On Friday, March 18^th OPUS and Pacifica celebrated the arrival of the Guggenbühl-Craig collection to the archives. The intimate gathering was addressed by OPUS Board President Stephen Kenneally and long time student of Guggenbühl-Craig’s, Joe McNair. Stephen Kenneally also shared a few words by Marvin Spiegelman on his behalf and read a piece that James Hillman sent in for the occasion. We recorded all of this for you to enjoy, simply click here to listen.

“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there’s a way or path, it is someone else’s path; each human being is a unique phenomenon.” Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss

Twenty-first century depth psychology research encompasses many
methodologies, methods, techniques, procedures, and moves.  While
current practice encourages a mix and match bricolage approach to
collecting and analyzing data, the possible choices are overwhelming.
How can you become familiar enough to make informed and enriched
choices for research projects in a timely manner?  How do you take theory
and put it into practice in the field?  Are there any tools to help streamline
the process?  How can you address and incorporate ethics requirements?

OPUS Archives is pleased to present a series of hands-on tutorials that will
help you answer those questions.  Each two-hour tutorial will focus on one
or two specific methods for collecting and analyzing first-hand data, and
will include demonstrations, examples, and learn-by-doing exercises.

Click here for more information about the tutorials.

Tutorial 1 – Sunday, April 24th, 3-5pm

Cost – $10

Montecito Public Library
1469 East Valley Road, Santa Barbara, CA

Space is limited – Register at rsvp@opusarchives.org
or 805.969.5750

New year, new Campbell book to dive into at our Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS! The book is The Mythic Dimension and contains a selection of essays that Campbell wrote between 1959 and 1987. The two main topics in this volume are mythology and history and mythology and the arts – this is going to be fun!

Thursday, April 14th 2011 – The Mythic Dimension, chapter titled “The Mystery Number of the Goddess” and the 9 Muses.

Event Info:

OPUS Archives & Research Center on the Ladera campus of Pacifica Graduate Institute
801 Ladera Lane
6:30-8:30PM
For more information or questions, contact OPUS at info@opusarchives.org or 805-969-5750.

This event is free and open to the public.

Dennis Patrick Slattery has just released his newest book titled Day-To-Day Dante: Exploring Personal Myth Through The Divine Comedy. Dennis has contributed articles on Joseph Campbell to our website and I invite you to check them out here.

Overview

The premise of this series of 365 meditations on Dante’s poem of the 14^th. century is that his journey outlines the complex and rigorous process of individual maturation on several levels simultaneously. In addition, not a contemporary guide is the focus but rather the great poet of the Middle Ages who has crafted a work most have heard of but few have read, his Commedia, which was in circulation by 1314. It is the story of one soul, lost in a dark wood, who, with guidance from several sources, finds his way into what might be called the mythic and mystic sense of his life, in harmony with the larger created order. It is a poem, Dante wrote of it himself, “not for speculation but for implementation.” It is intended for those interested in using it to meditate on their own pilgrimage and to gain insights by the power of poetic analogy of the process of coming into wholeness within themselves.

A colleague of Dennis’ posted a synopsis of the book on her website and you can read that by visiting this link here.

To order the book contact Dennis Patrick Slattery directly at dslattery@pacifica.edu or purchase it at the Pacifica bookstore.

OPUS is honored to announce the arrival of the Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig collection to the archives. Dr. Guggenbühl-Craig’s magnificent collection of articles, lectures and correspondence sits alongside James Hillman’s, long time colleagues and friends.  Dr. Guggenbühl-Craig’s collection fortifies the level of intellectual depth and inquiry that has been collecting in the archives over the years and is also a significant bridge between the European and American depth psychology communities. For more information on Dr. Guggenbühl-Craig’s life and work visit our website.

Dr. Guggenbühl-Craig

Announcing the addition of an online archive of our E-Newsletter, “The Root and the Bloom”. Click here to access the archives and read the March, 2011 E-Newsletter or browse through older newsletters and read about past events and news from OPUS!

Thresholds, a place of liminality, a moment of endings and beginnings. Thresholds are a consequence of the unfolding of time as any movement will lead one to places of crossing. Orpheus looking back, Amaterasu emerging from her cave.

Moon Gate - a boundary and at the same time an opening

Bob Walter, Executive Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation is on Karen Tate’s “Voices of the Sacred Feminine” radio show today.

She writes that they will be discussing “what it means to be a “mythic activist”, the importance of Joseph Campbell’s work in the  world, the hero/heroine’s journey, and how rational thought, and the I versus WE mentality, replaced Goddess. I also plan to ask Bob: What happens when myths become not metaphors but fact (aka religion) and how it contributes to the agony of the world. When one understands the psychology of myth and it’s role in religion where does that leave most people on the subject of God/ess? The Athiest? Can we reconcile believing in God/ess with understanding myth and how can we reconcile myth with your own spirituality/religion? And more….”

Sounds terrific – tune in!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/voicesofthesacredfeminine

Akeso (Greek “akesis”) is the goddess of healing wounds and curing illnesses. She represents the process of healing, not the cure itself.  Akeso is the daughter of Epione the goddess of soothing of pain and Asklepios the god of medicine. I could find no images of Akeso though I read that she is often depicted with her father. Perhaps she is the surging of the ocean or the breeze upon the air – movement.

This invocation of Akeso is for JH.