by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
What do we need to bring more of into the world in order to solve the problems of the day? As educators, parents, workers what are the essential qualities that we need to cultivate in ourselves and draw forth from those with whom we interact? Human life has always...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In The patterning instinct, Jeremy Lent takes an approach to history called ‘cognitive history’. This approach holds that instead of history being determined exclusively by material causes like geography, economy, technology etc. the ‘will to meaning’ plays a...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
James Hillman writes that we must return to the image. He thinks of images as being like animals, alive and vital; a phenomenon that can be engaged with. Therapy, too often, is the art of interpretation rather than the art of IMAGination. The image might refer to...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
In her book, A short history of Myth, Karen Armstrong tells us that the purpose of mythology is to help us to live more intensely within the world. It is nearly always rooted in the fear of death and extinction. The most power myths are about extremity – they force us...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 14, 2020 | News |
Karen Armstrong argues that symbolism came more naturally to people in the pre-modern world that it does today. The Greeks referred to two different ways of knowing: Mythos and Logos. Both were essential and neither were superior to the other. Each had its sphere of...
by Evan Dwan | Apr 13, 2020 | News |
The Greeks, who gave birth to rationalism, were not interested in using rational tools in engaging with spiritual questions. Karen Armstrong suggests that the Greeks intuitively knew that rationalism was the wrong tool for approaching the world of the numinous and the...
