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WEEK 1: ADVANCE READING & ACTIVITY/HOMEWORK - January 6: "Soulwork, Poetry, Homecoming"
ADVANCE READING, BEFORE WEEK 1 — The suggested reading in advance of our first session is "Phenomenology as a Poetic Realism,” an essay from Robert Romanyshyn. You may access this essay via Robert’s site at http://robertromanyshyn.com/files/documents/Phenomenology-as-a-Poetic-Realism.pdf.
Or --click here to download the file now: Phenomenology-as-a-Poetic-Realism—RobertRomanyshyn.pdf
ADVANCE ASSIGNMENT, BEFORE WEEK 1 — Choose a poem to bring to our first meeting (or better, let IT choose YOU!). We will allow time for a few volunteers to read aloud to the group the poem that brought them. After the session, you may want to share the poem that chose you in the written online group so everyone can have the benefit. (See how to post at the top of this page.)
WEEK 2: ADVANCE READING & ACTIVITY/HOMEWORK - January 13: "The Dream and the Poem"
ADVANCE READING, BEFORE WEEK 2: Please click the following links to read the essay, "The Dream and the Poem" plus the poem from Brian, "Dreaming Blackbird."
Essay-The-Dream-and-the-Poem—BrianMichaelTracy.pdf
Poem-Dreaming Blackbird—BrianMichaelTracy.pdf
ADVANCE ASSIGNMENT, BEFORE WEEK 2: Let the poem, "Dreaming Blackbird" have it's way with you.Try reading it aloud, or moving as you read it or think about it. Finally, take some time to create an image that comes to you via the poem.
The image can be anything you choose--from a photo you take to drawing to a collage to a poem or haiku--or even an altar or collage you create in nature.
Please share your "images" in the group here if you are willing. (See how to post at the top of this page.)
WEEK 3 ADVANCE READING & ACTIVITY/HOMEWORK - January 20: "Technology & the Mythic Poetic Landscape"
ADVANCE READING ASSIGNMENT, BEFORE WEEK 3:
"The Virtues of Caution: A Call to Awaken our Aesthetic Responses"—James Hillman: http://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article1269-the-virtues-of-cauti...
ADVANCE ACTIVITY/HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT, BEFORE WEEK 3:
1. Watch the music video, “Moonlight Rain”—(music by Amethyste): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LYuekhDVQ0&list=PL6O_9_P0cq7YG...
(also located on Depth Psychology Alliance YouTube channel – saved in “Numinous” collection.
2. Watch it more than once. Give it your undivided attention.
3. Notice what’s happening in your body as the images and music move you.
4. When it’s over, write a few sentences of response—or even a haiku format--with your NON-DOMINANT HAND and share here in the group if it moves you. Note: Using your non-dominant hand allows access to emotional and unconscious content you may not otherwise access.
Look for other videos that “feed your soul” and post them here if you are so inclined.
*If you can, Robert suggested you may also want to watch the 1979 film, "Being There" with Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine.( There are a handful of trailers and related short clips about “Being There” on YouTube if you want to poke around)
"Being There" Synopsis: A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of a woman (Eve) and her husband Ben, an influential but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes friend and confidante to Ben, and an unlikely political insider.
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