"Exploring the Terrain of Mythic Imagination " Online Intensive | October 26, 28, 30

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Three online days (Mountain Timezone):

• Wednesday (26th) 9:30 am - 2 pm MT

• Friday (28th) 9:30 am - 2 pm MT

• Sunday (30th) 1 pm - 3 pm MT

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[Thursdays and Saturdays will be asynchronous solo wanders and practices on your own time.]

Deep in the dream-realm of myth and poetic imagination lies visionary treasure waiting to be uncovered, like something of inestimable value. This treasure is one's unique image, a 'seed' of psycho-spiritual becoming, a greater night, an emergence dreamed of stars and dust, woven in the living waters of myth and the stories of ancestors, vibrating in the songs and patterns of the Earth. We are all born to encounter this "treasure hidden in the field" of soul and Earth. For visionaries like Jesus, this kingdom was an imaginal terrain of myth, dreamed by Earth weaving itself in human story and ritual for the renewal of culture. The indigenous streams of ancient Celtic, Hebrew, and many other Earth-based myths offered a path and techniques of trance traveled by saints, mystics, poets and shamans through the ages, paths available for us today.

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In Mythic Christ Mystery School we are aiming for the headwaters of a great quest. Our maps and compasses include seedings, dreams, myth, drawing on ancestral wisdom, deep imaginal journeying, solo encounters with nature, sacred ceremony, and reflective sharing within the group. You may already have done significant inner soul work, or this may be newer for you - either way, the great adventure of the soul beckons. 

 

This advanced online intensive will explore the hidden archetype and myth of the Deep Christ, a subterranean root system underneath the linear theologies and patriarchal traditions of Christianity. The imaginal realm is the wellspring of myth, imagination, dreams, visions, synchronicities, and transformation. It is the tidal confluence between the Otherworld and this world. During the transition to the darker half of the year, when the veil is thinnest we will explore the mythic terrain of the deep imagination.

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The "Nekyia" or mythological Night Sea Journey down into the belly of a great fish, the journey into the underworld, deep in the wilderness where many have fasted for a vision, these universal images of transformation are patterned into our bone memory. We will explore the terrain of ‘descent,’ largely unknown to Western culture, which represents a shift in our psycho-spiritual center of gravity, a liminal and initiatory phase when our cultural identity and roles no longer serve the world and our primary longing is devoted to the mysteries of nature and soul. For Jesus, this journey began on the heals of his confirmation as ‘the Beloved,’ when he was driven out forcefully by Spirit into the desert to confront his Shadow and his destiny. The descent is tomb-womb time of encounter and trial. The value of what will be discovered is in measure of what will be risked and the immanent danger that will be faced.