Russell Lockhart

This is the eleventh in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

Paco Mitchell: As usual, Russ, there is much to savor in the feast of your comments. How to choose?

Let’s say—I’ll close my eyes and ...read more

This is the tenth in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

Paco Mitchell: Strange coincidences keep happening, Russ, to the extent that sometimes I think chance and necessity—or the accidental a ...read more

This is the ninth in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

Paco Mitchell: Russ, we’ve had many conversations about the contemporary and the ...read more

They say the novel is ill. The novel is dying. The novel is dead. The fashionistas of literary criticism, many of them novelists themselves, condemn whatever current cultural phenomena they see t ...read more

This is the eighth in a series of excerpts from a dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

Russell Lockhart: At the end of our last dialogue, I referred to Goethe’s “method” and how it embodied taking time and engaging in the fullness ...read more

This is the seventh in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

Russell: Last time, you brought up intuition as a focus. Another aspect to bring front and center is time. Our ordinary sense of time ...read more

This is the sixth in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

PM: Over the course of our dialogue, one psychological factor has been implicit from the beginning. We have used it liberally and descr ...read more

This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

RL: At the end of our last dialogue, I was saying that from a large cultural perspective we may be entering a new nomadism. I think the ...read more

This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

Paco Mitchell: At the end of our last dialogue, we imagined ourselves deep underground in the caves at Lascaux, looking up at Paleolit ...read more

This is the third in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell.

Paco Mitchell: Russ, at the beginning of our Dialogue #2 you said: “But, at bottom, we are all linked by a kind of rhizome layer.” That’s ...read more

This is the second in a series of excerpts from an ongoing dialogue between Russell Lockhart and Paco Mitchell. The first dialogue—and what prompted this exchange between them—is published in Dream Network Journal/ Spring 2008. Volume 27 Number 1.

In a recent issue of Dream Network Journal (Vol. 26 #3 and #4), Russell Lockhart, in his column “Dreams in the News,” described a dream that pictured him making a “dreamgourd” and specially marked stones to be used in casting I Ching hexagrams in ...read more

"The true history of the spirit is not preserved in learned volumes but in the living psychic organism of every individual." -C.G. Jung C.W. 11,56

It is quite remarkable, because it is so rare, to see in public such a collection ...read more

I can feel a yearning to make a place for hearing our dreams and their poetry, a place for the "re-enchantment" of the world. To have psyche's speech heard only in consulting rooms will not suffice in the times to come; psyche's voice must be h ...read more