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
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new 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
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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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James Hillman on political polarization

James Hillman is on the Huffington Post! In an interview titled “Jungian Analyst Explains the Psychology of Political Polarization”, Hillman discusses the minds polarizing movement, the either/or set up that leads to ideological thinking and Hillman says “But this is
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On mother goddesses…

“The most familiar goddesses are, as we are so often reminded, the mothers of patriarchy. They are the equivalent of the mothers of what Freud has taught us to call latency, the period that begins when the presence and primacy of paternal power has been acknowledged. Perhaps a r
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