
The human race has spent many a creative night discovering gems of songs, stories, ideas and inventions. Of course, there’s been just as many days trying to figure out how those gems sprouted so easily and how to reproduce them.
In this Mythological RoundTable, we will be reading through Myths of Creativity around the world and the metaphors beneath them. We’ll look at the creative relationship between the Artist and the Unconscious using symbols of Spirit Guides, Genies, Angels, Wayakins, Faeries, and Quarim. We’ll uncover hidden secrets to well known myths by unlocking the meanings of characters’ names, look at some of the oldest rituals on creative flow and discuss Jung’s archetypes of the Anima and Animus.
Be sure to bring your notebook, songbook, drawing pad or sculpting clay because in the end we’ll finish off with a creativity based guided meditation for unleashing the flow of ideas for any of your projects or ambitions.
Our Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable meets monthly on the 3rd Sunday, in the FireplaceRoom at the Center for Symbolic Studies (see Directions). We are located at the crossing of River Road and Springtown Road, about 5 miles north of New Paltz. Bring your curiosity, a story or two if you have them, and either a $20 donation or snack to share with the group if that’s more convenient. Contact us if you have a question or request.

February 21 - Finding Joe – The Rosendale Theater

Joseph Campbell Round Table, Center for Symbolic Studies
This year the Joseph Campbell Round table is celebrating Jungian thinkers, with James Hillman (also recently passed) in November, Clarissa Estes in December, and while Roger’s spirit and work is so strong in our minds and hearts, Roger Woolger in January. On this occasion we will assemble his friends and professional colleagues, read from his writing, both published and unpublished, and create an audio tape, and possibly a transcript of the whole proceedings. We hope this will pave the way for a “festschrift” conference in the not-too distant future in which distinguished presenters from all over the world will talk about Roger’s influence on their own scholarship, and approaches to healing.





