Howl in the Wilderness

Hosted by depth counselor, writer and cultural activist Brian James: http://brianjames.ca

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“Your life is enriched because when you know the main archetypes that make up your story you can begin to connect that story to mythology, the arts, history and many other fields. This helps you make meaning of your story and making meaning of our lives is enriching. You gain perspective because archetypal thinking is non-judgmental, a way to look at a situation or problem from new angles. A fresh look helps solve problems. And finally, in a time of increasing "otherness," archetypal insights can heighten your level of tolerance as you recognize that all people express the same archetypes just in a huge variety of styles and flavors.”

— Laurence Hillman

Born and raised in Zürich, Switzerland, Dr. Hillman became immersed in archetypes at the age of sixteen and this has remained his passion for 48 years. As a professional archetypal coach, he specializes in helping his clients understand their deeper purpose and their life's calling - especially in these challenging times. In his role as a consultant, he helps leaders and organizations understand their archetypal patterns and advises on high-level decision making in organizations. His tools for mapping archetypes include archetypal astrology for which he is one of the leading voices worldwide.

He is the author of Planets in Play - How to Reimagine Your Life Through the Language of Astrology the co-author of Alignments - How to Live in Harmony with the Universe and also the co-author of Archetypes at Work - Evolving your Story, One Character at a Time.

He has traveled extensively in more than forty countries, is fluent in five languages and lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Cindy.

Laurence’s links:

https://laurencehillman.com

https://archetypesatwork.com

https://www.kosmosinstitute.org/practical-archetypal-astrology

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Howling about poetic faith, religion as art and making meaning through creative practice with Tony Wolf

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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Listen to or watch my first conversation with Tony here:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cultpunk-death-107564746

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ap98ZoZBQuo21Z0uePb91?si=5153fa9d81504abb

https://youtu.be/WtJxfM4iJDI

Poetic Faiths: New Religions and Rituals as Works of Living Art is an anthology of illustrated interviews with an emergent counterculture of artists and activists who take secular humanism as a given, then ask, “Now what?” and find their answers in artistic creation. Poetic Faiths embody soulful practice through ritual participation in mythopoetic art; they are ways of taking as profound that which may not be taken literally.

Volume I includes:

Aretéanism – a ritualistic path toward personal and communal excellence, inspired by ancient Greek philosophy

CREATION – a queer, science-fiction-infused religious response to climate change, mourning the Anthropocene

The First Church of David Bowie, Phonomancer – a psychedelic blend of role-playing, music and personal development

The Orphan Wisdom School – a redemptive practice rooted in knowing history, being claimed by ancestry and working for a time that we won’t live to see

The Mysterium – an immersive experience of Deep Play guided by 'memento mori ergo carpe diem'—remember death, therefore seize the day

With a foreword by Professor Carole Cusack and the provocative Cultpunk Manifesto, this collection explores the dynamic intersection of ceremony, art and philosophy in the search for metamodern meaning.

Book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DV92J27N

Blog: https://cultpunk.art

Howling about faith, belief and the quest for meaning in the modern world with journalist and author Abi Millar.

About the Spirituality Gap: Searching For Meaning In A Secular Age

'A beguiling exploration of what contemporary spiritual practices might offer to a world that’s lost its religion.’ 

— Dr Sharon Blackie, author of If Women Rose Rooted 

Abi Millar is looking for something. She grew up in an evangelical church, but after she lost her faith, she found herself searching for spirituality in other places. Torn between the logical part of her brain and the part that secretly believes in magic, and in the wake of a great loss, she wondered whether her crisis of faith was part of a larger story: at a time when more and more people in the Western world are moving away from organised religion, what does spirituality look like?

The Spirituality Gap follows Abi as she receives a shamanic healing, drinks ayuahuasca, delves into astrology, experiences an awakening in a lake, and attends an atheist church. Written with great warmth, curiosity and humour, it explores our post-religious world from the perspective of someone who is neither a ‘spiritual but not religious’ hippie nor an angry atheist. Throughout, she asks: how can we embrace ritual in our own lives even if we are wary of religion?

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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Rose Cartwright is a screenwriter and bestselling author. Her non-fiction book about psychedelics, The Maps We Carry, was published by HarperCollins in April 2024. She is a writer and producer on the Netflix sci-fi series 3 Body Problem, from Game Of Thrones' creators Benioff & Weiss, and Alex Woo. Rose wrote a memoir called Pure about intrusive sexual thoughts that became a Channel 4 drama series. Listen to her three-part BBC Radio 4 series about psychedelic therapy here.

“Treating misery as a primarily medical problem is part of the reason why so many people are miserable. Whether or not you agree with that, we can probably all agree that something about the way we are approaching mental health isn’t working, and that radical change is desperately needed.”

— Rose Cartwright, The Maps We Carry

https://www.rosecartwright.com

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

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

*Referenced in HITW ep 174 with Ipek Burnett

"War is a timeless force in the human imagination--and, indeed, in daily life. Engaged in the activity of destruction, its soldiers and its victims discover a paradoxical yet profound sense of existing, of being human.

In A Terrible Love of War, James Hillman, one of today's most respected psychologists, undertakes a groundbreaking examination of the essence of war, its psychological origins and inhuman behaviors. Hillman's broad sweep and detailed research bring a fundamentally new understanding to humanity's simultaneous attraction and aversion to war. This is a compelling, necessary book in a violent world."

Howling about the shadow side of the American dream with writer and depth psychologist Ipek Burnett.

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.

Burnett’s work in the nonprofit world builds on her longstanding commitment to human rights. At present, she is the Co-chair of Human Rights Watch’s Executive Committee in San Francisco and serves on the board of 826 Valencia, an organization dedicated to supporting under-resourced students with their writing skills. 

Her professional affiliations include International Association for Jungian Studies, Psychologists for Social Responsibility, The Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies, and APA Peace Psychology Division.

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

Howling about ketamine, magic bullet cures, psychiatric bullsh*t and traumadelic culture with clinical psychiatrist and writer Bruce E. Levine

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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“It is always refreshing to find someone who stands at the edge of his profession and dissects its failures with a critical eye, refusing to be deceived by its pretensions. Bruce Levine condemns the cold, technological approach to mental health and, to our benefit, looks for deeper solutions.”

— Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States

“Between 500 and 750 ketamine clinics have cropped up across the United States,” NPR reported early in 2024 (“The Ketamine Economy: New Mental Health Clinics are a ‘Wild West’ with Few Rules”). This may be an underestimation, as Psychiatric News reported later in 2024, “More than 1,500 intravenous (IV) infusion clinics have proliferated nationwide.” Ketamine industry revenues of $3.1 billion were reported in 2022, and projected to be $6.9 billion by 2030. All this has occurred despite the fact that the Food and Drug Administration has warned: “Ketamine is not FDA approved for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder.”

Bruce’s Ketamine article with lots of citations and links: https://brucelevine.net/psychiatrys-latest-insane-magic-bullet-treatment-for-depression-why-ketamine-2/

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Howling about Louis Brawley's time with anti-guru UG Krishnamurti and that other Krishnamurti (Jiddu)

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Check out my new book Traumadelic: Re-Visioning Psychedelic Therapy http://traumadelicbook.com

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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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Part two with Prof. Glen!

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

Episode Description

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