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  Ed Aviza March 30, 2011 at 4:30pm

  Hi Ed!  Well, I was a religious studies and philosophy major in college, about 25 years ago... then I went off into "the world" to try to make a living. I went though a lot of different jobs before settling into the world of computers, and my last gig was in software sales for Microsoft. So you could say I was in a "mythic frame of mind" for a long time, but that it was in remission, so to speak!  I am in Will Linn's cohort at Pacifica, and he's how I found this site. We are in our 2nd year now...
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  Will Linn March 29, 2011 at 5:52pm

  I think we can make it happen, I've been meeting with the chairs of my program and rallying the students in the myth department... I'd also love to open more dialogue with the assissi institute (which I noticed Bonnie works for) and a few others. I am still working through some things involving the project, but at the right time I look forward to talking with you more about it, maybe Bonnie as well. Hopefully the project would also lead to more activity on this site.
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  Will Linn March 29, 2011 at 5:36pm

  I hear ya on experiencing them without drugs.. I went through some pretty trippy experiences just with my seizures. 

  Is your writing group in the Carpinteria area? do you live in the area? 

  Where you are going with your last comment gets me back into my thoughts about how much more dialogue there should be between the myth and depth programs.. It is actually a project of mine, and it's what's led me to this site. More on that later though, but let me ask, how active are the depth students on this site? Do they all know about it?
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  Will Linn March 29, 2011 at 5:14pm

  Well, to be honest, I went through a series of three types of spells. The first was a convulsive sleep paralysis that was supposedly not epileptic. Then I also had a combination of temporal lobe seizures and nystagmus (eyes bouncing back and forth due to an inner ear imbalance) that triggered each other early on, then split into two different situations. 

   

  During the sleep paralysis episodes I would be filled with a violent convulsive energy that I would short circuit by jumping into stillness (a reflex I learned during these events then later used to cure my seizures). After jumping into stillness, I would wake up to it happening again, and again, and again, but I never experienced falling asleep.. So the inspiration was the experience of continually waking up into higher realities. 

   

  So you went through the depth program? What direction did it take your writing?
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  Will Linn March 29, 2011 at 4:48pm

  Hey thanks Ed! After my first seizure I came to with the basis for a story, and over the course of a year I gave in to my drive to write. I'll say though, it hasn't been a long career for me, I am just 24. When I came to Pacifica I was the youngest student they'd ever had apply to the myth program. This year there is a kid that came strait out of college, and the year ahead of me a kid two years out of vandy showed up. It's pretty cool what's going on in the Myth program. When Matt and I came, we were the only really young students in our track, this year it's the majority...The gender ratio has even balanced out.
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  roni beadle March 28, 2011 at 1:28pm

  Hello Ed,

   

  I am sorry to hear you have/had cancer; but I am touched by the experience of dnce you share where you worked with the cancer and found more meaning. Hearing about the girl with anorexia is meaningful to me, as I am an eating disorders specialist (I don't like the term 'disorder' or 'eating disorder' for that matter, but use it for understanding), and I have been wondering about whether to look at starting some movement therapy with eating disorder sufferers, but was unsure due to it involving the body in such a senstitive way; seeing what you write has made me think 'this could work'..so thankyou.

   

  Black Swan...I am one of the group who love it..yes, it is painful as it illuminates my own shadow...but I would rather work wih my shadow than split it off....
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  Dennis Pottenger March 25, 2011 at 6:02pm

  Thanks for the welcome, Ed.  I've been looking around the website and feel that marginalization I was talking about.  I mean, I have access, through the Alliance, to people who look at the world from a depth psychological perspective.  Next week, in my group supervision, I will feel like I have to hide who I really am because none of the other trainees and interns at the non-profit I work at have any idea what depth psychology is about.  So to be training to enter a profession in which I already feel cast out to the edge of the edge is a progression I feel a fair amount of ambivalence about.  On one hand I don't like being mocked or made fun of because I earned my MA from a school, Pacifica, steeped in depth psychology.  On the other hand another part of me actually likes being at the edge.  There's some freedom out there.  Thanks again for the welcome.  Talk to you again soon.  Dennis P 
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  Dan Gronwald March 23, 2011 at 3:18pm

  Hi Ed,

  Thanks for the welcome. what a great site this is! And, what a great community. I'm glad I found it and am a part of it. I will do whatever I can to spread the word and participate as fully as I can. Thanks for the message!

   

  Dan
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  Francois Meaux March 22, 2011 at 10:49am

  Hi Ed,

  Thank you for the warm welcome.  I heard about the site via graduate students at Pacifica.

  My own meanderings in Psychology include a number of graduate degrees including a Ph.D from Emory focused in neuropsychology.  I wandered looking for a way of understanding my experience of the journey.  Jung's approach has made the most comprehensive sense by far.  After a number of years of Depth therapy, I began focusing my work more and more in alignment with a Depth Psych approach.  My earlier years as a Cajun were a bit mystical to begin with.  Early years in a seminary studying Medieval History and philosophy began my curiosity for a richer understanding.  Jung's work have helped fill in the blank spaces.

  That's the brief vita.  flm
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  Gael Belden March 21, 2011 at 4:13pm

  Hi Ed,

  Thank for the welcome. My MA from Pacifica was a duel degree in Depth Psych and Mythology.

  I look forward to navigating the site!

  Cheers,