Sasquatch in the Psyche: Myths and the Truths They Illuminate: A Conversation with David Mitchell, Rachel Bryant, and Shirley Strong

October often feels like the month when the Western Hemisphere deepens into fall. In many cultural communities and societies, it is a time where the veil thins and our collective stories and myths come forward, revealing enduring truths about our fears, anxieties, traumas, alongside our deepest wisdom and knowledge.

David Salisbury Brown Mitchell is assistant professor in Research Psychology at CIIS and the author of the new book, Sasquatch in the Psyche: Death Anxiety, Deep Memory and an Enduring Enigma. Stories about the Sasquatch are reflections of both our lived reality and bring the fantastical and wonderous to our doorsteps.

Join David, Rachel, and Shirley as they engage with myths and myth-making, the promise and peril of myths, the realities myths uncover and reveal, and specifically about the power of Sasquatch in our collective psyche.

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David Salisbury Brown Mitchell, M.S., Ph.D., obtained his master’s and doctoral degrees from Howard University, and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Mitchell comes to CIIS from the University of West Georgia, where he taught in the Psychology Department and co-founded the Exceptional Experiences Research Lab (EERL). His scholarly interests include varieties of exceptional experiences and paradigm shifts in the academy, the cultural and transpersonal significance of antagonistic entities within ancient and modern myth, and homin entity encounters.

One of his recent publications is Sasquatch in the psyche: Death anxiety, deep memory, and an enduring enigma.

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