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Discussing “The Cassandra” with Author Sharma Shields

Online N/A, Portland, OR, United States

Click here to join at Salon Time This salon is free and open to the public. Please join us! Click here to confirm event start in your timezone Join Satya Doyle Byock for an evening Salon conversation with author Sharma Shields about her masterful book, The Cassandra. In many ways paralleling Carl Jung’s pre-cognition about WWI as documented in The Red Book, The Cassandra is a novel exploring salomehttps://www.portlandjung.com/seminars/discussing-the-cassandra-with-author-sharma-shieldsthe inner and outer story of a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Mildred Groves is an unusual young woman. Gifted and cursed with the ability to see the future, Mildred runs away from home to…

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Satya Doyle Byock

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland, OR, United States

Portland author Satya Doyle Byock will read from Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, July 2022). Satya is a psychotherapist, the founder and director of The Salome Institute, and a former Delve guide at Literary Arts who has been a part of the PDX literary scene for 15 years. Her first book, which Publisher’s Weekly called a “perceptive debut” seeks to fill a longstanding gap in soulful psychology books available for people in the first half of adulthood. Through clinical storytelling from her practice as well as a look into history and literature, Quarterlife offers people between the ages of 16-36 insight on how “to find and create one’s own life and purpose in a complex and deeply fraught world.” New York Times…

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