Walking in the Footsteps of the Goddess, with Norvene Vest
An exciting upcoming retreat to be held at La Casa de Maria on January 20 – 22, 2012. Norvene Vest explores the personal and social importance of the human possibilities raised by Maria Gimbutas’ mythology and investigates the cultural implications of her vision.Through im
Read MoreJoe within his “mansion of dance”
“I had my first rock and roll experience at a performance of the Grateful Dead…. Rock music had always seemed a bore to me, but I can tell you, at that concert, I found eight thousand people standing in mild rapture for five hours. The place was just a mansion of dance. And I th
Read MoreTreasures in the Archives – The Mythic Bear
This amazing sculpture comes from Campbell’s Historical Atlas of World Mythology: Mythologies of the Great Hunt of the Celtic bear-goddess Artio. This statue shows the goddess feeding a she-bear and interestingly enough there is a slit in the box pedestal wherein coin offerings could
Read MoreJoseph Campbell on the Sun Moon, Serpent and Bull
In this video Joseph Campbell reveals the symbolism of solar and lunar consciousness that lies within the ritual activities of bullfighting, a serpent ritual and marriage. This is how it breaks down: the bull fighter or the priestess is the solar figure, the consciousness principle t
Read MoreMarion Woodman on ritual
“We have lost our containers; chaos threatens. Without rituals to make a firm demarcation between the profane and sacred, between what is us and what is not us, we tend to identify with archetypal patterns of being – hero, Father, Mother, etc. We forget that we are individ
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