MYTH BLAST
Hence in a season of calmer weather Though inland far we be, Our Souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the Children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore. (Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth) The vernal equinox marks the transition from winter to spring here in the northern hemisphere, and our friends in Australia can now breathe a sigh of relief as a tough, hot summer transitions into autumn. Regardless of where you are, this astronomical moment…
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From The Hero with a Thousand Faces
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Journey in 4 Movements by Douglas Hedwig for symphony orchestra explores the mythical and universal story of inspiration, adventure, adversity, and positive change that the noted American scholar Joseph Campbell has referred to as “The Hero’s Journey.” Each of the four movements suggests a different phase of this human experience. The work draws significant musical inspiration from the folk and classical music of South Asia, and India in particular. In this sense, this symphonic composition may be understood to be a fusion between the stylistic traditions and history of Western (both classical and jazz) and non-Western musical styles.
It will take place on March 30, 2023 in Chattanooga, TN. For more information visit the link in our bio…
https://chattanoogasymphony.org/events/mozarts-requiem-2023-03-30-730-pm/
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In the fifth episode of The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers discuss the mythology of love and the Goddess. In this clip, Campbell discusses the idea of living a spiritual life through the mythology of the Goddess.
Watch the whole series on YouTube:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiYnNom7SVRMjsi2WSpIGBlo1UDhlXyvz
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Mark C.E. Peterson contributes this week's MythBlast "The Star".
"The vernal equinox marks the transition from winter to spring here in the northern hemisphere, and our friends in Australia can now breathe a sigh of relief as a tough, hot summer transitions into autumn. Regardless of where you are, this astronomical moment marks a boundary both factually and symbolically. Appropriately enough, this month our MythBlast family has been musing on the seventeenth trump card of the tarot: the Star."
Continue Reading…link in bio
https://jcf.org/mythblasts/the-star-the-unconscious
Image: "Le Stelle" (The Star) reproduction of the Soprafino-Gumppenberg Tarot. Art by Carlo Della Rossa (1840).
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"The landscape of myth is the human spirit."
-Joseph Campbell
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Murdock traces her journey from rejection of the feminine in order to “succeed” in a masculine world; through discovery of the inadequacy of “success”; through a dark night of the soul and a killing of masculine divine images; to a discovery of the Goddess and of the feminine (including her own feminine embodiment); to a healing of the separated feminine and of the wounded masculine within herself. She ends with the hope for true conjunction, true union beyond duality. This personal book by a family therapist is especially recommended for public and seminary libraries.
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From Pathways to Bliss.
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"I have read somewhere of an old Chinese curse: 'May you be born in an interesting time!' This is a VERY interesting time: there are no models for ANYTHING that is going on. It is a period of free fall into the future, and each has to make his or her own way. The old models are not working; the new have not yet appeared. In fact, it is we who are even now shaping the new in the shaping of our interesting lives. And that is the whole sense (in mythological terms) of the present challenge: we are the 'ancestors' of an age to come, the unwitting generators of its supporting myths, the mythic models that will inspire its lives."
-Joseph Campbell
From Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine
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From Myths To Live By
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In this clip, Joseph Campbell looks at the worship of Dionysos and its connection to the upwelling of the energy of nature and life from the unconscious into the conscious mind, as well as its association with the earlier worship of the Great Goddess.
For more on the Dionsysian vs. the Apollonian modes of consciousness, see Joseph Campbell's Mythos: The Shaping of Our Mythic Tradition or Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine.
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Leigh Melander contributes this week's MythBlast, "Blowing Up the Binary: Beyond Feminine and Masculine".
"In a month that JCF has dedicated to Campbell’s work on goddesses and what he, and many other mythologists, call the divine feminine, I find myself asking what a divine feminine (or divine masculine, for that matter) actually is. Or why—even if—it should matter to us. What is served when we define qualities of self, soul, or action as gendered?" Continue Reading…link in bio.
https://jcf.org/mythblasts/blowing-up-the-binary
Image: Boris Lovet-Lorski; (c. 1930-1935); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Gift of Joseph H. Hirshhorn, 1966
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Drawing on modern scholarship, the authors of the international bestseller The Jesus Mysteries, Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy, decode the secret teachings of the original Christians for the first time in almost two millennia and theorize about who the original Christians really were and what they actually taught. In addition, the book explores the many myths of Jesus and the Goddess and unlocks the lost secret teachings of Christian mysticism, which promise happiness and immortality to those who attain the state of Gnosis, or enlightenment. This daring and controversial book recovers the ancient wisdom of the original Christians and demonstrates its relevance to us today.
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Our quote this week is from The Portable Jung.
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Our gift to you this month is The Mythic Goddess (Audio: Lecture II.3.4)
“All I can tell you about mythology is what men have said and men experience. And now women have to tell us from their point of view what the possibilities of the feminine future are. And it is a future. It’s as though the lift-off had taken place. It really has. There’s no doubt about it."
— Joseph Campbell
In this lecture centered on the feminine, Joseph Campbell presents the many roles that the Goddess has played in different mythologies through the millennia.
This lecture was recorded at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, NY in 1972.
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From The Hero's Journey
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In this clip from a Q&A session following a lecture, Joseph Campbell discusses how the Madonna from the Christian tradition relates to other mythic forms of the Goddess.
This Q&A session is unreleased footage from lectures featured in the Mythos series.
For more on Mythos follow the link below;
https://jcf.org/titles/mythos/
During the final years of his life, Joseph Campbell embarked on a speaking tour in which he drew together all that he had learned about what he called the “one great story” of humanity.
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In this episode, John Bucher of the Joseph Campbell Foundation and Satya Doyle Byock discuss her book Quaterlife, and how her life and work have been influenced by Joseph Campbell.
Satya is a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon, and the founding director of The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies, where she teaches and hosts other speakers online. Her book “Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood,” was published in July 2022. Her articles have been published in Psychological Perspectives, The Utne Reader, goop, and elsewhere, and she is the co-host of the podcast on Carl Jung’s Red Book.
Satya’s clinical work, teaching, and writing draw influences from a few primary areas, including Jungian psychology, trauma research, and social justice advocacy. She holds a Master’s in Counseling, with an emphasis on Depth Psychology, and a Bachelor’s in History.
Find out more about Satya and her work at https://satyabyock.com/
Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts. To listen to the episode now follow the link in our bio…
https://the-podcast-with-a-thousand-faces.simplecast.com/episodes/ep-8-satya-doyle-byock-and-john-bucher
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Norland Tellez contributes this week's MythBlast, "The Star of the Archetypal Imagination."
"Arthur Edward Waite, the famed esoteric scholar and mystic who with Pamela Colman Smith created the classic tarot deck, understood very well what he was dealing with. In the same way that C. G. Jung and Joseph Campbell understood the nature of mythic imagery, we are dealing with a 'presentation of universal ideas by means of universal types, and it is in the combination of these types—if anywhere—that it presents Secret Doctrine.' "
Continue Reading…link in bio.
https://jcf.org/mythblasts/the-star-archetypal-imagination
Image: "Church in the sea" by Aaron Crowe. CC 2.0
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Wonder at Medusa’s potent venom, Circe’s fierce sorcery and Athena rising up over Olympus, as Nikita Gill majestically explores the untold stories of the life bringers, warriors, creators, survivors and destroyers that shook the world – the great Greek Goddesses.
Vividly re-imagined and beautifully illustrated, step into an ancient world transformed by modern feminist magic.
To read a Vanity Fair interview with author Nikita Gill about her lens for looking at mythology, click the link (in bio).
https://www.vanityfair.com/london/2020/02/nikita-gill-re-examines-the-role-of-women-through-a-fearless-lens-of-modern-feminism
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