Howl in the Wilderness

Howling about indigenosity, reconciliation and making breadcrumbs of beauty with Ponca poet, writer and storyteller Cliff Taylor

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“Cool is a code word for holy.”

Cliff Taylor is an enrolled member of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. He is a writer, poet, speaker, and storyteller. His essays and poems have been published both online with lastrealindians.com, where he is a regular contributor, and in print with The Yellow Medicine Review, Jelly Bucket, Oakwood Magazine, and Hipfish Monthly. He is the author of The Memory of Souls, a memoir of the Sundance and his walk/life with the little people, and the recent poetry collection The Native Who Never Left. A Nebraskan through and through, he currently resides on the Oregon Coast with his sweetheart of many years.

https://www.cliffponca.com

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Howling about animism, soul, trauma, true adulthood and becoming an elder with psychotherapist and author Francis Weller.

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Francis Weller, MFT, is a psychotherapist, writer, and soul activist. A master of synthesizing diverse streams of thought from psychology, anthropology, mythology, alchemy, indigenous cultures, and poetic traditions, he has introduced the healing work of ritual to thousands of people. The core of his work is creating pathways to reclaiming our indigenous soul, what psychologist Carl Jung called the “unforgotten wisdom” that resides in the heart of the psyche. He is the author of the bestselling The Wild Edge of Sorrow (2015) and the upcoming In the Absence of the Ordinary (August 2025).

https://www.francisweller.net

Howling about dreams, imagination and being a good steward of your inner ecology with Toko-pa Turner

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Toko-pa Turner is an award-winning Canadian writer, teacher, and dreamworker known for blending the mystical tradition of Sufism with a Jungian approach to dreams. She founded the Dream School in 2001 and has guided thousands of students in cultivating a deep relationship with dreams, belonging, and the sacred.

Her latest book, The Dreaming Way, received the 2025 Gold Nautilus Award for Personal Growth. Her debut, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, is an international bestseller translated into ten languages and winner of multiple awards, including the 2018 Gold Nautilus Award and the Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal.

She lives in the Ottawa Valley, where she tends to a quiet life of dreaming, writing, and teaching.

http://toko-pa.com

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Howling about art, spiritual practice, depth psychology and music with multi-disciplinary artist Kim Krans

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Kim Krans is a visionary artist, author, and creator of The New York Times bestseller THE WILD UNKNOWN TAROT.

Kim received her BFA in drawing at Cooper Union in NYC, MFA in mixed media at Hunter College, and an MA in Jungian depth psychology and creativity at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. 

Her seeker's heart has brought her to study in-depth practices of Classical Hatha and classical shamanism in India, Africa, Europe, and the UK. Kim teaches events and workshops that activate the forces of creativity and radical transformation through art, meditation, mysticism, dreamwork, and movement. 

Though revered for her drawings and publications, Krans is also a multi-media artist, filmmaker, and musician.

https://kimkrans.com

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

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Be sure to check out part one of our conversation: https://www.patreon.com/posts/james-hillman-re-123036113

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

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

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“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

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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.

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Howling about Otto Rahn, Cathars and the Grail Mysteries with filmmaker and rogue anthropologist Richard Stanley

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Richard Stanley is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose films include Dust Devil, Hardware, and Color Out of Space. As a journalist and documentarian, he has covered events in Afghanistan, Rwanda, and Haiti. A frequent contributor to publications including Fortean Times and the Sauniére Society Journal, he lives in Occitanie, France.

In his upcoming book Otto Rahn, Grail Hunter, Richard Stanley traces the journey of Otto Rahn, occultist and one-time SS member who sought the Holy Grail and scoured Europe until his mysterious death in 1939. The author shares his investigations into the location of the Grail, the Cathar sect, and Rahn’s legacy, taking readers on an uncanny journey through occult Europe.

https://theofficialrichardstanley.com

Howling about No Kings Day, the King archetype, mature masculinity and healing the father wound with therapist, author and men’s work pioneer John Lee

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John Lee is a pioneer in the fields of self-help, anger management, co-dependency, emotional regression, recovery, emotional intelligence, relationships, and men’s issues. His highly innovative work in these fields has made him an in-demand consultant, teacher, trainer, life coach, and speaker. His contributions in these fields have put him in the national spotlight for over 35 years.

John has been featured on Oprah, 20/20, Barbara Walters' The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He has been interviewed by Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other national and international magazines and radio talk shows.

https://johnleebooks.com

Books mentioned:

• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette
• The Flying Boy, John Lee
• Breaking The Mother-Son Dynamic, John Lee
• At My Father’s Wedding, John Lee
• Iron John, Robert Bly
• Fire In The Belly, Sam Keen
• The Sibling Society, Robert Bly

From Vacillation, WB Yeats

My fiftieth year had come and gone,

I sat, a solitary man,

In a crowded London shop,

An open book and empty cup

On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed

My body of a sudden blazed;

And twenty minutes more or less

It seemed, so great my happiness,

That I was blessed and could bless.

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Howling about No Kings Day, the King archetype, mature masculinity and healing the father wound with therapist, author and men’s work pioneer John Lee

Support the podcast on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness
Depth Counseling with Brian James: http://brianjames.ca
Archetypal Men’s Coaching Program: http://brianjames.ca/fourinitiations
Follow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork
HITW YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness
Send a donation via PayPal: http://paypal.me/brianjamessoul

John Lee is a pioneer in the fields of self-help, anger management, co-dependency, emotional regression, recovery, emotional intelligence, relationships, and men’s issues. His highly innovative work in these fields has made him an in-demand consultant, teacher, trainer, life coach, and speaker. His contributions in these fields have put him in the national spotlight for over 35 years.

John has been featured on Oprah, 20/20, Barbara Walters' The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He has been interviewed by Newsweek, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and dozens of other national and international magazines and radio talk shows.

https://johnleebooks.com

Books mentioned:

• King, Warrior, Magician, Lover by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette

• The Flying Boy, John Lee

• Breaking The Mother-Son Dynamic, John Lee

• At My Father’s Wedding, John Lee

• Iron John, Robert Bly

• Fire In The Belly, Sam Keen

• The Sibling Society, Robert Bly

From Vacillation, WB Yeats

My fiftieth year had come and gone,
I sat, a solitary man,
In a crowded London shop,
An open book and empty cup
On the marble table-top.

While on the shop and street I gazed
My body of a sudden blazed;
And twenty minutes more or less
It seemed, so great my happiness,
That I was blessed and could bless.