Talk of race is everywhere – whether global, national, or local in our own communities. And, people have strong opinions and values when it comes to race. The phrase “I love humanity – it’s people I can’t stand” transfers all too easily when we express favoritism toward highly visible heroes like athletes and movie stars but shun the people we encounter directly in our daily lives. American culture is filled with systemic injustice and inequities that have become magnified by the pandemic. Front-line workers in all professions tend to be people of color, the ones most likely to be affected by Covid. When we draw our leaders from the ranks of privilege, what happens to the millions who feel they don’t have representation or a voice in the conversation? Waynette Brock is the CEO of One Hew Heartbeat, a 501(c) 3 CBO that has provided Breaking Barriers to Build Bridges through their “Last Chance” Initiative, Identifying and Healing from Intergenerational & Personal Trauma, Re-Entry Mentoring, HCV/HIV Education as well as Wellness and Recovery training and support to individuals in San Mateo County for 13 years. She personally conducted wellness and recovery groups in San Mateo County Corrections facilities for 8 years, and currently facilitates seven online wellness support groups each week that are open to the public. One New Heartbeat, under her direction, provides staff training, consultation and technical support to SM Co CBOs. ONHB also provides support groups and resources to San Mateo County residents that are affected by trauma, addictions, incarceration and life-threatening illnesses. All of Ms. Brock’s and One New Heartbeat's services and supports are provided at no charge to the clients.

https://www.mythouse.org/post/myth-salon-splendor-solis-four-quartets-with-dr-ron-schenk “Journey” is a common metaphor indicating a process. This sensibility stems from gnostic myth which tells of the soul’s movement to self revelation in which it paradoxically arrives at the place of unification of self and other. On this passage, several archetypal themes are evoked – Awakening, Attachment, Departure, Crossing Over, Yearning, Guide, Goal, Working Through, Sacrifice, Release, and Atonement. This presentation revisions the notion of journey from a deconstructive standpoint, depicting “The Soul’s Journey” in multi-media form - psychological narrative, selections from T.S. Eliot’s “The Four Quartets,” live singing of art songs, tapdancing, a dynamic powerpoint presentation of videos from opera and over 200 images from alchemy and art history most prominently from the alchemical text Splendor Solis - depicting the way of the pilgrim as the archetypal mode of change. The presentational “event” follows the form of Navajo ceremonials in which many modalities are ritualistically integrated into one form in the service of healing.

In this presentation for the Myth Salon, Gary will illustrate the remarkable overlap between Toni Wolff’s structural forms of the psyche and Chögyam Trungpa’s Five Buddha families personality system. The stunning coordination of these models demonstrates the reality of the collective unconscious and reinforces the value of this approach to understanding personality. Coming from a Jungian background, Gary will present the basic archetypes of the model and their parallel Buddha family. For over 25 years, Gary has been a student and teacher of an archetypal personality system drawn from Toni Wolff’s work. He is leading a 9 week introductory exploration of this work beginning Jan. 14 - https://www.archetypalnature.com/tribes Gary S. Bobroff is the founder of Jungian Online - connecting clients with Jungian analysts via live video since 2011 - and the developer and facilitator of Archetypal Nature - a Jungian personality system rooted in the work of Toni Wolff. He is the author of Knowledge in a Nutshell: Carl Jung (2020) and Crop Circles, Jung & the Reemergence of the Archetypal Feminine (2014). He has a BA from the University of British Columbia, Canada and an MA in Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.

Vanessa Taylor visits the Myth Salon!

After a break for Thanksgiving, on Thursday December 3 at 5PM PST, Dr. Vorris Nunley will be presenting “Embracing the Heretical and Re-embodying the Dark Feminine.” Re-reading the Adam and Eve story of paradise through Goddess myths and Toni of Toni Morrison’s most mythic embodiment of the dark feminine, the mundane, everyday character Pilate (born without a navel) and the novel Paradise. This presentation will excavate and make legible the re-emergence of that which the Western imagination continues to torture and punish: the dark and the feminine. Dr. Nunley will re-examine notions of the underground, rootedness, darkness and the nigredo, and provocatively argue for the intersection of the feminine and blackness. Dr. Vorris L Nunley is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside who teaches rhetoric, philosophy, and literature. He is interested in issues of heretical energy, the dark feminine, gendered and racialized knowledge, and the demise of vulnerability. His most recent presentation was a Sophia Center seminar on “The Monstrous, Women, and Meta-narrative” where he addressed the Adam and Eve myth in contemporary culture. His most recent article: ”Adrift in Precarity: The Post-Family in an Neoliberal Era.”

On November 12th, 2020 at 5pm PST, the Myth Salon is very pleased to present Dr. Robert Hopcke speaking on Synchronicity and the Tension of Opposites. Jung’s concept of synchronicity or meaningful chance is one of his most engaging and familiar to the general public, and yet the fundamentally psychological nature of the phenomenon, which was Jung’s original focus, is often lost or overlooked. In his salon with us, Rob will be going “back to basics,” and presenting the four aspects of synchronistic events that make up Jung’s thoughts on this phenomena in order to place this notion within the overall context of Jung’s theories on analytical psychology. Using his own research on synchronistic events within various areas of people’s lives–love, family, work, spirituality and dreams–Rob will be using these “stories of our lives” to show how synchronicity discloses the archetypal currents beneath our everyday experience. Robert H. Hopcke has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice in Berkeley, California since 1986. Along with his numerous articles and reviews published throughout the world, he is the author of the national best-seller, There Are No Accidents: Synchronicity and the Stories of Our Lives, which has been translated into over a dozen languages, most recently followed by his latest work, There are No Accidents in Love: Synchroncity and the Stories of Our Families. He has lectured and run workshops around the country on the concept of meaningful coinicidence for the past two decades, has appeared on Strange Universe and The Other Side, along with numerous other TV and radio interviews on the topic, and most recently he was featured in David Strabala’s documentary film, What is Synchronicity? released two years ago. Beyond his work in the field of synchronicity, Rob’s other writings include some now standard scholarly reference works within the field of analytical psychology, including Jung, Jungians and Homosexuality; Men’s Dreams, Men’s Healing; A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung; and The Persona: Where Sacred Meets Profane, and for a number of years he taught on the faculty of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, now Sofia University, in Palo Alto, California, in the areas of Jungian psychology, human sexuality and spiritual direction.