I had the great pleasure of being interviewed by Gordon White, host of the London-based podcast Rune Soup. We discussed the synchronicity of the “Red Books” of Jung and Tolkien, as well as the role of the imaginal and the mythic in ecology. The podcast is available for download or can be listened to directly below.
“The Biology of Story” Now Live!
The interactive web documentary, The Biology of Story, created by Amnon Buchbinder, is now available online! The full website is fascinating to explore and has interviews with over one hundred individuals who speak about the many facets of story and the narrative tradition.
My own clips for the documentary are now accessible as well, exploring topics ranging from the imagination and ecology, to archetypal astrology, and my dissertation work on The Red Books of C.G. Jung and J.R.R. Tolkien. The full playlist of my videos is available here.
I encourage you to take the time to explore the many amazing offerings by the vast range of individuals the film makers have brought together!
Second Preview from “The Biology of Story”
Here is a new preview of an interview of mine from Amnon Buchbinder’s interactive documentary entitled The Biology of Story, this one focusing on the imagination as its own ecology.
Whitehead and Archetypal Cosmology: A Presentation at Bishop’s Ranch
This presentation, given at Bishop’s Ranch in Sonoma, California, briefly explores the ways in which Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy can provide one possible metaphysical basis for the practice and perspective of archetypal cosmology.
Preview from “The Biology of Story”
The Biology of Story is a large-scale, web-based interactive documentary that explores how we live with story and how story lives with us. The film, directed by Amnon Buchbinder, will present a new theory of story based on the experience of story creators, but encompassing the myriad roles that story plays in our lives. I was invited to participate in an interview filmed in the summer of 2015.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s Poem “Mythopoeia” Recited by Becca Tarnas
Whitehead and Archetypal Cosmology: Presentation at the “Seizing An Alternative” Conference
The paper from which this presentation was given, also entitled “Whitehead and Archetypal Cosmology,” is available here.
Archetypal Ecology: Presentation for Embodying Astrology Conference
This presentation was given at a conference organized by Jessica Garfield-Kabbara, who taught a course entitled Embodying Astrology in an Archetypal Cosmos in the spring of 2015. The essay out of which this presentation emerged, called “Archetypal Ecology: Drought in a Rhythmic Cosmos,” is available here.
The Two Red Books: A Talk at Esalen
This is a condensed version of my presentation on “The Red Book and the Red Book: Jung, Tolkien, and the Convergence of Images” given in the fall of 2014 at Esalen Institute. The longer presentation is available here, and the accompanying paper can be found here. For further exploration, the methods section of my dissertation is also available.
PCC Forum – The Red Book and the Red Book: Jung, Tolkien, and the Convergence of Images
The essay “The Red Book and the Red Book: Jung, Tolkien, and the Convergence of Images,” which emerged out of this presentation, is available here.
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