Howl in the Wilderness

This is an excerpt of a longer conversation. If you’d like to listen to the full episode and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessOn this episode I welcome back my friend and mentor Thomas Moore, the internationally renowned author of such classics as Care of the Soul and A Religion of One’s Own, editor of the essential James Hillman collection A Blue Fire, and someone who has been teaching soul-centered psychology to therapists, psychiatrists and other caregivers for over 30 years.In this conversation, we begin to explore questions around what makes a good therapist and what kind of education helps to create a foundation for depth psychology. It’s a topic that’s as vast and deep as the soul itself, and after an hour and a half we really just begin to scratch the surface. I’m hoping that this is just the first of many conversations with Thomas on this theme.Topics: psychology, Carl Jung, James Hillman, soul, mythology, language, mythopoeticsSign up for Tom's Soul Psychology course: http://thomasmooresoul.com Links:http://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulworkhttp://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is an excerpt of a longer conversation. If you’d like to listen to the full episode and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessThis episode has been a long time coming. Over the past five years, Bayo Akomolafe has consistently been the most frequently requested guest. At last, the gods conspired to bring us together to howl about the Trickster in global traditions and what their role might be in the unmaking of the old world and the ongoing creation of the new.Our conversation takes us on a far reaching journey from the rich cultural soil of ancient Africa to the desolate plains of modernity and trails off on a delightfully blasphemous note, suggesting that within the figure of Yeshua hides the Yoruban trickster deity (Y)Eshu(a).Please join us as we unravel and revel in the complexities of the Trickster and their role in making and unmaking the world.Topics: Eshu, trickster, colonization, cultural appropriation whiteness, language, ecology, post-activismLinks:https://www.bayoakomolafe.nethttp://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulworkhttp://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is an excerpt of a longer conversation. If you’d like to listen to the full episode and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness.On this episode I speak with artist, poet and writer Marlene Seven Bremner about her new book The Hermetic Marriage of Art & Alchemy: Imagination, Creativity, and the Great Work (Inner Traditions, 2023), billed as an initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy.If you're interested in how alchemy relates to creativity and depth psychology, I'm sure you'll enjoy this conversation..Topics: alchemy, imagination, art, creative process, Carl Jung, depth psychology.Links:https://marlenesevenbremner.comhttps://www.patreon.com/sevenarthttp://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulworkhttp://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is an excerpt of a longer conversation. If you’d like to listen to the full episode and support the podcast, consider becoming part of the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessHowl in the Wilderness features deep and insightful conversations with renegade artists, philosophers, psychologists and spiritual teachers who are working on the edge of dominant culture to recover and revive soul in people and the planet.On this episode I speak with renegade Jungian, author and spiritual teacher Paul Levy about his latest book Undreaming Wetiko, and what we can do to combat the archetypal forces of evil that conspire to keep us complacent and asleep in the dream.If you’d like to support the podcast, considering joining the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessThanks for listening.Tags: Carl Jung | Archetype | Wetiko | Evil | Psychology | Dream Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a preview of a longer episode. To listen to the full conversation and gain exclusive access the first 100 episode archive, join the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness Send a one time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoulShow Links:http://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulworkWatch and subscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewildernessDescription:On this episode I speak with author and psychologist Rachel Harris about her new book Swimming in the Sacred, which features the stories of 12 female elders of the underground psychedelic therapy movement.https://www.swimminginthesacred.com/If you’d like to support the podcast, considering joining the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessThanks for listening.Tags: psychedelics | therapy | ayahuasca | women Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a preview of a longer episode. To listen to the full conversation and gain exclusive access the first 100 episode archive, join the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness Send a one time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoulShow Links:http://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulworkWatch and subscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewildernessDescription:On this episode I speak with author and Senior Maverick at Wired magazine Kevin Kelly about his new book Excellent Advice for Living. In our conversation, we focus on his advice for entrepreneurs and freelancers.http://kk.orgIf you’d like to support the podcast, considering joining the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessThanks for listening.Tag: addiction | recovery | psychedelics | dislocation theory | Bruce Alexander | Carl Jung | James Hillman | Rudolf Steiner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a preview of a longer episode. To listen to the full conversation and gain exclusive access the first 100 episode archive, join the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness Send a one time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoulShow Links:http://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulworkWatch and subscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewildernessDescription:On this episode I speak with Author, Recovery Activist, and Researcher Piers Kaniuka about reimagining addiction, recovery, and community in the 21st century.Resistance Recovery: https://www.youtube.com/@RESISTANCERECOVERYIf you’d like to support the podcast, considering joining the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessThanks for listening.Tag: addiction | recovery | psychedelics | dislocation theory | Bruce Alexander | Carl Jung | James Hillman | Rudolf Steiner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To gain exclusive access the first 100 episode archive, join the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewilderness Send a one time contribution to http://paypal.me/brianjamessoulShow Links:http://brianjames.cahttp://instagram.com/brianjames.soulworkWatch and subscribe on YouTube: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewildernessDescription:On this episode I speak with David Solomon about his time with renegade philosopher and anti-guru UG Krishnamurti.Learn more about UG: https://www.ugkrishnamurti.netIf you’d like to support the podcast, considering joining the pack over at patreon.com/howlinthewildernessThanks for listening! Awwwoooo!More info at http://brianjames.ca Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Note: This is a rebroadcast of episode 70, recorded April 21 2021 with improved audio levels. This conversation was too good to let bad audio potentially get in the way of you enjoying it.Martin Shaw is widely regarded as one of the most exciting teachers of the mythic imagination. He is the author of the award winning A Branch From The Lightning Tree, Scatterlings: Getting Claimed in the Age of Amnesia (2016), Courting the Wild Twin (2020), and the upcoming Smokehole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass (2021). He is director of the Westcountry School of Myth in the UK, and devised and led the Oral Tradition course at Stanford University.In our conversation we touch on many topics close to my heart: storytelling, mythology, honouring our teachers and mentors, cultivating a sense of belonging and serving the spirit of the land in the place we claim as home. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.Don’t go back to sleep.You must ask for what you really want.Don’t go back to sleep.People are going back and forth across the doorsillwhere the two worlds touch.The door is round and open.Don’t go back to sleep.— Rumi, translated by Coleman BarksMartin's websites:https://drmartinshaw.comhttps://schoolofmyth.comNames invoked:Robert Bly, Michael Meade, James Hillman, Martín Prechtel, Malidoma Somé, Federico García Lorca, Arshile Gorky, Willem De Kooning, Rumi+++GO DEEPERBecome a member of the Medicine Path online community and school of soul studies: http://patreon.com/medicinepathMedicine Path YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/c/medicinepath1-on-1 Soul Recovery resources and coaching with Brian James: http://medicinepath.me+++SUPPORT & APPRECIATIONSend a gift from our Amazon wish list: https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/11HNWME8NHNM7 Make a one-time contribution via PayPal: http://PayPal.me/medicinepathyogaSound collage: "Invocation" by Brian James Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Aronovich discusses traumadelic culture and the colonization of indigenous plant medicine on the podcast. Topics include critique of trauma-focused therapies, impacts of digital landscape, Mexican-Jewish heritage, Ayahuasca retreat experiences, community-focused ceremonies, cultural complexity, spiritual narcissism, and healing as wholeness.