Paco Mitchell

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation Writer/editor, artist, musician, Jungian psychologist, teacher
Location Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Introduction When I was seven years old I walked past an orange grove in blossom. A light breeze blew my way, the fragrance enveloped me and I said to myself: "So this is what Heaven is like!"
Interests History of everything, cosmology, ecology, depth psychology, religious experience, current and coming crises in our ecological, cultural, political and personal lives
Favorite Movies Fahrenheit 9/11, The English Patient, A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing, Babel, Remains of the Day, The Tree of Life
Favorite Music Sacred music of the soul—e.g., Fauré's Requiem, Samuel Barber's Adagio, Marcello's Oboe Concerto in D Minor, Concierto de Aranjuez—cante flamenco, flamenco guitar, Vicente Amigo
Favorite Books Collected Works of C. G. Jung, anything by Lewis Mumford, Theodore Roszak, Thomas Berry, Loren Eiseley, historical studies by William Manchester, the poetry of Dylan Thomas, The Story of the Universe, The Dream of the Earth, The Voice of the Earth, etc.

In the dream where you show up to school naked, why do you never go swimming?

Ask the dream, which is always ahead of us.