Image by Arthur Rackham. No matter how many years I’ve spent working with the idea of ‘personal myth’, and humans as mythmakers, there’s always some new insight to be gleaned, and some new way of thinking about it all to uncover. This is one of...
This article originally appeared on the Garrison Institute blog. We think we make them up, the myths, stories and dreams which so richly define the human imagination. But what if they have an existence that’s independent of us? What if they come to us as psychopomps –...
Isn’t there always a sadness when a writer you’ve loved dies – the sudden dawning that there’s never going to be a new book from them again, which leads to an equally sudden strong determination to treasure those you already have. That’s how it...
The imaginal world, the Otherworld. The mundus imaginalis, or mundus archetypalis. There are so many words and phrases to describe it, that place where the others live. The archetypal energies and beings which, when clothed in the garments of a particular culture, we...
I’m currently halfway through a 2 1/2-week teaching trip to the USA. Because the workshops I’m running are all east coast, but my heart is firmly in the southwest, I spoiled myself a little by taking four days in New Mexico before the work got started. I...
‘A psyche the size of Earth.’ I love that image. It’s the title of an essay by James Hillman, the greatest of influences on my own psychological practice, which introduced the collection of articles Theodore Roszak, Allen Kanner and Mary Gomez...
