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Howling about Greek gods Hermes and Hestia and the remedy for what James Hillman called \u201cHermetic Intoxication\u201d with depth psychologist, writer and teacher Elizabeth Eowyn Nelson<\/p>\n
Elizabeth \u00c9owyn Nelson, faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute since 2003, has been a professional writer and editor for four decades. Dr. Nelson\u2019s books include Psyche\u2019s Knife (Chiron, 2012), The Art of Inquiry (Spring, 2005 & 2017), coauthored with Joseph Coppin, and The Art of Jungian Couple Therapy, coauthored with Anthony Delmedico (Routledge, 2025). <\/p>\n
\u201cAny archetypal understanding of contemporary life must honor two gods, Hestia and Hermes, who are a very unlikely pair\u2014though are paired in the western classical tradition. <\/p>\n
In our love affair with mobile digital life, we have been in a Hermetic frenzy, individually and culturally, for decades. I do not see it ending because we are fully invested in instantaneous communication\u2014sending messages to each other at the speed of light. This is Hermes, the Greek god of communication and commerce (in the broad) sense who also is a trickster and thief.<\/p>\n
To counterbalance Hermetic frenzy we need Hestia, the goddess of the hearth. In fact, Hestia is the hearth, the center of the home, the one who dwells. Hestia also brings us back home to the body, to soma, to our embodied home on the earth. Since Hestia dwells, she also signifies patience, slowness, settling down, the part of us who longs to stop after too much activity. You might say that Hestia is necessary medicine, the divine remedy for too much Hermes.\u201d
\n\u2014 EON, \u201cHestia & Hermes: The Tension of Opposites in Mobile Digital Life<\/p>\n
References:<\/p>\n
* https:\/\/ift.tt\/HvRgVJF
\n* Karl Ker\u00e9nyi, Hermes Guide of Souls
\n* Barbara Kirksey essay on Hestia in Facing the Gods (edited by James Hillman)
\n* Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other
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