Howl in the Wilderness

Howling with activist and educator David Dean about his essay and forthcoming book entitled Roots Deeper Than Whiteness.
“Roots Deeper than Whiteness is written to fundamentally transform the practice of white antiracism in the United States by offering white Americans a pathway to reclaim the very things that “whiteness” was designed to take from us: rich ancestral lineages of resistance to domination and clear knowledge of our profound stake in multiracial movement-building to challenge an economic system that sacrifices life on the altar of profit. 
For too long these themes have not been present in mainstream models of anti-racism education or in well-known texts in this literary genre. Too often, white progressive readers are left with oversimplified understandings of white privilege, the sense that they have no meaningful lineage to hold on to, and little capacity to organize their communities from a place of compassion or mutual interest. Right-wing nationalist elites have also exploited these weaknesses by telling their white base that racial justice will cost them their jobs and their sense of who they are. We are in dire need of a new and empowering narrative that helps those of us who are white fully understand our past, roots us in richer soil, and unveils our fundamental belonging in multiracial struggle for a better world.  
Roots Deeper than Whiteness answers this call. It offers those of us who are white a rooted identity, one tied to a deeper understanding of our history, that can give us the inner strength and political clarity we need to become genuine partners in the transformation of this society.”
— David Dean
References:
Roots Deeper Than Whiteness essay by David Dean https://www.davidbfdean.com/roots-article

Harvest, 2024 film and book by Jim Crace

Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Rebecca Parker and Rita Nakashima Brock, Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick, A History of Pagan Europe 

Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra

Nell I. Painter, The History of White People

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Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ
Tags: james hillman, re-visioning psychology, archetypal psychology, poetry, carl jung, depth psychology, imagination, creativity, podcast, politics

Howling with activist and educator David Dean about his essay and forthcoming book entitled Roots Deeper Than Whiteness.
“Roots Deeper than Whiteness is written to fundamentally transform the practice of white antiracism in the United States by offering white Americans a pathway to reclaim the very things that “whiteness” was designed to take from us: rich ancestral lineages of resistance to domination and clear knowledge of our profound stake in multiracial movement-building to challenge an economic system that sacrifices life on the altar of profit. 
For too long these themes have not been present in mainstream models of anti-racism education or in well-known texts in this literary genre. Too often, white progressive readers are left with oversimplified understandings of white privilege, the sense that they have no meaningful lineage to hold on to, and little capacity to organize their communities from a place of compassion or mutual interest. Right-wing nationalist elites have also exploited these weaknesses by telling their white base that racial justice will cost them their jobs and their sense of who they are. We are in dire need of a new and empowering narrative that helps those of us who are white fully understand our past, roots us in richer soil, and unveils our fundamental belonging in multiracial struggle for a better world.  
Roots Deeper than Whiteness answers this call. It offers those of us who are white a rooted identity, one tied to a deeper understanding of our history, that can give us the inner strength and political clarity we need to become genuine partners in the transformation of this society.”
— David Dean
References:
Roots Deeper Than Whiteness essay by David Dean https://www.davidbfdean.com/roots-article

Harvest, 2024 film and book by Jim Crace

Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

Rebecca Parker and Rita Nakashima Brock, Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

Prudence Jones and Nigel Pennick, A History of Pagan Europe 

Starhawk, Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics

Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra

Nell I. Painter, The History of White People

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🔥 SUPPORT & SOUL WORK
Join the pack on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness

Depth Counseling with Brian James: http://brianjames.ca

Archetypal Men’s Coaching Program: http://brianjames.ca/fourinitiations

Personal Myth Program: http://brianjames.ca/personalmyth

Follow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork

HITW YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness

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Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ

Howling with writer and depth psychologist Ipek Burnett PhD about re-awakening the aesthetic sense as a first step in political action.
In this conversation we ponder the following questions
How can aesthetic response fuel psychological activism?

What is the psychological significance of arts and aesthetics in activism?

How do creative processes and experiences help communities build strength and solidarity, promote resilience, and find resolution?

“Give a voice to the tongueless street.”
— Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry as Insurgent Art
“Sitting still, reflecting, remembering, grieving and giving in now carry the flag forward — because “forward” is not where it used to be. Going on now means going downward into the faults of our culture and backward into the griefs of its memories. Today we need heroes of descent, not masters of denial, mentors of maturity who can carry sadness, who give love to aging, who show soul without irony or embarrassment. Mentors, not cheerleaders; mentors, not boosters… The legendary heroes of the underworld — Ulysses, Aeneas, Psyche, Persephone, Orpheus, Dionysos and even Hercules — all descended into hell to learn other values than those that rule the daily business of sunlit life. They came back with a darker eye that can see in a dark time.”
— James Hillman, Kinds of Power p49
References:
http://ipekburnett.com

Diving Into the Myth, Ipek Burnett https://tapmagazine.org/all-articles/diving-into-the-myth

Kinds of Power, James Hillman

The Greatest Danger, Joanna Macy https://www.dailygood.org/story/1821/the-greatest-danger-joanna-macy

Poetry as Insurgent Art, Lawrence Ferlinghetti https://poets.org/poem/poetry-insurgent-art-i-am-signaling-you-through-flames

Pathology of Normalcy, Erich Fromm

Beyond Psychic Numbing: A Call to Awareness, Robert Jay Lifton https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7148983/

The Protean Self: Human Resilience in an Age of Fragmentation, Robert Jay Lifton

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Join the pack on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness

Depth Counseling with Brian James: http://brianjames.ca

Archetypal Men’s Coaching Program: http://brianjames.ca/fourinitiations

Personal Myth Program: http://brianjames.ca/personalmyth

Follow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/brianjames.soulwork

HITW YouTube channel: http://youtube.com/@howlinthewilderness

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Interlude music by William Johnson, “While You Were Sleeping”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyAxfxA09yQ
Tags: james hillman, re-visioning psychology, archetypal psychology, poetry, carl jung, depth psychology, imagination, creativity, podcast, politics

Early release for Alpha Dog & Pack Leader tiers
Howling with writer, teacher and archetypal psychologist Michael Sipiora about the political relevance of James Hillman’s archetypal psychologicy and what it means to be a psychological citizen
“Speaking out of the Ancient, Renaissance, and Romantic traditions that animate his archetypal psychology, Hillman calls for each therapist’s room to become a cell of revolution, heresy, and beauty rather than a globule of self-improvement; a place where imagination moves from building castles in sand to constructive visions for the real city; a place of outrage at social injustice rather than adaptation; a place of mourning over ecological destruction rather than of working through depression; a place of shame over failed participation in the present rather shame over past abuses to oneself; and of cosmic involvement rather than of transference and countertransference entanglements.”
— Psychological Citizenship & Democracy, Michael Sipiora
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

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References:
Michael Sipiora, Psychological Citizenship & Democracy

James Hillman, City & Soul UE 2, We’ve Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse

Sheldon Wolin, Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays

Ralph Nader, Civic Self-Respect

Philip Cushman, Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy

Robert Reich: https://robertreich.substack.com

Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber

ThirdAct.org

Howling with writer, teacher and archetypal psychologist Michael Sipiora about the political relevance of James Hillman’s archetypal psychology and what it means to be a psychological citizen
“Speaking out of the Ancient, Renaissance, and Romantic traditions that animate his archetypal psychology, Hillman calls for each therapist’s room to become a cell of revolution, heresy, and beauty rather than a globule of self-improvement; a place where imagination moves from building castles in sand to constructive visions for the real city; a place of outrage at social injustice rather than adaptation; a place of mourning over ecological destruction rather than of working through depression; a place of shame over failed participation in the present rather shame over past abuses to oneself; and of cosmic involvement rather than of transference and countertransference entanglements.”
— Psychological Citizenship & Democracy, Michael Sipiora
References:
Michael Sipiora, Psychological Citizenship & Democracy

James Hillman, City & Soul UE 2, We’ve Had 100 Years of Psychotherapy and the World’s Getting Worse

Sheldon Wolin, Fugitive Democracy: And Other Essays

Ralph Nader, Civic Self-Respect

Philip Cushman, Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy

Robert Reich: https://robertreich.substack.com

Wendy Brown, Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber

ThirdAct.org

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🔥 SUPPORT & SOUL WORK
Join the pack on Patreon: http://patreon.com/howlinthewilderness

Depth Counseling with Brian James: http://brianjames.ca

Archetypal Men’s Coaching Program: http://brianjames.ca/fourinitiations

Personal Myth Program: http://brianjames.ca/personalmyth

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