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Dissertation Title:

Our Inner Healing Intelligence: The Self Archetype and Soul Retrieval

Candidate:

Manuel Dominguez

Date, Time & Place:

March 13, 2026 at 2:00 pm
Virtual


Abstract

This dissertation is a ceremonial journey into the mystery of the Inner Healing Intelligence���a force known to Jung as the Self and to Indigenous traditions as the soul���s innate will to return to wholeness. Bridging the mythic pathways of depth psychology and the ancestral rituals of Indigenous soul retrieval, this work traces how entheogens open portals into non-ordinary reality where healing becomes possible. Through a hybrid methodology that treats research as ceremony and knowledge as relational, this inquiry moves in spirals���not lines���through dreams, symbols, ritual, and story. A talking circle of voices���human, archetypal, and ancestral���gathers around shared themes of fragmentation and return, the unseen and the symbolic, the sacred and the psychological. The Default Mode Network becomes a gatekeeper of ego, while plant medicines dissolve the veil, revealing the Self not as an idea, but as a presence. This is not simply a dissertation���it is a rite of return. My own healing path is woven through the text as living testimony. In honoring Indigenous ways of knowing, this dissertation becomes an offering: a map toward wholeness, where psyche meets Spirit, and ceremony becomes the language of reconciliation between the colonized mind and remembering soul.

Details
  • Program/Track/Year: Depth Psychology with Specialization in Integrative Therapy and Healing Practices, H, 2019
  • Chair: Dr. Elizabeth Nelson
  • Reader: Dr. Gina Belton
  • External Reader: Dr. Raksmey Tiano
  • Keywords: Inner Healing Intelligence, Self Archetype, Soul Retrieval, Entheogens, Default Mode Network