Campbell (series) https://programs.newdimensions.org/collections/mythology/products/the-wisdom-of-joseph-campbell-part-1-of-13

• Embracing Beauty with John O'Donohue https://programs.newdimensions.org/collections/soul-2/products/embracing-beauty-with-john-odonohue
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Howling about Greek gods Hermes and Hestia and the remedy for what James Hillman called “Hermetic Intoxication” with depth psychologist, writer and teacher Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson

Elizabeth Éowyn Nelson, faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute since 2003, has been a professional writer and editor for four decades. Dr. Nelson’s books include Psyche’s Knife (Chiron, 2012), The Art of Inquiry (Spring, 2005 & 2017), coauthored with Joseph Coppin, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy, coauthored with Anthony Delmedico (Routledge, 2025). 

“Any archetypal understanding of contemporary life must honor two gods, Hestia and Hermes, who are a very unlikely pair—though are paired in the western classical tradition. 

In our love affair with mobile digital life, we have been in a Hermetic frenzy, individually and culturally, for decades. I do not see it ending because we are fully invested in instantaneous communication—sending messages to each other at the speed of light. This is Hermes, the Greek god of communication and commerce (in the broad) sense who also is a trickster and thief.

To counterbalance Hermetic frenzy we need Hestia, the goddess of the hearth. In fact, Hestia is the hearth, the center of the home, the one who dwells. Hestia also brings us back home to the body, to soma, to our embodied home on the earth. Since Hestia dwells, she also signifies patience, slowness, settling down, the part of us who longs to stop after too much activity. You might say that Hestia is necessary medicine, the divine remedy for too much Hermes.”

— EON, “Hestia & Hermes: The Tension of Opposites in Mobile Digital Life

References:

• http://www.elizabethnelson-phd.com

• Karl Kerényi, Hermes Guide of Souls

• Barbara Kirksey essay on Hestia in Facing the Gods (edited by James Hillman)

• Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other
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Tags: carl jung, james hillman, archetype, hestia, hermes, greece, psychology, podcast

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This month, May 2026 marks the 8 year anniversary of the podcast. To celebrate this occasion, I thought it would be fun to reissue some early episodes from back when the podcast was called Medicine Path.

Over the next few months I’ll be re-releasing some of those archival episodes that have previously only been available to paid Patreon members.

What follows is my first in-person conversation with pioneering new age musician Laraaji and his partner Arji OceAnanda, recorded the day after their laughter workshop and sound meditation at the Never Apart artspace in Montreal, Canada back in June 2018.

References:

https://laraaji.blogspot.com

https://www.instagram.com/laraaji_official

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Howling with author, Jungian therapist and alchemical coach Thom Cavalli about Osho, Hermes, alchemy and the necessary role of the Trickster in the world

Dr. Thom Cavalli has dedicated his life’s work to revising ancient alchemy and applying its wisdom to inform modern science and deepen global consciousness. Whether as healer, writer or keynote speaker, he distills the hidden insights of history, art, and mythology to restore a lost, enchanted age of wonder. 

For three decades he has been a practicing Jungian psychologist using his consulting room to help transform misery into miracles. As a writer, he has authored two major works, Alchemical Psychology, Old Recipes for Living in a New World (Putnam 2002) and Embodying Osiris (Quest Books 2010). Writing from an alchemical perspective, he’s contributed scholarly articles, book and film reviews to print and online journals, including the Jung Journal, Reality Sandwich, and the Jungian Society of Scholarly Studies. His speaking engagements are alchemical, combining ideas from contemporary science with a treasure-trove of insights gleaned from ancient history. 

He has presented numerous seminars and workshops at prestigious organizations including Esalen Institute, the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, the Joseph Campbell Roundtable, the Vancouver Jungian Society, and most recently, the Jung-Lacan conference at St. John’s College, Cambridge University, UK. His workshops are a delightful mix of scholarship and performance art, including symbolic ritual mummification and culinary offeringsfrom recipes created by victims of the holocaust that demonstrate obscure alchemical principles, operations and procedures. 

References:

• Thom Cavalli https://www.cavallicoaching.com

• Thom’s Alchemical Works: https://alchemicalworks.com

• Paul Radin's The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology (https://ia801506.us.archive.org/8/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.528967/2015.528967.trickster-a.pdf)
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This month, May 2026 marks the 8 year anniversary of the podcast. To celebrate this occasion, I thought it would be fun to reissue some early episodes from back when the podcast was called Medicine Path. 

Over the next few months I’ll be re-releasing some of those archival episodes that have previously only been available to paid Patreon members.

This is my first episode featuring an interview with Ramakant Gundecha, an Indian music guru in the Dhrupad tradition from May 2018. I’ve recorded a short introduction before the original unedited episode that addresses the accusations against the Gundecha brothers after Ramakant’s death in 2019.

References:

• Gundecha Brothers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gundecha_Brothers

• Usted Zia Fariduddin Dagar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zia_Fariduddin_Dagar

• Information on Sadharani Giti: https://sreenivasaraos.com/2015/06/21/music-of-india-a-brief-outline-part-twenty-one-2/
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Tags: hermeticism, esotericism, psychedelics, podcast

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Howling with practitioner, author and teacher Ike Baker from the Arcanvm podcast about Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, initiation and psychedelics.

Ike Baker is an author, content creator, practicing ceremonialist, and senior initiate of several lineages within the Western Esoteric Traditions, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order of America, and Blue Lodge, and York Rite Freemasonry. With 20 years of study, training, and practice, Ike is also a traveling lecturer, instructor for multiple premiere educational organizations including the Institute for Hermetic Studies, and a Temple Chief of the HOGD. 

He hosts the ARCANVM YouTube channel, and podcast, where he produces presentation-style videos on the occult and esoteric, and converses with some of the foremost practitioners, scholars, and authors in the fields of magic, esotericism, and the occult. He also co-hosts the Aetherica Podcast with Sky Mathis.

Ike works to bridge academic, and practitioner-based perspectives, and bring both his, and his guests/collaborators'  years of experience to avail the modern practitioner, researcher, and enthusiast of the occult and esoteric traditions. 

References:

• https://ikebaker.com

• https://www.youtube.com/@arcanvm

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Howling with writer and cultural commentator Angie Speaks about Carl Jung, Rudolf Steiner, spirituality, Sophia, A.I. and identity politics.

From the heights of celebrity to the corridors of tech power, the rationalist ideals of the modern age are being abandoned. In their place, we’re witnessing a revival of religion, mysticism, and the occult.

Why are figures like Kat Von D and Russell Brand converting to Catholicism? Why are Elon Musk and Peter Thiel funding esoteric research and invoking the arcane? Why are U.S. senators speaking in hushed tones about nonhuman intelligences under the cold glare of mainstream news cameras? This isn’t irony—it’s a crisis. In a world supposedly ruled by science and reason, belief is back with a vengeance.

Drawing on the insights of Carl Jung and the darker undercurrents of the digital age, this book decodes a culture turning inward—toward archetype, myth, and shadow. As the boundary between the rational and the irrational dissolves, Late-Stage Babylon offers a map for navigating the strange terrain of our post-secular future.

Tabitha (Angie) Baba-Ahmed, known as Angie Speaks, is a writer and video essayist. Her work has been featured in publications such as NewsWeek and Spiked Magazine and presently, she hosts  the thought-provoking podcast Mystic and the Machine. Delving deeper into cultural matters, her video essays, available on her YouTube channel Depth Diaries, offer an analytical and depth-psychology-driven exploration of contemporary issues.

References:

• Late Stage Babylon

• https://angiespeaks.substack.com

• https://www.youtube.com/@AngieSpeaks

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Tags: carl jung, politics, archetypes, spirituality, podcast

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Howling with depth psychologist and writer Elizabeth Nelson about myths of warrior women allies, bawdy crones, the healing power of humour and embodied sensuality.

“As homo faber, human beings are makers of many things—including the stories, poetry, songs, and images that comprise the great goddess tradition. We have a material record of Her presence for millennia, despite toxic patriarchy. We are also homo faber in our embodied actions that leave no material trace yet influence critical moments in someone’s story. Two fascinating goddesses—Inanna and Demeter—owe their being to the actions of a supposedly small or minor character, which only goes to show: there are no small parts, only small actors. This presentation explores two goddess makers: the warrior ally Ninshuber, who performed a pivotal role in Inanna’s release from the Sumerian underworld, and the crone/midwife/trickster Baubo, whose lascivious dance punctured Demeter’s paralyzing despair.”

— Elizabeth Nelson, Warrior Allies & Bawdy Crones

References:

• https://www.elizabethnelson-phd.com

• Psyche's Knife: Archetypal Explorations of Love and Power

• The Porn Addicted Magician (essay) https://thevale.substack.com/p/the-porn-addicted-magician

• James Hillman: In Defense of Pornography https://youtu.be/1EZjekNE2qw

• James Hillman, Pink Madness https://youtu.be/2hy0vZPpoDs

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Tags: myth, jung, feminism, archetypes, depth psychology, podcast