Episode 91: Frank McMillan

Frank N. McMillan, III is an award-winning author, educator and speaker in Corpus Christi, Texas.

He holds a master’s degree in geography from Texas A&M University—College Station and trained at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem as a participant in the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers’ Program.

Over the last thirty years, he has been an adjunct faculty member at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi and Del Mar College where he teaches world geography.

A proponent of Holocaust education, his 2006 Young Adult novel, Cezanne Is Missing, has been taught in schools across the country. His lifelong interest in and respect for the history and traditions of the indigenous peoples of the Americas influenced a second book, The Young Healer, which won the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Foundation Book of the Year Award and was a finalist for the Mark Twain Readers’ Award.

In 2012, Texas A&M University Press released his non-fiction work, Finding Jung, an exploration of his father’s personal experience of the objective psyche. The following year, he was inducted into the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP) as an honorary member at its XIX International Congress held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Frank has served on the board of several environmental and human service organizations, and currently works with nonprofit groups that address homelessness, poverty, illiteracy, and other urgent social issues. He is the founder of The Frank N. McMillan Jr. Institute for Jungian Studies at The Jung Center in Houston, Texas where he serves as a board member. The McMillan Institute hosts local and online educational experiences that advance Jung’s exploration of the frontiers of the human soul, and is now home to the annual Fay Lecture Series.

Since 2018, he has served as a trustee for the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California and recently co-founded The Academy of Imaginal Arts & Sciences which asks the question, “What does it mean to be human in a digital world?”

Next year, Frank will be speaking at the Eranos Conference, Jung’s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul in the 21st Century, held April 28th through May 1st in Ascona, Switzerland. Other presenters include Speaking of Jung guests Murray Stein, Leonard Cruz, Lance Owens, and next month’s guest, Nancy Swift Furlotti.

This interview was recorded on Wednesday, September 15, 2021. It’s 01:09:24 long and 58.6 MB. You can listen to it right here in your browser or download it directly to your computer. It’s also available on on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, TuneIn, Spotify, iHeartRadio, and on Amazon Music.

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SHOW NOTES

FNM His official website

In a Province by Laurens van der Post

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence Film based on The Seed & the Sower by Laurens van der Post; starring David Bowie

Laurens van der Post: The Bushmen & Their Stories Film by Peter Ammann, Ph.D., Jungian analyst

Matter of Heart: The Extraordinary Journey of C.G. Jung Into the Soul of Man Includes footage of Laurens van der Post as well as Jung’s expedition to Africa

Forrest Bess Official website

Forrest Bess: Seeing Things Invisible by Clare Elliott

Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle by Chuck Smith

Bollingen Series XX Princeton University Press

Aion: Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 9ii

The Jung Center Houston Its history

Jung & the Story of Our Time by Laurens van der Post

McMillan Professorship at Texas A&M University

The Tao of Jung: The Way of Integrity by David H. Rosen, M.D., Jungian analyst

Transforming Depression: Healing the Soul Through Creativity by David H. Rosen, M.D., Jungian analyst

Addiction to Perfection: The Still Unravished Bride by Marion Woodman, Jungian analyst

What is The McMillan Institute? Letter from the founder, Frank N. McMillan, III

Atom & Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters 1932-1958 Edited by C.A. Meier, M.D., Jungian analyst

Sean Fitzpatrick Director of the Jung Center Houston

Fay Lectures & Books at Texas A&M University

Fall Programs Online Offered through the McMillan Institute

2021 Fay Lecture Series with Nancy Furlotti, Ph.D., Jungian analyst, Nov. 12th - 14th

Carolyn & Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Free digital downloads

Division of Perceptual Studies University of Virginia School of Medicine

BOOKS BY FRANK MCMILLAN

Cezanne Is Missing Young Adult novel; reading age: 12-15

Website for Cezanne Is Missing Cambridge House Publishing Company

Finding Jung: Frank N. McMillan Jr., A Life in Quest of the Lion (Free digital edition from Texas A&M University Press)

The Lost Girls A novel

The Young Healer Reading age: 9-12

In memory of Frank N. McMillan, Jr. (1927–1988) and Carolyn Grant Fay (1914–2016)

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