‘Something to do with Home’ with Dr Brendon Stewart
“I have named my talk, ‘Something to do with Home’.
I hope to cover, as well, how I think about getting older, how to have a relevant religious life - my Buddhist practice and, some thoughts about Jung’s home arrangements. If time permits the late (for me) discovery of Alan Watts.
I am very much a home body, maybe this is something to do with getting older; I’m less inclined to stay out at night. Eating away from home for example isn’t that agreeable anymore. It’s not that I haven’t travelled, I lived up to the cliché of leaving home and eventually returning to discover home for the very first time.
I am a baby boomer, born into the affluence that victory with the second world war could afford to bestow on my generation. I travelled the world with impunity, grew my hair long, got stoned, flirted, took advantage, explored the easy esoteric and studied like a dilettante.”
Brendon Stewart:
“I watch a lot of television, that’s not quite right, I watch media platforms, television is just one such platform.
It is a long time since I considered himself an academic. The analytical psychology world has moved on, or at least one hopes so. Many people from those Western Sydney days* have gone on to become senior academics themselves at different institutions and many have taken up work as therapists. Well done!
I am a student of Zen Buddhist Practice; a fascination with a process that involves no purpose.”
*When Brendon ran the UWS Masters Program in Jungian Psychology with Dr David Russell.