Cody Peterson is a trickster.
I got sober on a curb outside the Hard Rock in Las Vegas on March 4, 2013. I was thirty-four, homeless, with warrants in four states. I haven't had a drink or a drug since.
Five or six years into sobriety I went back to books. Campbell first, then Jung, then Homer, who turned out to have an older language for the things I had been living through: feeling, endurance, the soul. That is what I write about now.
I own a rain gutter company in Las Vegas and I still handle the sales. I study psychology at the University of Utah and start a master's at Adams State in January 2027. In between I build things: Seba.Health, a depth psychology library and directory, and Logoi, a workbench for reading Greek. My wife and I lived next to Zion for five years. I go back to the canyons whenever I can.
New
The Iron Thūmos and the Empty Vessel: A Homeric Response to “Answer to Job.” Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 20(3), September 2026. Open access.
Why does Odysseus turn down immortality? Homer's answer is in his grammar, and it turns out to be a reply to Jung's hardest book.
Writing
- 2026
The Iron Thūmos and the Empty Vessel: A Homeric Response to “Answer to Job.” Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 20(3), 103–117. Open access.
- 2025
Taming Wild Beasts. Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche 19(2), 235–239. On active imagination, dreams, the anima, and the archetype of the Alcoholic.
- 2024
The Shadow of a Figure of Light: The Archetype of the Alcoholic and the Journey to Enlightenment. Chiron Publications. Jung, Bill Wilson, and the Twelve Steps, written from inside recovery.
A follow-up essay is under review. A second book is underway.
“It rests on the solid foundations of careful scholarship and personal experience.”
What I'm working on
In Odyssey 20, Odysseus tells his own heart to endure. I count how Homer's words for suffering and enduring are shared out between gods and mortals, and I ask what that says about where value comes from. I use AI to search, sort, and check. The readings, and the mistakes, are mine.
Talks
I teach and talk about recovery, dreams, and Homer. In October 2025 I taught an online lecture for the C.G. Jung Institute Zürich on the archetype of the Alcoholic. Fourteen recordings are in the lecture archive.
