This series focuses on a series of three archetypal dreams richly amplified by motifs from Alchemical, Arthurian, Egyptian, Classical, Celtic, and Nordic mythologies. An illustrated memoir of my travels with Joseph Campbell in France, Egypt, and Kenya introduces the sessions.
Session 1 • May 13
Dream #1: The Night-Sea Journey and Individuation: Greek, Irish, and Nordic Mythologies
Travels with Joseph: Megalithic Mysteries and the Grail Romances in Normandy and Brittany
Session 2 • May 20
Creative Mythology 1: Mystery Bowls and the Grail
Session 3 • May 27
Dream #2: Shipwreck and Cannibal Cave: Alchemical, Greek, and Oriental Mythologies
Travels with Joseph: Egyptian Underworlds and African Encounters
Session 4 • June 3
Creative Mythology 2: Troubadours, Minnesänger, Tristan and Isolde
Session 5 • June 10
Dream #3: Joseph Campbell and the Open Eye Foundation
Alchemical motifs from the Rosarium Philosophorum, The Splendor Solis, and Atalanta Fugiens
Session 6 • June 17
Creative Mythology 3: The Secularization of Myth in Modernism