Faculty & Staff

Satya Doyle Byock, LPC - Director

Satya Doyle Byock is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, OR, the author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood (Random House, 2022), the founding director of The Salome Institute, and author of the Self & Society Substack newsletter. Her writing has been published in Literary Hub, Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, goop, Oregon Humanities Magazine, and elsewhere. She has lectured at Jung groups in the US and UK, and has been interviewed for her work on many podcasts. She is the co-host of Carl Jung’s Red Book Podcast and has twenty years of practice with The I Ching and dreamwork.

Kelley Swenson - Director of Operations

Kelley Swenson is Director of Operations for The Salome Institute. He joined Salome with a keen interest in Depth Psychology, Eastern Medicine, Somatic Therapies, and Qi Gong. An erstwhile musician, Kelley holds a BA in History from Lewis & Clark College. His thesis, The Origins of a Bitter End, explores the consequences of prejudice during the formation of Rajneeshpuram, a religious intentional-community from the 1980s based in Wasco County, Oregon. Once a celebrated culinary professional, Kelley left the food & wine business, where he worked as a Beverage Director, Sommelier, and Business Consultant to pursue a career in depth psychology. In addition to his work at The Salome Institute, Kelley is a burgeoning web designer. He resides in San Francisco, CA.

Frequent Contributors

Carol Ferris, MA

Carol Ferris is a full-time consulting astrologer, teacher, and private astrology tutor with four decades of experience. She completed her Masters in Interdisciplinary Studies at Marylhurst University. The title of her thesis, The Sky's Body: Constellations and Medicine, reflects her ongoing interest in the nature-based medicine and governance thinking of the ancient Near East and Chinese philosophers and astrologers. Carol's work with the multivalent symbols of astrology is interwoven into work with dreams and active imagination. Over the years, Carol has seen these two frameworks —astrological mapping and Jungian imagery —as mutually beckoning guides to understanding how all life, in its exquisite specificity, rises from a unified field.

Kwame Scruggs, Ph.D.

Kwame Scruggs has over 20 years of experience using myth in the development of urban male youth and adults. He holds a Ph.D. and MA in Mythological Studies with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute and a MS degree in Technical Education with an emphasis in Guidance and Counseling from the University of Akron. In 1993, Kwame was formally initiated into the Akan System of Life Cycle Development (an African-based rites of passage) and became a facilitator. Kwame is the founder of Alchemy Inc., a non-profit organization in Akron, Ohio using mythological stories to engage urban adolescent youth since 2003. In 2012, Alchemy was one of 12 programs to receive the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award by the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. Alchemy was also the backdrop for the feature-length documentary, “Finding the Gold Within.” Kwame is a board member for The Joseph Campbell Foundation.

Ayana Jamieson, Ph.D.

Ayana Jamieson is an educator, mythologist, and depth psychologist. She is the founder of the Octavia E. Butler Legacy Network, a global community founded in 2011, committed to highlighting Octavia Butler’s life and work while creating new works inspired by Butler’s legacy. Ayana’s essay, “Far Beyond the Stars” contains methods for curating your own archive and appears in the Black Futures anthology edited by Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham (One World). Her writing also appears in 51 Feminist Thinkers (Routledge), Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction (MIT Press), and elsewhere. She teaches ethnic studies courses at California State University Polytechnic, Pomona.

Ann Carroll, Ph.D.

Known to the Salome Institute as the third contributor to The Red Book Podcast, Ann Carroll (“Ann from Maine”) is a scholar, translator, and sculptor born in Concord, Massachusetts. After departing for Europe at 19 to study Rilke in the original, Ann received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Munich. Her dissertation, The Concept of Value in the Early Works of Martin Heidegger, examined the collapsing notion of 'value' at the turn of the twentieth century. Ann later taught art history and Eastern and Western philosophy at the University of Maine and the College of the Atlantic. Her long-term artworks include sculpture-filled gardens featured in Downeast Magazine and The Maine Flower Show. Her earth-based tree sculptures merge Erich Neuman's archetype, The Great Mother, with the Earth itself. As a translator, Ann uses archival imagery and Joycean language to render sacred texts anew. Her most recent work, A Joycean sTripture of the Tao Ching: A Meditation on Yin Wisdom, explores the combined ethos of Taoism and contemporary thought. Her other works include Sekhmet: an Autobiographical Dream, and a pictorial translation of The Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra. Ann and her husband, Chick, have lived in Maine for fifty years, where she has taught everything from Art History to Qigong, built and maintained large gardens, and has eight grandchildren.

Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D.

Kayleen Asbo, Ph.D. is a cultural historian, mythologist, and retreat leader who weaves her passions for women’s history, spirituality, psychology, and the arts into her scholarship. She has taught on the intersection of Christianity and Depth Psychology at conferences and seminars at Pacifica Graduate Institute, Oxford University, Chartres Cathedral, the Assisi Institute in Italy, multiple Jung societies, and in colleges, seminaries, and cathedrals around the world. She was also a faculty member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for nineteen years and the music historian in residence for the Santa Rosa Symphony. Kayleen is the Artistic and Educational Director for Mythica. In 2021, she’ll be offering a series of online virtual pilgrimages in the footsteps of the mystics from a depth psychology perspective.

Additional Respected Contributors

Daniel Baumann

As C.G. Jung’s great-grandson, Daniel has thoughtfully navigated his relationship to the Jungian world and his own lineage since his teen years. He has served in multiple roles within the CG Jung Institute Zürich, including as President for five years, and as a member of the Curatorium from 2000 to 2012. From 2015 to 2019 Daniel has served on the Board of Directors for the CG Jung Foundation Zurich, an internationally supporting foundation for Analytical Psychology to which he remains connected today as a Friend of the Board. In 2010, Daniel was a co-organizer of the Zurich Red Book exhibition at the Rietberg Museum Zurich. Daniel has also led a number of guided tours for official groups to Bollingen Tower, a place he has loved both as an architect and as a descendent of C.G. Jung.

Cybele Brandow

Cybele Brandow is a third-gender writer, poet, and divinatory counselor of Magyar, Welsh, English, and German descent. They studied late antique Christian mysticism and pre-imperial Chinese religion and philosophy at Reed College, presenting a thesis on Trialogic Hermeneutics in the context of Tarot Divination events. Cybele served as Director of the Maine Jung Center for three years before leaving to pursue full-time publication of their debut novel of mid-grade nonsense literature. Their writing weaves mythological motifs, fairy tale, dream symbolism, and magical imagination to create whimsical yet familiar worlds where mycelial synchronicity abounds and wordspells lead readers deeper into their own playful awareness of sElf. Cybele lives atop a hill in a book-brimming Seussian bungalow in South Portland, Maine with their beloved partner and a well-worthy-of-worship tortoiseshell cat named Persephone ('Persy' for short).

Fanny Brewster, Ph.D.

Dr. Fanny Brewster is a Jungian analyst and author of poetry and nonfiction. Her book The Racial Complex: A Jungian Perspective on Culture and Race (2020) was recently published by Routledge, joining her books Archetypal Grief: Slavery’s Legacy of Intergenerational Child Loss (2018) & African Americans and Jungian Psychology: Leaving the Shadows (2017). Her poems from Journey: The Middle Passage have appeared in the Psychological Perspectives Journal (2016) in which she was Featured Poet. Dr. Brewster is a Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute and a member of the Philadelphia Association of Jungian Analysts. She is a lecturer and workshop presenter on Dreamwork, Culture and Creative Writing.

Tracy Daugherty, Ph.D.

Tracy Daugherty is the author of four novels, six short story collections, a book of personal essays, a collection of essays on literature and writing, as well as biographies of Donald Barthelme, Joseph Heller, Joan Didion, and Billy Lee Brammer. His stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, British Vogue, The Paris Review online, McSweeney’s, Boulevard, Chelsea, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Triquarterly, The Southern Review, and many other journals. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, Bread Loaf, Artsmith, and the Vermont Studio Center. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and PEN, he is a five-time winner of the Oregon Book Award. At Oregon State University, he helped found the Masters of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing, and is now Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing, Emeritus.  In 2018, Literary Arts awarded him and his wife, Marjorie Sandor, the Stewart H. Holbrook Literary Legacy Award for outstanding contributions to Oregon’s literary life.

Rae Davis

Rae Davis, born 1970 in Cambridge, England, holds a BFA from the University of Michigan School of Art. His paintings and drawings have been exhibited across the United States, and are included in many private and public collections. Traywick Contemporary in Berkeley, CA represents his work. He has made Portland, Oregon home with his family for the last 16 years. Instagram @raedavisart

Patrick deWitt

Patrick deWitt is the author of the critically acclaimed novel French Exit, now a critically acclaimed film staring Michelle Pfeiffer. He is also the author of Undermajordomo Minor, Ablutions: Notes for a Novel, and The Sisters Brothers, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2011 and made into a film staring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, and Jake Gyllenhaal. Born in British Columbia, Canada, deWitt has also lived in California and Washington, and now resides in Portland, Oregon.

Hendrika de Vries, MA, MFT

Hendrika de Vries was a Jungian-oriented Marriage and Family therapist for over thirty years and is the author of the WWII memoir “When a Toy Dog Became a Wolf and the Moon Broke Curfew.” Hendrika has used dreams and intuitive imagination to facilitate recovery and healing of trauma, address life transitions and relational issues, and empower women. Born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, she became a swimming champion, wife and young mother in Adelaide, South Australia. She gave birth to her third baby, got her B.A., and earned a Phi Beta Kappa, in Denver, Colorado. A move to Washington D.C. precipitated a search for meaning and a spiritual quest that led to her immersion in the Depth Psychology of Carl Jung, an M.T.S in theological studies at Virginia Theological Seminary, a journey to Greece in search of the mythical Goddess and a move to Santa Barbara, California, for a degree in psychology. She enjoys public speaking, and as a teacher and lecturer at Pacifica Graduate Institute helped students explore the archetypal and cultural patterns in their life stories.

Marcy De Veaux, Ph.D.

Marcy De Veaux is a media expert and educator with decades of experience in entertainment public relations, diversity best practices, and coaching. She is Associate Director of Faculty Development and a tenured Professor for the Department of Journalism at California State University, Northridge. Dr. De Veaux also holds a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management from Lesley College, in Cambridge, MA. Her work appears in several publications Imaginative Inquiry: Innovative Approaches to Interdisciplinary Research and the recently published Teaching Daughters of the Dust as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash (Peter Lang). She co-edited Pacifica Graduate Institute: An Alumni Tribute to 40 Years of Tending Soul in and of the World. Currently, Dr. De Veaux arranges workshops on unconscious bias, diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural competencies for higher education, small to medium-sized businesses, non-profit organizations, and media companies.

Charles Hall

Charles Hall was born in 1960 in Dallas, Texas, with multiple congenital disabilities. He has no arms below the elbows, facial anomalies (80% paralysis), and speech issues classified as Moebius Syndrome. His parents insisted that he be mainstreamed during the 1960s, giving him a much more normal childhood before it was the standard for disabled children. In High School, Charles was in a unique class called “Man and His Environment,” where he attended a three-hour-a-day class in the Humanities, introducing him to the works of Carl Jung, Margaret Mead, and more. He attended a small college in East Texas, majoring in the Humanities. After college, with no prospect for a job, Charles founded a nonprofit working with disabled individuals, their families, and caregivers. At 30, he returned to school and did post-graduate work in Accounting and Finance. It took his mentor three years and an offer for a money-back guarantee for Charles to get his first job. Within six years, he was working at Intel. After ten years in corporate life, Charles had proved he could survive in the “real world” of corporate America and decided to quit. For the last eighteen years, he has been living in Mexico, helping his family’s business to integrate disabled individuals into the workplace. Charles’s passion is the issue of Disabilities about which he speaks, consults, and writes. “What It Means to be Disabled.” His work is highly influenced by Jungian, Archetypal, and Depth Psychology, and Family Systems Theory.

Kimberly Howell, Ph.D.

Kimberly Howell is a body positive activist and diversity educator who uses mindfulness techniques with both individual and corporate clients. Her doctoral dissertation entitled, “Peek- A-Boo! I See You: Capturing the Story and Image of Invisible Beauty in Los Angeles” highlights the celebrity culture of Los Angeles and how place affects both psyche and soma. Dr. Howell has spoken internationally on topics such as feminist consumerism as well as engaging depth psychological practices in corporate learning environments.

Sharon D. Johnson, Ph.D.

Sharon D. Johnson is a screenwriter, dream educator, and scholar of television, film, and African American arts; literature; and culture. She has been a published critical and feature story writer for over 30 years, and a member of the Writers Guild of America, West since 1993. She served as Chair of the Writers Guild Committee of Black Writers from 1999 to 2003. Dr. Johnson has published and presented her precedent original research on Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes, and on the ancient depth psychological practice of dream work, via numerous venues in the field. Her essay, “Conscious Daughters: Psychological Migration, Individuation, and the Declaration of Black Female Identity in Daughters of the Dust” is included in the recently published anthology, Teaching Daughters of the Dust as a Womanist Film and the Black Arts Aesthetic of Filmmaker Julie Dash (Peter Lang). She is a graduate of Barnard College and holds an MA in Media Studies from the New School. Dr. Johnson has taught screenwriting; Black popular culture; and African American literature at California State University Northridge, and her original senior seminar on race; gender; and screen adaptations at Emerson College Los Angeles.

Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman is the author of many books on the links between consciousness, culture, and the Western esoteric tradition, including Jung the Mystic, Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson, and The Secret Teachers of the Western World. He writes for several journals in the US, UK, and Europe, lectures around the world, and his work has been translated into more than a dozen languages. In a former life he was a founding member of the pop group Blondie and in 2006 was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Before moving to London in 1996 and becoming a full time writer, Lachman studied philosophy, managed a metaphysical book shop, taught English literature, and was Science Writer for UCLA. He is an adjunct professor of Transformative Studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Jenny Montgomery, Ph.D.

Jenny Montgomery has been a practicing astrologer for over twenty-five years. Her Ph.D. studies at Columbia University focused on the history of esoteric sciences in the medieval Greco-Arab world. Her practice is influenced by Jungian psychology, emphasizing the archetypal and unconscious realms. Concurrent with her astrological practice, she has pursued creative work as a writer and cartoonist. Her journalism, comics, and poetry have appeared in publications including the New York Times, Sensitive Skin, A Gathering of the Tribes, Tar River Poetry, Calyx, the Cairo Times, and others. She loves to travel and has lived in New York City, Cairo, Malta, and Missoula, Montana, where her husband, Ryan, and she own a small whiskey distillery. Their son Heath is a middle schooler and a wheelchair user.  She and her son are active with advocacy groups supporting the independence and civil rights of people with disabilities. She is currently at work on a graphic memoir about parenting and disability titled The Outlaws.

David Naimon

David Naimon is the host of the literary podcast and broadcast Between the Covers. Known for its long-form conversations with writers of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and science fiction and fantasy, Between the Covers has been heralded by The Guardian, Book Riot, The Financial Times and Buzzfeed as a standout resource for both readers and writers. Past guests have included Claudia Rankine, Anthony Doerr, Teju Cole, N.K. Jemisin, Ted Chiang, George Saunders, Carmen Maria Machado and Layli Long Soldier among many others. Ursula K. Le Guin is the one and only guest to have appeared three times on the show, once each for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Shortly thereafter, they created a book together built from these three conversations: Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing (Tin House Books). Ursula K. Le Guin: Conversations on Writing was a Hugo award finalist and winner of the Locus Award in nonfiction. Naimon's own writing has appeared in Orion, Tin House, AGNI, Boulevard, and Black Warrior Review, among many other places. It has garnered a Pushcart Prize, been anthologized in The Best Small Fictions, and cited as notable in Best American Essays and Best American Travel Writing. He has also written the foreword to the upcoming anthology Dispatches from Anarres: Tales from Portland Authors in Tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, forthcoming this fall from Forest Avenue Press.

Magda Permut, Ph.D.

Magda Permut is a psychologist in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She has a Ph.D. in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.  Her work draws on training in behaviorism and depth psychology, herbalism, spiritual and artistic recovery, gardening, antiracism, feminism, and her own soul recovery.  She has been studying and practicing the work of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés for more than a decade and has joined her in over 80 hours of direct instruction. Magda strives to provide programming that inspires individuals to create a new world by connecting deeply with themselves, each other, and the mystery.

tyler redskye

tyler redskye is a queer non-binary trans settler whose ancestors come from Sicily, the Maghreb, the Aegean islands, Malta, and Ireland. They were raised by the great eastern white pines and the Muhheakunnuk, The River that runs both ways. They make medicine, furniture, and timber frames in the Dawnland with their spouse and cattle dog. They attended Sarah Lawrence College for Semiotics and Gender theory and completed their Master's at Pratt for Environmental Design. They see their work in this world to decolonize and dismantle violent colonial systems by listening, remembering, and imagining new ways of being—to hold the truths and always say the things that need to be said.

Sharma Shields, MFA

Sharma Shields is the author of a short story collection, Favorite Monster, and two novels, The Sasquatch Hunter’s Almanac and The Cassandra. Sharma’s short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Electric Lit, Catapult, Slice, Slate, Fairy Tale Review, Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and elsewhere and have garnered such prizes as the 2020 PNBA Award, 2016 Washington State Book Award, the Autumn House Fiction Prize, the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust, and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. She received her B.A. in English Literature from the University of Washington (2000) and her MFA from the University of Montana (2004). Sharma runs a small press, Scablands Books, and is a contributing editor for Moss. A current employee of Wishing Tree Books in Spokane, Sharma has worked in independent bookstores and public libraries throughout Washington State. She lives with her husband (writer and graphic novelist Simeon Mills) and their two children.

Sherrie Sims Allen, Ph.D.

Sherrie Sims Allen focuses her work on exploring the cultural wounds of racism, sexism, feelings of invisibility, and women and rage, which she re-visions as a socially valuable expression in her dissertation, Transforming Rage: Revisioning the Myth of the Angry Black Woman. Dr. Sims Allen has made presentations at both the Society of Humanistic Psychology and the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies conferences. Dr. Sims Allen is a practitioner of the Myers Briggs Topology Instrument (MBTI), which she and her husband, Dr. Melvin Allen, utilize in their nationally presented relationship seminars and workshops for couples and singles. Her approach affirms that when relationships work, families work; when families work, communities work, and when communities work, the world works. The Drs. Allen are co- authors of the forthcoming book, The Allen Method: Exploring Relationships Through the Lens of Myers Briggs.

Patricia Taylor, Ph.D.

Patricia Taylor is the Chairperson for Special Education Programs in the LaFetra College of Education at the University of LaVerne in Southern California. Dr. Taylor is also founder and Co-Chair of the university’s Center for Neurodiversity, Learning and Wellness. Her area of specialization is in assisting learners who learn in atypical ways find their ways of knowing and learning first by acknowledging their unique gifts and then by figuring out how to honor and share those gifts. Dr. Taylor’s studies and degree in Depth Psychology informs this process and has led to the unveiling of the original meaning of the idea of enough in western lexicon. This has also led to a deep appreciation of what she calls word stories and how words, as Michael Meade states, are merely condensed stories waiting to be told.