5: Sushmita Mukherjee - The Dark Woods of the Psyche

Sign up to my WORD+mage ecourse or the Discovering Your Inner Symbols WORD+image MasterclassI am joined by Rev. Dr. Sushmita Mukherjee, writer, artist, educator and spiritual companion in the interspiritual tradition. She is an ordained interfaith minister as well as an Associate Professor in a large medical college in New York City. Her vocation straddles cutting edge biomedical research technology, and a spirituality imbued with magic and wonder.·       Our conversation started in the dark woods of the psyche and her quote I used in my new book, Crow Moon.·       We talked about darkness - the problems with how we talk about darkness within Western thought and the binary…and how we can move beyond this.·       We discuss Individuation – a mainstay of Jungian thought – why it’s problematic and why it’s necessary.·       Learning to live beyond our rational minds. We discover many shared guide to this including Mary Oliver, Jung, Krista Tippet and John O’Donohue.·       Find out about the via creativa and how she now teaches about the shadow.·       She speaks about Hospicing Modernity – an approach to the question: What comes next for our culture?·       How she discovered the beauty of our biology.·       Nature and privilege, and finding the wild in the heart of urban spaces.More About Sushmita:Her psyche thrives at the interface of image, imagination and creative innovation. Sushmita’s spiritual work draws on Eastern and Western myths, Earth-based traditions, Taoism, Sufism, and Perennial Philosophy. Her work is deeply influenced by the teachings of Carl Jung and James Hillman. Some of her interests include myths, dreams, poetry and art, including Jungian-influenced Dreamwork, SoulCollage® and Chakradance. Sushmita is deeply committed to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging in all fields of engagement.Sushmita's website: on-seeing.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.