These live salons were held in June/July 2020.

In this two-part salon, mythologist Kwame Scruggs discusses being black in the Jungian world with Salome founder and director Satya Doyle Byock.

Part 1 — June 27th, The Shadow: Owning One’s Shadow Vs. Detoxing from the Projected Shadow

Kwame shared personal experiences of his journey from a childhood in Akron, OH to a degree in Mythology and a board position on the Joseph Campbell Foundation. He shared many personal experiences often being the only Black person in a room of white students, professors, and colleagues. Part 1 focuses on The Shadow within Jung's psychology, and the experience of projective identification for a Black person receiving the constant shadow projections of white people.

Part 2 — July 4th, The Persona: Wholeness vs. “Double Consciousness”

We began this salon with Dr. Melvin Allen reading Frederick Douglass's words on the meaning of American Independence for Black Americans. In the salon, Kwame shared his experiences on learning "the mask", the persona in Jung's psychology, and how the knowledge of the Persona is inherent for Black Americans in a way that is foreign to white people. Q&A provided tremendous insights with sharing from community members.

Your purchase of these salons today will provide you with access to the recordings to be streamed at vimeo.com.

(Recordings cannot be downloaded.)