Mad Kings and Monsters: The Power of Story

Poetry, Prison, Motherhood, & "Radical Imagination"

Join us in conversation with Naheima Sears Naheima is an executive coach, ordained Zen chaplain, and depth psychologist who works at the intersection of power, purpose, and inner life. With over two decades advising C-suite leaders and private principals across finance, luxury, and the creative world, she brings rare fluency in both high-stakes strategy and the human terrain beneath it. She is the founder of 87 Degrees. She serves as a chaplain at Rikers Island and on death row. She lives in Brooklyn with her three children and four cats!

Yeye Luisah Teish & the Jambalaya Center

Join us in conversation with visionary, Yeye Luisa Teish, a writer, storyteller, and Iyanifa, a high priestess in the Yoruba tradition. Committed to spiritual activism, Yeye’s work combines indigenous spirituality, practical metaphysics, and the arts, and spreads her message of love and hope across the globe. In this episode speaks on her recently inaugurated Jambalaya Center: a sacred center for ancestral, wisdom, and spiritual liberation. Jambalaya is a sanctuary for those seeking deeper, meaning, and ancestral remembrance, and cultural healing.… a growing congregation, a sacred space where earth-based practices, ancestral intelligence, and community care come together and service of collective liberation. Rooted in African and diasphoric cosmologies, Jambalaya honors the ancient traditions that continue to guide her healing are activism and our path forward. See link below: https://www.yeyeluisahteish.com/jambalaya-center.html

Mad Kings and Monsters: The Power of Story

Today we listen to the tale of Erysichthon of Thessaly, a mad king under a curse. His hubris and savagery so angered the mother goddess Ceres, that the icy Goddess Famine cursed him with an insatiable appetite. Trying to fill the voracious void, the king lays waste to the entire kingdom and ultimately devours even himself. In the tradition of myth, it is a living tale, and this one, an eerie mirror of the present. When our search for meaning, becomes a search for soul, we inevitably find ourselves “entangled in myth,” said James Hillman, Jungian analyst and founder of archetypal psychology. Join us as we free ourselves from our mythic entanglement with mad kings and monsters.      Thanks to @iamlucasbakker - Blue Medicine Journal's editor, producer, musician and composer!

Magical Realism & the Shadow with Rebecca Peterson, PhD

Join us In conversation with the vibrant Dr. Rebecca Peterson, PhD, as we explore magical realism in the acclaimed novel, Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, the father of this literary genre; casting a Jungian lens, we consider magical realism as a creative expression of the collective "shadow." Dr. Peterson is an artist, writer, Practitioner of Embodied Imagination, sand tray, and art therapy.   You may contact Rebecca through her website or email:  windowsofthesoulrebeccapeterson.blogspot.com  mexrebe@yahoo.com [mexrebe@yahoo.com] Documentary on Pedro Paramo's 100 year anniversary: (in Spanish) https://youtu.be/StJ19uPzBik?si=uy1HDFIACwPIjWVg

Jungian Dream Tending

Dreams are the language of the soul. Join us in conversation with Jungian analys & mandala artist, Dr. Mai Breech, for a conversation on Jungian dream interpretation & why it matters. Dr. Breech is a licensed clinical psychologist and holds a PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her pre- and post-doctoral training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and has been working with orphans and foster children. In 2007, she founded the Children’s Art Village, a grassroots non-profit organization that provides art and music to children in Ghana, India, and Nepal. Currently, Mai is an advisor to administrators and staff at a Sense of Home, a nonprofit home creation for former foster youth. Dr. Breech has a private practice in West Los Angeles where she works with children, adolescents, and adults, as well as an integrative practice where she incorporates somatic work, art, sand play, active imagination, and dream interpretation. For the past 18 years.