Howl in the Wilderness

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

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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

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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

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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

Soul-Making Book: www.cjbecker.com/soul-making-book

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Howling about James Hillman, addiction, archetypes, recovery and post-recovery with Licensed Addictions Counsellor Corey Gamberg

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Corey Gamberg is a certified Spiritual Director and is currently in a two-year training in Jungian Dreamwork. His work seeks to integrate Jungian psychology and contemplative practice into a holistic model of addiction treatment.

Corey has been in recovery for over a decade and has worked in the treatment field for most of that time. As a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor, he is concerned that his clients find a meaningful approach to recovery that is tailored towards the individual’s needs. Corey has helped found several organizations including the Addict In The Family Support Group, the Family Restored, and Silent Spark Counseling. He has owned and/or managed several sober living facilities as well.

https://depthrecovery.org/

Howling about the occult boom of 1960s London, paganism and polytheism with writer and historian Christopher McIntosh

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Christopher McIntosh is a British-born writer and historian, specializing in the esoteric traditions of the West. He has a doctorate in history from Oxford University, a degree in German from London University, and a diploma in Russian from the United Nations Language School. The author of many books, most recently The Call of the Old Gods, he lives in Lower Saxony, North Germany.

https://www.innertraditions.com/the-call-of-the-old-gods

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

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

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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

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Howling about James Hillman, polytheistic psychology, imagination, spirit and soul with Thomas Moore

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Thomas Moore is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller Care of the Soul. He has written thirty other books about bringing soul to personal life and culture, deepening spirituality, humanizing medicine, finding meaningful work, imagining sexuality with soul and doing religion in a fresh way. In his youth he was a Catholic monk and studied music composition. 

He has a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University and was a university professor for a number of years. He is also a psychotherapist influenced mainly by C. G. Jung and James Hillman. In his work he brings together spirituality, mythology, depth psychology and the arts, emphasizing the importance of images and imagination. 

He often travels and lectures, hoping to help create a more soulful society. His family members are also deeply involved in spiritual approaches to the arts: His wife, Joan Hanley, is an accomplished painter and teaches a course she has created on Yoga and Art; his daughter Ajeet (Siobhán) is a musician and recording artist and spiritual teacher; his stepson Abraham is an architect focusing on design related to the social aspects of building. Thomas also writes fiction, arranges music and plays golf in New Hampshire, where he has lived for thirty years.

Thomas’ course on Imaginal Psychology: https://www.thomasmooresoul.com/courses

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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Abi Millar is the author of The Spirituality Gap: Searching for Meaning in a Secular Age. A journalist living in London, she has long gravitated towards subjects with a scientific bent. But she is also a yoga teacher, psychedelics aficionado and tarot enthusiast, who is fascinated by the intersection of spirituality and critical thinking.

Abi grew up in an evangelical church, but after losing her faith, she found herself searching for spirituality elsewhere. Torn between the logical part of her brain and the part that secretly believes in magic, 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?

In The Spirituality Gap, she tries out 12 different practices ranging from ayahuasca to astrology, reiki to raves. Throughout, she asks how can we embrace ritual in our own lives even if we are wary of religion? And how can secular Westerners channel our spiritual impulses while avoiding the traps of pseudoscience or cultural appropriation?

Check out Abi's work: https://linktr.ee/abimillarwrites

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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