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Dick Russell "My Mysterious Son"

Tähenduse teejuhid (Maps of Meaning) is an Estonian language monthly newspaper that is distributed with the country's largest daily Postimees. The first issue came out in September 2020. The centre of gravity of each number is a ca 4000-word interview. The conversation with Dick Russell appeared in the 50th issue of the paper (February 2025). Here are seven highlights from this interview. The first comes from my brief introduction, the other are direct quotes. 1. The prescribed drugs – Clozaril and Zyprexa – cause Franklin to put on close to a hundred pounds and he is diagnosed with diabetes. When it turned out that Zyprexa’s manufacturer, Eli Lilly knew about these side effects but was deliberately silent about them, Russell brought a class action lawsuit against them and received eventually a compensatory settlement. “But I feared the damage was already done,” reminisces he. In the next twenty years Russell was desperately looking for ways to help his schizophrenia-afflicted son. These hard years give in 2014 rise to his book „My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism“. 2. Toward the end of my travel years I made it to the Middle East. I had a series of strange experiences after I had climbed the Great Pyramid. I felt like a strange energy had entered my soul and started to direct it, I don’t know how else to say it. Soon after that I met an old man on a boat going to Jordan who told me that he had been part of the CIA and that he thought he knew who killed President Kennedy. He wasn’t right about it but he provoked my interest in this theme, before that I had steered clear of politics. 3. Plotinian idea that my soul chooses my body and parents sounds today very radical, if not absurd. According to modern psychology, causality works the other way around – in the case of psychological problems, we generally consider ourselves victims of our parents and upbringing. It’s not like we don’t have free will to make our choices in life but there is this guiding ghost, our higher self, the daimon, the Germans call it a Doppelgänger. Hillman said that our daimon is independent of our circumstances and and not traceable to external causes, it grows out from our innermost core. Many things that we experience in life have been written out for us. 4. “Up there in the pure air and sunny cold I read both “The Decline of the West” and “The Magic Mountain”, studied “The Waste Land”, and began Proust.” Hillman’s sanitorium doctor feared the novel might give him “wrong thoughts” and depress him. He warned against reading it. James didn’t listen to him and devoured the book. When he finished it, he wrote to his future wife Kate Kempe: “I broke down and cried like I have never cried since I was 12–13… Why not darling get a big book like that… and read. There is more reality in art of any kind than in “real” life. Escape to beauty!” 5. “In my culture, it’s contemplated as a particular being having broken into the field of a person’s vision. It’s like when the other world is dialling the person, the person doesn’t know how to pick up the phone. But the calling, and the waiting, drives the person nuts.” At that time, I already knew that Franklin possessed psychic ability, at least insofar as tuning in to what I was thinking. I already knew too, that there were patterns to his sometimes delusional thought processes, but to consider Franklin’s behavior as somehow governed by “a particular being having broken into the field of his vision” or the other world calling him – this was an entirely new ida to my rational Western mind and I leaved it at that. 6. Being in Malidoma’s presence added immeasurably to Frank’s self-confidence – slowly but surely shattered over the years by the onslaught of doctors and drugs. Over the intervening years, my personal experiences had led me to take Malidoma's words about phone calls from the other world somewhat more seriously. Both I, and his mother, have continued to seek communication with our ancestors on his behalf, these have been very different and difficult journeys that have made a difference in our own lives as well. Had we met Malidoma earlier, Franklin might long ago have been able to leave medication behind. 7. Hillman spoke of the heart instead of the brain. At one of these men's movement gatherings, he memorably said that we are all brought here by broken hearts and that therefore our main common task is to heal each other's wounds. There was a big emphasis in these men’s groups meetings on rituals and fairy tales. The media was very condescending about all this. The newspapers wrote with relish about a group of guys going out to the woods, dancing to drums and talking down their wives. It was so different than that. The men who came together sought – often successfully – profound spiritual and mystical experiences.