Lectures & Articles
Lectures
The Shadow and Evil in American Racism
This is an abridged version of "The Metaphor of America's Darkness," a chapter in America’s Identity Crisis: The Death and Rebirth of the American Vision (previously published as The Fate of America: An Inquiry into National Character). It was delivered as a public lecture at the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles in 2004.
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The Eruption of the Shadow in Nazi Germany
This lecture was delivered in the Public Programs of the C. G. Jung Institute
of Los Angeles in 1997 and is dedicated to the memory of Bobbie Yow.
It was later published as an article in Psychological Perspectives:
A Semiannual Journal of Jungian Thought (vol. 37, issue 1, 1998).
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Zen and Death: Jung's Final Experience
This lecture was delivered in the Public Programs of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles in 1996; at the Central Coast Jung Society, San Luis Obispo, California in 1998; the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University, Los Angeles in 1999; and in the Analyst Training Program of the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles in 2003. In the latter it was part of a series on mortificatio, the alchemical process of psychological or inner death inherent in such diminishing experiences as depression, illness, failure, aging, and dying.
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Articles
Celebrating the Right Details: A Key to Success
This article on The Way of the Small was published in Personal Excellence in 2008.
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America in the Third Millennium
This article was published in Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal
of Jungian Thought (vol. 55, issue 4, 2012)
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Reframing the Problem of Evil
This is the final chapter of The Divine Mind: The Psychological History of God’s Inner Journey. It has been accepted for publication as an article in Psychological Perspectives: A Quarterly Journal of Jungian Thought (issue and date to be determined).
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