Mytholudens

The Alchemical Lore of Wong Tai Sin and the Contemporary Pursuit of Transformational Wellbeing Hong Kong’s Wong Tai Sin Temple locates itself imaginally at China’s Taoist roots where benevolence, mysticism and pragmatics apply in equal measure.

Dr Mark Greene, PhD is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Counselling and Psychology, Hong Kong Shue Yan University. mgreene@hksyu.edu

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MESQUITA, LUCIANA:

Play! This article discusses the word “play” making a short revision through philosophy and psychology bringing the concept of “deconstruction”, besides Joseph Campbell´s four basic myth functions through the lens of David Miller. (READ MORE - FULL ARTICLE)

Mnemosyne submersed or drown? An area of 1784km2 was flooded in the state of Goias, Brazil, for the construction of the UHE Serra da Mesa hydroelectric power plant, flooding 91 archaeological sites. Other power plants have been constructed along Tocantins River and the last one was UHE Peixe Angical. All the studies were hurried technical reports made by the so-called “contract archaeologists” for helping the contractor’s project approved. Once more society has been prevented from knowing its deeper roots. The problem is presented with archetypal lens where we have a look at the goddess Memory, Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne is the mother of psychology and origin of mythology, mother also of the Muses, fountains of the culture. Without Mnemosyne there is no Memory and no Art. Being daughter of Gaia, she re-connects us to the Earth, giving us back the feeling of deep ecology, demonstrating that the psyche is archaic and that psychology needs to turn its eyes, ears and nose to the outer world. All the article is weaved with the hinterland poems of Guimarães Rosa. The submersion of Pedra do Cruzeiro (Cross Stone) – America’s Roseta Stone is not only surprising, but appalling. Submerged or drown such treasures lies deep within our psyche. This was first published in Terra Brasilis – Pré-história e arqueologia da psique, SP: Ed. Paulus, 2006 and presented at XIX Moitará. (READ MORE - FULL ARTICLE)

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Hestia – The article gives a theoretical perspective on Gaston Bachelard and James Hillman followed by the myth of Hestia, moving it from the literalism to an expansion of an imaginal world restoring the mythical perspective.

A Soulful Approach to Alchemy – The article gives an approach to the study of alchemy to which Jung devoted more than ten years of his life.

Embracing our Treasure – This is a discussion about prehistoric matriarchy going back to the ancient Egypt visiting Black Isis. Different lens from Christine Downing and Marion Woodman are here intertwined and amplified to the Black Virgin and the Brazil´s saints N. Sra. Aparecida and N. Sra. do Rosario.

Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands – It brings an exposure of the archetypes lived in this Brazilian movie.

Pagan Awakening – The article is an invitation to an amalgam of metaphors and analogies from the Shepherd/Sheep motif engaged at the concept of deconstruction. Through symbols/images in the archetypal realm it may reintegrate our instinctual nature into a creative awakening of mythopoesis.

The Myth of Persephone – The first part of the article gives some analysis to the studies of Patricia Berry, Christine Downing and James Hillman showing a deeper understanding of Persephone intertwined relations with Hades and Demeter. The second part is a personal interpretation including images in a dream-like Persephone’s story in the underworld.

Dancing in the Rainbow Sky--the fertile mother, open and grounded – This article brings up some considerations which the book Lady of the Lotus-Born – The Life and Enlightenment of Yeshe Tsogyal relates. Special attention is given to charkas as it is related to the subtle body. It also discusses how those concepts are related to science.

How to Describe a Sea? – This is a poem/text about the personal initiatory events of the studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute lived by L. A. Mesquita.

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