Orpheus & Jung: A conversation with Jon Wilson

Free Youtube interview and a bonus short of me reading the Orphic Hymn of Hermes!

Business first: Don’t forget to mark your calendars for my next live chat on February 16th at 2pm EST! Hymn Topic TBD, but as always there will be time for open questions too.

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I recently had the pleasure of being invited onto the Jung and the World podcast with

jon wilson

to discuss Orpheus, Orphism, and the potential resonance (Orphic pun intended!) with the work of Jung and his followers.

Our conversation was wide-ranging and generative, as you’d expect when an Orphic and a Jungian cross paths! I’d encourage you to explore Jon’s substack and Youtube channel further, because he’s interviewed some really fabulous scholars and analysts, and the tone is wonderfully casual and accessible while simultaneously offering up thought-provoking insights into the workings of soul, psyche, spirit and all that good stuff.

Check out the (free) video below!

And as a bonus “track,” John even made this terrific little short that captures me reading my translation of the Orphic Hymn of Hermes — which, if you haven’t encountered it yet, is definitely the funniest, gayest hymn in the whole collection, as well as a powerful reminder that Hermes gifts the most vulnerable among us the ability to use our words cunningly and effectively in the face of oppression.

For some reason, Substack won’t let me embed the short, but here’s the link:

https://youtube.com/shorts/teqf9rIQqlg?si=L9K2ssBBA64upjGi

Enjoy!

Sending you so much love during this time when the powers that be would like us to forget who we truly are: the children of Earth and Starry Sky.

✨✨Kristin