Mytholudens

A nine-month laboratory on theory and practice in Mythology through the archetypal lens is Mitoludens prime activity. The lab offers monthly weekend (Saturday and Sunday from 9a.m. to 5p.m.) immersions through the images and stories of the main archetypes from ancient Greek culture. A NEW GROUP ON MYTHS STARTS ON SEPTEMBER 23rd, 2008 and will take place at the Botanic Garden of Brasilia.

We begin with preliminary principles about the nature of the psyche and the multidimensional images that link us with the gods and goddesses who inhabit the roots of our own culture. Along this journey we use knowledge of archetypal psychology developed by James Hillman and other post-Jungian psychologists who have addressed issues of personal transformation through the soul/psyche deep listening in its many mythical levels also inspired by the works of Carl G. Jung.

DATES:

The immersion in the multiple archetype dimensions of the Greek mythology is fashioned in three more modules/stages bringing some practice. It is intense, integrated and playful lived with mythic eyes through the cinema, dreams and events in our daily art.

In the first module special emphasis is given to Gaia, Mnemosyne, Demeter, Persephone, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hermes, Hera, Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Ares, Eros and Psyche, Arthemis, Apollo, Dionysus, Pan and Aesclepios. These gods and goddesses of the western imagination are seen as complex expressions of human nature which correspond to the actual psychological themes. The focus in many and different gods and goddesses, and not in only one divinity, gives us various ways of looking the phenomenon of human psyche. This module is very much inspired in the teachings of Ginette Paris, Christine Downing and David Miller.

The second module is dedicated to the Greek archetypes in cinema. Here we look at specific scenes in previously selected movies following the archetypal method. We watch classic and contemporary movies that display important aspects of the collective unconscious as if the director eyes become, through the movie’s pause, music, implicit wording, images and dialogues, a language of mythic themes and archetypal patterns. In a good movie we become engaged and we are transported to the reign of archetypes.

The third module is devoted to dreams. Inspired in the work of Stephen Aizenstat called Dream Tending and the teachings of Dawn George we give voice to the dream images and let them give form and body to the various expressions of our unconscious life. We start from the concept that the images are alive and are in a continuum process of soul engagement. Part of the laboratory is dedicated to dream theory and part to the practice of free association, amplification, animation and personification. We confection our own masks.

Finally, we conclude our journey with art. We give voice to the body and body to the voice unveiling our own myths. We invite you to this mythic immersion where our own mythopoetic expression reveals deep archetype truths.

To participate at the levels 2, 3 and 4 it is necessary to have taken the level 1.

Best wishes!

Luciana Aires Mesquita.

DATES (in progress):

Always at the third weekend of each month:

15 - 16th September/2007 -- Greek Archetypes (module I)

20 - 21th October/2007 -- Greek Archetypes (module I)

24 - 25th November/2007 -- Greek Archetypes (module I)

15 - 16th December/2007 -- Greek Archetypes (module I)

January - holidays

16 - 17th February/2008 -- Archetypes in Cinema (module II)

15 - 16th March/2008 -- Archetypes in Cinema (module II)

19 - 20th April/2008 -- Dreams and Myths (module III)

17 - 18th May/2008 -- Dreams and Myths (module III)

14 -15th June/2008 -- Body Soul & Voice (module IV)

20 - 21 September/2008 -- final presentations.

We would consider Artemis, Persephone, Athena, Aphrodite, for instance, as more adequate psychological backgrounds to the complexity of human nature than the unified image of Maria, and the diversity expressed by Apollo, Hermes, Dionysus and Hercules, for instance, to correspond better with psychological actualities that any single idea of self, or single figure of Eros, or of Jesus and Yahweh. Not that Maria, Eros, Jesus and Yahweh are false – far, far from it; only that they, like Zeus too, tend to present themselves in descriptions which dominate through unification, thus losing the values shaped by each of the other gods and goddesses.

James Hillman.

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PRIVATE SESSIONS ON PERSONAL MYTHIC JOURNEY:

Make arrangements with Luciana Mesquita.

Tel.: 55-61-3033 4136 mitos@mitoludens.com.br

September 27-28th

October 25-26th

November 29-30th

December 13-14th

Where: Casa de Chá

What time: both days at 9h30am to 5h30pm

See you there!

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