Last weekend I took two young friends, 12 and 14 year-old girls, to see a movie called "Into the Storm" in English, about a series of tornados destroying a midwest town. It was a typical Hollywood piece of schlock with weak story lines about the peop
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Slightly different format for Webinar 3. This time you don't need to register in advance, just show up on Friday at 10am PT by clicking here for #3: Mythic Activism: Change the Story, Change the Game.
If you are asked for the Meeting
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As I'm reviewing the mp4 from this week's lecture, I'm wondering if the PowerPoint slides are available for download anywhere? I'd like to be able to review them without having to scroll through the mp4 to find the slide I'm looking for.
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Something that Craig has mentioned in both webinars is the hardening of myths into rigid ideologies and the danger inherent in the then-literal interpretations of the metaphorical myths or narratives whose original inte
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That read was a lot of fun. I'm deep inside it in several ways. Let me see if I can get my head around a few things.
Is oil the monster or just the vehicle of the monster greed inside human nature? There is no doubt that the fossil
Read more…I finished listening to webinar #2. My favorite nugget of insight was “Metaphors are the connective tissue of the psyche”! I love the power of metaphors and particularly enjoy watching someone’s face light up with new awareness when I use one that
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Read more…Transformation is a common theme in mythology—one I resonate with—which explain the reality of change. The prevalence of the transformation myth is likely rooted in the desire for positive change in almost every human. Change is not an easy process a
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It's a pleasure to join you.
I'm soon to be a PhD candidate at Pacifica Graduate Institute in their DJA program ("Depth Psychology with an Emphasis on Jungian and Archetypal Studies"), having earned my Master's nearly a year and a half
Read more…Oh dear, I think I responded to week 2's readings, not week 3. I'll catch up later.
Touching in here with reflections on this week’s readings. In the first article, Craig asks, what use is mythology? And I answer, thank god(dess) for mythology, those
Read more…So glad to be a part of this interesting community! And grateful to find conversations to join that are meaningful and important. My own exploration of mythology for the last several years has been of Inanna and her descent, a myth I stumbled upon an
Read more…love shana's statement: Is this in some way our culture’s denial of the underworld, of the descent into the unconscious where a real transformation could occur if we were willing to undergo the rigors of initiation?
my brief thoughts this morning h
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Wanted to remind all of you to be sure to stay caught up on the webinars and to post comments and questions here weekly. Not sure we've heard from everyone yet.
Looking forward to tomorrow's webinar, 10 am PST--
C
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I'm interested in the active imagination exercises. Any recommendations?
Great class today!
Thanks,
Douglas
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Delighted to be here with you! I dreamt with a lot of dead deer going with the stream along a river… the river and the environment were poisoned by pollution…it was scary and heart breaking. People was trying to find cure in homeopathy…
Read more…The loss of mythic consciousness is a severe epidemic with our culture today. But myth isn't going down without a fight. There has been a massive resurgence in mythic stories being told and retold - and we are paying $15 a pop to hear the story told
Read more…Greetings. I am already touched by all of the other introductions, the amazing things everyone is doing, and the geographic diversity. I am happy to be a part of it. I divide my time between Seattle and Port Townsend, WA but think of the latter as "h
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Wasn't able to be on the webinar on Friday, so just spent Sunday afternoon catching up. Excellent way to spend an afternoon. It was really rich, Craig. And thank you Bonnie for your comment at the end about previous classes & feeling
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