January 19, 2020
[caption id="attachment_19535" align="alignleft" width="228"] A Grotesque Woman by Quenten Matys (oil on oak, Germany, c. 1513)[/caption] The story of Dame Ragnell and Sir Gawain is one of the most popular tales to come down from...
August 25, 2019
“The Handless Maiden,” collected by the Brothers Grimm, is one of the most complete stories of feminine individuation in fairy tales. It addresses the wounding of the feminine by the patriarchal shadow, but it also...
July 15, 2019
“…to transform your hell into a paradise is to turn your fall into a voluntary act . . . Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world and everything changes.” —Joseph Campbell, Sukhavati: Place of Bliss...
February 18, 2019
One of my favorite quotes by Joseph Campbell, in Myths to Live By, refers to Love as the burning point of life. When he elaborates, what we come to understand is that life is sorrowful,...