The threats of annihilation on a global scale just keep piling up, making for an existential crisis on a collective level. It used to be — oh, just find a desk to duck under when the missiles launch. Looming now is a third world war, climate change burning the house down, multitudes of species disappearing. And now AI and the robots have been unleashed.
What to do about this? While the planet’s richest build their deluxe ride-out-the-apocalypse bunkers, we here are C4E turn instead to that time-honored, and, rather more accessible means of keeping the PTSD at bay — let’s talk.
Let’s talk about what this all means, how this impacts us individually and collectively, and how do we find our way in a broken world? How do we turn this into a rite of passage, and emerge the better for it?
Our guest this week is Randy Morris. He grew up in Richland, Washington, home to the Hanford nuclear site. He spent three of his ten years teaching grades K-12 at the Hiroshima International School in Japan. So he has some personal perspective to share on the bomb, and he co-authored a book on it:
Nagasaki Spirits, Hiroshima Voices: Making Sense of the Nuclear Age
Randy is a Professor Emeritus at Antioch University, Seattle in the BA Liberal Studies Program, coordinating the Psychology and Spiritual Studies.
And, he is a Jungian scholar and depth psychologist, serving as Co-President of the C.G. Jung Society of Seattle — and we’ve already asked him back to talk about Jung, rites of passage, the soul, dreamwork, elderhood.