“To feminine consciousness, the spiritual and the physical are two aspects of one totality. Spirit confirms body, articulates body’s wisdom. Spirit is immediate and actual, not something arrived at, as in Plato, through dialectical ascent. ‘As above, so below’ translates into ‘as in the head, so in the belly’; the two are simultaneously present, not dialogically opposed.”

Marion Woodman Conscious Femininity, 8.

"La Danse (I)" Henri Matisse

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Please join OPUS and La Casa de Maria for a screening of Marion Woodman: Dancing in the Flames with guest Andrew Harvey

Sunday, July 31st, 4:30-6:30pm                                                                                                                                                                                  at La Casa de Maria ~ 800 El Bosque Road, Santa Barbara

Tickets are $25 pre-register/$35 at door

To purchase tickets online, click on the film poster above. This will take you to our “Supporting Opportunities” webpage.  Fill out all required information, and under “Gift information” enter $25 times the amount of tickets you wish to purchase, for example, enter $50 to purchase two tickets.

You may also call us to purchase tickets by phone at 805-969-5750

“There’s nothing you can do that’s more important than being fulfilled. You become a sign, you become a signal, transparent to transcendence; in this way, you will find, live, and become a realization of your own personal myth”.

Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss

Thursday, July 7th 2011 –

Guest Lecturer April Heaslip, MA – “Rocks, Paper, Scissors: Women & Mythology Since Marija Gimbutas”

April will introduce us to archaeomythology, a field that Gimbutas pioneered in her groundbreaking work on the Goddess. A scholar working in women’s studies, archaeology and myth, April will share what is going on in the field today, how it bridges with third wave feminism, and what cultural reverberations we can see manifesting.

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.