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Week Three

One thing I am appreciating more and more about this series, is that my attention is drawn in multiple directions with connections being made at meta-levels. Sometimes I find myself going down roads that were not necessarily the focus…but of GREAT us

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Week 4 - Apocalypse

Fascinating stuff. There are so many modern movies and stories that follow these themes of technology gone amok, human recklessness causing devastating viral outbreaks, the “army” typically portrayed as a dark force seeking, using or stealing a kind,

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Reflections Week 3

"As these people turn the vision into culture by speaking for and living it, they start finding each other. The framework of the culture-to-be rises from these critical connections around a modest core of emblems, principles, and inspiring teachings

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Organization

Week 5 Reading

Earthrise reminds me that we are part of the universal. There is also an entire universe within us, microcosmic versus macrocosmic.

On a microcosmic level here is a great quote from The Red Book, Jung.
"He whose desire turns away from outer things,

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Thoughts of week #3 readings

The brief treatise on Eradigmatics, provides a much needed distillation of the many " bits and pieces"  one encounters when  looking for  an overarching concept of a "Mono Myth" of and age or time in human history. I have a feeling that this type of

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Introduction

Greetings everyone. My name is Mara Schaeffer and I have been interested in Depth Psychology and mythology for most of my life. I would like to deepen and focus my exploration and studies with this class. I’m a retired teacher, have my MS in Psycholo

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Organization

Week 4 Reading

In the Yuga Cycle doctrine, Hindu mythology it is said we are currently living in the Kali Yuga; the age of darkness, age of the demon, when moral virtue and mental capabilities reach their lowest point in the cycle.  The popularly accepted date for

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complexity

i was snagged by a paragraph in one of the readings about complexity and have parsed it out for my work situation.  it has given me some great insight, especially about the tension of forces (attractors) at work.  now to think about how mythology app

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Ancestors

Following Sandra Easter’s presentation, I looked at my parents and grandparents to see what “undigested” themes might come up there that connect me with them, for better or for worse.  At the first go-around, here are some that repeated:

 

The death

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Introduction

Hi everyone, my name is Jason Moore. I am originally from San Marcos, Texas, but I'm currently living in San Francisco working on my MA in East/West psychology at CIIS. I have greatly appreciated my experience here and have immersed myself in the cul

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