Saturday july 30, 2011 from 4 to 11pm
10-6 – personal myth workshop $50*
4pm – building the wickerman
7pm – invocation, horsedance, storytelling, music, dancing 9pm – wickerman fire, drum circle
bring your own picnic & waterbottle! for updates, info, performers see symbolicstudies.org*
suggested contribution $5 – children under 12 free
Personal Mythology Workshop:
Sat, July 30, 10am to 6pm at Stone Mountain Center
Cost $50. (limited to 15 participants) Tickets available at Eventbrite.com
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Carl Jung wrote: “I came to regard it as my “task of tasks” to find out what myth I am living”
Stephen and Robin Larsen will be presenting an old favorite workshop of theirs this Saturday, July 18.
(What Myth Are You Living? What Ancestral and Personal Resources do You Draw Upon? What Dreams, What Creative Sources and Inspirations? What Helping Animals, What Allies in Nature?)
This workshop is both didactic and experiential. Participants will leave the workshop with a sense of their own “personal mythology.”
Personal Mythology work contains the key to one’s own life-choices, decision-making, creative projects, life partners, dreams and aspirations.
William Blake - Sata Amor Adao Eva
The month of June is named from the Roman Goddess Juno who saw this month to be the one blessed with the most marriages. We will take a look at why this is, and discuss different traditions’ takes on weddings, marriage, relationships & the endless dance between the sexes. Please bring a story, personal or mythic to share.
Our Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable® meets monthly on the 3rd Sunday, in the FireplaceRoom at the CSS Seminar Center, on Stone Mountain Farm. We are located at the crossing of River Road and Springtown Road, about 5 miles north of New Paltz. Bring your curiosity about the mythic imagination, and a simple snack to share if convenient. (For details, select JOSEPH CAMPBELL ROUNDTABLE on Sidebar.)
The Joseph Campbell Mythological RoundTable® at the Center for Symbolic Studies is a study group exploring the work of Joseph Campbell and applications of myth in our current culture. You need not be well versed or versed at all in Campbell’s work to attend. We all know the myths, while some of us are familiar with the mythic patterns and themes from ancient greek stories, others know them well through the song we heard on the radio this morning.
This month’s topic for the Joseph Campbell RoundTable focuses on the practical side of myth. In recent years, various authors have used the stories of soldiers returning from war to help veterans through their journeys and re-integration into a society which is in a very different consciousness than what they have experienced. We will talk about rituals and stories which reveal aspects and challenges facing soldier’s returns to society along with the recent work of Jonathan Shay who uses the Odyssey to help Vietnam veterans in their journey home. From there we will continue through a discussion of myths which might help current soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan as well as James Hillman’s work “The Terrible Love of War” and his perspectives on how our culture’s lack of understanding of love forces a repression which feeds our tendency to get into wars.
Faery Beltane!
ATTENTION: THE GROUNDS ARE VERY, VERY WET.
WE DO NOT HAVE A LOT OF PARKING THIS YEAR.
PLEASE CARPOOL. IF YOU HAVE A 4WD, USE IT.
IF NOT, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE PARK AT OUR OFF-SIGHT LOCATIONS
BRING SOMETHING DRY TO SIT ON, AND YOUR FAERY WINGS
Gates open at noon, with music starting at 1pm.
Pageant begins at 4 pm
Admission to the Festival is $12.
$6 for teens 12-18, and seniors.
Free for children under 12 and over 80.
On-Site Parking is an additional $15 per car.
Volunteers get free entry, (and can get an additional free Parking, Camping and Food depending on how much time you’re willing to give. Sign up soon!
This month’s Joseph Campbell RoundTable will start on the quote by Carl Jung:
“I was driven to ask myself in all seriousness: ‘What is the myth you are living?’… I did not know that I was living a myth, and even if I had known it, I would not have known what sort of myth was ordering my life without my knowledge. So, in the most natural way, I took it upon myself to get to know “my” myth, and I regarded this as the task of tasks… I simply had to know what unconscious or preconscious myth was forming me, from what rhizome I sprang.”
From there, we will look at our own lives, and each find motifs in our life stories to help us find which myth(s) we are living. We will use a new search engine of mythological motifs to make this task easier.
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Come and see a slide show of stunning spiral images gathered from both the natural world, and the world of human imagination.
SPIRALZOOM is a presentation that explores the power, meaning and beauty of the spiral form. In this presentation we will explore resonances between ancient wisdom and contemporary scientific discoveries. The spiral motif is frequently found at sacred sites across the globe. It often represents a doorway to another world and is associated with rebirth and the cycles of creation. As scientists learn more about spiral structures, like spiral galaxies and the double helix of the DNA they are learning that this familiar shape has deeply creative powers. Our approach is that the spiral form is one of the fingerprints of the universe – a clue, a signature, present throughout all of Nature – that can provide deep insights into the inner workings of the cosmos.
In Spiralzoom we celebrate the many faces of this powerful and enduring form. The aim of integrating science into the mix is not to strip the symbol of its ancient magic, but rather to reinvigorate this archetype with fresh energy. SPIRALZOOM brings art, myth and science together in a celebration of the spiral form.
ABOUT ALLISON HOPPER
Allison Hopper created SPIRALZOOM as part of her graduate work at N.Y.U. in the School of Education. She studied with Suzanne Hoover when she was an undergraduate at Sarah Lawrence College (BA 1989.) She is currently corresponding with a wide group of scholars, artists and inventors who are working on spiral-inspired projects.
ABOUT SUZANNE HOOVER
Suzanne Hoover holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University in English and Comparative Literature. She was for 25 years a full-time member of the Literature faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. She is currently a member of the Graduate Writing faculty at Sarah Lawrence, and also teaches advanced fiction writing at the Westport Writers’ Workshop in Connecticut. Suzanne studied with Joseph Campbell in the mid-50′s.
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