The Jungian Mystery School 2024

Leslie Stein is a Jungian Analyst with a private practice in Sydney, Australia. He is the author or editor of 13 books of which the following are relevant to this topic: Editor with L. Corbett, Psychedelics and Individuation: Essays by Jungian Analysts; Editor, Eastern Practices and Individuation, Essays by Jungian Analysts; Editor with D. Rickles, Varieties of Nothingness; Working with Mystical Experiences in Psychoanalysis: Opening to the Numinous; The Self in Jungian Psychology: Theory and Clinical Practice; Becoming Whole: Jung’s Equation for Realizing God; and the two novels: The Journey of Adam Kadmon: A Novel; The Psychoanalysis of Dr Seele.   

Felicia Matto-Shepard, MFT is a Jungian Analyst, artist and a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco practicing in Petaluma, CA. She works at the threshold where nonverbal experience is transformed into image and language. She facilitates Alchemical Art workshops utilizing creative processes such as art making, ritual and movement. Felicia holds a Certificate in Psychedelic Therapies and Research from California Institute of Integral Studies and is trained in the use of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, as well as MDMA Assisted Therapy at MAPS.  Felicia is a teaching faculty member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and past faculty member in the Depth Psychology Master’s Program at Sonoma State University.  She offers lectures, workshops and analytic training internationally.

Linda Carter MSN, CS, IAAP (USA), is a nurse/Jungian analyst practicing in Carpinteria, California; graduate of Georgetown, Yale and the C. G. Jung Institute-Boston; JAP Book Review Editor, US Editor-in-Chief, Arts and Culture Editor; chair/founder, Art and Psyche Working Group, winner of two Gradiva Awards (NAAP); article “Amazing Grace” short-listed for Gradiva.

Carlos Hernandez is a transpersonal psychotherapist with more than 15 years of experience working with non-ordinary states of consciousness in therapeutic settings. His work is inspired by his love of God and nature. Trained as an Ayahuasquero and having completed a Post-graduate specialisation in psychedelic-assisted therapies Carlos’ work could be summarised as an integration of Amazonian traditional healing and Transpersonal psychology. Through his years of clinical experience, he has observed that profound and transformational healing processes happen when there is a deepened connection to the Highest Self. He believes it is from this source that healing and meaning can flow.

Johann Mynhardt is a facilitator, mentor and course creator at The Centre for Applied Jungian Studies. He first encountered Jung’s ideas in his early twenties while pursuing interests in comparative religion, philosophy and related subjects. He has taken initiation into Bwiti – a syncretistic mystical religion originated in West Africa and centred on the use of the psychoactive root-bark Iboga. He has also explored the healing potential of other psychedelics and traditional medicines such as Kambo, Ayahuasca, Psilocybin and MDMA. His interest centres on integration of these experiences and how to utilize active imagination in a similar manner to facilitate “soul retrieval”, or shadow integration.

Marcel van den Akker, PhD is a Jungian Analyst and registered Psychotherapist and Clinical Psychologist in private practice in The Netherlands. He is a former Graduate Analyst at the ISAP Zurich. During the last couple of years he has been exploring the benefits of psilocybin use in his clinical work and for his personal process.

Nancy Swift Furlotti, PhD is a Jungian Analyst living in Aspen, Colorado. She is a past president of the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles and a founding member and past president of the Philemon Foundation. She is a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of Colorado and the Interregional Association of Jungian Analysts. She is on the boards of Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, CA, the National Asian Museum in Washington, D.C. and the Mercurius Prize Committee. She has written numerous articles, edited a number of books, including with the late Erel Shalit, The Dream and Its Amplification. Dr. Furlotti lectures internationally on Jungian topics such as dreams, mythology, trauma, the feminine and the environment. Her recent book, The Splendor of the Maya: A Journey into the Shadows at the Dawn of Creation, will be published soon as part of the Fay Lectures. Her company, Recollections, LLC, edits and publishes first generation Jungian’s unpublished writings, most recently Erich Neumann’s two volume manuscript, The Roots of Jewish Consciousness, published in English and Hebrew.

With a masters in depth counseling psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Simon Yugler is an internationally experienced psychedelic therapist, educator, and the author of the book, Psychedelics & the Soul: A Mythic Guide to Psychedelic Healing, Depth Psychology, and Cultural Repair. He has taught for five psychedelic facilitator training programs including Naropa University and Inner Trek. Simon draws on his diverse experience traveling across the world and learning from Indigenous cultures, including the Shipibo ayahuasca tradition and the Native American Church. For a year-and-a-half he routinely served as a retreat leader with MycoMeditations, a leading psilocybin therapy retreat center in Jamaica. Prior to becoming a therapist, he served as an experiential educator and guide, leading immersive study-abroad journeys for young adults across 10 countries. Based on the land now called Portland, Oregon, Simon is passionate about helping his clients navigate the liminal wilds of the soul.