Trailer for Documentary about Aphrodite – “Medusa CoilsKypris – The Aphrodite of Cyprus Revealed”
Aphrodite remains for the majority of us the Great Unknown Goddess, as we have so wrongly identified her with commercialized sex and beauty. The documentary attempts to reveal and reinstate the essence and truth of this universal female principle, as the sound of the primordial drum v
Read MoreFebruary 28, 2011
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Hillman on America and the Shift of Ages
Part 2 of James Hillman’s interview with Pythia Peay on the Huffington Post is available. In it he touches on some important themes worth pondering including the ability to take a classical stance to the chaos of the times and look backwards upon what is decaying as opposed to s
Read MoreFrog Goddesses and Gaga for Eggs
It’s a soft rain swept morning in Santa Barbara, perfect weather for aquatic beings and hidden creatures. The imagination finds footing in ancient imagery and the Frog Goddess rises up and out of Marija Gimbutas’ Neolithic world, fecund and symbolically paradoxical. Gimbutas writes th
Read MoreOn psychological creativity
“Creative imagination that bespeaks the imaginal realm results from vitality and passion. It is born in blood from the awakened, not the dreaming, psyche. True imagining is neither an introverted retreat to fantasy nor a manic extroverted notion of creativity as physical product
Read MoreMyth 101 – Red Tārā
Tārā (Sanskrit: तारा), ‘she who delivers’ and ‘star’. Tārā is a female Bodhisattva and most important Buddhist Goddess. The mythology holds that she was born from the tears of Avalokitesvara, the Bodhisattva that will lead all beings to enlightenment. Tradition
Read MoreChristine Downing Dissertation Fellowship
Announcing the CDDF application deadline May 15th, 2011. Click here for full details.
Read MoreFebruary 23, 2011
JCF Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS
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 art
Read MoreFebruary 18, 2011
Letting the wild reveal itself
“That’s it: You have to let the wild reveal itself on its own say-so. The wild animal will deign to show itself when it is ready, when it has weighed the situation, this way and that way and its way. Like the dream messages or the wind or whatever belongs to the wild, the
Read Morenew stories…new mythos
THE NEW MYTHOS RESEARCH GRANT – 2010 It’s all a question of story. We are in trouble just now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories. The old story, the account of how the world came to be and how we fit into it is no longer effective….Our cha
Read MoreFebruary 17, 2011
Myth 101 – Saint Sarah
Saint Sarah, Sara-la-Kali (Sara the Black) is the mythic patron saint of the Roma (Gypsy) people. Sarah and Kali are both images of black feminine divinity, this connection arising through the Romani peoples having originally come from India. Saint Sarah is said to have been a servan
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