Howl in the Wilderness

Howling about dogs, trauma healing, holistic health and herbalism with Rita Hogan

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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Rita Hogan is a clinical canine herbalist with over 20 years of experience specializing in holistic canine herbalism. She is an educator, speaker, writer, formulator, and herbal medicine maker. Using a combination of diet, flower essences, herbs, mushrooms, and phytoembryonic therapies, Rita helps address a dog’s mind, body, and spirit.

Rita’s work involves helping dog owners, natural practitioners, and veterinarians understand how to use herbs according to plant language. She believes in integrative, holistic care where traditional herbalism complements and supports science-based integrative veterinary medicine.

Links:

Rita’s website: https://www.canineherbalist.com

Book & Resources: https://www.theherbaldog.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/canineherbalist

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Howling about James Hillman’s magnum opus Re-Visioning Psychology (1975) with Prof. Glen Slater

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Episode Description

In this episode we explore the topics:

* Hillman’s post-Jungian archetypal psychology

* Psychologizing or Seeing Through

* What is psychologizing?

* Alienation of the soul

* There are Gods in our ideas

* Dehumanizing or Soul-making

* Polytheistic psychology

Glen Slater 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. His publications have appeared in a number of Jungian journals and essay collections, and he edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a collection of faculty writings, Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. Beyond his work in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, he writes on psyche and film as well as the psychology of technology. He lectures internationally in these areas of interest.

Previous episodes with Glen:

James Hillman & Re-visioning Psychology (Part One): https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-hillman-re-123036113

James Hillman & Archetypal Psychology 101: https://www.patreon.com/posts/122064134

On Ridley Scott’s Alien: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alien-1979-glen-114902105

On his book Jung vs. Borg: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw-133-jung-vs-98191973

Glen’s course at Kosmos Institute: https://www.kosmosinstitute.org/james-hillman-archetypal-psychology-ii-early-writings

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

If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

When Donald Trump spoke the phrases "Manifest Destiny" and "Golden Age" in his inauguration speech, he was invoking fantasies that are at the very core of the American psyche, going all the way back to Christopher Columbus who was convinced he was chosen by God to fulfill ancient prophecies and save Christianity before the Apocalypse.

In the conversation with Turkish-American cultural critic, author and depth psychologist Ipek Burnett, we delve into the myths and fantasies that have captured the American psyche since the beginning.

İpek S. Burnett, PhD, is a Turkish-American author who provides a depth psychological critique of social, cultural, and political issues. Based in San Francisco, she serves on the boards of nonprofit organizations and foundations that specialize in social justice, human rights, and democracy. 

Born and raised in Istanbul, Turkey, Burnett came to the United States to get a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Modern Culture & Media and International Relations. She received her master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies. She got a second masters and doctorate degree in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. Though her academic work remains rooted in the field of psychology, Burnett’s writing has always had a cultural and critical edge, expanding on a range of topics—xenophobia to racism, militarism to materialism. 

Burnett is the author of A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence and the editor of Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections. She is a contributing writer at CounterPunch and a published novelist, essayist, and poet in Turkey.

Links:

• https://www.ipekburnett.com/
• A Jungian Inquiry into the American Psyche: The Violence of Innocence
• Re-Visioning the American Psyche: Jungian, Archetypal, and Mythological Reflections
• James Hillman: Politics of Feeling
• James Hillman: A Terrible Love of War
• Operation Newspeak

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Howling about myth, storytelling, dreams, creativity and looking at your life through a mythic lens

“I suspected that myth had a meaning which I was sure to miss if I lived outside it in the haze of my own speculations. I was driven to ask myself in all seriousness: “What is the myth you are living?”

I found no answer to this question, and had to admit that I was not living with a myth, or even in a myth, but rather in an uncertain cloud of theoretical possibilities which I was beginning to regard with increasing distrust. I did not know that I was living a myth, and even if I had known it, I would not have known what sort of myth was ordering my life without my knowledge. So, in the most natural way, I took it upon myself to get to know “my” myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks…”  

— C.G. Jung

Dr. Catherine Svehla is a storytelling scholar and consultant in the field of mythology/depth psychology, artist, creativity coach, outdoorswoman, lover of the Mysteries and mentor in the mythic life.

She partners with artists and other creative individuals to realize the visions they hold for their projects and their life, and hosts the Myth Matters podcast.

Catherine’s website: https://mythicmojo.com

Myth Matters podcast: https://mythicmojo.com/myth-matters-podcast-blog

Howling about the Warrior archetype as a psychological and cultural necessity from spiritual, mythological and depth psychological perspectives

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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“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness.”

― Carlos Castaneda

The world is increasingly at war—literally and metaphorically. To cope, many seek personal methods of gaining peace—through meditation, yoga, time in nature, exercise, even therapy. But these methods are often utilized to escape difficult emotions like fear and anger. Even developing emotional intelligence can be motivated by a desire to think about emotions rather than feel them. Because the world is engulfed by fear and anger, conscientious people are doing everything possible to eliminate them, which is not helping because it just enacts another kind of war. We are caught between the guru and the soldier and paradoxically enough, both must often kill their emotions to complete their mission, which can leave behind a trail of massacred lives in one form or another.

We are suffering from the cultural and psychological absence of the Warrior. Indigenous cultures have always recognized the importance of the Warrior for the human community because the Warrior is experientially trained to honor fear and anger. Without the Warrior we lose what fear and anger can teach us. When we oppose these emotions, we put ourselves in conflict with the psyche itself and no one at war with themselves can live peacefully with others or the earth.

DYLAN FRANCISCO, PhD, is co-chair and a core faculty member of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies MA/PhD program at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. Dylan grounds his teaching in the depth psychology of C. G. Jung, decolonialism, and Mestizo/Mexican/Indigenous traditions that provide a primordial, holistic, and sacred worldview within which to understand the psyche, to embody its wholeness individually, and to live it relationally through honoring Spirit, the ancestors, and the land.

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

If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

In this episode we explore the topics:

• Hillman’s post-Jungian archetypal psychology
• Personifying vs. personalizing
• Cultivating an imaginal animism
• How personifying inspires us to care for the world
• Pathologizing means listening to and following the symptom
• “The gods have become diseases” & recogizing the god in the symptom
• The three types of denial of psychopathology

Glen Slater 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. His publications have appeared in a number of Jungian journals and essay collections, and he edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a collection of faculty writings, Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. Beyond his work in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, he writes on psyche and film as well as the psychology of technology. He lectures internationally in these areas of interest.

Previous episodes with Glen:

James Hillman & Archetypal Psychology 101: https://www.patreon.com/posts/122064134

On Ridley Scott’s Alien: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alien-1979-glen-114902105

On his book Jung vs. Borg: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw-133-jung-vs-98191973

Glen’s course at Kosmos Institute: https://www.kosmosinstitute.org/james-hillman-archetypal-psychology-ii-early-writings

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Howling about animism, what decolonization really means, when appropriation is appropriate and the beauty of syncretism with Josh Schrei of the Emerald Podcast.

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

If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

Listen to my first podcast on episode 120 with Josh here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw120-josh-88158681

Joshua Michael Schrei is a podcaster, mythteller, teacher, and a lifelong student of the cosmologies and mythologies of the world — in particular the Indian subcontinent. Throughout a lifetime of teaching, study, meditation and yogic practice, wilderness immersion, art, music, and public speaking, Josh has sought to navigate the living, animate space of the imagination and advocate for a world that prioritizes imaginative vision. Josh has taught intensive courses in mythology and somatic disciplines for over 20 years. He is the founder of The Emerald Podcast, which combines evocative narrative, soul-stirring music, and interviews with award-winning authors and luminaries to explore the human experience through a vibrant lens of myth, story, and imagination.

https://www.themythicbody.com

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

If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

In this episode we explore the topics:

• What makes Hillman a Post-Jungian?
• What’s the difference between Archetypal Psychology and a psychology of archetypes?
• The role of imagination and animism in Archetypal Psychology
• Distinguishing between Spirit & Soul
• Hillman’s concept of soul-making
• The Acorn Theory as a guiding myth
• What did Hillman mean by “the poetic basis of mind”?

Glen Slater 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. His publications have appeared in a number of Jungian journals and essay collections, and he edited and introduced the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as a collection of faculty writings, Varieties of Mythic Experience: Essays on Religion, Psyche and Culture. Beyond his work in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, he writes on psyche and film as well as the psychology of technology. He lectures internationally in these areas of interest.

Previous episodes with Glen:

On Ridley Scott’s Alien: https://www.patreon.com/posts/alien-1979-glen-114902105

On his book Jung vs. Borg: https://www.patreon.com/posts/hitw-133-jung-vs-98191973

Glen’s course at Kosmos Institute: https://www.kosmosinstitute.org/james-hillman-archetypal-psychology-ii-early-writings

Book References:

James Hillman’s Uniform Editions: https://www.springpublications.com/ue.html

Suicide and the Soul (1964)

InSearch (1968)

Re-Visioning Psychology (1975)

The Soul’s Code (1996)

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Howling about addiction, loss and soul making as a spiritual path with Jungian analyst and astrologer Christina Becker, author of the forthcoming book Soul-Making: A Journey of Resilience and Spiritual Rediscovery

Christina Becker is a registered psychotherapist with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario, a clinical member of the Ontario Society of Psychotherapists, a senior analyst with the Association of Graduate Analytical Psychologists, and a senior training analyst with the IRSJA. She is also a faculty member of the Toronto Art Therapy Institute and a member of the Canadian Association for Sandplay Therapy.

In addition to her Jungian training, she has studied astrology at the Faculty of Astrological Studies in London as well as with Liz Greene through the Astrodeinst seminars in Zürich.

Ms. Becker has lectured at Jungian training institutes in Buffalo, Calgary, Halifax, Johannesburg, Montreal, New York, Toronto, and Zürich. She has also spoken at various astrological conferences and local Jungian societies across North America, and currently maintains a private practice in the west end of Toronto.

She is the author of the book, The Heart of the Matter: Individuation as an Ethical Process, originally published by Murray Stein’s Chiron Publications in 2004. A second edition has been published by Chiron in 2014.

Listen to my first conversation with Christina here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/finding-purpose-49290575

Christina’s website: https://cjbecker.com

Howling about pornography, addiction, sex and commitment with Jungian psychotherapist Robert Hopcke MFT

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

If you’d like to gain access to early release of full, ad-free episodes and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness. We are an independent production and rely on the support of listeners like you. Make a one-time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

Robert Hopcke MFT is a Jungian therapist in San Francisco and the author of a number of books, articles, translations on a variety of topics within the areas of psychology and religion, including his most recent contribution to the literature on synchronicity, There Are No Accidents in Love and Relationships, a follow-up book to his 1997 national best seller, There Are No Accidents:  Synchronicity and the Stories of our Lives.

He has also authored two standard reference works within Jungian psychology: A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung and Jung, Jungians and Homosexuality

Contact Rob: https://www.robhopcke.com