Professor Joe on becoming transparent to transcendence

“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 Bli
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This Thursday, JCF Mythological RoundTable® Group at OPUS

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 workin
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Women’s voices & their stories

Wow. I am back from the These Women Conference that Lori Pye and the ICC put on over the weekend and it was truly an historical event. What was the common thread through all of the women’s stories? Eros, connectedness, the intimacy of an I and Thou… Detail of Dionysos and
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The feeling function

We know certain things: that power and fear are cast out by love, that relationships cannot advance without frankness and integrity, that a man must have honor, that self-deception leads to catastrophe. James Hillman OPUS Archives and Research Center. James Hillman Collection, Box 130
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Myth 101 – Athene

“Pallas” They said: she is high and far and blind in her high pride but now that my head is bowed in sorrow, I find she is most kind. ~H.D. (Selected Poems, New York: Grove Press, 1957)  
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