“Our most potent symbols are archetypal. Like neural networks and theories of mind, they mediate emotions and thoughts not just within ourselves, but between one another. They are public. These archetypal symbols convey what is most meaningful to us, they deliver a critique of social norms, and they shape surprising connections throughout the animate world.
And sometimes, this world appears most clearly when it wears the guise of the surreal."
The Oracle of Rewilding: Pathways to Renewing Our Kinship with All Things by Alexandra Eldridge and Sherry Salman is a 2025 Foreword INDIE Awards Finalist (Body, Mind & Spirit)
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Like the bestiaries of old, the Oracle of Rewilding has a particular story to tell about our own time. Although we may no longer wish to dictate the rules for virtuous living, we face global challenges that rival the Old Testament floodwaters. One way to meet these challenges is to cultivate a visionary imagination and draw emotional vitality and fresh perspectives from what is animal — allowing us to change the ways that we are human and reshape our connection to the universal wild. In an age of data and algorithms, the human mind still has mysterious powers.
Explore the creative imagination, archetypal symbols, depth psychology, and our kinship with the animal world — pathways to rewilding the human psyche.
The Oracle of Rewilding
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Audio: Sherry Salman and David Byrne in The Red Book Dialogues at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City.
Media
YouTube video: Sharing Essentials: Archetypes and Intersubjective Space
Jungian analyst Sherry Salman talks about how archetypal symbols and emotions promote intersubjectivity and theory of mind not just within ourselves, but between us.