What is the Seba Oracle?

A scholarly reading room built on a curated library of 594 held works across depth psychology, classical philology, trauma, somatic therapy, mythology, and affective neuroscience. Sebastian retrieves from that library and answers from checked passages, with receipts when he quotes.

How is this different from ChatGPT?

ChatGPT draws on its training corpus as a black box. The Oracle retrieves from a specific, curated library of depth-psychological and classical texts, then generates responses citing those texts inline. The answer you receive comes from Jung, Hillman, Kalsched, and the rest of the tradition’s primary voices — not from unattributed generic language about them.

Anything within the library’s coverage: depth psychology (Jung, post-Jungians, archetypal psychology), trauma and somatic therapy, classical philology and mythology, mysticism, affective neuroscience, addiction studies, dream interpretation. The library is weaker on contemporary CBT/DBT, pharmacology, and mainstream clinical psychology.

You can begin without paying or creating an account. Public library pages remain open; free use of the reading rooms is measured, and membership raises those limits. Seba does not sell attention through ads.

The Seba Oracle — Ask the Depth Psychology AI

Ask what will not resolve quickly.

The guided rooms shape a Dream, Tarot, Astrology, or I Ching reading. Here, you bring the question itself. Sebastian searches the held books, answers in his own voice, and shows the receipt when he quotes.

One Sebastian, the same room. This page explains the open-question doorway; the conversation itself continues in Sebastian’s reading room.

What Sebastian draws from

The library is curated rather than scraped from the general internet. Its strongest coverage runs through Jung and the post-Jungian tradition; Homer, Plato, philology, and myth; trauma and somatic thought; mysticism, religion, alchemy, affective neuroscience, and the wider historical record. The concordance and Seba’s essays help him find the right shelf. The books remain the witnesses.

How to ask well

Plain questions are welcome. Specific questions open more doors. “What is the shadow?” begins a useful conversation. “Where do Jung and Hillman part company on whether the shadow can be integrated?” gives the library a sharper problem to hold. Name a text or thinker when it matters; do not manufacture expertise before entering.

When the question needs a paper

For a sustained cited argument, use Deep Research. It sharpens the question, searches the full library, and produces an essay-length answer with its evidence visible. The open room is for conversation; the research desk is for apparatus.

Bring the question in the language you actually use.

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