It was my absolute pleasure to be Josh and Blake's guest on the Star Wars Escape Pod to talk about my new book, Jung and Star Wars: A Contemporary Mythology. You can listen to our conversation here -- and subscribe to the show!
Author of Jung and Star Wars: A Contemporary Mythology (Routledge, 2025) | Book Clerk/Editor at Tsunami Books & Press ππ | PhD | Scholar | Writer | Oregonian | Fulla Beans
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It was my absolute pleasure to be Josh and Blake's guest on the Star Wars Escape Pod to talk about my new book, Jung and Star Wars: A Contemporary Mythology. You can listen to our conversation here -- and subscribe to the show!
Very! It felt like a David Lynch movie... So grateful they got it under control so quickly and it didn't spread at all. If the wind has been blowing... I'm yearning for the gentle, persistent rains to come. π§οΈπ§οΈπ§οΈ
Last night, a tree up in flames at Oakwood Manor in Eugene. Firefighters, bless them, stopped it and it only affected the one tree. Amazing they stopped it. It's so dry here right now.
Yesssss!
Oh look, a 1932 book that's as relevant as ever. #MAHA
Can you really realize your protagonist on the page before you know who their favorite Beatle is? I should think not.
Looking to order a signed copy of my new book, Jung and Star Wars? Send me a message and I will see to it personally. #MayTheForceBeWithJung #JungAndStarWars #Jung #StarWars #mythology
Joy is a 50% off marionberry pie at Safeway on a Monday night. π₯§
even as the world is completely falling to pieces im still able to worry everyoneβs mad at me which really shows the resilience of the neurotic human spirit
Ugh, man...
Yep...
Hear, hear!
Someday there will be people insisting the Cracker Barrel logo had a cracker sitting next to a barrel in it, and others will insist they were never there -- like the whole cornucopia-in-the-Fruit-of-the-Loom-logo thing.
Someday there will be people insisting the Cracker Barrel logo had a cracker sitting next to a barrel in it, and others will insist they were never there -- like the whole cornucopia-in-the-Fruit-of-the-Loom-logo thing.
A special moment - Nebula-winner Jerry Oltion, a Tsunami Books regular, with my new book, #Jung and #StarWars. A dazzling instance of synchronicity connected us as I finished the book - you'll have to read it for the full story. #BoShek #JungAndStarWars #MayTheForceBeWithJung
Hear, hear! I wrote about this in the chapter on her in my new book, Jung and Star Wars.
Inspiring! Reminds me of the 4 Tree in my neck of the woods.
All good, Rick! Thank you so much for asking. Easiest place to get it is directly from the publisher -- but it should pop up online on any major bookseller's website, too. www.routledge.com/Jung-and-Sta...
Run out right now and get a copy of The Progressive! My brilliant friend Tiffany Hearsey has a great piece of photo-journalism in it about people working together after the Eaton Canyon fire in Altadena, California. Bravo, Tiffany ! πππ
Grateful to Dr. Chris Kempshall for his kind endorsement of my new book. Thank you!
It found you! Fantastic! Thank you so much, Chris, for your kind endorsement of the book and for sharing it here. May the Force be with you!
Just heard the best news -- Galaxina gives my new book, Jung and Star Wars, 5 Meteors! βοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈβοΈ
I'm grateful for the support from Billiam at the Thursdeighties podcast and encourage you all to subscribe and listen to his show. This episode was my first chance to speak publicly about the book and he brought out the best in me, as good friends you've just met tend to do.
Thank you so much, Billiam! We became friends thanks to the will of the Force, I'm convinced. And that makes me so happy. I hope your copy arrives today!
Haven't laughed this hard all year! π€£π€£π€£
Hello there! A box awaited me when I came home from the bookstore and look what was inside... #JungAndStarWars #Mythology #StarWars #Jung #MayTheForceBeWithJung
You're the best, ya know it? Thank you!
(Jung and Marie-Louise von Franz by Kevin Storrar)
Happy publication day to my new book -- Jung and Star Wars -- and happy 47th wedding anniversary to my parents, who encouraged my lifelong love for the saga. #MayTheForceBeWithJung
So many thanks to @jeditalk.bsky.social for inviting me onto their show to talk about my new book. Tom and Kyle were absolutely generous hosts. You can hear our conversation here -- and the rest of the shenanigans they get up to with Brad and C4-T3! youtu.be/4lRTRyUcas4?...
This is the kinda π© I wanna see on my feed
Team Dixie! πππ
You've already done all the homework for it, too!
Ultimately we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world. - #EttyHillstrum, 'An Interrupted Life'
Thank you, Routledge! You made this happen, and your staff members have been an absolute pleasure to work with. π₯³π₯³π₯³
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When you should be sleeping but just have to read one more chapter
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged Β£9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but Β£17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
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If it isn't clear on the page, I've failed. All the same, I'd love to hear your thoughts and reactions to it -- can't wait!
Thank you, my friend!
A few weeks from now, in a galaxy right here.... My new book comes out! Star Wars and Jung: A Contemporary Mythology, published by Routledge, is the culmination of ten years of focused work. I hope you like it. #MayTheForceBeWithJung #JungAndStarWars #StarWars #mythology #JungianPsychology
Yes!
Grim...
Totally. They long-gamed s9 much of this.
Turns out smashing fascists over the head with shovels, guitars, plungers, fly swatters, and more in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is deeply gratifying.
The behavior is unsustainable. They always fall. Usually hard, too.
Bit o' light reading in the colonoscopy center waiting room. #IYKYK π½
Ha!
I ate one slice, so as not to offend my host. But just one!
Can confirm. In England, I was once served a tuna and sweetcorn frozen pizza. π«
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So glad we all get to experience the Most Ironic Independence Day In American History.
Sounds good to me, too.
Thank you! I hope people give it a go.
Just found out the publication of my new book, Jung and Star Wars: A Contemporary Mythology, has been bumped up to August 12th -- my parents' wedding anniversary! Thanks to the Force for that little meaningful coincidence. #StarWars #Jung #mythology www.routledge.com/Jung-and-Sta...
Quite the complex at work when "Forget about intelligence" falls out the mouth.
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For real...
Cheers! Thank you!
Bet ya I'd love the smell of books in the morning, if I could smell them. ππ
Index and typesetting corrections: Done β οΈ & Submitted β οΈ
Index and typesetting corrections are due Wednesday. The final slog! #JungAndStarWars #MayTheForceBeWithJung #Jung #Mythology #Myth #JungianPsychology #Jungian
If a mushroom it resembles It's where the senate assembles If the dome goes to the ground It's the executive building you've found
Triplets! π»π»π» No wonder the dogs have been barking like mad.
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My forthcoming book only has the most serious of subheadings throughout. #JungAndStarWars #StarWars #Jung #Mythology #Myth #JungianPsychology #MayTheForceBeWithJung #midichlorians
Some bears have been puttering around my neighborhood late at night and early morning lately and the local dogs flip the hell out when they smell them so the forest hasn't been as quiet as usual and I'm sleeeeeeepy at work today.
Thank you!
Begun, the indexing has! #JungAndStarWars #StarWars #Jung #Mythology #Myth #JungianPsychology #MayTheForceBeWithJung
The elders in my community keep reminding me it's the Year of the Snake and that snakes need to shed their skin and that's what's happening on a large scale.
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First Swainson's Thrush of 2025! (They're early!)
Ugh...
π€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈπ€¦ββοΈ Hear, hear...
Happy 81st birthday to the true GOAT, George Lucas!
Image of library book display labeled: βIt's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.β Books on display: β’ On Tyranny β’ Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century β’ 1984 β’ A Handmaids Tale β’ Diary of Anne Frank β’ Parable of The Sower β’ Fahrenheit 451 β’ Animal Farm β’ Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm
DUCKTALES THEME (Mark Mueller) - Tom Shaw #ducktales #disney #cartoons
Yesssss!!! Always loved Ducktales -- and the Carl Barks comics so many of those episodes were based on.
Thank you! π
It was my great honor to be Billiam Klavon's guest on Thursdeighties. We love the same movies and had a great conversation about creativity, Jungian psychology, and Star Wars. Check out his other episodes, too!
Popeye gets it.
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Willy Porter last night at Tsunami Books in Eugene, Oregon. More of this, please. youtu.be/v5pBFJpJ9G8?...
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One of the weirdest fads of MAGA rhetoric is a loathing of "empathy." (Sometimes they talk of "suicidal empathy," which Elon Musk, that colossal jackass, calls a "civilizational risk.") Let's examine the stupidities and hypocrisies of this anti-empathy rhetoric: www.thebulwark.com/p/bizarre-ri...
Totally.
A very merry Easter to everybody out there who read Three Women.
Happy Eastah! π£π·π° Marked the holiday reading this Hugo- and Locus-winning 1978 George R. R. Martin story about an Inquisitor sent to the planet Arion to deal with a sect that has made Judas Iscariot a saint. Priests-in-space is one of my favorite tropes.
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Hear, hear.
FINALLY! More than 11 years living in Oregon and I finally saw my first morel here. Emily and Jordan took me out and led me right to it. π
The calypso orchid grove in my backyard is once again in full swing. I always think of Calypso from Greek mythology when they bloom.
I have seen the Saxsquatch with mine own eyes. I have heard the Saxsquatch with mine own ears.
I never took Saxsquatch for a jizz-wailer, but here we are.
Hear, hear.
Hear, hear.
Quote with a gif of you on the day you wake up and finally hear the news: