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Early Bird Sessions of movement and dream sharing
Earth - Ground, grounding, solid, fecund, source, nurture, matrix, humus, dark, gravity, below, money:
wealth from underneath, Maya, Gaia, Demeter, clay from which Adam was made, feminine, death: the return of substance,
Green Man, dying and resurrecting gods, snake, uroboros
9 am
The Big Story
Gilgamesh
A one-man show by Charlie Bethel
Friendship and Enmity. Joy and Lament. Gods and Men. Life and Death. Huge antitheticals of the human experience come together in
this 3,000 year-old tale from ancient Mesopotamia. Cross into the underworld with the king who did not want to die, and learn the
Big Secret of the Gods.
11 am
Breakouts
- Mask Making or Faces of the First Forest (Workshop)
Brian Froud & Wendy Froud
This workshop will use Greenman/leafmask imagery in a personal exploration of the seasonal faces of the spirit of the forest. After a
short, guided meditation contacting personal and individual forest spirit images, we will make foliate masks reflecting those images.
Brian and Wendy will both help each individual in the mask making process and will bring examples of their work using foliate images
and leaf masks. There will be a material fee of $15 and the workshop will be limited to 20 people. No experience of meditation or
mask making is needed. Email Brenda Sutton to sign up.
First come, first served.
- The Pictographic I Ching
Heinz Inzu Fenkl
Even scholars forget that the I Ching, developed by Taoists, was hijacked by the Confucians. That is why so many of the readings of
the hexagrams produce the same generic prescriptions for virtuous behavior in keeping with Confucian morality. That is also why the
I Ching is hard to engage in the contemporary world. By returning to the early roots of the I Ching, and by looking at the early
pictograms that accompanied the readings, we can re-engage with the primal and timeless logic of the Oracle. In this workshop,
Heinz Insu Fenkl presents a new and emerging methodology for making the I Ching both universal and personal, and he will discuss
how to apply that methodology to reading one's own life.
- Gilgamesh
Maren Tonder Hansen
One of the themes in the Gilgamesh myth is the tensions between civilization and the wilderness. We will look at how these opposites
played in the world's oldest written myth, and how they play in our inner lives and outer world. What happens when we dream the myth
forward using two methods from Depth Psychology? First, we will each gather our personal associations to this mythic theme. Then we
will use a modified version of the Jungian technique of active imagination to hear what Gilgamesh and Enkidu might have to say to us today,
about our inner and outer worlds.
- Dreaming the Wheel
Tom Blue Wolf
Story was our ancestors' most sacred possession. They knew what we do not: that without a founding story, you haven't got a nation,
or a culture, or a civilization. And without a story of your own, you haven't got a life of your own. The story of the earth and its elements
is integral to our own. If we do not become more articulate on our own behalf, we cannot become speakers for the earth or for others.
Come raise the level of your own personal poetry.
12:30 pm
Lunch
We sit to eat all together, presenters and guests. One of the most relaxed parts of the day for informal conversation.
2 pm
The Big Conversations
The Big Conversations are a hallmark of Mythic Journeys. They are wide interdisciplinary dialogues, usually about contemporary issues.
The conversationalists bring to bear wisdom and knowledge of archetype, narrative, and soul work, with life experience in business,
system design, art, science, agriculture — what have you — illuminating on both personal and cultural levels where we are and
how we might find our way forward.
4 pm
Break-outs
- The Wood of Paradise: The Gift of Eve
Talk and workshop with Caitlín Matthews
Caitlín explores the legend of the Tree of Life from the Grail legends, where Eve gives a slip of the wood of paradise to her descendants,
saying, "Be not dismayed if we are banished from our inheritance. It is not lost to us eternally. See here a sign of return hereafter." We explore
the Gnostic gifts of Eve and the Grail wisdom that is our heritage. Includes a meditation on the Ship of Solomon.
- Who Is In the Story?
William Todd Jones
Todd-Jones takes the skills developed through decades of working in film, television and theatre to work with the experience of creating
characters. Todd has played everything from a giant (in the next Harry Potter film) to a worm, received three requests in one week for
ostriches (Zeitgeist meaning?) and is well equipped to guide the experience of walking in the moccasins or paws of another. Wear comfortable
clothes.
- Gawain and the Loathly Lady
A shadow-puppet play by David Anderson
A strange tale from the seekers of the Holy Grail in which Gawain proves to be the noblest of all knights and we find out what a woman wants.
— or —
The Wolf's Eyelashes
A shadow-puppet play by David Anderson
Based on a Japanese folk tale. The wolfs eyelashes have the power to transform the way we see. Things are not as they seem.
- The Body as Landscape
Chungliang Al Huang, Derek Beres,
Allen Pittman, William Doty
Human beings are a part of the natural world, yet like a garden, the body can be specially tended to be able to do marvelous things. What happens
when we disassociate from the body? Do we disassociate from the earth? What happens when we cultivate the body? How does physical
concentration connect with integration into nature? How has this been encoded into images and stories?
- Fair and Foul are Near of Kin: Love and Sexuality in the Work of W. B. Yeats
James Flannery, Michael Meade
One of the highlights of the 2004 Mythic Journeys Conference was "A Hero's Journey," a presentation by theatre director James Flannery
and mythologist Michael Meade based on Flannery's 1989 production at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin of the five Cuchulain plays of W. B. Yeats. We
are pleased to feature them again in a session focused on Yeats's dance drama A Full Moon in March, as well as related poems of Yeats.
7 pm
The Mothers of Myth
Dinner, Stories, Women!
Amidst a Moroccan banquet, we hear stories of the Mother from many parts of the world. Wild women, madonnas, earth, the feminine in many faces.
With music and grape leaves. A festive evening of stories and music celebrating the feminine.
ConunDrum
Jean Shinoda Bolen
Betty Sue Flowers
Michaela Foster Marsh
Thandiwe Shiphrah
Sobonfu Somé
A festive evening of stories and music celebrating the feminine.
The Erdman-Campbell Prize awarded by the Joseph Campbell Foundation
The JCF Board of Directors presents the award to honor
an Elder whose creative efforts have contributed significantly to our mythopoetic imagination. The award recipient,
Stuart Brand, is an elder whose life work has articulated a singularly compelling
narrative, crafted enduringly affective images, sounded particularly resonant chords, or otherwise helped to shape the emerging mythos.
10 pm
Performances
- archeDream
BALANCE
BALANCE is a rite of passage exploring the harmony that each individual strives to maintain between individual desires and societal needs.
With riveting blacklight masks, shadow puppetry and handheld lighting, the symbolic theme of blue for logic and red for emotion illuminates the
path for the one who seeks BALANCE.
- Three Weird Sisters
The award-winning trio Three Weird Sisters combines tight harmonies, eclectic instrumentation and wide-ranging topics to conjure music of
myth and magick. Their first two CD's have out sold all other bands in their musical genre with "Rite the First Time" requiring a second printing.
Three Weird Sisters return to the recording studio this summer to work on their third album, "Third Time's a Charm". Join Mary Crowell, Ph. D.
(keyboards), Teresa Powell (3/4 upright bass) and Brenda Sutton (guitar, bodhran) for a concert that will take you from Faerieland to Oz to the
moon and back again.
11:30 pm
More music into the night...
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