Bob Walter, Executive Director of the Joseph Campbell Foundation is on Karen Tate’s “Voices of the Sacred Feminine” radio show today. She writes that they will be discussing “what it means to be a “mythic activist”, the importance of Joseph Campbell
Akeso (Greek “akesis”) is the goddess of healing wounds and curing illnesses. She represents the process of healing, not the cure itself. Akeso is the daughter of Epione the goddess of soothing of pain and Asklepios the god of medicine. I could find no images of Akeso tho
“What myth does for you is to point beyond the phenomenal field toward the transcendent. A mythic figure is like a compass with one leg in the field of time and the other in the eternal. The image of god may look like a human or animal form, but its reference is transcendent to
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
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