June 2012 eNewsletter: CDDF, Hillman, Permaculture-Ecotherapy!

Our June 2012 eNewsletter is now available. Click here to read!
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Myth 101: Good-Enough Mother Earth

“I have wanted, also, to keep in our minds the common language about the ‘good’ earth’s shadows: soil and dirt; fears of being buried alive; quicksand, sinkholes, and dust bowls; earthquakes and avalanches; dust to dust… the unfathomable autonomous depths
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“Pioneer Lady”: Article written on Jane Hollister Wheelwright in Santa Barbara Magazine

Local journalist, Starshine Roshell, has published a story in the current Santa Barbara Magazine on Jane Hollister Wheelwright. She writes, “Known for being curiously fearless and wise, passionate and plainspoken, author, feminist, and stewardess of the land Jane Hollister Wheel
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Jane Hollister Wheelwright Lecture Series – Launching May 21st

A May 21 community lecture and discussion is planned at Opus to explore the legacy of one of the South Coast’s key historical figures in the areas of feminism and “ecopsychology.” Psychoanalysts Jane Hollister Wheelwright (1905-2004) and her husband Joseph Balch Wheelwright (1906-1999
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Listening Deeply to Planet Earth

OPUS awarded 13 New Mythos Grants in the winter of 2009 and all year we have been gifted in return with learning of new gems hidden in the manuscript and image collections. One of the inspirations for the grant came form Joe Campbell, of course. In the famous “Power of Myth̶
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