by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
King Midas is given a second chance and relinquishes his golden-gift; Orpheus is reunited with his beloved by the gods; Prometheus is freed from bondage and able to re-join his people. Joseph Campbell tells us that the happy ending of fairy tales and myth should be...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
Poetry relates to language as music relates to noise, writes John Carey. In his, A little history of poetry, he tells us that poetry is language made special, so that it will be remembered and valued. It comes from a time before writing, where stories and history were...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
‘Education’ has the potential to take place in any situation where two or more people are meeting, that is, relating. Relationship lies at the heart of what it means to be human and hence what it means to educate. The root ‘educare’ refers to a ‘drawing out’ process...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 10, 2020 | News |
In her book, The hero and the goddess, Jean Houston writes that we live in a ‘mono’ culture – it is monotheistic (one god), monophrenic (one personality), and monocular (having one way of seeing) in our epistemology. We think everything can be known in a linear...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 9, 2020 | News |
Orpheus was a beautiful musician. He played the lyre and sang wonderful songs that made wild animals tame. The trees swayed towards him, the grass stood up and the whole earth came alive and sang with him. Orpheus was deeply in love with Eurydice but one day a snake...
