The Oracle is open-ended conversation with Sebastian, drawing from Seba\u2019s library of 500+ primary works across depth psychology, classical philology, mythology, trauma, somatic therapy, and affective neuroscience. Where the structured experiences (dream, tarot, astrology, I Ching) use curated author lists and shaped intakes to guide a specific reading, the Oracle is the unstructured form \u2014 you ask, Sebastian searches the library, retrieves the relevant chunks, and writes you back with inline citations from what the library actually contains.
What the Oracle Draws From
The library is curated \u2014 it is not the general internet. Its strongest coverage is across Jung\u2019s Collected Works, the post-Jungian tradition (Hillman, von Franz, Edinger, Kalsched, Neumann, Woodman, Hollis, Myers, Jones), classical philology (Homer, Plato, Dodds, Carson, Vernant, Hadot), trauma and somatic therapy (van der Kolk, Herman, Ogden, Bion, Winnicott, Janet), mythology and mythic studies (Campbell, Eliade, Otto), affective neuroscience as it touches the tradition (Solms, McGilchrist, Keltner, Panksepp via Solms), and depth astrology and alchemy (Greene, Rudhyar, Arroyo, Tarnas, Edinger on alchemy).
How to Ask Well
The sharper the question, the better the answer. \u201CWhat is the shadow?\u201D will get you something adequate. \u201CWhere do Jung and Hillman part company on whether the shadow can be integrated, and what does von Franz add?\u201D will get you something worth keeping. Name specific thinkers where you can. Name texts if you know them. The library rewards specificity.
For Research-Grade Essays
If you want a real scholarly essay with a three-section structure (library-grounded argument, evidence notes, further reading), Deep Research is the dedicated experience. It uses an intake to sharpen your question, an Opus composition step to write a retrieval-optimized brief, and runs the full research pipeline. Takes longer. Costs more tokens per run. Produces essay-length output.