Blue Medicine Journal : A Jungian Podcast

Blue Medicine Journal
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Blue Medicine Journal is a Jungian podcast that imagines the world through myth, dreams, and ritual art.  With host, Sandra Luz del Castillo, PhD; Jungian scholar, mentor, ritual artist, and dreamer. Producer, editor, and original music by Lucas Bakker

  1. 1d ago

    The Quarter Queen: On Marie Laveau with Kayla Hardy

    Join us for some deep magic this Halloween; in conversation with Kayla Hardy, author of The Quarter Queen: a historical fiction on the life of the renowned Voodoo priestess, Marie Laveau in 19th century New Orleans.  This is part one of a series in which Kayla reads from her riveting debut novel and delves into the history and inspiration for this riveting tale & rich homage to Marie Laveau. Kayla is a mythologist, author & screenwriter of Louisiana Creole descent. She earned a doctorate in English, specializing in creative writing & African American literature from Binghamton University, where she teaches adjunct. Kayla is an accomplished scholar of Black folklore, mythology and Voodoo. Join us!

  2. Sep 26

    The Apocalypse Archetype & Power of Story

    Welcome back!  Today's episode explores the Apocalypse as an archetype. It is inspired by a recent NYT's  interview with Naomi Klein, eco-feminist , author, and political analyst. We consider the Apocalypse as the guiding myth of the political and corporate elites, and religious end-timers. the need for a guiding myth on the left, and the Aztec legend of the Five Suns. Join us! My thanks to Lucas Bakker, producer, editor, musician and composer of the original music on Blue Medicine Journal!

  3. Jun 2

    Poetry, Prison, Motherhood, & "Radical Imagination"

    Join us in conversation with Naheima Sears Naheima is an executive coach, ordained Zen chaplain, and depth psychologist who works at the intersection of power, purpose, and inner life. With over two decades advising C-suite leaders and private principals across finance, luxury, and the creative world, she brings rare fluency in both high-stakes strategy and the human terrain beneath it. She is the founder of 87 Degrees. She serves as a chaplain at Rikers Island and on death row. She lives in Brooklyn with her three children and four cats!

  4. Mar 9

    Yeye Luisah Teish & the Jambalaya Center

    Join us in conversation with visionary, Yeye Luisa Teish, a writer, storyteller, and Iyanifa, a high priestess in the Yoruba tradition. Committed to spiritual activism, Yeye’s work combines indigenous spirituality, practical metaphysics, and the arts, and spreads her message of love and hope across the globe. In this episode speaks on her recently inaugurated Jambalaya Center: a sacred center for ancestral, wisdom, and spiritual liberation. Jambalaya is a sanctuary for those seeking deeper, meaning, and ancestral remembrance, and cultural healing.… a growing congregation, a sacred space where earth-based practices, ancestral intelligence, and community care come together and service of collective liberation. Rooted in African and diasphoric cosmologies, Jambalaya honors the ancient traditions that continue to guide her healing are activism and our path forward. See link below: https://www.yeyeluisahteish.com/jambalaya-center.html

  5. Feb 24

    Mad Kings and Monsters: The Power of Story

    Today we listen to the tale of Erysichthon of Thessaly, a mad king under a curse. His hubris and savagery so angered the mother goddess Ceres, that the icy Goddess Famine cursed him with an insatiable appetite. Trying to fill the voracious void, the king lays waste to the entire kingdom and ultimately devours even himself. In the tradition of myth, it is a living tale, and this one, an eerie mirror of the present. When our search for meaning, becomes a search for soul, we inevitably find ourselves “entangled in myth,” said James Hillman, Jungian analyst and founder of archetypal psychology. Join us as we free ourselves from our mythic entanglement with mad kings and monsters.      Thanks to @iamlucasbakker - Blue Medicine Journal's editor, producer, musician and composer!

  6. 12/19/2025

    Magical Realism & the Shadow with Rebecca Peterson, PhD

    Join us In conversation with the vibrant Dr. Rebecca Peterson, PhD, as we explore magical realism in the acclaimed novel, Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, the father of this literary genre; casting a Jungian lens, we consider magical realism as a creative expression of the collective "shadow." Dr. Peterson is an artist, writer, Practitioner of Embodied Imagination, sand tray, and art therapy.   You may contact Rebecca through her website or email:  windowsofthesoulrebeccapeterson.blogspot.com  mexrebe@yahoo.com Documentary on Pedro Paramo's 100 year anniversary: (in Spanish) https://youtu.be/StJ19uPzBik?si=uy1HDFIACwPIjWVg

  7. 11/15/2025

    Jungian Dream Tending

    Dreams are the language of the soul. Join us in conversation with Jungian analys & mandala artist, Dr. Mai Breech, for a conversation on Jungian dream interpretation & why it matters. Dr. Breech is a licensed clinical psychologist and holds a PsyD in Clinical Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She completed her pre- and post-doctoral training at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles, and has been working with orphans and foster children. In 2007, she founded the Children’s Art Village, a grassroots non-profit organization that provides art and music to children in Ghana, India, and Nepal. Currently, Mai is an advisor to administrators and staff at a Sense of Home, a nonprofit home creation for former foster youth. Dr. Breech has a private practice in West Los Angeles where she works with children, adolescents, and adults, as well as an integrative practice where she incorporates somatic work, art, sand play, active imagination, and dream interpretation. For the past 18 years.

  8. 10/09/2025

    Susan Rowland & The Swan Lake Murders: A Mary Wandwalker Mystery

    Join us in conversation with Dr. Susan Rowland, PhD, a Jungian scholar, teacher & prolific author. Today we discuss The Swan Lake Murders: a Mary Wandwalker Mystery. This is her 4th in an ongoing series of the heroic feminine in search of justice in a patriarchal world. In today’s conversation, we discuss the inspiration, history, and archetypal principles behind the story of Swan Lake, and the sundry cast of characters who are marooned together during hurricane, at an ancient convent which shelters young women, once victims of sex-trafficking, and run by the witch/ therapists who tend them.  Cast includes: Mary Wandwalker and her Depth Enquiry Agency (DEA), a three women team, who brave the hurricane to bring justice to an evil sorcerer– who not only influences politics, but more nefariously, poses as a choreographer to lure and sexually abuse teenage ballet dancers, a braggadocious populist politician, his disgruntled wife– who owns the ballet company, and their teenage daughter Irina, the ballerina, about whom The Swan Lake Murders revolve. Tune in!   Special thanks to my producer and editor, Lucas Bakker, whose original music adds to the magic!   https://www.susanrowland-books.com/

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Blue Medicine Journal is a Jungian podcast that imagines the world through myth, dreams, and ritual art.  With host, Sandra Luz del Castillo, PhD; Jungian scholar, mentor, ritual artist, and dreamer. Producer, editor, and original music by Lucas Bakker

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