…Both God and the devil are at an infinite and dissociated remove from human experience, and this reflects the structure of civilization. Conversely, among primitive peoples, all antinomies [Contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules; a paradox] are bound into the ritual cycle. The sacred is an immediate aspect of man’s experience. […]

Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives February 2002 I have tried to make the case that the function of literature as art is to open us to dilemmas, to the hypothetical, to the range of possible worlds that a text can refer to. I have used the term “to subjunctivize,” to render the […]

Harris Communications Thought of the Week Archives April 2000 One of the principal features of postmardenism is the lack of transcendent purpose of meaning. Goallessness and the postmodern deconstruction of authority go hand in hand: not only has postmodernism come about because a lot of people have lost faith in progress and are therefore running […]

Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection. We sit down, face the receptive blankness of a piece of paper or a computer screen, pull our thoughts together, and begin to write. Writing is sorting. Writing down the stream of consciousness gives us a way to respect the […]

Education Support Services Thought of the Week Archives June 2000 Teaching has two fundamental challenges now. It has to provide a based for knowledge, but it also has to provide connections. T. S. Eliot, in commenting on Dante’s Inferno, describes hell as someplace “where nothing connects with nothing.” The teaching profession has to provide connections […]

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I try to bring the journey (and transformation) home by having students write about a personal journey or Rite of Passage they have experienced. You’d be surprised (well, maybe not) how many students cannot find points of passage in their own lifes. This is a terrible reflection on our culture, that it fails to provide […]

This final activity asks students to review the chapters, events and people they have discussed and to decide what they are carrying from each of them. When I did this, I asked them to choose only five items from their three lists and to describe in a bit of detail what they are still carrying […]

Here are links for participants in the 2003 Asilomar Conference Hero’s Journey session. Some of them are not complete, so check back every few days. I will prepare them as I have time. This will take me some time, so don’t give up hope. Just keep checking back. Ritual: Power, Healing and Community, Patrice Malidoma […]