My search for the sensible transcendental.
Jungians are sometimes accused of being ego-centric navel gazers in the Pagan community. There is a certain truth to this. Jung wrote that “every step towards fuller consciousness removes [a man] further from his original, purely animal participation mystique with the herd, from submersion in a common unconsciousness. Every step forward means tearing oneself loose [Read More...]
The God of the Old Testament The LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the presence of the LORD, for the LORD is about to pass by.” Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was [...] in the wind. [Read More...]
Finding Joe, the movie You should really check out this movie: Finding Joe. It is about Joseph Campbell’s monomyth or “Journey of the Hero” as they call it in the movie. I bought it and didn’t regret it. It presents the monomyth in terms that a layperson unfamiliar with Campbell can understand. If you’re looking [Read More...]
I have been trying to write this post for a week or so and I am still struggling with it. In my last post, I wrote about the ambivalent attitude I have about food, and how Neopagan myth has helped me to experience what Jane Ellen Harrison calls the “sacramental mystery of life and nutrition [Read More...]
So I am wondering now what the purpose of my Descensus Averni ritual is. I am not experiencing any altered states of consciousness during the ritual. Of course, I didn’t the first time, years ago, either. I came across this quote by Joseph Campbell in his Masks of God: Primitive Mythology: “When the will of [Read More...]
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