Campbell, Joseph, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949, 1968) — , The Flight of the Wild Gander (1951) — , Myths to Live By (1972) — , (with Bill Moyers) The Power of Myth, (1988) — , The Masks of God (four volumes) (1964) — , The Mythic Image, (1974) — , Transformations of […]
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January 1998 05 — * Alan Watts: Resisting change 12 — Carol Pearson: Training students to be cogs 19 — Rumi: “There is no other world.” 26 — Danah Zohar & Sam Keen: Living systems and myths February 1998 02 — Jesus: Bringing forth what’s inside you 09 — Neil Postman: Teaching religion 16 — […]
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(See quote of June 26) If one alienates certain facets of oneself, one will render the self-image fraudulent. The alienated facets (i.e., the now ‘unconscious’ shadow) will nevertheless remain but will be projected so as to appear to exist ‘outside’, in the environment or in others. Therapy consists in contacting the shadow and eventually re-owning […]
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives x x In his book The Stories We Live By, Dan McAdams explores the importance of personal myth (a personal narrative or story) in our lives. This personal narrative, I believe, is what gives us a sense of self. Our myth must remain transparent, permeable, and open […]
And teenagers who play violent video games employing virtual reality experience physiologically arousal (faster heartbeat, perspirtation, etc.) and more aggressive thoughts than control subjects not playing the games or observers simply watching the players.
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives December 1998 Rituals belong to what the ancient Greeks would have called techne, the root of our words technical, technique, and technology. Ritual is a sort of technology because it is a method (a time-honored one) for accomplishing something in the real world….The techne of ritual, however, […]
Jerome Bruner Acts of Meaning Comment: Applied to the classroom, we cannot interpret a student’s act as meaning something until we know the whole context of the action, and that context transcends our classroom. (R. Harris) July 8
Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives January 2000 In his essay [“The Perennial Philosophy,” Aldous] Huxley describes four central claims of the perennial philosophy: the world and all its creatures are expressions of an underlying divine reality; by appropriate training humans can come to known this reality; and they can recognize their unity […]
Normal human consciousness always depends on contrasts…and tends to ignore what is constant even though it provides the necessary background for the perception of change. … If a pleasureable state is to be conscious, it cannot be constant, for there will be no contrasting ground against which to feel it. … Pleasure is thus…the configuration […]
The Hero's Journey: A resource for educators, teachers, and students
Return to Home Page “In symbolic form [the uninvited gods] represent essential forces and impulses that we suppress . . . the parts of ourselves that we send into exile…Dreams can then turn into nightmares. The spring dry up, songs become silent and inner regidity prevents all movement.” Friedemann Wieland The Journey of the Hero […]