Dreams of a dark goddess seem to be prolific in the sleep of sincere seekers. One after another I hear of folks wondering why a nightmare of the goddess awakens them. We so easily fall into an ego rut of wanting things to remain the same, to keep the status quo, especially regarding our spiritual outlook. Dreams of the dark goddess beckon us into an interiority and depth of consideration regarding old ways that may have worked for us in the past and no longer do so. Darkness within dreams signal

Reckoning at the 2043 Cascadia Shaman’s Convergence –

New Myth 28 by Willi Paul

Resilience is best understood as a process. It is often mistakenly assumed to be a trait of the individual, an idea more typically referred to as “resiliency”. Most research now shows that resilience is the result of individuals being able to interact with their environments and the processes that either promote well-being or protect them against the overwhelming influence of risk factors. These processes can be indivi

Well I'm sitting here typing all excited, having discovered a treasure of a lecture - it's tucked away on the Washington National Cathedral website and is from 2005, but is timeless :)

In this lecture, Marion Woodman leads an exercise that gives a taster of her work; discusses Jung's ideas about body and soul; and explains what led her into Jungian analysis.

She also tells one of the stories about her life that I absolutely adore: her encounter with the Black Madonna (in an Indian hotel foyer, of

I've been reflecting on the concept of God as intimate soul. William James, father of American psychology and pioneer in psychology and spirituality, proposed this idea as a way of expressing a more personal and practical understanding of what organized religion has described essentially as an outer religious reality. Something so far off and away cannot be as close or real as that which lies within the human soul, in fact is one and the same experience as soul herself. Yes, I did say soul herse

’There’s an interesting paper, The Shaman from Elko, in thefestschrift novel volume for Joseph Henderson, a psychiatrist in San Francisco. It’s an account of a woman in West Virginia, in the coal mining areas there, who in her late sixties had the dreadful feeling that she had lost life, that she had never lived life, that there had been a life for her that she had not lived.

And in the analysis they found one time when she was a little girl, about thirteen years old (that’s about the time for th

'Attempts at an understanding of the secret workings of the soul.'

‘We offer salutations and respect to all present at this meeting

and to all who will be affected by it.

We brush off the chairs on which we sit -

to make a clear space for a meeting of minds.

We brush off from our clothing any debris picked up on the way -

to clear our minds of extraneous matters.

We wipe the blood from our hands -

to acknowledge and apologize for any hurt we have inflicted.

We wipe the tears from our eyes -

to acknowledge and forgive any hurt we have received.

We take the lump out of our

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Joseph Campbell

      This week’s Pisces full Moon mixes the watery energies of the collective unconscious with our Virgo (Sun) self-knowledge.  Coming after the Leo new Moon, this full moon energy can make us aware of how committed we are to ‘following our bliss’ as well as how our bliss can serve ou

Currently researching more esoteric forms of looking directly into the self.

Historically, the Pagan method of Jungian analysis was with scrying and divination - utilising archetypal symbols such as the chalice, water and darkness. Throughout mythology, in particular Celtic, truth and knowledge (and not merely the future) are divined through these intensely feminine mediums. It is of note that in more recent times, in J.R.R Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the most powerful stone of far-seeing an

Sustainable Living & The New Mythology

An ironic twist to the localization movement throughout Cascadia, the Plastique Sea is a moving permaculture experiment, a bobbing and rolling decentralized government with a flag and a rowdy group chant. SeaOccupy? The Plastique Sea Barge Tribe is another example of community initiation in the post-Transition era. 

“How do we make our share of Cascadian Barterbucks?”

Read New Myth 26

“The wealth of the soul exists in images.” ~CGJung is quoted by @Depthinsights on Twitter.  Images and symbols are our means of communication.  I’m hoping Noam Chomsky will not disagree with me on that.  So symbols, for the sake of non-debate, originate of the Collective Unconscious.  And for as long as mankind has been able to make his mark in a place, it has put them down in various physical manifestations.

The circle has got to be one the most commonly configured complexes.  Sometimes the anal

As this is my first post, let me introduce myself somewhat. I am 23, and I am only beginning to open my eyes to the world. I am a few months away from obtaining my bachelor of arts degree, here at the beautiful, Australian bush surrounded campus of my university. My present extra-curricular research project is into the very depths of the feminine mind. My interest is specialised to a woman's experience, simply because I feel it is the mystery rightfully available to be delved into and sought by

Greetings to the Community of DPA.

I find myself in a near frenzy, searching for a way to tenderly release it into the open. 

I'm an Artisan, an all around creative, and have finally come to peace with myself, giving my full attention to the messages of my dreams. I've documented them for 11 years, and haven't paid much attention to them until this year.

What I've found throughout a handful of entries, is an underlying current of similarity - there's a distinct message within them, and it's someth

“Shapeshift Threshold Reverie”. Interview with Maila T. Davenport PhD, AltarPlaces.org, Portland.

By Willi Paul, openmythsource.com

“I am so pleased that people are bringing story and myth back into active culture – they have been stowed away on dusty library bookshelves for too long! We live in a world whirling in story, and most often anymore they are held in a solitary word – word as hologram, code, oral image. Who says we no longer use pictographs?” MD

The Lure of the Forbidden

The forbidden is appealing perhaps because in it we “sense” the “reflections” of our “projected thoughts” regarding living our true self-”the self”, thoughts that are untempered by considerations of any external sanctions, even that of the constructed “self image”. The lure of the forbidden then is the lure of the true self-”the self”.
But why then that which appears to be emitting images of our true self-”the self” is deemed forbidden?
Perhaps forbidding and resultant no

Anakin stood before the Jedi Council when Yoda asked “how feel you?”  The Collective felt he had fear within him well before he had known for himself.  So they pressed the issue.  Anakin admitted he was experiencing fear, but asked defensively, “what’s that got to do with anything?”  Yoda answered the immediate question with “EVERYTHING!”  Then he continued the explanation “fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; and hate leads to destruction.”

Yoda is, of course, correct about a well-known e